Weekly Newsletters, Fall 2008-Spring 2009

Monday, September 29, 2008

Newsletter 09/28/08

F.O.R.C.E. Newsletter September 28, 2008

F.O.R.C.E. Meetings
Mondays, 1-2pm in the Women’s Resource Center (WRC)
NOTE: There will be no meeting on Monday, October 6 because of Sex Positive Week!

News…

Police in Mexico arrest alleged killer of US woman
MEXICO CITY: Authorities in southern Oaxaca state said Saturday they have arrested a man who allegedly raped and killed a U.S. woman.

Omar Yoguez Singu, 32, told police he had consensual sex with Marcella Grace Eiler, 20, of Eugene, Oregon, and then killed her with a machete after an argument on Sept. 15, Oaxaca State Attorney General Evencio Ramirez said.

Eiler's badly decomposed body was found Wednesday in a shack 80 miles (130 kilometers) south of Oaxaca City, near the town of San Jose del Pacifico.

Ramirez said Singu was turned over to police on Wednesday in Mexico City by friends who first beat him up after he confessed to the crime.

Eiler's father, John Eiler, of St. Louis, Missouri, said his daughter was a dance teacher and social activist in Oaxaca City, where she had lived on and off for the past three years.
Today on IHT.com
Bailout plan in hand, House braces for tough vote
On bailout, Obama and McCain were surely themselves
Chechen government intensifies scare tactics, rebels' families say

"She was really trying to spend her energy as an observer for an indigenous rights organization," John Eiler said in a telephone interview.
More info: here.
Facebook group: here.


This past week…

Monday, September 22
Get Out Her Vote and Vote NO on Props 4 & 8 Training
Women’s Resource Center, LA 3- 105

Sunday, September 28
Sex Positive Week Meeting
- We made some signs to put up around campus
- We received fliers, which we will be leaving around campus. If you want to pick some up, they are in the Women’s Resource Center on campus.
- We watched the documentary Sex Positive.

The week of Monday, September 29…

Tuesday, September 30 – 7:30 PM
FREE FILM SCREENING of Chicago 10!
The Egyptian Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
CHICAGO 10, 2007, Roadside Attractions, 110 min. Mixing animation with archival footage and using the voices of Nick Nolte, Roy Scheider, Hank Azaria, Mark Ruffalo and others, director Brett Morgen explores the build-up to and unraveling the 1968 Chicago Conspiracy Trial. A parable of hope, courage and challenge as it portrays the struggle of young Americans speaking out and taking a stand in the face of an oppressive and armed government. Free admission!
Information HERE.

Wednesday, October 1 – 10:30am
"War Is Expensive, Peace is Priceless" Rally (Center for Peace and Social Justice - CPSJ)
A forum to discuss the "deeper issues related to U.S. interventions" in Afghanistan and Iraq. Three guest speakers: Maricela Guzman, Anne Wright and Stephan Zunes.
F.O.R.C.E. will be tabling & doing voter registration.
Flier: here.

Thursday, October 2
“Night of a thousand conversations” (1:00 pm)
On the grass near the Fine Arts buildings, upper campus
The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (chirla.org) is sponsoring conversations about the violations of human rights and discrimination against undocumented immigrants in the United States.
Facebook event page: here.

Saturday, October 4
Sarah Palin Protest in Carson, CA (2:00pm)
Home Depot Center
ADT Tennis Stadium
18400 Avalon Blvd., Carson, CA (Map)
However, the doors open at 11am, in case anyone's inclined to start showing up at that time.
Source: http://www.presstelegram.com/ci_10565747
If you would like to carpool please email us at force4change@yahoo.com!

Next Week…

Monday, October 6 – Wednesday, October 8
SEX POSITIVE WEEK
Information here: http://sexpositivecsulb.blogspot.com
Facebook event page here: http://www.new.facebook.com/event.php?eid=18784789234
If you would like to help/volunteer for Sex Positive Week, please email us the times that you would like to volunteer on Oct. 6, 7 & 8! force4change@yahoo.com

Mondays (October 6, 13, 20, 27), 4-7pm
Rape Agression Defense (R.A.D.): Women’s Self-Defense
To sign up, email your name and contact info to Corporal Ami Rzasa, University Police at arzasa@csulb.edu or call 562-985-8538. One time registration fee of $10 (due on the first day of class).
Flier: here.

