WHAT'S HAPPENING

Women Speak Out for Peace and Justice will present "Two Views of China During Mao and Aller", a dialogue between Rema Mandel who -visited China in 1976 and Vera Hall who will have just returned from China. They will look at changes evolving in thewolution and will show slides from both trips. Friday. November 30, 1979, 8.00 pm at the Cleveland Heights Main Library. 2345 Leg Road. Cleveland. Ohio For further information, call 247-6850

The annual HOLIDAY BOUTIQUE & WHITE ELEPHANȚ SALE sponsored by Women Speak Out for Peace and Justice will take place on Saturday, Oecember 8, 1979, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Unitarian Society, 2728 Lancashire Road, Cleveland Heights. Avallable will be all manner of gifts. plus arts and crafts, live music and a white elephant sale. Admission is free, and refreshments will be available. For further information, call Sophie Bartell, 371-1693 or Daisy Ford, 247-5856.

The Akron branch of American Association of University Woman will hold an International Awareness Program on Thursday, December 13, 1979, at 7:00 p.m. at the International Institute, 207 E. Tallmadge Avenue at Dayton Street on North Hill, Akron. The program will focus on the status of women and women-related issues in foreign countries, including Tanzania, Germany, Palestine, Cuba and Chile. The program is presented in cooperation with American Friends Service Committee, International Institute, and Northeast Ohio Committee on Middle East Understanding. Beverages and international snacks will be served. For further Information, telephone Marnie Sweet at 867-9354.

FEMINIST JAPAN, a bi-monthly Journal of women's culture published in Japanese, is pleased to announce its second International Issue will be published in January, 1980. We hope to contribute to the ongoing dialogue among women around the world and to promote a better understanding of the progress and problems of Asian women in their struggle for equality. About half the articles in the International Issue will be on Japanese women with a focus on aging and the life cycle. The situation of women in a number of other Asian countries will also be explored. Wherever possible, the articles will be written by women of the countries concerned.

Feminist Japan is available by order from New York or Los Angeles for $2.50. Please make your check payable to Feminist Japan. Allow 6 to 8 weeks for delivery. Send to: Diane L. Simpson, 555 Main St., Apt. $1802, Roosevelt island, New York, N.Y. 10044; or Noriko Mizuta Lippil, 1992 Prince Albert Drive, Alverside, California 92507.

In spite of all the concerted efforts of anti-choice people, the 1973 Supreme Court decision on abortion still stands. This January 22 marks the seventh anniversary of that decision. Mark your calendars for Friday night, January 18, 1980. Celebrate at the annual Reproductive Freedom Coalition benefit dinner, at the Park Plaza Hotel. Pro-choice volunteers will be honored. Harriet Pilpel, author and former general counsel for Planned Parenthood, will be the keynote speaker. Tickets are $17.50. For more information, call 579-0028.

An Inside look at an abortion clinic by an experienced abortion counselor will take place November 15 at 8:00 p.m. at the West Shore Unitarian Church, 20401 Hilllard Blvd., Rocky River. Jean Serkownik, Director of Counseling at Preterm, will speak. Sponsored by the Cleveland Abortion Rights Action League's (CARAL) west side branch. CARAL members will present an update on current state and national legislation and news about upcoming local events, and will answer questions. Refreshments will be available. Meeting is free and open to the public. For more information, write CARAL, P.O. Box 18089, Cleveland Heights 44118.

NARAL (National Abortion Rights Action League) will hold a statewide organizing workshop'on Saturday, November 17, 1979, at the Imperial House North, Columbus, Ohio, beginning at 10:00 a.m. For details, call the NARAL office in Columbus at (614) 469-9616.

Monday nights are reserved at the Bay Community Center, 1012 Sumner Court, for lesbian women interested in creating social alternatives and activities. Meetings start at 8:00. November 12-Open to all women. November 19-Lesbians under 21.

November 26-Slightly older lesbians.

December 3---Lesbians under 21.

December 11-WGC Drop-In.

December 17-Slightly older lesbians.

All meetings are open to all women, but will focus on the needs and interests of the particular age group).

Events planned are:

Dinner at the Rusty Scupper and party at Wild Oscar's Wednesday, November 21, at 8:00 p.m. All women welcome. Call 621-3380 for details and information.

