Actiongirls

The Multicultural Council of Windsor and Essex County is holding their second harmony walkathon. The money raised by pledges goes to such causes as feeding and educating new immigrants as well as investigating and raising consciousness about race-based hate crimes—crimes whose motivations are often overlooked by the authorities. I walked last fall and enjoyed myself despite the dropping temperature...but this time it's May 21st so it should be nice. Here's the link:
Harmony Walk
Email me for pledge forms: julesoph@hotmail.com

Everyone's invited to the next event in the Windsor Public Library Speaker Series. Want to make sure ecofeminism is on the agenda? Plan to attend on:

Tuesday, April 3
6:30 to 7:30 PM

downstairs in the Fred Israel Auditorium
of Central Library
850 Ouellette Avenue.

To be discussed:

What is our community doing about the environment?
Learn about Windsor's Earth Day celebration and
other environmental programs.

CAW Local 200 Environment Committee members Rob McLean,
Kelly St. Pierre, Troy Brian, Chris Vilag and Peter Hayfield will be presenting information on the CAW's efforts with programs to educate our youth and the community on the importance of preserving and protecting our environment.

On Tuesday March 6, 2007, Actiongirls will be at Windsor Public Library, Central Branch, 850 Ouellette Avenue from 6:30-7:30 for a discussion about feminism today. We will look at how the UN's Millennium Development goals for 2015 are critically dependent on gender equality and explore what it means to say "I'm not a feminist but..."

Happy International Women's Day from Actiongirls!

The Millennium Development Goals to be achieved by 2015:

Goal 1 -- Halve extreme poverty and hunger
Goal 2 -- Achieve universal primary education

That's an excellent article in today's Windsor Star about the Stitch 'n' Bitch meeting. Well done Sisters!

Click here to read the Windsor Star article.

And yes, this probably doesn't belong under links but I didn't know how to make a new more appropriate heading, and it wouldn't let me post under Misc. Feel free to move it where you think it belongs.

Come and join Actiongirls for some more stitch n bitch fun:

Saturday February 3 at 2pm at the Coffee Exchange, downtown Windsor, 343 Ouellette Ave

Wednesday February 7 from 1-2:30 on the University of Windsor campus, Chrysler Hall North, Rm 255

Everyone is welcome - whether you've never touched yarn or if you knitted your own baby booties.

Just for fun, here are some places to learn more about the feminist knitting revolution:

http://www.stitchnbitch.org/womannews.pdf
http://www.usaweekend.com/02_issues/020407/020407knitting.html

University of Windsor Actiongirls 'Take Back the Knit"!

Monday, January 15, 2007
at downtown Windsor's Coffee Exchange
343 Ouellette Ave

from 6:30-8 (but you're welcome to stay as long as you like).

Knitting is creative, relaxing, and a great way to meet other crafty people. Take a break from studying and get radical. Knitting is a political act.

Silent Vigil for Lori Dupont

Date: Sunday, 12 November

Time: 8:45-9:30 a.m.

Place: Hotel Dieu-Grace Hospital front entrance on Ouellette Ave. (Park at the lots off Dufferin St. just north of Erie St.)

The purpose of this gathering is to remember Lori and all other women victims of male violence.

Everyone is welcome.

October 14 2006 in the Glengarry neighbourhood -- what an exhilarating march. Around the block, shouting, chanting, marching -- the turn out was wonderful, the voices were strong, the passion was obvious. We can't let this energy drop -- we have to make a difference so that there are no more tragedies like Laurie Dupont. I heard in Lee Lakeman's address to the crowd tonight a call to action to all of us -- we must be willing to stand up and address the lack of equality, the lack of safety for women and children in our community. This means a willingness to get angry, to write letters, to protest, to shout as loud as necessary until we get some action.

Thanks to Voice of Windsor for putting this video together. (Read the description of the march on the Voice of Windsor site.) The march is for women but here is a wonderful example of how men can support and promote the anti-violence campaign against women and children. Thank you Voice of Windsor ~

Here's some info from the Miss G Project about their upcoming Read-In on June 6th at Queen's Park, Toronto at 11 a.m.

Anyone wishing to carpool from Windsor can send an email to missg @ femilicious.com.

Here's the info from their website:

Feminist Read-In
for the Miss G___ Project

06.06.06 - 11AM - Queen's Park, Toronto
On June 6th, you and yours are cordially invited to the very big, very bold "Feminist Read-In" at Queen's Park in Toronto. Be there at 11 a.m. and head out whenever the music stops or the sun goes down.

What's a Read-In you ask? Imagine your typical sit-in, but without the force-feeding and free love. Supporters of the project from everywhere and anywhere are invited to join us on the front lawn of Queen's Park to demonstrate for change and to show the government what we want to see in education -- feminist and queer-positive literature, and women's histories.

Bring your books, your blankies, your friends and family. We want hundreds -- nay, thousands there! The day will be complete with solidarity-enhancing entertainment to dazzle the eye and warm the heart, including musical performances (more details on that to come), poetry readings (such as from most fabulous up-and-comer Tanis Rideout), and book readings by some of the women authors who matter to us. It will be the fabulous, feminist, education-focused, all-ages, geek-chic, refined but riotous, irreverent-to-the-bone Woodstock of our times.

Teachers, now is the time to start making arrangements for field trips. Students, now is the time to start bugging your teachers to start making arrangements for field trips.

If you're part of an organization (Women's, education, advocacy, labour union, etc.), please let your like-minded colleagues know and winkle a day-off out of your boss (and if you are the boss, declare June 6 'Feminist Activism Day' and release your employees into the streets, with a banner from your group in hand).

Everyone else, now is the time to start spreading the word like a highly contagious infection your mother used to warn you about. Below you can download posters and flyers advertising the event for your printing and posting needs. Please print and post. Everywhere.

Also, we know we planted the June 1 date in your heads, but due to plot-twists beyond our control (down on the QP end), we've had to move the Big Day back a bit. Unforeeable, but so it goes. If "one" was the number in your head before, please replace it now with "six."

Go shout it from the rooftops: Patriarchy beware. Miss G__ is coming. See you on the sixth!