The Rally and March for Women's Rights
Sunday, Aug 26 at 1PM
Peace Park in New Paltz, NY
Please join us for this historic event! We will have a
rally with excellent speakers and performers, to be followed by a
spirited march down Main St through Water St Market and up the other
side of Main. Let's raise our voices for women's rights and equality for
all!
You can sign up here to help us get the buzz going!
http://www.facebook.com/events/382011421865368/
We are proud to be a part of this national day of action. The original call came from a new feminist group called WORD- Women Organized to Resist and Defend- take a look at their website- I think you'll smile to see New Paltz listed on their home page with the biggies, like LA, San Fransisco, Chicago and NYC!
http://www.defendwomensrights.org/
We are proud to be a part of this national day of action. The original call came from a new feminist group called WORD- Women Organized to Resist and Defend- take a look at their website- I think you'll smile to see New Paltz listed on their home page with the biggies, like LA, San Fransisco, Chicago and NYC!
http://www.defendwomensrights.org/
See
you Sunday! Make a sign! Be creative! Bring musical instruments! and
please help spread the
word. We must defend our rights- there is no
going back!
More info below
Peace, Barbara
WHY WE ARE DEMONSTRATING AUG. 26
Recent years have seen a shocking number of right wing attacks on the
rights of women, through anti-abortion legislation, campaigns against
contraception, slashing of jobs and social services, and new heights of
misogyny in ultra-conservative rhetoric. Protests supporting women's
rights will take place in several U.S. cities on Aug. 26, Women’s
Equality Day in America — a day before the Republican Convention.
The main demands of the event are: • Full reproductive rights now: Access
to birth control, safe, legal abortion on demand, and an end to abstinence only
sex education in our schools. • Women's rights in the workplace: Pay
equity, family leave, and an end to sexual harassment at work. • Stop the
budget cuts: Cutting federal and state social services and eliminating
public sector jobs disproportionately punish poor women, working women
and women of color. • Full equality and respect now: Fight racism, sexism
and anti-LGBT bigotry. End violence against women.
SPEAKERS
• Ariana Basco — Graduate of SUNY NP, elected New Paltz Village Board
Trustee, co-chair of NP Environmental Task Force.
• Donna Goodman — An editor of the Hudson Valley Activist Newsletter and
elected delegate, United University Professions (AFL-CIO).
• Elizabeth Gross — Recent SUNY NP graduate, founder of New Paltz Feminist
Collective.
• Monica Miranda — President/CEO of the Hispanic Coalition of N.Y.
•Joanne Myers —Marist professor, head of Women's Studies dept.; Vice
President H.V. LGBTQ Center; member Ulster Democratic Women.
• Beth Soto — Director of the AFL-CIO's Hudson Valley Area Labor
Federation.
• Barbara Upton — Member of New Paltz Women in Black, who have
conducted weekly Saturday peace vigils in front of the library for almost 11 years.
• Janice Williams-Meyers — Political Organizer, SEIU/1199.
MUSIC — The Mahina Movement.
WHO WE ARE
Organizer: Hudson Valley Activist Newsletter.
Endorsers: American Association of University Women
(Kingston), Arts for Peace, Dutchess Greens, Dutchess Peace, End New
Jim Crow Action Network, Hudson Valley LGBTQ
Community Center, Middle East Crisis Response,
NAACP (Ellenville), Occupy New Paltz, Orange
Democratic Alliance, Orange Peace & Justice, Peace &
Social Progress Now, Real Majority Project, Ulster
Democratic Women, Ulster MoveOn Council, Women
in Black (New Paltz).National endorsers include:
Roseanne Barr, actor; Heidi Boghosian, Executive
Director, National Lawyers Guild; Leah Bolger,
President, Veterans for Peace; Farheen Hakeem,
National Co-Chair, Green Party of the U. S., Sarah
Sloan and Peta Lindsay, ANSWER Coalition.
Information: donna0726@earthlink.net
