Rally and March for Women's Rights Sunday!

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/

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

http://activistnewsletter.blogspot.com/