Thursday, October 9
NCOD Community Resource Fair (11:30am-1:30pm)
The National Coming Out Day community resource fair is scheduled from 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. Organizations are encouraged to arrive by 11:30 a.m. to set up their tables. One table and two chairs per organization are provided, unless additional chairs are requested. There will also be a student open mic session during this time for students to share Coming Out stories or experiences as LGBT or heterosexual ally individuals.
We need volunteers for the FORCE table!
FORCE Table volunteers: Wandie (12:30-1:30pm), Mariana (12:45-1:30pm), Nicoal (12:15-1:30pm)

Tuesday, October 14
Record Swap! (12pm-3pm)
On the grass near the Fine Arts buildings, upper campus
Bring your records, books, zines, VHS, etc…
Clear some space, get some free stuff!
There will be no selling of items. If you do not bring anything to the swap, please take no more than 2 items.
Flier: here.

Thursday, October 16 – 6:00pm
Iron Jawed Angels Film Screening and Voter Registration (WSSA)
Facebook event page: here.

Friday, October 17 – 7:00pm
Hip Hop:Beyond Beats and Rhymes Film Screening + Q&A with Dr. Shirra Tarrant (WSSA)
Facebook event page: here.

Saturday, October 18
“Casualties of War” Art Show Ends
Picture This Gallery 4130 Norse Way, Long Beach, CA 90808 (Map)
Exhibit is on-going until October 18.
A series of paintings with powerful messages.
Flier: here.

Saturday, October 25
Young Women’s Empowerment Conference
Senator Lowenthal hosts a one day conference/field trip for young women that targets high school juniors and seniors, (11th and 12th grade), and focuses on all aspects of their growth and development. Speakers/Workshop leaders will discuss current issues most relevant to young women and their development as leaders.
The purpose of this event is to give young women a forum to learn more about the issues confronting them in a comfortable venue with great speakers/role models. Common themes focused during workshops are: going and preparing for college, self esteem, setting and achieving goals, as well as avoiding teenage pregnancies and abusive relationships.
The Young Women’s Empowerment Conference needs volunteers! There will be about 300 girls at the conference, and volunteers are needed to introduce and meet the girls. There are other needs as well, please email FORCE at force@force4change.com or Stephanie Mejias at smejias@csulb.edu (include in the email, your name, Contact information, and t-shirt size).

November 18 and 19
Practicing Peace (Center for Peace and Social Justice - CPSJ)
A campus-wide program with information tables, poetry reading, music and numerous other activities. More information to come!

Other campus postings…

--- The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Resource Center along with other student organizations and on-campus collaborators are hosting the annual National Coming Out Week event during the week of Oct. 6.

The purpose of National Coming Out Week (NCOW) is to provide awareness and education on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues. NCOW will be a four day event providing the campus community with various workshops ranging from sex health education to experiences as LGBT individuals on the CSULB campus. NCOW will conclude with a resource fair providing the campus community with LGBT-focused and LGBT-friendly organizations, both on-campus and off-campus. The concluding resource fair will also include an open-mic session providing students the opportunity to voice their experiences as LGBT persons or as allies to the LGBT community.
Volunteers are needed for NCOW. See below for the details.
If you’d like to volunteer, please e-mail us back at lgbtrc@csulb.edu with what you’d like to volunteer for.
If you are unavailable to these specific times, please help us get the word out and forward this email anyone you think may be interested.

Thursday, 09 October 2008 @ Friendship Walk:
"National Coming Out Day, On/Off-campus LGBT Organization Fair, Open-Mic session"
Set Up & Decorations
10 AM-11:30AM 10 Volunteers Needed
Hospitality
11 AM – 12 PM 4 Volunteers Needed
Tabling:
11 AM – 12PM 2 Volunteers Needed
12 PM – 1 PM 2 Volunteers Needed
1 PM – 2 PM 2 Volunteers Needed
Take Down / Clean Up:
1:30 PM – 2:30PM 10 Volunteers Needed

Friday, September 26, 2008

Update on Palin Protest [EDIT: 9-27-08]

From Indymedia:

Protest Against Palin in Costa Mesa

Protest Against Palin in Costa Mesa
by jen wahlberg Tuesday, Sep. 23, 2008 at 10:45 PM

Protest against Sarah Palin and everything she stands for as she attends a fundraiser in Costa Mesa (Orange County) on October 4, 2008.

Are you pro choice, pro separation of church and state, pro environmental protection, pro GLBT rights, against animal cruelty and the war?

And, most of all, are you against the abomination that the Palin VP pick is?

Come rally against Palin as she is having drinks and collecting millions of dollars for the Republican ticket. Bring rally signs, posters and lots of friends.

