FEMINIST ISSUES N.O.W. is a radio program broadcast from 7:30 to 8:00a.m. every Sunday morning on WMMS and from 12:30 to 1:00a.m. every Friday on WZAK. Ideas are welcome. Contact Julie Patterson at 581-8281 with advertising suggestions.
Womanpower is a free semi-annual newsletter focussing on issues of concern to professional social workers and the women they serve. Available on request from Womanpower, The National Association of Social Workers, 1425 H St. NW, Suite 600, Washington, D.C. 20005.
WomenSpace is starting a network for women business-owners. The puŕ pose of this network, which developed from a workshop given at the Women Mean Business seminar May 28, is to bring businesswomen together to share ideas, information and support. For more information. call Linda Batway at 696-6767.
The Women Against Pornography slide show and presentation is now available in Cleveland to any interested women's group. For information contact Diana or Judie at 523-1875 or 631-0024.
Women's Career Network Association has lectures, workshops information and monthly meetings to share goals, experiences, information. $75 annual membership includes the "Cleveland Business Woman" newsletter. WCNA, 106 E. Bridge St., Berea, Ohio 44017; 243-3740.
The Women's International Resource Exchange (WIRE) reproduces published and unpublished accounts and analyses by and about women in the Third World, for feminist groups, church-based women's groups. union-affiliated women, women's studies departments, and human rights, Third World support and anti-imperialist solidarity groups. For a bibliography, write WIRE Service, 2700 Broadway, Room 7, New York, NY 10025.
Women's Network in Akron is an informational clearinghouse for women's interests, referral service, emphasis on career development and personal growth. Annual membership. $15 and up. Contact Ann M. Gargano, Women's Network, 39 E. Market St., Suite 502, Akron, Ohio 44308, or telephone 1-376-7852.
Women USA Hot Line is a 24-hour toll-free number with up-to-date information on such topics as the ERA, childcare, social security, jobs, and other topics of importance to women. Call 800-221-4945.
Women who are blind can now have access to feminist literature through a new service provided by the Womyn's Braille Press, located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. WBP has announced the launching of a service which offers feminist books, periodicals and other information on women's issues, both in Braille and on tape. WBP also produces a quarterly newsletter for women, which is also offered in Braille, in print and on tape. For further information, contact the Womyn's Braille Press, Inc., at P.O. Box 8475, Minneapolis, MN 55408.
Appeals
The GEAR Foundation will be publishing a Literary Anthology sometime in the near future. All contributions (prose, poetry, music, cartoons, artwork, etc.) should be sent to the GEAR Foundation Literary Anthology, P.O. Box 6177, Cleveland, Ohio 44101, attention: Lavender Rich. All contributions should carry a name and address for contact by one of the editors and a name to be used for publication credits. All material used shall be released to the GEAR Foundation and shall remain the property of the GEAR Foundation.
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS is planning a special issue on racism and anti-semitism as they affect women and youth within the 'criminal justice system. You are encouraged to make a contribution to this issue. whether it be a paragraph. a poem, a graphic, an interview, or an article. If you write us, be sure to add ATTN: Coordinating Committee to the front of the envelope. For further information, call Stephanie at (206) 323-2215, Janice at (206) 325-8931, or Ann at (206) 325-8031. Through the Looking Glass is a collective of 15 women who do jail and prison support work. Their newsletter provides and encourages a radical analysis of different forms of incarceration, and provides space for women and youth inside to communicate with the outside and each other to try to break the isolation of those in prison.
Helen Forelle, author of Conversations in a Clinic, is working on a sequel, recording the thoughts and emotions of women after they have had an abortion. Anyone who has had an abortion is urged to participate by writing her feelings or recording them on a cassette tape and mailing them to Helen at P.O. Box 326, Harrisburg, S.,Dak. 57032. Your identity is not needed and you are asked to omit it from your correspondence. The statements will be used at meetings and will be edited for inclusion in a. pro-choice pamphlet to counteract misleading and exaggerated claims by so-called 'pro-life" activists. If you are willing to say, "I had an abortion, I don't regret it, and I've had no adverse physical or emotional ef fects from it," please take the time to write.
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A GEAR Foundation Cook Book is being planned. If you have any culinary and epicurean delights you would like to share for publication, please submit them to The GEAR Foundation Cook Bopk, P.O. 6177, Cleveland, Ohio 44101. include your name and address for contact by. one of our food editors. All types of recipes, menu plans, etc., are needed. Any and all contributions are welcomed.
