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Women Organizing for Change (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas E. Brown Jr)
Mon Jul 29 12:01:53 1996
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 10:53:40 -0500
Reply-To: "Thomas E. Brown Jr" <tebrown@lonestar.jpl.utsa.edu>
From: "Thomas E. Brown Jr" <tebrown@lonestar.jpl.utsa.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
This came through on the COOL listserve and I thought some brothers would
be interested in this.
tom
>
>~*~*~ Please Repost Widely ~*~*~
>For Immediate Release: July 11, 1996
>For More Information Contact: Jeanne Clark
>e-mail: wlo@wlo.org / voice: 202-861-4730
>
>Women Leaders Launch Massive Internet Campaign to Activate Women's
>Rights Supporters for 1996 Elections and Beyond
>
>Women Leaders Online, the first women's advocacy group on the
>Internet, has launched a massive and unprecedented campaign to
>mobilize one million women and supportive men for grassroots political
>activism in 1996 and beyond.
>
>The campaign, called Women Organizing for Change (WOC), is
>headquartered in Washington DC. The Executive Director is Jeanne
>Clark, who brings more than 25 years of feminist grassroots activism
>and media expertise to the organization. The Deputy Director is Rhonda
>Lees, a veteran political campaigner and an attorney who practiced
>family law in New York. Bob Fertik, Editor and Publisher of Political
>Woman Hotline and a co-founder of Women Leaders Online, will publish
>alerts and organize support among men.
>
>Women Organizing for Change will use the Internet to link a million
>women in a powerful network that will rival extremist conservative
>groups like Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition and the NRA. WOC will
>also use the Internet to provide objective political information as an
>antidote to propagandists such as Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the
>conservative male-owned media. WOC intends to make a major difference
>in the 1996 elections, an election in which women's votes are expected
>to be decisive.
>
>WOC is asking women and sympathetic men to pledge one hour each week
>for grassroots political work for pro-woman candidates and causes.
>This work includes on-line organizing, media activism, phone banking,
>office work, and leafleting. Those joining WOC will receive regular
>e-mail updates about political candidates, legislation, and media
>campaigns. Emergency alerts will go out whenever women's rights are
>threatened.
>
>Activists can join WOC in one of three ways:
>* completing an online volunteer pledge form at http://wlo.org
>* sending an e-mail to volunteer@wlo.org with the subject "volunteer"
>* calling 1-800-WOMAN96
>Donations can be mailed to Women Leaders Online at P.O. Box 57199,
>Washington, DC 20037-7199. Those donating $10 or more will receive a
>nifty "One in a Million" button.
>
>The goal of Women Organizing for Change is to set a new and positive
>agenda for the USA which will promote equality and justice in all
>areas, including jobs, education, health care, family policy, taxes
>and budgets, the environment, personal freedom, the media, and
>political reform. Specific actions will also be taken to stop violence
>against women, end sexual harassment and discrimination, preserve the
>social safety net, and protect and expand women's reproductive rights.
>WOC intends to redirect the country's overall priorities, making
>women's views and women's voices key to all policy discussions.
>
>Women Organizing for Change represents a dramatic alternative to the
>agenda of the self-described Revolutionaries who took control of
>Congress in 1994. That agenda was driven by extremist special interest
>groups, drafted behind closed doors by high-paid lobbyists, and
>railroaded through Congress by a PAC-addicted leadership. As polls
>show, Americans -- especially women -- now see through the deceptive
>rhetoric of the "Contract With America."
>
>Founding members of WOC include former Vice Presidential candidate
>Geraldine Ferraro, author and columnist Barbara Ehrenreich, economist
>and political commentator Julianne Malveaux, Washington Feminist
>Faxnet publisher Martha Burk, Michelle Bernard, attorney with Patton
>Boggs L.L.P, and Dolores Briones, President of Createch Inc. of El
>Paso. Founding sponsors include Planned Parenthood Federation of
>America and many other feminist groups.
>
>The Women Leaders Online web site at http://wlo.org, which was
>designed by Laurie Mann and a team of volunteers, features feminist
>news and issue alerts, links to women's resources on the Internet, a
>10-point Women's Contract With America, an expose of anti-feminist
>women, and details on WOC co-sponsors and endorsers.
>
>Women Leaders Online, the mother organization of WOC, is a grassroots,
>not-for-profit, non-partisan organization which was formed in New York
>City in February, 1995. WLO has members in every state, with
>occupations including artists, business owners, clergy, computer
>professionals, community activists, doctors, elected officials,
>homemakers, journalists, lawyers, professors, scientists, secretaries,
>students, and teachers.
>
>
>
>~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
>Women Organzing for Change
>PO Box 57199, Washington DC 20037
>Voice: 202-861-4730 / Fax: 202-861-4297
>VoiceMail: 800-WOMAN96
>E-mail: wlo@wlo.org / Web: http://wlo.org
>~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
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>
Ed Schwartz, Institute for the Study of Civic Values, 1218 Chestnut St.,
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