WHAT'S HAPPENING

Poor women don't. NEED abortionsfor them we have STERILIZATIONS!

The WE WANT THE MUSIC COLLECTIVE is organizing a third Womyn's Music Festival to be held in mid-August, 1978. They would like to hear tapes from womyn who would be interested in being a scheduled performer at this year's festival. They are requesting that the tapes have between 4 to 6 songs on them and that they be submitted by March 18, 1978. Send tapes to: We Want The Music Collective, 1501 Lyons Street, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 48858.

WITCHES & AMAZONS, A Feminist Cultural Conference, will be held at Indiana University, South Bend, on June 2, 3 and 4, 1978. Featured will be Z Budapest, author, lecturer, authority on witchcraft, and High Priestess, Susan B. Anthony Coven #1, and also Norme Bahla Pontas, explorer, filmmaker, author, recently returned from a Guggenheim Fellowship archaeological project investigating the stone engravings by Brazillan Amazon women. This is a fum conference designed for feminist revitalization. For further information contact Gloria Kaufman or Betsy Walling, Division of Continuing Education, Indiana University, South Bend.

THE FIFTH ANNUAL WOMEN'S MUSIC FESTIVAL will take place in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, from June 13-18. The festival will offer workshops and concerts celebrating women-powered music. If you register before April 1, the fee is $25 for the entire festival, including all workshops and evening concerts. If you register between April 1 and June 13, the fee is $30. If you wait until June 13, the fee is $40. Contact the National Women's Music Festival, P. O. Box 2721, Station A, Champaign, Illinois 61820.

WOMEN'S SKILLS EXCHANGE. An updated version of the Women's Sidila Exchange is in the late planning stages. It is a listing of Individual women, the skills offered and a contact phone number. All negotiations are handled between the individuals listed and those who need the skill. The listing acts simply as a source of Information.

To be listed, call Naomi at 696-3100. Leave your name, a brief description of your skill and a phone number. There is no charge.

CLEVELAND WOMEN WORKING's 1978 Worlding Women's Guide to Grester Cleveland is progressing smoothly. Not only are they on the verge of reaching their goal (as a fund-raising event), but they are also attracting more women to the organization through media coverage. CWW are inviting concerned individuals to show their support by participating in the Guide. There are three ways to do this:

1. Take out advertising space as a business or

concerned organization ($30-$100).

2. Become a Patron of the book ($10).

3. And for male supporters, there is a "male centerfold" featuring CWW Resolution on Equal Rights for working women and the names of the men who support it ($15)

The Guide is slated to reach approximately 5,000 working women in the Greater Cleveland area. Deadline date is March 15. The release date will be the first week of May.

THE WOMEN'S CITY CLUB presents a luncheon lecture series honoring and presenting women of achievement, Wednesdays through May 17 from 12:00 noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Women's City Club, 320 Superior. Coming speakers include:

March 22: Nell P. Eurich, Ph.D.

March 29: Lenore Le Fount Romney

April 5: Myriam Wood

April 12: Dorothy Maynor

The cost is $6.00 per lecture, including luncheon. For further information. call the Women's City Club at 696-3760.

WOMEN IN COMMUNICATIONS INC. is sponsoring a weekend of speakers and workshops on chapter improvement at the Hollenden House, 610 Superior, April 7-9. The speakers will be Fred Griffith, Jane Farley and Charlayne Hunter-Gault. For more information write to llene Schneider, 2011 Warrensville Center Rd., So. Euclid, O. 44121.

Case Western Reserve University and many others are sponsoring morning and afternoon sessions on the BATTERED PERSON, Saturday, March 25, at Case Western Reserve in the Baker Building, 10950 Euclid Ave. The morning speaker will be Gary Gosky, M.D. on Clinical Aspects of the Battered Persen. The early workshops will consist of: The Psychologically Battered Helper; Treatment of Abusing Family; Incest-Patterns and Profiles; Abused and Handicapped Children; Battered Women; Self Help Groups for Abusive Parents; The Handicapped Child; An Emerging Phenomenon The Battered Male; An Educational Treatment Approach -The Battered Parent/Child Relationship.