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Women Against Men's Wars" is the tentative title of the forthcoming Issue of Women's Studies International Quarterly on the topic of teminist critiques of war. Please send papers. source information and other relevant materials to Judith Stiehm. Dept. of Political Science. University of Southern California. Los Angeles. CA 90007.
The Gay Theatre Alliance is sponsoring an International Gay Playwriting Contest agd is particularly interested in receiving women's material. Deadline for the receipt of entries is September 1, 1981. First prize is $500; second prize is $250 and the Gay Theatre Alliance will assist the winning playwrights in securing production of their plays with member theatre companies.
Playwrights should send entries after June 1, 1981 to the Gay Theatre Alliance regional coordinator, Rick Paul, 1912 Central Avenue, Wilmette, III. 60091.
The F.L.O.W.E.R. Fund (For Love of Womyn Emergency Resource Fund) has been established by womyn to provide community assistance for womyn in need of emotional and financial support. Money is coming from projects developed within our womyn-identified community. Your ideas. energy and concern are urgently needed. Please address contributions and correspondence to: The F.L.O.W E.R. Fund, P.O. Box 3613, Akron, Ohio 44310.
An appeal has gone out from Lucille Provero, President of the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Foundation, for donations to save and preserve the Stanton home, which has been threatened by a housing development project. The foundation's goal is to raise the necessary funding to purchase the house from Ralph Peters, the Seattle man who bought it last year as an interim preservation move. Tax deductible contributions may be sent to the Foundation, 32 Washington Street, Seneca Falls, NY 13148. Elizabeth Cady Stanton conceived the resolutions included in the First Women's Rights Convention "Declaration of Sentiments" July 19, 1848.
The Lesbian Mothers' National Defense Fund is making the following ol fer to all lesbian mothers who need financial help for their custody case: You can be part of the LMNDF Third Annual Bikeathon Womyn will be bicycling down the west and east coasts to raise money for lesbian mothers. Any pledges or donations you raise for the Bikeathon will be sent directly to your attorney, expert witness or child care worker, For more information write or call: LMNDF, P 0.Box 21567, Seattle. Washington 98111, (206) 325-2643.
Volunteer Opportunities
Interested in helping serve the Cleveland Gay Community? The Gay Hotline needs volunteers to help staff the operation. Training for new volunteers consists of four classes, an interview, and on-the-job training with a senior volunteer. If you can help in this important and worthwhile work, please call the Gay Hotline, 621-3380, and leave your name and phone number. One of the Hotline Coordinators will get in touch with you.
Is the word "volunteer' too passive or non-political for you? Think of the hundreds of women who volunteered years to assist Judy Chicago in the creation of the Dinner Party. This work is considered by some to be too political, and it is hardly passive if you are familiar with the women it represents both in its art form and those who created it. Come be a part of our history and join the hundreds of volunteers who are working to "keep us in history''.
The Dinner Party is coming to Cleveland. If we do not want to see this work go ''right out of history" we need to join in and volunteer to do the work necessary for its presentation. We need over 100 volunteers weekly from May through July to be able to present to the public a small fraction of women's history.
We need your help to remain in history. Please call 371-2222, :371-1128, or 371-5866 and volunteer your help and your time. It is both political and non-passive!
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To make a valuable contribution to the Cleveland women's community and help women help themselves, become a volunteer (day or evening) on the WomenSpace Helpline. The June training schedule is as follows: Saturday, June 13-10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, June 17-7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, June 20-10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, June 24-7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, June 27-10 .m. to 3 p.m.
Saturday trainings will be held at Women Space. Wednesday evening. trainings will be held at a Cleveland Heights location. Call 696-3100 for more information and to register.
The Volunteer Projects component of Women Together Inc. is conducting an on-going volunteer recruitment campaign to better serve battered women. Women Together needs volunteers in the areas of childcare, crisis-line phone service, support group: facilitation, direct service counseling, and public speaking. Requirements are that volunteers be sensitive to the needs of women, particularly battered women. Ex✓perience is helpful, but not mandatory. We offer training in each area of service. Interested volunteers may call Fay Grinage at Women Together. 431-6267. Office hours are from 9:00 am to 5:00 p.m.
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The Women's Writers Center, an independent feminist institute offering a yearlong program of writing workshops and women's literature. Faculty for 1981-82 include: Olga Broumas, Michelle Cliff, Rachel deVries, Judy Grahn, Susan Griffin, Rhoda Lerman, Barbara Smith, Rita Speicher, Mona Vold. Information: WWC, Box AY Williams, Cazenovia, N. Y. 13035. Universe, a locally active, movement oriented, political band is looking for a percussionist. Writing or vocal skills helpful but not necessary. For more information call Laura or > Chuck at 651-0626.
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