Posts filed under ‘End sex discrimination’
The Women of Juarez Matter!
Tonight at 7pm at the Georgian Room on Truman’s campus, Barbara Martinez speaks about the situation in Juarez, as well as NAFTA and CAFTA. Hosted by Amnesty International, NEMO NOW, and HALO (Hispanic American Leadership Organization.) Don’t turn away! The goods you buy came at a higher rpice than you think.
Women’s Equality Day
Women’s Equality Day did not pass unremarked in Kirksville. A group of about 25 people came to the Kirksville Arts Center to listen and think about the long struggle for women to get the vote. We heard readings from the writings of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, and Sojourner Truth—the classic figures of 19th century American activism. But we also heard the words of Emma Goldman, Faye Wattleton and Hilary Clinton, songs like “Bread and Roses”, and perspectives on early women in osteopathy and microbiology. It felt like a vigil in some ways, the passing of a long, late summer afternoon together, re-reading and re-hearing the old texts and wondering about the new—whose words will guide us into the future?
