WSW EDITORIAL

Good news, bad news, half-news, no news-we receive P.O. boxes full of it every month. We bring some of it to your attention in each monthly issue, not just so you know what's happening with women here in Cleveland and elsewhere, but so you can act to make women's news.

(Uh, oh. Bad news? Right.) Majority Report, the fine women's newspaper, is getting lighter. This is not due to a shortage of ink nor NYC's press strike. What it is due to is a severe financial crunch. The August 5-18 issue was lighter than ever-down to 8 pages. As of September, 15, Majority Report was in debt and in doubt as to its survival.

We read Majority Report. So do you. Remember "Seldom Heard Herbs" (WSW, June, 1978) and "More Seldom Heard Herbs" (September, 1978)?

And remember that story your grandmother used to like to tell you about how your Cireat Aunt Gertie and friends needed funds to continue their big city S.E.W.I.N.G. (Sisters Everywhere Want Independence Now by Golly) Society? (What selfrespecting woman would deny a hundred-year family tradition of feminism?) People thought them so harmless that they were able to raise the money they needed and more. So write a letter home reminding the family of Great Aunt Gertie--and tell them about Majority Report.

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RED ON WHITE

(Majority Report, Redstockings) Red T shirted Redstocking women surfaced again at the July 9 ERA March on Washington. Their participation in and analysis of the ERA campaign raise important considerations:

1.

Women's liberation and ERA ratification are not separate issues. Equal rights under the law is only one manifestation of women's liberation.

2. ERA passage is necessary to protect women's legislative gains.

3. FRA passage will affect only "equality under the law. This is significant, of course, but will not affect discrimination maintained by unwritten law customs, ''gentlemen's agreements'', etc.

4. Alice Paul's 1923 ERA proposal had broader implications than the current version.

5. The time limit for passage is not contained either in the amendment itself or in provisions for amendments in Article Five of the U.S. Constitution.

Welcome back, Redstockings.

Send a large, stamped, self-addressed envelope to Redstockings of the Women's Liberation Movement, New Paltz, New York 12561, for copies of the pamphlet circulated at the March which contains the above information.

CONTENTS

Features

Women Unite: Take Back the Night!.

Women and Credit..

Abortion Update..

8-9

Divorce....

5

International

(second in a series of 5 articles reprinted from Getting Out: A Divorce Manual)

Reports from France, Spain, Vietnam...

6-7

Women Winning....

3

Boos, Bravos, and Tidbits...

12

Find It Fastest...

..back cover

News

Local

Cleveland Women's Groups.

10-11

CWW: Giving Bankers the Blues..

2

Kathy Thomas Out Pending Appeal.

2

Off My Breast...

2

Recycling Information..

13

What's Happening.

15

National

Midwives..

4

Classified Ads..

15

Wording of 1923 ERA Proposed by Alice Paul

Cover: Photo taken at Akron March, September 10, 1978 by Mary Ellen Fleming.

What She Wants

What She Wants goes to production the middle of the month. Copy should be submitted the first week of the month so that we can discuss and edit collectively at our editorial meetings. Contact us for specific deadlines. Please print or type articles. Leave material in our mailbox (second floor of the White House, 2420 S. Taylor Rd. at Scarborough, Cleveland Hts.) or mail to WSW, P.O. Box 18465, Cleveland Hts, Ohio 44118.

WHAT SHE WANTS IS:

A MONTHLY NEWS JOURNAL PRODUCED FOR ALL WOMEN, We always like input from our readers in the form of articles, personal experiences, poetry, art, accouncements, and letters. We welcome women who are willing to help us in specific areas of the paper (writing, lay-out, advertising, distribution, publicity, etc.) and/or who are interested in our collective.

WHAT SHE WANTS ADVOCATES:

...equal and civil rights

...the right to earnings based on our need, merit, and interest ...access to job training, salaries, and promotions we choose

...the right to organize in unions and coalitions to advance our cause ...the right to decent health care and health information

...the right to safe, effective birth control and to safe, legal abortions ...the right to accept or reject motherhood

...the right to choose and express sexual preference without harassment ...access to quality education and freedom from prejudice in learning materials

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"Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and places subject to its jurisdiction."

The Complete Text (t THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT

Seitron I

Equality of rights under the law shall

not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

Section 2

The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article Section 1

This amendment shall take effect

two years after the date of ratification

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