Die-In this Wednesday!

Hi all,

Hope you're all having a great weekend. As you know, F.O.R.C.E. will be putting on a Die-In this Wednesday, Dec. 3 from 11-2 on the grass near the Friendship Walk, across from the University Bookstore. The purpose of the Die-In is to raise awareness about the Global Gag Rule by dressing in black, laying down and "playing dead" in order to represent the hundreds of thousands of women that have died as a result of this policy. We will also be distributing factsheets about the Global Gag Rule, as well as ways to help.

We want to make sure this event gets a lot of attention. Tell all your friends about it, mention it to your classmates, and don't forget to WEAR BLACK ON WEDNESDAY!

We will need a couple people to help set up and take down the event; we will have more specific information at the F.O.R.C.E. meeting on Monday at 1pm. What I also need, though, is one or two people willing to e-mail CSULB professors about the event (we should have done this earlier, but better late than never), asking them to mention this event to their classes if they can, and perhaps suggest extra credit. Departments of which this topic is most relevant are probably the Political Science and Women's Studies Departments, but feel free to contact more. We need someone to just go to the department websites, copy and paste the e-mail addresses of the professors, and send out a mass e-mail.

You can take information from forceclub.blogspot.com, the Die-In event
page on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=41223147753&ref=mf, or go to http://www.globalgagrule.org/ for more information.

Let me know if you have time to do this, or if you have any other questions about this event.

Thanks!!!

-Justine / F.O.R.C.E.
(760) 670-5483
justineeemarie@gmail.com

CSULB Clothesline Project

T-Shirts Needed!

Any size--Any color--Any logo--Any age!

T-shirts are an important and highly visual tool in the healing process of survivors of domestic violence,, sexual assault, and stalking.

We will gladly recycle your clean old shirts. All you need to do to participate is to drop your shirts in collection boxes located in the Women's Resource Center in LA3-105

You will be able to see a powerful display of shirts created by survivors of domestic and sexual assault

Tuesday and Wednesday, October 21 & 22, 2008

11am-7pm

In the Free Speech area outside the 49er Bookstore

Domestic Violence Awareness Days 2008

A Project Safe program

for additional information, contact the WRC at (562) 985-8576

Clothesline Project/TBTN Volunteer Sign-Up!

Yo,

We will be having the Clothesline Project display for Sexual Assault Awareness Week from Tuesday, April 29th through Thursday, May 1st. The display will be from 10am to 4pm, with set-up starting at 8am and take-down from 4pm to 5pm. Please sign-up to volunteer at the information tables and tents. If you are SACA-certified, please let me know so you can work at the shirt-making tents.

So please email me which days and times you are available to volunteer, with your name, preferred email address, and phone number.

Thanks,
Megan Adams
Co-chair, CSULB Clothesline Project

* In addition we need volunteers for Take Back the Night (you know you want to!). We need volunteers to help out with
- Contacting Faculty
- Making announcements in their classes
- Making banners
- Viral info re-posting online
- making signs in the WRC for TBTN [all of the materials are in the WRC]
- contacting your local businesses for food donations
- and much, much more!

e-mail us at: force4change@yahoo.com

Thanks!
-Mariana

Feminist Organization Reclaiming Consciousness and Equality

Day Of Silence Volunteers Needed!

Hello everyone!

I hope you all had a wonderful Spring Break, are well rested, and ready to fight the good fight for social justice!

Next week (April 14 - 17) is LGBT Diversity Week. Each day, there will be an event honoring the diversity within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender community.

On Thursday, April 14, we will be recognizing Day of Silence, a nationally honored occasion in which campuses all over the country rally to end the harassing, bullying, and name-calling experienced by LGBT individuals. WE NEED MANY, MANY VOLUNTEERS TO ASSIST WITH THE DAY OF SILENCE INFORMATION TABLE FROM 11:00 - 2:00 NEXT THURSDAY!!!!