The afternoon speaker will be Stewart B. Oneglia, J.D., on The Current Legistative and Legal Picture Affecting the Battered Person, The late workshops will include: Advocacy without Change Is Frustration; The Battered Woman; The Aged in the Community Physical and Psychological Abuse; Federal Perspectives on the Battered Person; A Tale of Two Citles A Political Approach to Helping the Battered Person; A Legalistic Approach to the Battered Person; and The Battered Person The Ohio Legislative Scene.

Cost of registration is $10.00, students $6.00. Box lunch included. For more information call SASS at 368-2290.

WOMEN IN COMMUNICATION, INC., along with Cleveland State University, presents three concurrent one-day workshops for communicators, Friday, April 7, 1978, at CSU from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The workshops cover the following: Legal Aspects of Communications -update; Assertive Management Strategies for Communicators; and Principal of Oraphic Arts. For further information call Oliver B. Lee at 687-2144.

DOMESTIC WORKERS OF AMERICA, a non-profit organization, now has an information box for messages at WomenSpace. Anyone seeking services for babysitters, domestic services, convalescent care, or party aides should contact Geraldine Roberts at 361-0373.

THE WOMEN'S WRITER'S CENTER, OF Cazenovia, New York, has announced its fourth full-year program, beginning September 11, 1978. Visiting faculty, each of whom will be on campus for a full week to teach and participate in workshops and readings, are Rita Mas Brown, Susan Sherman, Marge Piercy, Olga Bromas, Alica Walker and Adrienne Rich. Further, joining the resident faculty, Mary Beth Ross and Rita Speicher, will be Rachel deVries, whose book of poetry An Arc of Light will be pubIlshed this month.

For further information about the Women's Writer's Center, contact the Center at Williams Hall, Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, New York 13035.

The ACLU announced publication of a comprehensive School Desegragation Organizer's Manual to assist communittes which are preparing for or currently undergoing school desegregation, Besides an outline for or ganizing the school desegregation process from its initial stages through to the remedies phase, often a ten-year process, the manual provides several lists of criterian through which community groups can establish (1) that a school system is segregated; (2) that the quality of education offered in a school district is good or bad; and (3) the role that school boards and other state agencies have in promoting or maintaining segregated schools. The manual includes a checklist for community organizers to rate local school performance, physical conditions and extracurricular activities. Coples of the manual are available from the ACLU Literature Department for $2.00 each at 2108 Payne Avenue, Room 507, Cleveland 44114. For further information call Wayne Hawley, 781-6276.

Dancer/Choreographer ROZANN KRAUS, with flutist Daniel Epstein and bassoonist Matthew Shubin, will premier her new work entitled Ein Sof at the Jewish Community Center's Halle Theatre on April 1. The new piece is a combination of dance, music and improvisational structures that stem from ideas from ancient Hebrew husticism. The title can be translated in several ways: without end; Infinite, The Infinite; or Infinite Light, For further information contact Dorothy Silver at 382-4000.

WOMENSWORKS: 150 Years in the Western Reserve, a program consisting of a special exhibit, lectures and an all-day conference, will be at the Western Reserve Historical Society, 10825 East Boulevard, until April 23. Focusing on the period 1800-1950, the exhibit illustrates the changing roles of women and social attitudes toward them. The program documents the contributions women in the Western Reserve have made in education, work and reform as northeast Ohio evolved from a frontier community to an urban-industrial center. Admission is $1.50 for adults, $.50 for children and students.

As part of the program, a lecture on Women and Higher Education will be given by Dr. Linda Kirby on April 2, and one on Black Women will be given by Ms. Donna Va. Raaphorst on April 9. Both lectures will begin at 2:30 p.m. in the Napoleon Room of the Historical Society. The all-day conference will take place March 25. For further information, call the Western Reserve Historical Society at 721-5722, est. 37.

