Feminist Events Calendar

September:
- 28th: Anniversary of FDA Approval of Mifepristone

October:
- 1st: UN General Assembly
- 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

Send us pictures of your GOHV campaign!

Send pictures, event descriptions, and success stories of the GOHV campaign on your campus to campusteam@feminist.org so that we can post them on the Feminist Campus website!

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Call us toll free at either the East coast office (1-866-444-FMLA) or the West coast office (1-866-471-FMLA) . You can also email us at campusteam@feminist.org. We are always happy to hear from you and answer any questions or concerns!

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This is your E-zine, and we are always updating and changing to fit your needs, so please let us know what you think of our new format! Email campusteam@feminist.org with any suggestions, ideas, or comments.

Meet your NEW 2004-2005 Campus Organizers
We are excited to have five new East Coast Campus Organizers, Natalia Averett, Jessica Bearden, Elizabeth Brookbank, Lauren Greis, and Candice Lopez, bringing our total to 9! They join the West Coast Senior Campus Organizers Nisha Gulati and Jessie Raeder, Get Out Her Vote Coordinator Katy Quissell, and Campus Program Director Crystal Lander (right). We have a new and improved campus organizers page where you can learn a little more about each of the organizers on the 2004 team and see which one is in charge of your campus.

Have a question? Ask an Organizer!
There are newly updated FAQs on the Ask-An-Organizer page. Make sure to check back often for all kinds of useful information about GOHV, FMF’s many campaigns to promote women’s equality, feminist merchandise information, and much more!

Get Out Her Vote t-shirts!
Get the brand new Get Out Her Vote t-shirts that read, "Vote as if your life depends on it." They're selling out fast so order online today!

Win a FREE copy of HBO's film Iron Jawed Angels!
Be one of the first 50 people to send us 100 completed Feminist Voter Pledge Cards from registered voters and win! Find out more.

On Campus Feminism
UCF's FMLA Chapter hosted 'Get Out Her Vote' on August 26th, 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 chapter educated students on the issues facing women voters and encouraged all young women to register and exercise their right to vote. Professors, local activists, and a local politician came to participate in the event and to speak to the crowd. Music was provided by feminist rock group Evil Ballerina. Dozens of UCF students registered to vote during the event, and many filled out feminist voter pledge cards.

Updated Action Directory
Visit the updated Action Directory to read more about campus feminist activism around the country and to submit your own Actions!

University of Arizona students and FMF demand Fox News and election officials correct misstatements!
On August 31 the Network of Feminist Student Activists, an affiliate of the Feminist Majority Foundation, organized Suffrage 2004: Get Out Her Vote, a massive student voter registration initiative aimed at registering and mobilizing young women on campus to vote. Fox News repeatedly questioned NFSA student leaders Kelly Kraus and Julianna Zuccaro whether they knew they might be committing an “unintentional felony” by registering out-of-state students. Kraus and Zucarro protested and challenged the accuracy of the Fox News reporter’s statements and were surprised to see the story run both that evening and the following morning. More

More Feminist News

Global Conference
Mark your calendars! This March the Feminist Majority Foundation is planning to hold a national conference on global women and human rights issues in Washington, DC. More information is coming soon, so keep your eyes open!

Get Out Her Vote on your campus!
We all know by now that this election is an important one for a number of issues that affect women, especially college-aged women. Because elections today are frequently decided by tiny margins, the mobilization of young women has the potential to change the political landscape in many states and the country as a whole. The Get Out Her Vote campaign, unlike other Get Out The Vote campaigns that focus mainly on registering new voters, has the goal of inspiring young women on campuses to register and vote on November 2, 2004. Go to the Activist Toolkit on the Get Out Her Vote website to download materials to participate in the campaign on your campus. Here you can also learn more about the awards you could win for registering and mobilizing young women to vote, including a free spot on the Ms. Post-Election Cruise, "This is what a Feminist looks like" t-shirts, and a free copy of HBO's film Iron Jawed Angels!

Ani DiFranco Concerts
GOHV has teamed up with Ani Difranco on the feminist artist’s Vote Dammit! tour to register and mobilize concertgoers to vote in the quickly approaching November elections. GOHV volunteers at these concerts will register new voters, sign up other GOHV volunteers, and collect Feminist Voter Pledge Cards. If you are a volunteer at any of Ani’s Vote Dammit! concerts or any other event in the coming weeks, make sure to give us a report of how your registering effort went by emailing us at campusteam@feminist.org, so that we can feature you in the next E-zine!

Feminist Literary Journal Invites Submissions for Annual Poetry Contest

So To Speak: A Feminist Journal of Language and Art is currently seeking submissions for its annual Poetry Contest. First prize is $500 plus publication in the Winter/Spring 2005 issue. The postmark deadline is October 11, 2005. Please submit 3-5 poems and a ten-dollar entry fee via check or money order made out to So to Speak. PLEASE DO NOT SEND CASH. Entrants should send two copies of their work, one with entrant name and contact information, and one without. Please also send a cover letter, brief bio, and SASE (self-addressed stamped envelope). Submissions should be mailed to:

So To Speak, Poetry Contest
MSN 2D6, George Mason University
4400 University Drive
Fairfax, VA 22030

For more information about So to Speak or with questions about the contest, e-mail sts@gmu.edu

The Power of Choice DVD:
Bring the Power of Choice to your campus!
Have you heard about the new documentary: MOTHERHOOD by CHOICE, NOT CHANCE? Some films might move you to tears, but don’t activate you to do anything. Some might give you important information, but don’t touch your heart.

There’s a new short film that does it all….it’s inspiring, while at the same time it wakes you up and motivates you to want to act! MOTHERHOOD by CHOICE, produced and directed by Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning filmmaker, Dorothy Fadiman, brings alive the history of the struggle for women's reproductive rights in the United States.

Intimate interviews reveal the passion of people who moved abortion from the danger of the backalleys to a safe, legal choice.

It is an excellent resource for screenings in any setting where you want to stimulate discussion about subjects like women's rights, ethics, restrictive legislation, inaccurate abstinence-only sex education, unequal access to reproductive health care or the decreasing number of abortion providers.

DVDs include the 27 minute documentary plus a separate resource kit with information about how to hold different kinds of screenings, a variety of questions for discussion, links to a range of pro-choice websites, and guidelines for how to arrange local TV broadcasts and then get the word out.

Cost: $5 for one DVD, $3.50 each if you order ten, $3.00 each for 100 (Plus S and H plus tax in California). To order, go to www.thepowerofchoice.net or call 650-568-9018.

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