Touch football at Forest Hills Park off Lee Road in Cleveland Heights Sundays at 11:30 a.m. (bring football if possible).

For further information, call 621-3380, or drop in at the GCC anytime,

An All-Women's Pre-Xmas Party will be held Saturday, December 8, after 9:00 p.m. al 3317 Cedarbrook, Cleveland Heights, sponsored by the Gay Community Center-Women's Growth Coop Ad Hoc Committee. There will be free food and a cash bar. Donation: $2.00 at the door (if able) for sound. For further information, call the Gay Hotline, 621-3380.

Lesbian parents (lesbians in the parenting role) share special problems custody, creating positive male role models, money, meeting other les bian parents, coming out (or not) to our kids, their teachers and other parents. The conflict between our social lives and our children's needs. We need to share our frustrations and strengths. get together with our kids, and have a good time. If you are interested in forming a lesbian parents support group, call Gail or Barb at 261-5744

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DISPLACED HOMEMAKERS (women who have lost the support they were dependent upon) can get help through the Displaced Homemakers Pro gram at all campuses of Cuyahoga Community College The program of fers services to help women become job ready and sell-supporting No lees are charged To be eligible, a person must have worked without pay as a homemaker for her family had not been gainfully employed and is at least 35 years old Courses include how to find and keep a job inter viewing, community resources, and budgeting Call the campus nearest you. Metro, 241-5966; Western, 845-4000 Ex1 .250 Eastero 464-1450, Ext 275

Hard Hatted Womon are a small group of women in nontraditional jobs such as steelworkers, truck drivers, etc, who would like to meet with other women in these types of jobs and talk about forming a support and action group We would like to pattern ourselves after a very successful group in Pittsburgh of the same name Please call Sandy at 921-2656 or Geri at 721-8945

THE DOMESTIC WORKERS OF AMERICA, INC. is sponsoring Operation Job Bank. The purpose of the program is to improve the economic living standards of the unemployed, the underemployed, and the untrained It will explore such ideas as opening concession stands in downtown office buildings and establishing a public marketplace controlled by community co-op groups. For more information about the project, write or call Hotline. Domestic Workers of America Incorporated, 1258 Euclid Avenue, Room 200, Cleveland, Ohio 44115.

Anyone who can contribute toward a handbook to be made available to women office and clerical workers on the subject of confronting sexual harassment on the job, please write to: Working Women United, 593 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10021.

The people putting the handbook together are convinced that consciousness-raising similar to that which has been done for rape is necessary before people take sexual harassment on the job seriously.

The GEAUGA WOMEN'S CENTER, 11984 Caves Road, Chesterland, Ohio, at the northwest corner of Wilson Mills and Caves Road (Community Church of Chesterland. downstairs), has a Orop-In Center open the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month from 8 to 10 p.m. Offered are support groups, self-help/health, information and referral service on doctors, lawyers, therapists, social services and divorce, and various speakers. The group needs feedback (good or bad) to expand its referral lists. Come share your experiences. For further information, call Nancy at 729-4887. Carolynn at 286-2081, Sue at 338-8398 or Sally at 423-3871.

The National Women's Studies Association will hold its annual convention at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, from May 16-20, 1980. The planned program will include panels, seminars, and papers In feminist education and presentations in the arts. Participants can look forward to discussions of Women's Studies Programs in academic institutions and of feminist alternatives to traditional education. For further information contact Elaine Reuben, Coordinator, NWSA, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.

The FREE CLINIC is offering individual and group counseling for victims of incest, on Tuesday evenings between 7:00 and 10:00 p.m. To make an appointment, call 721-4010 and say you want an appointment with Joyce Spencer or Jan Felixson. There are no fees or eligibility requirements at the Free Clinic (12201 Euclid Avenue),

WomenSpace presents Seeking Solutions: A Day for Working Women, Saturday, November 17, 1979, at Cuyahoga Community College (Metro Campus). The keynote speakers and workshops will encourage personal sharing and seeking solutions such areas as status expectations, the many stereotypes indigenous to women, time management, concepts of self-esteem, and other competing tensions of family and career. The time is 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., with lunch included in the price of $15.00. Partial and whole scholarships are available as well as daycare facilities. For registration and more information, call Lorna Richman at WomenSpace, 696-3100.

