From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: NY Conference: SISTERS IN STRUGGLE
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Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 22:16:32 GMT

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/* ---------- "Sisters in Struggle Conf. NYC" ---------- */
              Women's Alliances for Change
   A Multi-cultural, Multi-national Women's Conference

Saturday, May 2, 1992
8:30 am- 6 pm

Barnard Hall, Barnard College
3009 Broadway (at 116th St.)
New York, New York

Registration fee $25 (sliding scale)
Cultural Evening  8 pm

For more information or to register: 
Women's Conference/UPWA, PO Box 3487, Church St. Sta.,
New York, NY 10008-3487
Phone: (212)385-2222  Fax: (212)927-7326

Panels on
  Colonialism, Feminism & National Liberation
  Socio-political Context of Violence Agt. Women
  Women's Health & Reproductive Rights
  Women and Labor Organizing
  Women & Development
  Politics of Identity & the "New World Order"

Sponsored by Nat'l Mobilization for Survival, Barnard
College Dept. of Women's Studies, Columbia University
Inst. for Research on Women and Gender, Middle East
Solidarity Alliance, Union of Palestinian Women's
Associations in North America.

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SCHEDULE for SISTERS IN STRUGGLE: 
Women's Alliances for Change
A Multi-cultural, Multi-national Women's Conference

Saturday, May 2, 1992

Barnard Hall, Barnard College
3009 Broadway (at 116th St.)
New York, New York

All Day Cultural Fair 8:30 am - 8:00 pm
Food, handicrafts, books, 
womens videos by Simone Farkhondeh, D(she) TV

Registration (coffee and tea) 8:30 am
Opening Plenary               9:30 am
*Indicates speaker is not confirmed

The Context in Which We Work Opening Plenary 
Yasmine Adib   Palestine Solidarity Committee
Eudine Barriean Foster  Int'l Fellow, Am. Assoc. of
               Univ. Women 
Rabab Hadi     UPWA, Mobilization for Survival
Natalie Kampen Womens Studies Chair, Barnard
Ingrid Washinawatok Indigenous Womens Network
Charlotte Bunch*  Professor, Rutgers; author of         
                  Passionate Politics

Concurrent Panels        11:00 am
Colonialism, Feminism, and National Liberation
Nancy Coffin   Mideast Solidarity Alliance
Rabab Hadi     UPWA
Dessa Quesada  Gabriela Network
Rubi Sanchez   FMLN 
Mamazane Xulu  Womens League, ANC

Violence Against Women
Michael-David Gordon  NY Anti-Sexist Mens Action
Michele A. Paludi   Womens Studies, Hunter              
                    Editor, Ivory Power.
Carol Moore      WILPF
Simona Sharoni   Int'l, AAUW
Maria Arias      Prof., CUNY Law School

Womens Health and Reproductive Rights
Marilyn Clement     Health Care, We Gotta Have It!
Haydee Morales      Comit de Afirmacin Puertorriquea
Soheir Morsy        Prof., Medical Anthropology
Rosalind Petchesky  Prof., Political Science & Womens
                    Studies,  Hunter 
Sita Sherma    International Fellow, AAUW
Carletta Joy Walker Black Womens Health Project

Lunch               1:30 pm
Afternoon panels    2:30 pm
Women and Labor Organizing
Myrna Bain     Prof., Black and Puerto Rican Studies,
               Hunter College
Judith Chomsky National Lawyers Guild
Corrine Scott  Vice Chair, Train Operators Division, TWU 
               Local 100
Brenda Bishop* Womens Project, Association for Union
               Democracy
Celeste Douglas*    Local 1199

Women and Development in a Changing World
Vicki Alexander  Physician and int'l womens rights
                 activist
Eudine Barriean Foster   Intl Fellow, AAUW
Nandita Kapadia-Kundu    Intl Fellow, AAUW
Soheir Morsy   Prof., Medical Anthropology
Shazia Rafi    Executive Director, Womens Action
               Alliance

Politics of Identity and the New World Order 
Sherry Gorelick     Prof., Sociology, Rutgers
Samira Haj*     Prof., Mideast Studies, NYU
Rolanda Murphy  Intl Fellow, AAUW
Sana Odeh       Graduate Student, NYU
Tanaquil Jones  Campaign to Free Black Political
                Prisoners & POWs

Closing Plenary     5:00 pm

Dinner and Reception with Authors  6:00 pm
Cultural Evening    8:00 pm  with:

al-Jalil Palestinian Popular Dabke Ensemble
Leslie Ward & Keitha Thompson, Steel Drums, Trinidad
Women of the Calabash*
Poetry by Sapphire, Kathy Engel, Esperanza Martell

For more information or to register: 
Women's Conference/UPWA, PO Box 3487, Church St. Sta.,
New York, NY 10008-3487
Phone: (212)385-2222  Fax: (212)927-7326

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