Afterwards, from 1:30 - 2:30 I will be facilitating "Louder than Words: A Workshop on Performances of Gender and Privilege" in the USU Room 306. I would love for each one of you to come participate.

For more information on Day of Silence, please visit www.dayofsilence.org

Thanks so much for your support and participation,

Aunnie Ganier
alganier@yahoo.com

Program Co-coordinator
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center
California State University , Long Beach
University Student Union, Room 215
lgbtrc@csulb.edu
www.csulb.edu/centers/lgbtrc
562.985.4966

Lavender Graduation Celebration
May 10, 2008
Get involved! Email jspaffor@csulb.edu



Long Beach LGBT Pride Parade
May 18, 2008
Get involved! Email lgbtrc@csulb.edu

10th Annual Women & Careers Conference

We have had a major change of venue for our

10th Annual Women & Careers Conference!

It’s at “The Pointe” in the Pyramid
Friday, March 14, 2008
9am-1:30pm


We have some amazing panelists including a film publicist (for the Dream Girls among others), a drug tester for the National Football League, the Director of Technology at CSU Fullerton , the Executive Chef (and restaurant owner) of Delius Restaurant in Long Beach … and more. The event includes lunch with our guests, a Q&A following lunch, opportunities to network with these amazing professional women, door prizes … and more!

We are developing an intensive marketing strategy to let students, staff, and faculty know about the event and we need your feedback about our ideas and your help in spreading the word.

We also have opportunities on the day of the event including being a table host, taking photos and several other tasks. Attached is a list of opportunities along those lines.

Also attached is a poster/flyer we are distributing

Thanks for reading this and we look forward to hearing from you – in the affirmative of course. :)

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Hi all –

A volunteer opportunity awaits you at the fabulous
Women & Careers Conference!
9am – 1:30pm at The Pointe at the Pyramid

8:45am for registration, food and pre-conference networking ☺
March 14, 2008

If you would like to volunteer during the day …
to set-up and decorate tables: 7:45am
to assist with registration: 8:45 – 9:05am
(to collect surveys, distribute packets, seat attendees)

To be the host of a conference table
(welcome people to your table, and facilitate conversation and topical discussion during conference, collect closing letters ☺)

to host at the refreshment table 8:45-9:05am, 10:40-11am:
(monitor: refilling dishes, checking on food, coffee, napkins, etc)

to take photos of people at the conference: throughout the day
(including photo release forms so we can share the photos!)

to help “close-up shop” after the conference!

Contact the Women's Resource Center:
562/985-8576

Thanks, and we look forward to seeing you at the conference – for any period of time you can attend.

Domestic Violence Awareness Day

Hi all –

A quick reminder about CSULB’s

Domestic Violence Awareness Day

on Wednesday, October 17, 2007

from 10am-2pm

on the Southwest Terrace of the USU

and

The Clothesline Project

on lower campus near the PE building, Criminal Justice/Social Work, and Engineering

From 10am-2pm on the Southwest Terrace there will be

· Community and campus resource and information tables

· A “Pledge to end Domestic Violence” photo exhibit

· Beverages and snacks

· An ice cream vendor (Yum!)

At 11:45am ASI Women’s Commissioner Sarah Noone will introduce the Program Council’s noon concert with

Dafni

www.myspace.com/dafni

And at 1pm Sarah will introduce the program honoring survivors of domestic violence

and the people and agencies who support them, beginning with CSULB President Alexander

Special guests at this program include Assemblymember Betty Karnette,

Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster, and many other community members who can connect you with

ways to become involved and assist yourself and others.

Anyone interested in volunteering at the event, or in preparing for the event, please contact us at the WRC ASAP because Wednesday is almost here!

This program is a collaboration between the Women's Resource Center , Interval House, the Long Beach Sexual Assault Crisis Agency, University Police, Long Beach Police Department, Associated Students Inc, Program Council, and all the shelters and service providers in the Long Beach area.