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Women's Equality Conference March 2001
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Women's Equality Conference March 2001
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by Gail Ryall, 03/24/2001 00:00
The Coalition of Labor Union Women is the only national organization for union women. It is a "constituency group" of the AFL-CIO, with 20,000 members from 60 unions, organized into 75 chapters nationwide. CLUW "strives to make organized labor and the public more sensitive to the needs of working women and their families."
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by Anita Wheeler, 03/24/2001 00:00
Young women have been victimized on a number of fronts. With the new Bush administration and the right wing controlling a majority of seats in Washington and the economic crisis plowing full steam ahead the attacks on equal pay for equal work, reproductive rights, violence against women, welfare reinstatement, access to public education, and criminalization are among the other issues we're going to have to address.
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by Carolyn Trowbridge, 03/24/2001 00:00
What does it mean to be a homeless woman? You are spun loose from safety, warmth, nurturance, laughter, those who hold your history and the dreams of your future. Homelessness: where you, and more than likely your children, are vulnerable to every threat of hunger, violence, exploitation, and separation. Homelessness is a topic that has, in the political arena and in the popular culture, disappeared from conversation and struggle.
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by Doris Marquit, 03/24/2001 00:00
When our topic is "women and socialism," should we speak about the past or the future? We Communists look to the future-socialism. And we have theory (Marxism) as well as our own experiences in political work, to draw on as we plan and one day bring about our socialism, our own socialist society.
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by Sam Webb, National Chair, 03/24/2001 00:00
[The Women's Equality Conference's] genesis is explained by the indisputable fact that tens of millions of women are found in every - or nearly every - arena of political, economic, and social life. Its genesis is explained by the indisputable fact that the role of women in social movements has grown enormously compared with only a few decades ago. Women are agents of progressive change.
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by Elena Mora, National Organization Secretary, 03/24/2001 00:00
To bear or not bear children - to control one's own fertility, one's physical self - is a basic and profoundly important human right. 40 percent of the world's three billion or so women live in countries that to one degree or another usurp that control or deny that right. And of course in our own country, a sharp struggle is raging over that right.
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by Dee Myles, 03/24/2001 00:00
We want to very briefly review the foundation from
which we start by considering the ideas of Marx, Engels, and Lenin on
the question of women’s equality. We want to take a look at the most
current statistical data available on working class
and poor women in the United States today. We want to take a brief look
at the work of the party the in the area of women. We want to discuss
immediate improvements we can consider to make our Party more of political
home for women in general and working class and poor women in particular.
And finally we want to explore future possibilities related to this process
of retooling ourselves so we can make an even
better and stronger contribution to the fight for women’s rights
and equality in the context of today’s fight against the ultra right.
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by Joelle Fishman, Chair, Political Action Committee, CPUSA, 03/23/2001 00:00
Many children in poverty live in single parent, female head-of-household families. In our state most of the 35,000 put off welfare now have an even more difficult economic and family situation. Most new jobs are low-wage, non-union service jobs, often temporary and part-time. The impact of the Bush administration policies plus new cuts in the safety net in Connecticut are leaving many families stranded.
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by Dee Myles, 03/23/2001 00:00
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