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abuse, and these programs would probably have to be state-operated.

The most pernicious provisions of the FPA, however, directly reflect the "morality” sought to be imposed by the right wing. Section 507 of the Act reads as follows:

No federal founds may be made available under any provision of Federal law to any public or private individual, group, foundation, commission, corporation, association or other entity which presents homosexuality, male or female, as an acceptable alternative life style or suggests that it can be an acceptable life style. [Emphasis added.]

Thus no one who is homosexual or even suggests that

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Slater. "The smaller, grassroots organizations will need to pull together. We need to look at larger grants and proposals.'

Both the Akron and Cleveland centers are looking to United Way and other local funding sources. They may find the doorstep crowded, however, due to added demands. In a letter to President Reagan, Mayor Voinovich noted that Cleveland and Cuyahoga County will lose around $100 million in social program cuts in fiscal year 1982. United Way, in its most successful fund-raising effort last year, raised ony $37 million.

The Cleveland center has expressed an interest in doing "in-service training" for corporations in exchange for tax-deductible contributions. After giving three such rape prevention and self-defense sessions for women employees of Society National Bank, the center netted $1,500.

With unsympathetic federal and state governments, women's organizations in Ohio will need to consider alternative funding sources. The problem is immediate, but will undoubtedly worsen with time. These organizations must take care to maintain their identities as agents for social change while confronted with economic uncertainty.

What She Wants encourages you to express your ideas, in the form of articles or letters, on how such organizations might obtain the money needed to continue to operate within a feminist context.

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us. It is harder to find Ms. magazine than Playboy on the newsstands. More men want to ban Our Bodies, Ourselves and "About Sex" than they do Hustler and Incest.

We are opposed to pornography not because we are sexually repressed or prudish, but because of its violence and degradation of women. We have always recognized the connection between anti-Semitic tracts and concentration/death camps, between Klan pamphlets and lynching. Why then doesn't society recognize, or want to recognize, the connection between pornography and the ever increasing violence against women? Would society tolerate this mass glorification of the defamation, degradation and brutalization of any other group? Only when this violence is directed against women is it found acceptable, healthy, and even entertaining.

We see the push to legitimize pornography as part of a wider movement to repress women's efforts for equality. Our rights to reproductive freedom, freedom of mobility, and economic freedom are all threatened by the institutionalized misogyny fostered by pornography.

Cleveland Women Against Violence Against Women meets every Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at Cleveland State University. Call 523-1875 (Judie) or

ALTERNATIVE TELEPHONE SYSTEMS 791-2220 (Kathy) for more information.

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homosexuality could be "acceptable" could receive any federal funds-including Social Security, welfare, veterans' programs or student assistance. Further, the FPA would bar any legal services agency which receives federal funds from using any monies, not just federal monies, to assist in any case seeking to adjudicate the issue of gay rights. Finally, the FPA would exclude from the terin "unlawful employment practice" any discrimination against lesbians or gay men, and would prohibit the federal government from protecting any rights of homosexuals.

Even a cursory glance at the Family Protection Act shows it to be unconstitutional in many of its provisions, and it is predicted that there is little chance of its passing in its entirely in either house of Congress. However, the danger lies in its provisions being passed piecemeal, attached to other bills. Vigilance must be ongoing with regard to this Act, in order to prevent this right-wing vision of a closed and narrow society from becoming a reality.

-Material excerpted from National NOW Times, May, 1981 and The Nation, May 23, 1981

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feminists, etc.), Ruether believes it to be fundamental to Scripture and to reside at the heart of religious visions. Reuther concluded that through the rediscovery of feminist inclusive theology, not only will women become empowered, but the whole social order can be reformed in freedom and equality from the distortions of oppression.

The conference concluded with a general sense of recognition both of the present pain and frustration and hope for the future through bonding with other women to resist the misogynist elements in the Church. Three specific events are planned to carry forth the aims of the Conference: 1) a Prayer/Reflection Weekend June 5-7 at the Kaliedoscope Center in Cleveland; 2) a Women's March to the National Council of Catholic Bishops meeting in Washington, D.C. on November 15; and 3) an International Women's Ordination Conference in Cleveland, October 8-11, 1982. For more information on the Women's Ordination Conference, meetings, events, etc., please call Jane Riley at 221-9425. She is interested in building a viable network of concerned women in the Cleveland area and welcomes comments, questions and suggestions.

BRAVO to Sally Tatnall for receiving the sixth annual Josephine Irwin Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Women of Cleveland. The award was presented by WomenSpace at its May 28 annual meeting. Tatnall has been involved in women's issues and organizations since 1970, including doing abortion counseling at the Free Clinic, helping to found Cleveland Women's Counsel and the Land Project, working at Preterm, and most recently as one of the prime movers in bringing The Dinner Party to Cleveland. In presenting the award, WomenSpace cited Sally for her strong feminist visions and the dedication to bring those visions to reality. Josephine Irwin, who still resides in Cleveland, was an early suffragist who rode through the streets of Cleveland to demand the vote for women.

BRAVO to three local photographers, M. B. Camp, Janet Century and Louise Luczak, who each have photographs in the 1981 May Show. Their photos have appeared numerous times on the pages of What She Wants.

Pags What She Wants/Jane, 1981