HUDSON VALLEY RESIDENTS:
Weather Advisory for SUNY
New Paltz Rally for Women’s Rights
Tomorrow: Only one to two inches of light snow and snow showers are anticipated
in our region Thursday, March 7. THE
RALLY FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS IS ON!
If the unexpected occurs
and a big storm threatens, the snow date is Friday, March 8, same time, same
place. But we repeat, THE RALLY IS ON! (If there is any change it will be
listed at http://activistnewsletter.blogspot.com.)
The event starts promptly
at 6:30 p.m. but leave extra time for travel and parking if you’re coming from
other regions. There are plenty of parking lots on campus (directions and map
link below), but we’re expecting a large number of people in Lecture Center 100
(which seats up to 500), so get there early. Starting around 6 p.m. there will
be a half-hour pre-rally program of relevant videos and recorded vintage Songs
of the Suffragists. Here are the speakers for the rally itself:
GWEN WRIGHT, Executive Director of the
NYS Office for the Prevention of Domestic
Violence. RICKIE SOLINGER, Historian and writer of four books about reproductive justice.
BETH SOTO, Executive Director of the Hudson
Valley Area Labor Federation. CECILIA TKACZYK, N.Y. State Senator. DONNA GOODMAN, SUNY-NP UUP union delegate, and an editor of Activist Newsletter. CARLING DEVIN, sexual
assault counselor. KERBIE JOSEPH, WORD activist. BARBARA
UPTON, Women In Black, New Paltz. THE SEXY PITCHES, SUNY NP a cappella group. ABIGAIL ROBIN, retired professor. MIRA LIANE BOWIN, poet.
The meeting is
an answer to recent conservative attacks on women’s rights and about the need
to extend those rights. Our demands: Stop Violence Against Women, Stop
the War on Women’s Rights, Defend Reproductive Justice, Full Equality for all
Women Workers!
Organized by the Hudson Valley Activist
Newsletter. Endorsed by: New York Civil Liberties Union, Hudson Valley Area
Labor Federation (AFL-CIO), Upper Hudson Central Labor Council (AFL-CIO), SEIU
Local 200 United, United University Professions (AFL-CIO, SUNY NP chapter),
Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW-AFL-CIO), Onteora Teachers Assn., American
Association of University Women (Kingston), New Paltz Women in Black, Amnesty
International (Mid-Hudson), Bard College Student Labor Dialogue, Washbourne
House (women and children's shelter), Orange County Democratic Women, Ulster
County Democratic Women, Sociology Dept. (SUNY NP), Progressive Academic
Network (SUNY NP), Environmental Task Force (community/campus), NP Climate
Action Coalition, NYPIRG and OXFAM (SUNY NP chapters), Students for Justice in
Palestine (SUNY NP), Move to Amend of Ulster County, Peace and Social Progress
Now, Mid-Hudson ANSWER, Haitian People’s Support Project, Middle East Crisis
Response, Women Organized to Resist and
Defend (WORD), Hudson Valley Progressives, Women Against War,
WESPAC, Orange County Democratic Alliance, MoveOn Council (Ulster County), Queer Action Coalition (SUNY NP), Real Majority Project, Party for
Socialism and Liberation, La Voz magazine (Bard), Occupy New Paltz, Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program (SUNY
NP), Orange County Peace Coalition, Voice for Choice (SUNY NP), Woodstock Women in Black,
R.I.P.P.D., Beacon Sloop Club, Grassroots Alliance for Alternative Politics
(Vassar), Planned Parenthood (M-H Valley), Safe Homes of Orange County, YWCA
(Orange County), Rape Crisis, Dutchess Greens, Dutchess Peace, End the New Jim
Crow Action Committee, Take Back the Night SUNY (NP). Hudson River Playback
Theatre.
Information,
donna0726@earthlink.net, (845) 255-5779. Campus map: http://www.newpaltz.edu/map/. Campus
directions: http://www.newpaltz.edu/about/directions_text.html.
