Violence Against Women (Event and Info Sources)

Please pass along word to fellow students about this event. Also students with special concerns in this area might wish to get on the mailing list of Judie Montoya ("It Happening with Women") who reports daily on events involving women -- Judie Montoya -- or join either of two lists, Beijing 95, which emerged from the international conference on women's rights held there that year, or FAVNET (feminists against violence, which is mainly a network of counselors and organizations that assist victims -- it is a closed list and can be joined only with recommendations from members). Also Christine Hansen and the Miles Foundation have been targeting abuses of women in the military recently:

http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/sfvo/miles_SASC.html

We shall be getting to women's rights in at least Philosophy 6 and possibly 43, so this event would be useful background. Possibly some who attend can report back Thursday (for extra credit ;-). Ed Kent

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I am writing to invite you and your classes to attend a session next
Tues. April 12 at 1:30 in the Jefferson-Williams room in the Student
Center (SUBO). [Brooklyn College, CUNY]

The main focus will be Violence Against Women During Wartime.
There will be two great speakers: Premilla Dixit from the NYC Social
Forum and The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Also, Cynthia Rothschild who is an LGBT and Women's Human Rights
Activist and Amnesty International USA Board Member.
Cynthia will also speak on LGBT issues.

I ask that you encourage your classes to come..
some prof. offer extra credit or assign a short paper based on the
talks...

They will each speak for about 20 min. followed by questions and round
table discussions..
There has been much effort to get this together and we ask that you help
bring a crowd..

Sponsoring the event is:
Students for Global Justice, Arts of Democracy, The Womens Center, RAW,
Latin Women, LGBTA, and the Health Clinic

Attached is a flier that you can print up and pass around class if you
like..
Feel free to respond with any questions..

Thank you for your time,
Lisa Roche
--
"A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort
to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy)
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Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies]