Check out the 3/16/11 update, including:
Today
Wed., 3/16, 3 PM, change of location for Ulster County Reapportionment Commission Weekly Meeting -- for today only: 29 Manor Avenue, Kingston
Tonight: 6:30 PM, Race to Nowhere, Saugerties High School Auditorium
Tomorrow, 3/17/11, 4:30 PM, A Global Conversation about the Lives of Women and Girls, Kingston Library Community Room with Lois Shapiro-Canter, president, CEO, and founder of the Saratoga Foundation
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
3/17/11: Public Policy Committee to Continue a Global Conversation
A Global Conversation about
the Lives of Women and Girls
Thursday, March 17, 4:30 PM
Kingston Library, Community Room
As part of My Sister's Keeper, an AAUW-NYS Initiative, the Public Policy and International Committees of the Kingston AAUW are pleased to welcome our guest speaker Lois Shapiro-Canter, president, CEO, and founder of the Saratoga Foundation for Women Worldwide (http://saratogafoundation.org/). This meeting is a continuation of our Half the Sky book discussion. Come and join in the conversation!
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Click here to download a flyer for this event.
Then, click on the file name (kaauw_msk_17mar11.pdf)
or the green DOWNLOAD button to save and view the flyer.
AAUW Kingston Branch Meeting March 19, 2011
Nurturing the Body as Well as the Mind
March 19, 2011, 1 pm
Kingston Area Library Community Room
Jill Taylor is a physical therapist who will talk with us about ways to care for ourselves. She will cover some norms for strength, endurance, and flexibility as we age. She'll share some of the research about the impact of exercise on our well being and its interaction with many disease processes. She will also information on community and internet resources.
Jill graduated from Ithaca college and has been a physical therapist for 35 years. She has worked in a variety of settings including private practice with an emphasis on orthopedic and sports medicine. For the last 10 years she has worked in a hospital setting with an emphasis on balance and vestibular patients as well as the general geriatric population. She recently took the exam for specialist certification in geriatrics from the American Physical Therapy Association.
Join us on March 19th to have your questions answered.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
3/15/11: Book discussion on Frances Perkins
For our March book discussion, in honor of Women's History Month, we'll meet at 1 PM today (Tuesday, 3/15) in the Story Hour Room on the 2nd floor of the Kingston Library, 55 Franklin Street, to talk about The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and his Moral Conscience by Kirstin Downey. Check out Marjorie Regan's Womens' History Month 2010 blog post about Perkins here.
In addition, March 25 is the 100th Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. If you haven't seen it yet, check out the 1-hour PBS documentary about it here.
There's a lot of good material on this site, including an interview with Kirstin Downey.
Friday, March 11, 2011
Congress to consider removing deadline to ratify ERA
Baldwin Aims to Ratify ERA
On Tuesday, Rep. Tammy Baldwin (R-WI) introduced a bill to speed ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. The legislation (H.J. Res. 47) would remove the deadline for ratification and render the Constitution amended once three additional states ratify. The last congressional deadline for state ratification ran out in 1982 with ratification from only 35 of the needed 38 state legislatures.
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Highlighting the continued importance of ratifying ERA, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia recently noted his belief that the Constitution does not currently prevent discrimination on the basis of sex.
AAUW is one of over 25 organizations to have endorsed Baldwin’s bill, consistent with our 2009-2011 Public Policy Program. We oppose all forms of discrimination and support constitutional protection for the civil rights of all individuals.
This is an excerpt from this week's issue of Washington Update, an internal communication for public policy leaders and members of the American Association of University Women.
On Tuesday, Rep. Tammy Baldwin (R-WI) introduced a bill to speed ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. The legislation (H.J. Res. 47) would remove the deadline for ratification and render the Constitution amended once three additional states ratify. The last congressional deadline for state ratification ran out in 1982 with ratification from only 35 of the needed 38 state legislatures.
