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4/6/2006
Screening of "The Education of Shelby Knox" Q & A with Shelby Knox and filmmaker Rose Rosenblatt. A documentary about a Christian high school student in Texas who becomes a leader in the fight for comprehensive sex ed. in her community. Co-sponsored by Cornell Cinema, Giberot, Hillel, the Women's Resource Center and Student Acting for Gender Equality (SAGE)

3/28/2006
Panel with Tompkins County District Attorney Gwen Wilkinson, Toni Sunderland of the Advocacy Center, Gannett Victim Advocate Nina Cummings, and student survivors of rape and assault

10/26/2005
The Women’s Collective at Hobart and William Smith Colleges will be holding its first annual conference on women’s issues and the future of feminism, "Searching for the Sunlight: From the Roots to the Future Building an Inclusive Women’s Movement" on the HWS campus, October 26th–30th, 2005. It is open and free of charge to anyone who is interested and/or involved with women's issues. The conference will tackle a broad spectrum of issues involving new feminist movements that promote non-racist, non-hegemonic, non-classist, non-abelist, and non-heterosexist attitudes. It will present the varied opinions and perspectives of women who historically have been left out of the feminist agenda. The purpose of the conference is to provide information and resources as well as an opportunity for various people and organizations to connect and build solidarity. For more information, visit http://people.hws.edu/womenscollective/index.htm

10/10/2005
On October 10th Feminists Activists of Maryland (FAM), an affiliate group at Univ. of MD, brought former Assistant Commissioner for Women's Health and Director of the Food and Drug Administration Office of Women's Health, Dr. Susan F. Wood to speak on EC.

10/10/2005
The FMLA at the Indiana University- Bloomington had 175 people turnout for their Take Back The Night march October 10th, 2005. The march was preceded by live music and booths set up by various student and community organizations that sponsored the event. In addition, men who showed their support to end violence against women by marching behind the women. When they reached their destination, the courthouse, the men and women split up so that each side could hear several speeches and then had the opportunity to participate in an open-mic speak-out to voice past experiences or their views.

10/8/2005
On October 8th FMF Campus Organizers presented at the West Virginia Free Choice Summit, a day with the goal of advancing the movement for women's health and lives in West Virginia, and helping to mobilize 200+ Pro-Choice West Virginians to attend lobby day at the WV Capitol in Winter 2006. Workshops were offered on working with the media, how to be an effective citizen lobbyist for choice, and framing our message to win. Marshall University affiliate group Women's Studies Student Association and West Virginia University affiliate group FEM (Feminist Equality Movement) were in attendance, along with members of the community.

9/16/2005
The University of Montevello hosted an Indulgence Party last week as a part of their Love Your Body campaign. They are focusing on body image issues and the media bias against women and thought that an Indulgence Party would be an excellent way for the FMLA to confront body image issues while getting to know each other better! Members were all encouraged to bring something to eat (healthy or not), wear whatever made them comfortable, and eat shamelessly. They said the turnout for the event was "amazing!" Great idea!

9/4/2005
Temple University's FMLA was fast to act and hosted a table at the Temple Student Kickoff Carnival on September 4th to encourage students to: TELL SENATOR SPECTER TO VOTE "NO" ON ROBERTS! From 11-2:00, TFMLA handed out over 300 fliers with the phone number of PA Senator Arlen Specter(R) and urged students call Senator Specter on the spot with cell phones to oppose the nomination of John Roberts.

5/14/2005
On May 14th, the UCLA FMLA will be hosting 400 Portraits: The Women of Juárez and Chihuahua City; an awareness-raising event and benefit art auction centered on the brutalization, murders, and disappearances of over 400 women from Juarez and Chihuahua City, Mexico. The event will showcase works of art that represent over 400 women who have been killed or have gone missing since 1993. All of the proceeds will go to support Casa Amiga, the sole rape crisis center in Juárez, in hopes of constructing a shelter for women and children that have survived.

5/2/2005
The Sonoma State University (CA) FMLA participated in a Safe Spring Break tabling fair on their campus. The FMLA table had information about EC and the Back Up Your Birth Control campaign. They coordinated with the campus health center to have someone from the health center tabling with them who would set up appointments for students to go to the health center and get an advance prescription for EC.