If you want to help with this project, a telephoning session will be held the last week of October, and a Kit Collating Party is scheduled for November 8 at 5:30 at WomenSpace. To volunteer your efforts, call Lorna Richman at 696-3100

WOMENSPACE is conducting its 1979 Membership Campaign For information, contact WomenSpace, 1258 Euclid Avenue, 696-3100

DIGNITY, an organization for Catholic and other Christian gay women and men, welcomes new members. Meetings are at Hallinan Center, CWRU. the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month, beginning with a women's meeting at 7 o m and Mass and a program at 8 p.m For more information, call Jim al 321-2225,

A Drop-In Group for Women dealing with lesbianism in their lives will begin on November 27, 1979, at 7:30 p.m. at the Women's Growth Coop. 2420 So. Taylor Road, Cleveland Heights. For more information, call Sally at 321-6261

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AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE sponsors i vigil for safe energy every Friday from noon to 1.00 at CE1 Public Squate

NORTH SHORE ALERT (anti nuclear fission) meets the 1st Thursday of each month al Church House. 2230 Euclid Ave at 7:30pm

FEMINIST ISSUES N.O.W. is a radio program broadcast from 7:30 to 8:00 am every Sunday morning on WMMS and from 12 30 to 1.00 a m every Friday on WZAK Del Jones is the coordinator Ideas are welcome Contact Jube Patterson at 581 8281 with advertising suggestions

With the goal of making the powerful tools of computer technology available to more women. the Feminist Computer Technology Project was launched at the National Women's Studies Association Conference in Lawrence. Kansas in early June. Among the objectives of the Project are preparing a questionnaire to be distributed through selected women s computer technology resources and the potential constituency of the Pro.ject, and obtaining funding from various private sources for a first experimental computing center to be set up in 1980 All women sharing the goals of the Project are invited to join by sending a short description of their backgrounds and interests along with $2 to cover initial mailing costs to Helen Ersen-Rotkop!, 4407-C Normandy Trace Orive. St Louis. Missouri 63121

Union WAGE (Women's Alliance to Gain Equality) has a new pamphlel. Talking Union The guide includes a glossary explaining terms aboul union negotiations, organizing and meetings, how to tell the EEOC from the FEPC. highlights of U S. labor history and labor law Copies are $1 25 each plus $ 60 postage, or $ 80 plus postage if you order 10 or more Order from Union Wage, P 0. Box 40904, San Francisco, Califor nia 94140

Make your old newspapers work to support a worthy community agency Give them to the Head Help Paper Drive. The container will be parked dai ly at the Geauga Market House on Rt. 306 just north of Rt. 322.

THE CLEVELAND WOMEN'S CHOIR welcomes new members-no experience is necessary. The choir performs music written by woman. including feminist songs, For more Information, call Lisa Rainsong at 371-0483

Beginning Recorder Class starting Anyone who is interested, please contact Penny Guy at 932-3326

CLASSIFIEDS

Job opening at WomenSpace for an executive director. Requirements: management experience, leadership abilities, and a strong commitment to feminism. Salary $15,000 to $18,000/year plus fringes. For a complete job description, call Mary Bosco at 696-3103. Application deadline Dec. 1, 1979. WomenSpace is an equal employment/affirmative action employer. Minorities are encouraged to apply.

Typesetter familiar with Compugraphic or similar equipment. Good typing and English skills a must. Full benefits. 751-7300.

Female will share 2-bedroom, furnished North Royalton condominium with same. $170/mo., in. cluding utilities (phone, electric). Write: "Share Condo," P. O. Box 3324, No. Royalton, O. 44133.

East-West Center of Cleveland Special Event-November 27 and 28. Macrobiotic Cooking] Class, Shiatsu Masage, Talk on Polarity and Sex, with Pam and Murray Snyder from Baltimore, Md. East-West Foundation. For info on registration and cost call 371-3222.

Aikido for Women. Aikido is a gentle, graceful, yet effective means of self-defense. It emphasizes centering, energy flow, and graceful dancelike movement. Introductory classes for women only starting November 6, 8:30-10:00 p.m. Tuesdays for 6 weeks. $18. Classes meet at Euclid & 117th in back of the Food Coop. For more information call Jody Telfair-Richards, 371-5779.

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