Location:
Segerstrom Concert Hall
Orange County Performing Arts Center
615 Town Center Dr.
Costa Mesa, CA 92626


Home Depot Center
ADT Tennis Stadium
18400 Avalon Blvd.
Carson, CA


Date: October 4, 2008 (Saturday)

Time: 3:30-6:30pm2:00pm
doors open at 11:00am


* Parking:
Carpooling encouraged. There is paid parking near the OC Performing Arts Center. If you park at South Coast Plaza without paying, please be aware that you may be cited or towed by CM police.

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Newsletter 09/20/08

F.O.R.C.E. Newsletter September 20, 2008

F.O.R.C.E. Meetings
Mondays, 1-2pm in the Women’s Resource Center (WRC)

This past week…

Monday, September 15 FORCE meeting
- We are still working on securing food donations (from local businesses for Sex Positive Week.
- Lots of people are attending our meetings, and we are so thrilled!

Wednesday, September 17 Record Swap
- The record swap was a huge success! It was a lot of fun and we plan to have more in October and November.
- Pictures from the record swap HERE!

The week of September 22, 2008…

Monday, September 22
Get Out Her Vote and Vote NO on Props 4 & 8 Training (2:00 pm)
Women’s Resource Center, LA 3- 105
To Protect Choice and Equality on November 4th! As you may know, Propositions 4 & 8 are two dangerous ballot initiatives that if passed, would change the California constitution to take away rights from Californians. Prop 4 seeks to take away young women’s right to access safe, legal and confidential abortion, and Prop 8 seeks to take away the basic civil right of same gender couples to marry. Find out what you can do to make sure young people are registered to vote and are voting NO on Props 4 & 8 this Nov. 4th.
Contact Allie McDonald: amcdonald@feminist.org or call 310-556-2500 to get involved in the fight for choice and equality!

Join the OUTlist 2008 for National Coming Out Day!!
http://www.csulb.edu/divisions/students/sld/student_resource_centers/lgbtc/outlist
There's a new way to celebrate you. whether you identify as lesbian, gay,
bisexual, fluid, transgender, transsexual, genderqueer, intersex, queer,
questioning - or a heterosexual ally of an LGBT friend or family member! To recognize you and other LGBT/ally individuals at Cal State Long Beach, the LGBT Resource Center is taking out an ad in the campus newspapers on Thursday, October 9, 2008 featuring OUTlist 2008. This list is a way for CSULB students, staff, faculty, alumni, and friends to come out as LGBT or heterosexual allies of LGBT individuals, should they choose to do so. This is our way of honoring out and proud LGBT individuals and their allies in the CSULB community.
The submission deadline is September 24, 2008.

Wednesday, September 24
“Night of a thousand conversations” (1:00 pm)
On the grass near the Fine Arts buildings, upper campus
The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (chirla.org) is sponsoring conversations about the violations of human rights and discrimination against undocumented immigrants in the United States.

CANCELLED/POSTPONED: Sarah Palin in OC Protest
Here is the latest update concerning Sarah Palin coming to O. C.
Palin's fundraiser has changed locations twice due to overwhelming
demand for her tickets and lack of space twice in each location.
Palin's camp has rescheduled her fundraiser to October 4&5 to a
location to be named. Her fundraiser will be October 4 and her rally
will be October 5.
We will send out a flyer as soon as we have a location with all the statistics.
Please be flexible and adaptable as we know Palin's camp themselves
are trying to work out their logistics. Don't let their shenanigans
discourage you.

Thursday, September 25 – Sunday, September 28
All Roads Film Festival
Los Angeles, CA
This year’s All Roads Film Project showcases another remarkable selection of stories from indigenous and underrepresented minority cultures around the world. The 5th Annual All Roads Film Festival is a continuation of what started in 2004 – a celebration of diverse cultural perspectives through international film screenings (including the LA Premiere of Lebanese filmmaker Philip Aractingi’s UNDER THE BOMBS) as well as a photography exhibition, a music concert (Somali hip-hop artist K’NAAN) and ample opportunities for networking and cultural exchange. An asterisk * signifies an All Roads Seed Grantee. For more details go to www.nationalgeographic.com/allroads
Events include… All Roads Photography Exhibit; live music; and film screenings of Under the Bombs, Hawaikii, A Sketch of Wathone, Welcome to Enurmino!, Sikumi (On Ice), White Mountain, Guarding the Family Silver, and more…
View the complete schedule and buy tickets HERE.

Saturday, September 27
“Casualties of War” Art Show Artist Reception (6-9pm)
Picture This Gallery 4130 Norse Way, Long Beach, CA 90808 (Map)
Exhibit will be on-going from September 16 - October 18.
A series of paintings with powerful messages.
Flier: here.

Later this month and in October…

Tuesday, September 30 – 7:30 PM
FREE FILM SCREENING of Chicago 10!
The Egyptian Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
CHICAGO 10, 2007, Roadside Attractions, 110 min. Mixing animation with archival footage and using the voices of Nick Nolte, Roy Scheider, Hank Azaria, Mark Ruffalo and others, director Brett Morgen explores the build-up to and unraveling the 1968 Chicago Conspiracy Trial. A parable of hope, courage and challenge as it portrays the struggle of young Americans speaking out and taking a stand in the face of an oppressive and armed government. Free admission!
Information HERE.

Zine entries due for The Sex Positive Zine on October 4th!!!
Send all submissions to theragzine@gmail.com
You are welcome to submit poetry, drawings, articles, anything that you think would look awesome in our zine!
And if you don’t know what a zine is…
A zine (an abbreviation of the word fanzine, or magazine; pronounced [ziːn], "zeen") is most commonly a small circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images. More broadly, the term encompasses any self-published work of minority interest usually reproduced via photocopier on a variety of colored paper stock.
Flier: here.

Monday, October 6 – Wednesday, October 8
Sex Positive Week
Information here: http://sexpositivecsulb.blogspot.com
Facebook event page here: http://www.new.facebook.com/event.php?eid=18784789234
If you would like to help/volunteer for Sex Positive Week, please email us! One big way to help out is to spread the word. Send the link to your friends and tell people in your classes! If you think your professor will offer extra credit to attend, please let us know and we will email him/her.

Mondays (October 6, 13, 20, 27), 4-7pm
Rape Agression Defense (R.A.D.): Women’s Self-Defense
To sign up, email your name and contact info to Corporal Ami Rzasa, University Police at arzasa@csulb.edu or call 562-985-8538. One time registration fee of $10 (due on the first day of class).
Flier: here.

Saturday, October 25
Young Women’s Empowerment Conference
Senator Lowenthal hosts a one day conference/field trip for young women that targets high school juniors and seniors, (11th and 12th grade), and focuses on all aspects of their growth and development. Speakers/Workshop leaders will discuss current issues most relevant to young women and their development as leaders.
The purpose of this event is to give young women a forum to learn more about the issues confronting them in a comfortable venue with great speakers/role models. Common themes focused during workshops are: going and preparing for college, self esteem, setting and achieving goals, as well as avoiding teenage pregnancies and abusive relationships.
The Young Women’s Empowerment Conference needs volunteers! There will be about 300 girls at the conference, and volunteers are needed to introduce and meet the girls. There are other needs as well, please email FORCE at force@force4change.com or Stephanie Mejias at smejias@csulb.edu (include in the email, your name, Contact information, and t-shirt size).

Other campus postings…

--- The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Resource Center along with other student organizations and on-campus collaborators are hosting the annual National Coming Out Week event during the week of Oct. 6.

The purpose of National Coming Out Week (NCOW) is to provide awareness and education on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues. NCOW will be a four day event providing the campus community with various workshops ranging from sex health education to experiences as LGBT individuals on the CSULB campus. NCOW will conclude with a resource fair providing the campus community with LGBT-focused and LGBT-friendly organizations, both on-campus and off-campus. The concluding resource fair will also include an open-mic session providing students the opportunity to voice their experiences as LGBT persons or as allies to the LGBT community.
Volunteers are needed before, during, and after the events for NCOW.
See below for the details.
If you’d like to volunteer, please e-mail us back at lgbtrc@csulb.edu with what you’d like to volunteer for.
If you are unavailable to these specific times, please help us get the word out and forward this email anyone you think may be interested.