HEALINO OURSELVES, Body Workshop for Women, a training workshop for women as healers of themselves or others, will take place April 8, 9, 12, 15 and 16. Elements on Reichlan technique, health awareness, polarity therapy, diet, cleansing and detoxification will be taught and experienced. For info call Merle at 932-5070, or write 1659 Eddington, Cleveland Hts.. Ohio 44118.

LAND PROJECT Open Meeting. The Land Project is a group of sixteen women who have joined together to pool money to buy rural land. Over the last 2 years, we have been focused inwardly, developing policies, arriving at financial decisions, and just learning how to work with each other in a task-oriented fashion. While we came together specifically to buy rural land, we now see ourselves as a group of women who have a larger and longer term commitment to each other, which necessarily enlarged our goals. In the last several months, we have also begun to consider investment strategies that include city property and the stock market. We hope to purchase rural land within six months to a year from now. Our dreams are becoming realities.

We now feel h is time to start sharing our experiences and thinking with those women who may have similar interests and goals, with the hope of encouraging and supporting more women to recognize and start acting on the potential power that comes from land and money. We would like to Invite any woman interested in these concepts to come to an open meeting on April 17, 1978, at 7:30 p.m., 2953 Berkshire Road, Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44118.

WANTED AMO NEEDEO: Any and all printable graphics, peetles, prose selections and photographs by focal area artists for a multi-form anthology of Cleveland art work. Poets should submit 8 12 poems so that a broad representation can be given of each individual who appears in the anthology. Short stories should be no longer than six type-written pages. We wish to include as many women artists as possible (particularly in graphics). Send contributions with a self-addressed stamped envelope to Pranayama Publications, 11330 Hessler, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, by September 15. Cindy Lovy Wacomber is legally changing her name to CYNTHIA BETTY and moving to Santa Monica, California to work with Judy Chicago and her associates on The Dinner Party Project.

OHIO GAY RIGHTS COALITION's meeting scheduled for March 4 has been rescheduled for April 8.

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QTION NEWS SENEL

Interview with Joan Little

were many counties in the state of North Carolina that had never had a female officer. But then after that jailer (who Joan was accused of killing) died "in the line of duty," as they said, they started getting female officers.

Were there any women in jail during the time tha you were there?

No. I stayed in there 81 days and there was no other women in there. During the trial they tried to get so slick that they said they had a female officer. So Jerry Paul (Joan's lawyer at the murder trial) said, "If you have a female officer, where was she when that jailer was down in Joan's cell at 4 o'clock in the morning?" They said, "Oh, well, she had got off at 6 o'clock and she was supposed to come back in."

Plus, too, she had the title of aispatcher. Now how much time does a dispatcher have to work as a female officer? Her job is only to make sure that the squad cars go where they have to go and come back in. And she couldn't even get back there to the cells unless she was called, and then one of the guards had to let her in.

Could you say something about the changes in your political thinking since your original arrest and the murder trial?

OK. In 1973, I had no political consciousness. When I was charged with first degre murder, I didn't even know it existed. You know, feminist groups, different organizations, the struggle. I didn't know nothing about that and cared nothing about it because I was only out there for material gains for Joan.

A lot of these things that I'm saying now I couldn't say in '73 because I had no knowledge of it. But anything you have knowledge on you can speak on. So, therefore, the reason why North Carolina is so afraid of me right now is because as long as they held me down there in that prison, all of the things that they did to me not to Joan Little alone, but to any inmate.. would be suppressed. When you're inside an institution, they control that joint, and anything, that come out they control it.

As long as I was in there, they were in control of what came in and out of my mouth. Unless it came out by underground. Once I escaped out of the State of North Carolina, hey, they can't suppress anything that I say now.

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