Feminist Events Calendar

March-Women's History Month
-22nd: Back Up Your Birth Control Day

April-Sexual Assault Awareness Month:
-7th: World Health Day
-8th: Feminist Leadership Institute
-9th-11th: National Collegiate Global Women's and Human Rights Conference
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-19th: Pay Equity Day
-22nd: Earth Day

May:
-1st: International Worker's Day
-4th: National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Day
-8th-14th: National Women's Health Week

September:
-10th: International Gynecological Awareness Day

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Tomorrow is Back Up Your Birth Control Day!
Take action tomorrow with Back Up Your Birth Control (BUYBC) Day. Use this day to spread awareness on your campus about the importance of taking control of your own reproductive health by planning ahead for Spring Break with Emergency Contraception and Condoms!

Here's what some groups are doing for BUYBC Day on their campuses:

• FMF Affiliate SAGE (Students Acting for Gender Equality) at the University of Delaware will be staffing a kiosk during lunchtime hours in their student center to promote informed, safe sex over Spring Break. The event is called "Sunblock, Bathing Suit, Towel, What am I Forgetting? ...Condoms;" the group is handing out condoms, EC stickers and tattoos, and information to educate UDel students about condom usage and emergency contraceptive.
• The Hunter Women's Rights Coalition (CUNY Hunter, NY) tabled this week with condoms, info and the BUYBC Materials.
• The Meredith College, launching FMLA, group plans to table for BUYBC Day. This will be their first group event.

If you're are planning an event or action, make sure to let us know how it goes so that we can include your ideas in the next Ezine!

Update on Global Conference
The Feminist Majority Foundation's National Collegiate Global Women's and Human Rights Conference, is less than a month away!

We have confirmed that the following organizations will be represented at the conference:

• Feminist Majority Foundation
• Break the Chain Campaign
• Free the Slaves
• TransAfrica
• Citizens for Global Solutions
• Global Justice
• Student Environmental Action Coalition
• Ipas
• Women for Women International
• Engender Health
• United Students Against Sweatshops
• WEDO (Women's Environment & Development Organization)
• International Trade & Gender Network
• Women's Edge
• International Center for Research on Women
• Global Campaign for Microbicides
• Global Rights
• Pop Connection
• American NGO Coalition for the ICC (International Criminal Court)
• STITCH: Organizers for Labor Justice
• ICRW (International Center for Research on Women)
• True Majority
• Planned Parenthood Federation of America
• Population Action International
• Gender PAC

With less than a month to go, we are getting excited to see everyone join us here in DC for the FLI and the conference!

What are you waiting for? Register Today!

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Women's History Month
Women's History Month has been a great success with students and groups all over the country hosting speakers, discussion groups, movie screenings, and other events in order to recognize and honor women who have come before us. And there's still time to join in the celebrations! Need ideas? Check out our Women's History Month webpages on Feminist Campus and take our Women's History Quiz for a chance to win a free t-shirt! You can only take the quiz through March 31st!

University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
As part of Women's History Month, the College Feminists of UW-Eau Claire put on a "Back Up Your Birth Control" Rally on March 16th. On the Campus Mall, the group played trivia games and gave out prizes, free condoms, candy, stickers, and more to educate people on campus about birth control, EC, and other women's health-related matters.

The group acknowledges that educating the student body about these resources is especially important considering the recent statements by State Representative Dan LeMaheiu (R-Oostburg), who is furious that University of Wisconsin student health services offer prescription birth control, especially EC. He said that he is currently drafting a bill to stop all UW student health services from advertising and distributing EC. LeMahieu disagrees with student health services advertising of EC in student newspapers that urged women going on spring break to request EC prior to leaving for vacation. The conservative legislator is "outraged that our public institutions are giving young college women the tools for having promiscuous sexual relations, whether on campus or thousands of miles away on spring break" (The Capitol Times, 3/16/05).

FMLA leader wins Choice USA Award
Moya Bailey, President of the FMLA at Spelman College (Atlanta, Georgia) has won the Student Leader Award, one of the twelve Choice USA Generation Awards. The winners will be awarded at Choice USA's annual Generation-to-Generation Celebration, in Washington, DC on May 5.

FMF Campus Program Director wins Young Woman of Achievement Award
Crystal Lander, Campus Program Director for the Feminist Majority Foundation, won a Young Woman of Achievement Award, given by the Women's Information Network (WIN). WIN established this award to honor Washington area, pro-choice, Democratic women, 35 years or younger; who, through their career and/or their activism, make great contributions to our community.

New FMLAs!
We would like to welcome Wright State University (Dayton, Ohio) to the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance community!