Monday, 06 October 2008 @ USU 205:
"Safe and Sexy: Negotiating Healthy Sexual Relationships"
Set Up
10:30AM-11:30AM 4 Volunteers Needed
Tabling
11 AM – 12 PM 1-2 Volunteers Needed
12 PM – 1PM 1-2 Volunteers Needed
1PM – 2PM 1-2 Volunteers Needed
Take Down/Clean Up
1:30pm – 2PM 4 Volunteers Needed

Tuesday, 07 October 2008 @ USU 205:
"Sexual Fluidity Panel"
Set Up
10:30AM-11:30AM 4 Volunteers Needed
Tabling
11 AM – 12 PM 1-2 Volunteers Needed
12 PM – 1PM 1-2 Volunteers Needed
1PM – 2PM 1-2 Volunteers Needed
Take Down/Clean Up
1:30pm – 2PM 4 Volunteers Needed

Wednesday, 08 October 2008 @ USU 205:
"LGBT Faculty/Staff Panel"
Set Up
10:30AM-11:30AM 4 Volunteers Needed
Tabling
11 AM – 12 PM 1-2 Volunteers Needed
12 PM – 1PM 1-2 Volunteers Needed
1PM – 2PM 1-2 Volunteers Needed
Take Down/Clean Up
1:30pm – 2PM 4 Volunteers Needed

Thursday, 09 October 2008 @ Friendship Walk:
"National Coming Out Day, On/Off-campus LGBT Organization Fair, Open-Mic session"
Set Up & Decorations
10 AM-11:30AM 10 Volunteers Needed
Hospitality:
11 AM – 12 PM 4 Volunteers Needed
Tabling:
11 AM – 12PM 2 Volunteers Needed
12 PM – 1 PM 2 Volunteers Needed
1 PM – 2 PM 2 Volunteers Needed
Take Down / Clean Up:
1:30 PM – 2:30PM 10 Volunteers Needed


--- My name is Erica Allen and we at Moore 4 More Tutoring Services are looking for bright, intelligent, reliable students who would like to make some extra money by tutoring. You could earn $14 to $40 per hour. We are currently accepting candidates in all subjects. To get more information or request an application email moore4more@gmail.com or call (310)956-5540.

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Record Swap Report

We held our first record swap of the fall semester yesterday and we were enthralled by the turnout.

We had plenty of boxes:
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plenty of literature:
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and plenty of people:
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Make sure to keep an eye out for flyers and announcements for the next one!

Sex Positive Week Update

So we've finally gotten the design for the flyers for Sex Positive Week! They're beautiful!



Design by Linda Russom. She is truly and entirely amazing.

Don't forget to check http://sexpositivecsulb.blogspot.com for the most recently updated calendar and information on Sex Positive Week events. :)

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Newsletter 09/13/08

F.O.R.C.E. Newsletter September 13, 2008

F.O.R.C.E. Meetings
Mondays, 1-2pm in the Women’s Resource Center (WRC)

This past week…

Monday, September 8 was the first FORCE meeting of the semester
- We discussed the Fall 2008 tentative calendar of events.
- We pick volunteers for Week of Welcome & Smorgasport tabling

Wednesday and Thursday, September 10 & 11 FORCE had a table at Week of Welcome
- We met many new people! We’re excited about all of the potential new members for this semester.
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Friday, September 12 FORCE had a table at Smorgasport from 8pm-12am

Saturday, September 13 FORCE members attended “T3: Timeout for Teambuilding and Training”

The week of September 15, 2008…

Wednesday, September 17
Record Swap! (11am-2pm)
On the grass near the Fine Arts buildings, upper campus
Bring your records, books, zines, VHS, etc…
Clear some space, get some free stuff!
There will be no selling of items. If you do not bring anything to the swap, please take no more than 2 items.
Flier: here.

Wednesday, September 17
Feminist Magazine & WSSA host a 2 hr. live broadcase about their feminist take on the presidential election (7-9pm)
Multicultural Center

Thursday, September 18
Look Us in the Eye: The Old Women’s Project film screening presented by WSSA (6:30pm)
Multicultural Center

The week after that…

Monday, September 22
Get Out Her Vote and Vote NO on Props 4 & 8 Training (2:00 pm)
Women’s Resource Center, LA 3- 105
To Protect Choice and Equality on November 4th! As you may know, Propositions 4 & 8 are two dangerous ballot initiatives that if passed, would change the California constitution to take away rights from Californians. Prop 4 seeks to take away young women’s right to access safe, legal and confidential abortion, and Prop 8 seeks to take away the basic civil right of same gender couples to marry. Find out what you can do to make sure young people are registered to vote and are voting NO on Props 4 & 8 this Nov. 4th.
Contact Allie McDonald: amcdonald@feminist.org or call 310-556-2500 to get involved in the fight for choice and equality!

