Calendar
May 2012
Visit Amazing Women for the calendar of radio guests.
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7 Healthy Kids RI quarterly meeting. 4-5:30pm. Women & Infants Hospital, Auditorium C (in the basement). Guest speaker: Carol Cummings, Professor of Health Education at RIC.
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8 Opening Night: Children of Children, Portraits and Stories of Teenage Parents.TseTse Gallery 7-9pm.
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15 Women in Charge: Honoring Our Mothers. 5pm. TseTse Lavallee (19 Spruce Drive, Hope, RI) will host. Members are welcome to bring their mothers or pictures of them. Please RSVP to Charlene Kneath.
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20 RI NOW to host screening of Miss Representation in Barrington. RSVP on Facebook!
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23 Drinking Liberally - Check back for details
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April 2012
Visit Amazing Women for the calendar of radio guests.
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4 The RI Coalition Against Domestic Violence will speak at a press conference on Wednesday, April 4 at 3:30pm in room 313 at the State House. This press conference is being held by Representative DeSilva, the primary sponsor of the Anti-Strangulation bill (H7242). The Anti-Strangulation bill would make sure that batterers are held accountable for their crimes by increasing penalties for domestic violence assaults where the victim is strangled or choked. Please show your support by attending this press conference, as well as the hearing for the bill that will be held just following the press conference in the same room.
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11 Abortion-related bills to be heard in House Judiciary. Contact RI NOW if you are interested in testifying in support of reproductive rights.
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17 Tax Fairness Action. Check back for details.
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24 Women in Charge: Famous Women. For more information and to RSVP contact Charlene Kneath.
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28 Unite Against the War on Women: This grassroots rally is to unite men and women in the state who are fighting against the growing war on women in the states and nationally. Similar events will be happening around the country on the same day. Check out the event on facebook.
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March 2012
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8 RI Women Are Watching Congress! Protest – Thursday, March 8 from 6-8pm outside the Hope Club in Providence. RSVP on facebook. March 8th commemorates International Women’s Day and should be an occasion to celebrate and recognize the female influences that have touched all our lives. Yet, we find ourselves defending our basic rights as women, justifying the fact that 99% of sexually active women use birth control and defending against intrusions of personal privacy by our government. Instead of focusing on jobs and the economy, anti-women’s health leaders in Congress and the states have been spending their time introducing and passing bills restricting women’s access to health care. In fact, lawmakers have introduced more than 1,000 reproductive health bills in legislatures across the country, the majority of which seek to undermine women’s health. We hope you will join us on the evening of March 8th on the public spaces outside of the Hope Club to protest the presence of Congressman Pete Sessions (TX-32) and Congressman Jeff Fortenberry (NE-1) who have consistently voted against women and access to reproductive health care and who are in town to fundraise for Congressional Candidate Brendan Doherty. The fundraiser which we will stage the protest outside of is linked below:http://www.dohertyforcongress.com/news-and-events/events/fundraiser-with-congressman-sessions/We know that Rhode Islanders support basic reproductive health care like access to birth control with no co-pays! We know that women are watching! We know that women will vote! Let’s send Pete, Jeff and all other anti-women legislators a strong message of solidarity! Women are watching, educating their friends, sharing, taking action, and WE WILL BE VOTING.
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13 Volunteer Services Introduction & overview for prospective Clinical, Advocacy, Education and Outreach Volunteers. Tuesday, March 13 from 5:30-7:30pm at the PPSNE Administrative Offices at 111 Point Street. Patrick Comerford, our new Volunteer Services Coordinator will join us to provide new and returning volunteers with a global understanding of the work we do and the need for volunteers and activists in a number of roles throughout the organization. If you know of others who have wondered what they can do to help or have voiced interested in getting involved with public outreach, educational fairs or advocacy, this is a great opportunity for them to come out and hear more about the work we do and the needs we have for volunteers to fold in. RSVP to Paula Hodges.
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14 Planned Parenthood Public Affairs & Advocacy Phone Bank – Wednesday, March 14 from 5-8pm at the PPSNE Administrative Offices at 111 Point Street. It’s more important than ever that we clean up our list of Rhode Island PPSNE supporters and ensure they are ready to educate, motivate and mobilize year round. This will be the first regularly scheduled, monthly volunteer phone bank held on the 2nd Wednesday of the month at our offices. We will have approximately 10 calling stations and all phone calls will be done using our online phone banking system which includes easy to follow phone scripts and prompts. RSVP to Paula Hodges.