FDA Acting Commissioner Indicates EC OTC Will Be Approved
March 18, 2005--The nominee to become the next Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner indicated at a confirmation hearing yesterday that the FDA will approve over-the-counter status for emergency contraception (EC). "The science part is generally done," said Lester M. Crawford, who is currently serving as acting commission of the FDA, according to the Washington Post. "We're just now down to what the label will look [like]. This is going to be a very unusual sort of approval." More

Congresswoman Maloney Reintroduces Equal Rights Amendment
March 18, 2005--Surrounded by women's rights leaders and members of Congress, as well as FMF staffers, organizers, and interns, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) on Wednesday reintroduced the Equal Rights Amendment. "It's 2005 and women still do not have their equal rights guaranteed in the Constitution," said Maloney. "We have fought wars overseas and guaranteed equal rights in the Afghan constitution, but we still don't have them here at home." More

Report Documents Discrimination at Ivy League Universities
March 5, 2005--"The (Un)Changing Face of the Ivy League," a report conducted by a graduate student group at Yale University, found that women and minorities at Ivy League schools have made little progress breaking into the tenure track faculty ranks, and are instead becoming a larger part of the growing group of highly qualified but non tenure track faculty and staff. The report uncovered a two-tier system in the universities in which women and minorities are concentrated in unstable, poorly compensated teaching and research positions while the secure, higher status, better paid, tenured and tenure-rack positions are held mainly by white males. Ivy League universities hired 433 professors into tenure-track jobs in 2003, but women received only 150 (34 percent) of these positions. In addition, women gained only 25 percent of the 117 tenured full professorates granted that year. More

More Feminist News

Afghan Parliamentary Elections Delayed Until September; Bomb Blast Kills Five
March 18, 2005--Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced that the parliamentary elections that were scheduled to take place in May will be postponed until September, citing technical problems for the delay. The parliamentary vote has been delayed several times over the past year due to security and logistical concerns. More

More Global Feminist News

Special Announcement!
FMF Deputy Director of Global Programs, Sara Hasan Nagy, will be participating in a chat called "The Struggle for Women's Rights at Home and Abroad" on March 22 from 10am-5pm EST. The chat is sponsored by Moving Ideas, and featuring panelists from ChoiceUSA and CodePink.

Global Conference
The Feminist Majority Foundation's National Collegiate Global Women's and Human Rights Conference, is less than a month away!

What are you waiting for? Register Today!

Fundraise to attend the Conference!
If you haven't made travel plans yet, here are some tips for raising the money you need so that you don't miss what is sure to be a remarkable conference:

• Organize a bucket donation drive in a high traffic area on campus.
• Solicit donations from the Women's Studies, Political Science, African American Studies, Latina(o) Studies, Queer Studies, Sociology, the Women's Center, and the Dean of Students.
• Request funds from student government or student activities. Remember to request funds early in the semester, and ask for more than you think you'll get (they'll give you less than you ask for).Many have special funds earmarked for sending students to national events.
• Ask local small businesses if they will donate fundraising items the Conference delegation or contribute money to your delegation.
• Organize to sell FMF t-shirts or subscriptions to Ms. magazine as a fundraiser. Call 866-444-FMLA for more info.
• For more ideas and information about fundraising visit the Fundraising Ideas page on the official conference website.

New ePSA from Advocates for Youth
Advocates for Youth has announced the launching of their Emergency Contraception ePSA (electronic public service announcement) called Emergency Contraception: A Puppet Parable of Politics & Polemics. View it online at http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/ec/

Apply for a 2005 NetAid Global Action Award!
Applications are currently being accepted for the 2005 NetAid Global Action Awards. If you're a high school student who is working to help the world's poor, you are encouraged to apply. The deadline for applications is May 15, 2005.

NetAid Global Action Awards honor high school students in the U.S. who have taken outstanding actions to fight global poverty. A prestigious judging panel will select the honorees this summer, and they will be announced in fall 2005. Honorees receive $5,000 for their higher education or a charitable cause of their choice, and are recognized at an Awards celebration in New York City.

Find a feminist internship or post-graduate job!

Job Search Tips:

• When you interview for a job, you are also interviewing the organization to see if you want to work there. So make sure to ask questions that help you get an idea of what it is like to work there. For example:
  • What are the primary duties of this position?
  • What do you consider the most important skills or traits for someone in this position?
  • How would you describe a typical day in this position?
  • What is the standard schedule for this position?
  • What are the short and long-term goals for this position?
  • What are the prospects for advancement in this position?

Each issue will have new tips to help you succeed in finding a feminist internship or job. Have a great tip for this section? Submit it to campusteam@feminist.org!