Image via WikipediaHighlighting the continued importance of ratifying ERA, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia recently noted his belief that the Constitution does not currently prevent discrimination on the basis of sex.
AAUW is one of over 25 organizations to have endorsed Baldwin’s bill, consistent with our 2009-2011 Public Policy Program. We oppose all forms of discrimination and support constitutional protection for the civil rights of all individuals.
This is an excerpt from this week's issue of Washington Update, an internal communication for public policy leaders and members of the American Association of University Women.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Slideshow Celebrating Int'l Women's Day in the Hudson Valley
Here's a slideshow of yesterday's celebration at the Eleanor Roosevelt Walkway Over the Hudson. A glorious day shared with hundreds of Hudson Valley Women.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Spring Trip: MOMA and NYC, April 4, 2011
Please join us for this spring trip to The Museum of Modern Art, where you will find the following special exhibits:
Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography
Over 200 works by outstanding women artists covering photography's 170-year history
Standard Deviations: Types and Families in Contemporary Design
Objects and designs of unique identity created for industrial scale
Picasso's Guitars 1912-1914
Fresh insights into Picasso's cross-disciplinary process during these breakthrough years
Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen
Two complete kitchens feature women's contributions to design objects, architectural plans, posters, photographs, and artworks
Paula Hayes, Nocturne of the Limax maximus
Organically shaped vessels made from blown glass, silicone, or acrylic and filled with a rich variety of plant life
Abstract Expressionist, New York
Presents the achievements of the 1950's generation that catapulted NYC to the center of the international art world
For more detailed descriptions, go to:
The bus leaves at 9:30 AM from the rear of the former Ames in the Kingston Plaza, picks-up at the Thruway Park-n-ride in New Paltz at 10 AM, and starts back from MOMA at 4:30 PM with a stop at Trader Joe's on Route 17. |
Cost: $59 includes bus, driver tip and museum entrance $56 for members of AAUW and SIP Bus alone: $39 |
For reservations, call ViVi at 845-331-0155 (cell: 845-417-5229) or write vvhlavsa@aol.com, then send your check, made out to AAUW-Kingston Branch, to ViVi Hlavsa, 191 Lapla Road, Kingston NY 12401
Monday, March 7, 2011
Judy Dench and Daniel Craig on International Women's Day
We're equals, aren't we, 007?
We must never stop asking until the answer is YES!
We must never stop asking until the answer is YES!
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Women in America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being | The White House
Image via WikipediaWomen in America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being | The White House: "Women in America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being
In support of the Council on Women and Girls, the Office of Management and Budget and the Economics and Statistics Administration within the Department of Commerce worked together to create the Women in America (pdf) report which, for the first time in recent history, pulls together information from across the Federal statistical agencies to compile baseline information on how women are faring in the United States today and how these trends have changed over time. The report provides a statistical portrait showing how women’s lives are changing in five critical areas:"
3/1/11: Gerrymandering in Rosendale
Our Public Policy Film/Discussion this monthGerrymandering
Tuesday, March 1
7 PM
Rosendale Theater
408 Main Street
Rosendale
Did you know that there are fewer competitive elections in the U.S. than there are in the USSR? Almost all election districts in the U.S. are “incumbent protected”, forever-safe seats, carved out so that the results are assured to one party or another. This is the year of re-districting across the U.S. based on the 2010 census.
"Quietly, without much comment or notice, the practice of gerrymandering has transformed from a dismal-but-bearable tradition of occasional opportunism into a cancer eating at the heart of democracy itself, rendering our votes nearly meaningless in countless constituencies across the land....nearly all U.S. Congressional districts -- along with state assembly and senate seats -- have been gerrymandered in one direction or another." -- David Brin. Ph.D.
Cost: by donation
Sponsored by: Mid-Hudson League of Women Voters
Before the film: from 5 PM on, all are invited to join LWV members for dinner at the Rosendale Cafe, 434 Main Street. Call 845-658-9048 to reserve.
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