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15 RI NOW Meeting. Join RI NOW as we finalize our legislative agenda for 2012. We will meet between 6-8pm on the Brown campus in advance of the Miss Representation screening. Contact Carolyn Mark for more details.
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20 Screening of Christy Turlington Burns’ “No Woman, No Cry” on Thursday, March 20 at 7pm at Wilson Hall 101, Brown University. Planned Parenthood is proud to partner with fashion icon and women’s health advocate Christy Turlington Burns in the release of her film, No Woman, No Cry, a documentary that follows women in the US and abroad as they face the challenges of pregnancy-related care. NO WOMAN, NO CRY is a feature-length documentary that tells the powerful personal stories of people in Bangladesh, Guatemala, Tanzania and the United States whose lives lie in the balance of the safe motherhood movement. It is about pregnant women and the caregivers who can make all the difference in their lives. By bringing the problem and the solutions back to a human level, we hope to inspire the action and change needed to create lasting improvements in the lives of every woman for generations to come.
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28 ‘Drinking Liberally’ to celebrate Women’s History Month. Mark your calendar, and check back for details. RI NOW will post the event on facebook as details become available, so ‘like’ us to stay informed!
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29 URI Carlson Lecture on “The State of Women in Higher Education.” Lynn Pasquerella, now president of Mt. Holyoke, will be presenting. It will be at 4:15. Mark your calendars! Thank you also to the Center for Humanities for being willing to “share” Lynn’s visit with us. She will also be talking about the Humanities for their celebration at 7:30 p.m. Contact Jody Lisberger for more information.
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31 Women in Charge 5th Anniversary Celebration. 3pm at The TSETSE Gallery. For more information and to RSVP contact Charlene Kneath.
February 2012
Visit Amazing Women for the calendar of radio guests.
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7 Women in Charge meeting. The Women in Charge February event will take place on Tues., Feb. 7 at 5:00 p.m. at the Urban League of RI, 246 Prairie Ave., Prov., RI in the administrative conference room. To celebrate Black History Month, MJ Daley will do a presentation on famous Black women. Please RSVP by return email. Members of the 5th Anniversary Planning Commiittee will meet at 4:00 p.m. For more information and to RSVP contact Charlene Kneath.
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8 RI NOW Meeting. Join RI NOW at the William Hall Library (1825 Broad Street, Cranston) from 6-8pm for an informative evening regarding legislative issues of concern to RI NOW. We will be joined by Paula Hodges of Planned Parenthood Southern New England, Ali Wolfson of Rhode Islanders for Fair Elections, and Rachel Orsinger of the RI Coalition Against Domestic Violence. RSVP on facebook.
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13 Choice Coalition Meeting. For more information, contact Paula Hodges.
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14 URI Lecture: ”Mothers of Invention: Birthing Babies in a ‘Post-feminist’ Era.” Lippitt 402, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 4-5:15 p.m. Description: Public discourse on the role of choice in giving birth has taken on increasing significance as the result of two recent and diametrically opposed trends in the U.S.: a rising Cesarean-section rate that reached 32.9 percent in 2010 – a fifty percent increase in just a decade – and a historic increase in the number of women who give birth outside of the hospital environment. Media reports and research studies, in attempting to uncover the origin of these developments, polarize even the experts. Lurking behind policy statements and medical jargon is the social reality that these changes in how women give birth in the U.S. today are not simply medical, but structural –brought about by enormous social, economic, legal, and political changes that have taken place over the last century. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in three states and 109 qualitative, in-depth interviews with physicians, midwives, childbirth educators, and mothers, my research revealed that the rhetoric of safety, choice and control dominate mothers’ understandings of pregnancy and birth, though the extent to which they rely on each of these concepts varies depending on whether they give birth at home, in birth centers, or in hospitals and on the type of care provider in attendance. Notably, despite the significance of personal agency in their narratives, women of all backgrounds and experiences express deep anxiety about this concept and indicate ambivalence about the extent to which technology and litigation have come to dominate contemporary birth practices in the U.S.
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17 Soul @ Work
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29 WHEF Bowl-A-Thon Kick Off Party. 6-8pm at DUSK Providence (301 Harris Ave.)
January 2012
Visit Amazing Women for the calendar of radio guests.
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14 Women in Charge meeting. For more information and to RSVP contact Charlene Kneath.
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16 Martin Luther King Day
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20 Soul @ Work
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22 Roe v Wade Day
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23 Choice Coalition Meeting. For more information, contact Paula Hodges.
