Feminist Events Calendar

October:
- 11th: National Coming Out Day
- 15th: Love Your Body Day
- 21st: National Young Women's Day of Action

November:
- 25th: International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

December:
-1st: World AIDS Day
- EC Day of Action

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The GOHV campaign is in full gear and the campus team has been out in the field helping you register fellow students to vote. As the registration deadlines approach the next phase of this campaign is mobilization. Begin now to plan ways to ensure that the student voting population actually gets out to vote! Some ideas for mobilization include:
• March to the polls- encourage young women to go to the polling location together
• Storm the dorms- On Monday, November 1st go door to door in the dorms reminding students that the next day is Election Day and of polling locations.
• Get Your Message Out - Have banner and sign making parties with information about polling locations and voting meeting locations.
• Phone Bank- Call students you helped register to vote and remind them that this election will decide key issues like Supreme Court nominations, reproductive rights, civil rights, and environmental rights.
• Get Visible- Wear your Get Out Her Vote t-shirts, carry your Vote As If Your Life Depends On it rounds, and let everyone know that you plan to vote and challenge them to do the same.

Get Out Her Vote t-shirts!
Get the your Get Out Her Vote t-shirts that read, "Vote as if your life depends on it." Students get a discount off the online price, so call (1-866-444-FMLA) or email your Campus Organizer and order them for your FMLA today and get visible!

Moved? Changed dorms? Got a new FMLA president?
Make sure to update your contact information in the FeministCampus.org database.

Win a FREE copy of HBO's film Iron Jawed Angels!
We still have a few more copies of Iron Jawed Angels to give away to GOHV participants who send us 100 completed Feminist Voter Pledge Cards from registered voters and win! Find out more.

Commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development.
Download and sign this petition to reaffirm your commitment to women's rights worldwide.

East Tennessee State University
On September 27, the FMLA at East Tennessee State University hosted a "VOTING is Power Pride Party," a concert and voter registration drive attended by over 150 students. The event featured several bands, including Appalachian reggae sensation Ras Alan. The ETSU FMLA organized a coalition of co-sponsoring organizations that included the ETSU Greens, Amnesty International, NAACP, the local NOW chapter, ETSU and Washington County Democrats, ETSU Republicans, Sierra Club, the ETSU Women's Studies program, and the ETSU Rainbow Alliance, all of whom had informational tables on display throughout the day. Over fifty people registered to vote at the event, including one of the band members--a thirty-something who will be voting for the first time November 2.

Ohio State University
Andrea Scarpino and her Get Out Her Vote registration team came up with a creative way to attract attention and make a very important point. They dressed in aprons and used ironing boards instead of tables while registering voters at events in Columbus, OH displaying signs that proclaimed, "If you aren't voting, you might as well live in the past--1919 to be exact!" Andrea and her team registered a total of 450 voters during the campaign.

University of Central Florida
UCF's FMLA hosted a Get Out Her Vote event on August 26th. The event was in conjunction with the "Radical Rush" recruitment event during the first week of classes and in celebration of National Women's Equality Day and the 84th anniversary of the 19th amendment. From 12 - 2 pm on the stage outside of the Student Union, the FMLA educated students on the issues facing women voters and encouraged all young women to register and exercise their right. Professors, local activists, and a local politician came to share in the event and to speak to the crowd. Music was provided by feminist rockers Evil Ballerina. Dozens of UCF students registered to vote during the event, and many filled out feminist voter pledge cards.

Feminist Spotlight:
Randee Dunford-Maykell, University of Pittsburgh
We are proud to recognize Randee Dunford-Maykall '05 (seen left registering people to vote at the Ani Difranco concert in Greensburg, PA), a women's studies and history major at the University of Pittsburgh. Since July, she has committed herself to our Get Out Her Vote Campaign.

When she received an email about the campaign, she immediately signed up to intern. She wanted to encourage women voters because "women need to have their voices heard in this election because we have a long history of being oppressed and ignored, and if we can mobilize in this election, our voices will be heard." Randee has not only coordinated various voter registration drives at three college campuses in the Pittsburgh area, but she has also coordinated voter awareness events.

Earlier this school year, she coordinated an empowerment rally, which included speakers from various local organizations, bands, poets, and Iron City Drag Kings. This rally empowered the community to vote and informed them about the current issues that are at stake during this election. With Randee's leadership the University of Pittsburgh GOHV team registered over 1000 voters in the Pittsburgh area!

Even though the deadline for voter registration has passed in Pennsylvania, Randee will continue to encourage voter participation. She is currently planning different events that focus on mobilizing the vote. Future events include a screening of Iron Jawed Angels, as well as following up with new voters through phone banking.

Randee feels that she has made a difference in her area and most importantly, she thinks that "We have had a successful voter registration drive, and now people understand the voting process. I have helped them realize their power and that they do have a say in their government."

