From: WINGS <wings@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: alt.activism
Date: 06 Sep 92 23:37 PDT
Subject: Re: Time to Loosen Organge Grip on Unio
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Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!wings    Sep  6 23:37:00 1992


From: WINGS <wings>
Subject: Re:  Time to Loosen Organge Grip on Unions


   Contact your local public and community radio stations for 
dates and times they plan to air this program:

             "NATIONAL WOMEN'S AGENDA 1992:
       WHAT WOMEN WANT & HOW THEY PLAN TO WIN IT"

   This pre-election special is offered free to stations via
public radio satellite on Thursday, September 10, at 2 p.m. 
eastern time (Channel 7). 
   Cassettes will also be available from WINGS, PO Box 5307,
Kansas City MO 64131.

   The two half-hour segments can be aired on separate dates.
Segment 1 should air by October 2, Segment 2 by November 5.

   This is a multi-city discussion - with studios in New York
and Washington. In future, we hope to interconnect other
cities for more dialogues on specific issues.

   Moderator: Marlene Sanders, NYU Journalism Professor,
and one of the legendary early women of TV network news.

SEGMENT 1: THE WOMEN'S LEGISLATIVE AGENDA - 102nd CONGRESS
   Fates of bills women have lobbied for this session of 
Congress  - BEYOND the abortion issue, in areas like 
violence against women, health, family leave, equal 
remedies before the law, equal rights, and taxes.

Washington Studio:
* Beverly Stripling, Political Director, National YWCA
* Rep. Connie Morella (R-MD)
* Rep. Mary Rose Oakar (D-OH)
* Joan Kuriansky, Executive Director, Older Women's League

New York Studio:
+ Marlene Sanders, Moderator
* Jo Etta Wickliffe, President, Business & Professional Women
* Helen Neuborne, President, NOW Legal Defense & Education Fund

SEGMENT 2: APPROACHES TO CHANGING DECISONS & DECISION-MAKERS
   How women are working to change political decisions - and 
as may be necessary, the decision-makers - affecting women 
now and for the future. Each organization or activist has a 
unique approach.

Washington Studio:
* Maxine Waters (D-CA)
* Becky Cain, President, League of Women Voters
* Martha Burk, columnist for USA Today - follows 3rd party movement

New York Studio:
+ Marlene Sanders, Moderator
* Anne Mollegen Smith, co-Editor "Getting it Gazette"
* Debra Dodson, co-Author, "The Impact of Women in Public Office"
  Center for the American Woman in Politics, Rutgers University
* Sayre Sheldon, President Emerita and co-founder, Women's Action
  for New Directions (formerly Women's Action for Nuclear
  Disarmament)
* Jan Peterson, Founder, National Congress of Neighborhood Women

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
     "National Women's Agenda 1992: What Women Want and How 
They Plan to Win It" is being funded by the following: 
* American Association of University Women, 
* American Medical Women's Association,
* Black Women's Agenda,  
* B'nai B'rith Women,
* Coalition of Labor Union Women, 
* Commission for Women's Equality of American Jewish Congress,
* Delta Research and Education Foundation,
* General Federation of Women's Clubs
* League of Women Voters,
* National Women's Conference Committee, 
* NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, 
* Soroptimist International of the Americas, 
* Women for Meaningful Summits, 
* YWCA of the USA National Board, also
Business & Professional Women, Clearinghouse on Women's
Issues, National Woman's Party, National Women's Studies 
Association, Sarah Harder, Sally Fletcher Luther, Isabel 
Samfield, Mary Sanger, Sherry Smith, Ruthe Winegarten,
plus Churchwomen United, and The Woman Activist, Inc.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Producer: Frieda Werden; Associate Producers: Mal Johnson and
Martha Burk; Director: Karen Pearlman; Development: Sandy 
Suffian; Advisors include Sarah Harder, Frances Farenthold,
Chris Evers, and others; Press release: Becky Trump.


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