Join the OUTlist 2008 for National Coming Out Day!!
http://www.csulb.edu/divisions/students/sld/student_resource_centers/lgbtc/outlist
There's a new way to celebrate you. whether you identify as lesbian, gay,
bisexual, fluid, transgender, transsexual, genderqueer, intersex, queer,
questioning - or a heterosexual ally of an LGBT friend or family member! To recognize you and other LGBT/ally individuals at Cal State Long Beach, the LGBT Resource Center is taking out an ad in the campus newspapers on Thursday, October 9, 2008 featuring OUTlist 2008. This list is a way for CSULB students, staff, faculty, alumni, and friends to come out as LGBT or heterosexual allies of LGBT individuals, should they choose to do so. This is our way of honoring out and proud LGBT individuals and their allies in the CSULB community.
The submission deadline is September 24, 2008.

Wednesday, September 24
“Night of a thousand conversations” (1:00 pm)
On the grass near the Fine Arts buildings, upper campus
The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (chirla.org) is sponsoring conversations about the violations of human rights and discrimination against undocumented immigrants in the United States.

Thursday, September 25
Sarah Palin in OC Protest (Meet at 5:00 pm)
“She doesn’t speak for us! Join us in protest of her run for vice president”
at the Island Hotel 690 Newport Center Drive, Newport Beach, CA 92600 (Map)
For more info email wombwoman@aol.com
This protest is NOT sponsored by FORCE. We are simply passing on the information. FORCE members will be in attendance and will be setting up a carpool. If you would like to carpool, email force4change@yahoo.com
Flier: here.

Saturday, September 27
“Casualties of War” Art Show Artist Reception (6-9pm)
Picture This Gallery 4130 Norse Way, Long Beach, CA 90808 (Map)
Exhibit will be on-going from September 16 - October 18.
A series of paintings with powerful messages.
Flier: here.

Later this month and in October…

Zine entries due for The Sex Positive Zine on October 4th!!!
Send all submissions to theragzine@gmail.com
You are welcome to submit poetry, drawings, articles, anything that you think would look awesome in our zine!
And if you don’t know what a zine is…
A zine (an abbreviation of the word fanzine, or magazine; pronounced [ziːn], "zeen") is most commonly a small circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images. More broadly, the term encompasses any self-published work of minority interest usually reproduced via photocopier on a variety of colored paper stock.
Flier: here.

Sex Positive Week
Monday, October 6 – Wednesday, October 8
Information HERE
Facebook event page HERE
If you would like to help/volunteer for Sex Positive Week, please email us! One big way to help out is to spread the word. Send the link to your friends and tell people in your classes! If you think your professor will offer extra credit to attend, please let us know and we will email him/her.

Saturday, October 25
Young Women’s Empowerment Conference
Senator Lowenthal hosts a one day conference/field trip for young women that targets high school juniors and seniors, (11th and 12th grade), and focuses on all aspects of their growth and development. Speakers/Workshop leaders will discuss current issues most relevant to young women and their development as leaders.
The purpose of this event is to give young women a forum to learn more about the issues confronting them in a comfortable venue with great speakers/role models. Common themes focused during workshops are: going and preparing for college, self esteem, setting and achieving goals, as well as avoiding teenage pregnancies and abusive relationships.
The Young Women’s Empowerment Conference needs volunteers! There will be about 300 girls at the conference, and volunteers are needed to introduce and meet the girls. There are other needs as well, please email FORCE at force@force4change.com or Stephanie Mejias at smejias@csulb.edu (include in the email, your name, Contact information, and t-shirt size).

Other campus postings…

My name is Erica Allen and we at Moore 4 More Tutoring Services are looking for bright, intelligent, reliable students who would like to make some extra money by tutoring. You could earn $14 to $40 per hour. We are currently accepting candidates in all subjects. To get more information or request an application email moore4more@gmail.com or call (310)956-5540.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

FORCE Fall Update

Hello FORCErs!

The new school year is upon us and we're getting ready for a new semester. Fresh classes, fresh faces, fresh events, and fresh freshness all around.

This semester, FORCE meetings will be held on Mondays 1-2pm in the Women's Resource Center (LA3 105). Don't be shy, tell a friend and come on down.

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We've also updated some info on Sex-Positive week, which will be October 6, 7, & 8 this fall. Click here to see it.

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We'll be taking entries for The Rag 'Zine all this month. The deadline is September 28th. Send us all your poems, essays, rants, doodles, critiques, drawings, photos, pictures, comic strips, and anything else you can think of that we can photocopy. e-mail your submissions to theragzine@gmail.com .

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Meanwhile check out this video of Sex-Workers Outreach Project (S.W.O.P.-LA), who will be presenting on Wednesday, October 8th for Sex-Positive Week. :D