New FMLAs!
We would like to welcome Austin Peay State University (TN), State University of West Georgia, and Eastern Kentucky University to the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance community!

Thirty States Could Ban Abortion if Roe v Wade is Overturned
October 6, 2004
The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) has released a report analyzing what could happen state by state if the Supreme Court reversed its 1973 decision guaranteeing women the right to an abortion. The study, titled What If Roe Fell?, considered the current legislative climate of all fifty states, as well as old laws some states have on the books limiting access to abortion. The report concluded that 21 states are at high risk of banning abortion, with nine other states at middle risk. More

FMF Education Equity Program Celebrates First Year, Launches New Website
October 5, 2004
Since the Feminist Majority Foundation's Education Equity program was formed a year ago, it has been on the forefront of the fight to save and strengthen Title IX. In celebration of its first successful year, FMF has launched a website designed to highlight the benefits from, and the continued need for Title IX. The site will help the public learn how to advance gender equity through an increased understanding of Title IX. At its full potential, Title IX can be used to fight against sex discrimination in all aspects and levels of education ranging, from athletics to vocational education, pre-school play to college faculty pay. The site will also enable visitors to become a Title IX Activist to protect Title IX from those who are trying to weaken its regulations and guidelines. More

More Feminist News

Women, Violence, and the Elections in Afghanistan
October 4, 2004
As he did in Thursday night's debate, President Bush repeatedly refers to the number of people registering to vote in Afghanistan for the October 9 Afghan presidential election. Bush said, "Ten million citizens have registered to vote. Forty-one percent of those 10 million are women." The Feminist Majority is closely following the election process and is now trying to get out the real story of what is happening on the ground in Afghanistan. More

UN Presses for More Family Planning Aid to Stem Population Explosion
September 16, 2004--The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) released a report yesterday stating that the poorest countries' populations will triple by 2050 and that there will be a population explosion unless donor countries provide more funds to family planning and reproductive health programs. The State of World Population Report 2004 examines how much progress has been made to achieve the goals set during the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, Egypt. Speaking at a news conference in London, Thoraya Obaid, the executive director of the UNFPA, said, "In 2004, it is a crime that women still die because they are having babies...because it is poor women who are suffering and dying, maternal mortality is a crisis that does not get the urgent attention it deserves," reports the Toronto Star. Donor countries have only given out about half of the $6.1 billion a year that was promised at the ICPD by 2005. More

More Global Feminist News

October is Domestic Violence Month and Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Remind women on your campus that the next president will have an impact on funding for domestic violence and breast cancer research.

Love Your Body Day
On October 15th and all year round celebrate loving your body just the way it is. Send a message to your friends.

National Young Women’s Day of Action
On October 21st prove the critics wrong. They said you would register but not vote, make a difference on your campus by getting everyone to sign the Feminist Voter's Pledge, and send a Get Out Her Vote ecard to all your friends!

December EC Day of Action!!
According the Kaiser Family Foundation, only 1 in 5 women in the US know enough about emergency contraception to access EC pills within the 72-hour time frame. We must empower every woman on every campus by educating them on Emergency Contraception. Get Active!

Tell the future President why choice is still an important issue to you!
Austin Peay State University FMLA co-founder Cati Montgomery is working on her final project for her Women's Studies minor, and she needs your help!

Here's what she says about her project:
"After attending the March for Women's Lives, I wanted hear the stories of the participants, as well as stories of those who couldn't be there. In an attempt to find those stories, I would like to collect original and objective responses to the question, "Why is choice important to me?" I then intend to compile your responses into a document which I will forward to whomever is elected President. Let's tell the White House why choice is STILL important to us! Our voices make a difference in our right to choose!"

THE RULES
Responses can be letters, stories, black and white art, but must be original.
Please submit responses with FIRST NAME ONLY, a pseudonym, or anonymously, and. include your age..
For legal reasons, I absolutely cannot accept anything from minors (anyone under the age of 18).
Submissions indicating intent to harm a born, living human, or indicating harm has been done to a born living human will be considered incriminating and must be turned over to the authorities.
All submissions must be received by November 15, 2004. You may e-mail responses to Cati Montgomery at catimontgomery@yahoo.com, or mail them in care of Dr. Jill Eichhorn to:
Cati Montgomery
Women's Studies Program
Austin Peay State University
P.O. Box 4487
Clarksville, TN 37044

"A Voice for Choice" Screened Nationwide On Sunday, October 10th to Mobilize the Woman's Vote. Order yours today!

"A Voice for Choice" is a feature length documentary on the 2004 March for Women's Lives in Washington D.C. The film examines the current crisis in women's reproductive freedoms and the historic march on Washington D.C. (the largest march on the Capitol in U.S. History). It also features members of the Cerritos Community College FMLA!

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