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The Women's Open House (Coffee House for Women) presents an

Open Mike Night

Bring Your Songs, Poetry & Comedy to Share with Other Women Saturday, October 23, 8pm til midnight 2728 Lancashire (near Coventry & Mayfield) $1.50 donation Refreshments available

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with Swamp on Lead Vocals '30s and '40s Swing, Jazz & Blues! Friday, Oct. 22 and Saturday, Oct. 23 at Satan's. 839 S. Arlington in Akron For more information, call 221-1933 or 371-0483

WHAT'S HAPPENING

Ongoing

Cleveland NOW meets the first Wednesday of the month at Broadview Savings and Loan, E. 260th St. at Lakeshore, Euclid, Ohio, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. The Lakewood meeting is the second Wednesday of the month at the Lakewood Library, 15425 Detroit Avenue, Lakewood, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. The Lorain meeting takes place the third Thursday of the month. Call 761-8971 for time and location.

The Cleveland Infant Formula Action Coalition (INFACT) is stepping up its activities to better inform the public of the boycott against the Nestle Corporation and its subsidiary, Stouffer's. Actions will include picketing, .media exposure and the distribution and sale of informational pieces, buttons and bumper stickers Those wishing to support the boycott by picketing Stouffer's restaurants near where they live or work may call Betsy Miklethun, 687-1900. For more information, call Phyllis Mucha, 771-4815.

Dignity, an organization for Catholic and other Christian gay women and men, welcomes new members. Meetings are at Hallinan Center, CWRU. the second and fourth Thursday of each month, beginning with a women's meeting at 7:00 p.m. and Mass and a program at 8:00 p.m. For more information, call Patti at 321-9456.

Education for Freedom of Choice in Ohio and The Cleveland Abortion Rights Action League have moved to 1836 Eclid Avenue, Suite 203 (Union Building), across from Cleveland State University. EFCO's number is still 621-8224. CARAL will continue to receive mail at P.O. Box 14022, Cleveland, Ohio 44101, and its phone number is still 522-0169.

Parents of the Gay Educational Awareness Resources (GEAR) Foundation have formed a chapter of Parents of Gays. POG members are meeting to explore their feelings about gay family members, supporting GEAR Foundation activities, and inviting members of the GEAR Speakers Bureau to address clubs and professional organizations. For more information, contact the GEAR Foundation, P.O. Box 6177, Cleveland, Ohio 44101, or call 621-6546.

Home Oriented Maternity Experience (H.O.M.E.) supports and assists couples who wish to give birth at home, in order to help them achieve the optimum experience of a safe home birth. Any couple who want to learn more about all the options availale in childbirth for home, home-like or hospital settings are welcome to attend our meetings. On October 21 will will discuss Labor and Delivery at Home and on November 18 we will deal with Caring for the Newborn and Mother After Birth. Meetings are at 1130 East 74th Street, near St. Clair. Phone 881-6921 for directions. For more information, call 651-5227 or 881-6921.

The Pro-Choice Action Committee is an activist organization dedicated to lighting for full reproductive rights for all women. We support legal, safe and funded abortions for all women regardless of age or marital status. We oppose sterilization abuse and population control schemes. Reproductive rights include the right to safe and effective methods of contraception, and the right to decent low-cost quality child care. We support lesbian liberation and oppose all forms of racism in society. The Pro-Choice Action Committee meets monthly and all are welcome to our meetings. For more information, write PCAC, P.O. Box 18135, Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44118, or call 321-6143, 371-7648, or 621-8224.

Holly Near's New Album SPEED OF LIGHT

now on sale

2 free tickets to Holly Near's concert on November 7 will be raffled

off to a lucky purchaser. Winner to be announced October 30.

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The Grassroots Female Leadership Coalition invites all women to meet the second Tuesday and the fourth Saturday of each month from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. at McDonald's Restaurant (downstairs lunchroom), 3050 Carnegie Avenue, Cleveland. We are concerned with reaching grassroots women in the community as well as encouraging those interested to take on leadership roles in order to tackle domestic, economic, and political problems which all women, particularly minority women, face. For further information, call Geraldine Roberts on the Job Bank Action Line, 361-0373.

Hard Hatted Women is a support and information-sharing group for women working in or actively seeking non-traditional blue-collar jobs. Not all these jobs are actually "hard-hatted" or blue collar, but all are nonmanagerial. Group members work in heavy industrial, manual and skilled technical jobs that traditionally have been held by men. Hard Hatted Women meets the fourth Sunday of the month from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. at WomenSpace. To receive their bi-monthly newsletter and announcement of special events, please send $3 (more if you can) to Gert Braun, 2809 E. 125th St., Cleveland, Ohio 44120. For more information, call Amy Schuman at 696-6967.

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nalized sexism, racism, classism, ageism, and many more of society's "norms".

The desire to attain a higher level of life than mere existence is not wrong, but there is a difference between quality of life (health, education and leisure) and level of consumption (automobiles, TV's, etc.).

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Women in Skilled Employment (WISE) is a program at WomenSpace aimed at increasing opportunities for women in non-traditional jobs. If you are interested in exploring any aspect of blue collar work for women, be it applying for a job yourself or helping other women get and keep nontraditional jobs, please call Amy at 696-6967.

Woman Together, Inc., operator of a shelter for battered women that houses approximately 200 women and 400 children per year, has a new volunteer program called "Sponsorship". Volunteer sponsors are assigned women who call the hotline-and shaker residents upon their ' departure. Volunteers accompany clients to groups for abused women and help provide emotional support. If you are interested in training for the sponsorship program, call Fay Grinage at 431-6267.

A high level of consumption does not guarantee a high level of life; in fact, it may have just the opposite effect. In the United States, it appears that we have substituted quantitative consumption for qualitative life and we have done this at the expense of ourselves, the environment, consideration for future generations, and the majority of the world's inhabitants.

Feminists must challenge, question and evaluate society's values, choosing to keep only those things that will contribute to the kind of society we envision and replacing and eliminating the parts of our inheritance we've come to see as destructive or valueless. Working against established values, however, is an overwhelming and often thankless task. As people who have discovered the need to make some fundamental changes in some of the ways we think and feel and act, we are in a good position to have a positive effect on the environment by.some changes in how and what we consume. We have the right and the imagination not only to play the game, but to define the rules of our own lives.

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