Senator Barbara Boxer, CA, Chair
of the new Foreign Relations Sub-Committee
on International Organizations and Operations,
Human Rights, Democracy and Global Women's
Issues.
Created for the WIN-US Women Connect-5WCW panel
on Gender Strategies at the CSW about moving
our agendas forward locally and globally toward
a 5th World Conference on Women
Women's
Intercultural Network (WIN) Sponsored
Sessions at
the 2009 UN CSW
(WIN is a United
Nations NGO with Consultative Status)
Winning
Strategies for Gender Equality (panel)
"THE US IS BACK" US
WOMEN CONNECT (USWC) declared at the United
Nations Commission on the Status of Women's
53rd Session. On March 2nd, in New York City,
USWC opened Non-Governmental Organization
Parallel Events of the UNCSW with a panel
on "Winning Strategies for Gender Equality" at
a most diversely represented event with 140
women and standing room only, the day after
a blizzard that had shut down airports.
The Hon. Jackie Weatherspoon (NH) moderated
our stellar panel with Liz Abzug (NY), Dana
Balicki, Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen, Marilyn Fowler(CA),
Andrea Johnson(DC), Rona Popal, and US Women
Connect's President, Rosemary Smithson (MO).
Click here to see all their organizations
listed on our beautiful 'inside the cover
page' ad, and the other panels sponsored by
WIN. California's Women's Intercultural Network
is the official Non-Governmental Organization
(NGO) consultative to the UN, which hosted
USWC.
We held high energy conversations with 140 women
from 18 other US states and 12 countries about
moving our agendas forward locally and globally
toward a 5th World Conference on Women in
2013 or sooner - sharing 'winning strategies'
with each other. Many were young women like
the interns from Seton Hall University who
managed logistics, sign-ins and filming for
us - so important in gathering the women for
action.
The Grail Story: Healing Psyche, Patriarchy
and Planet
March 2, 4 pm, Grum Room-Church Center
Until feminine and masculine qualities are equally valued,
there can be no equality in decision-making or care-giving
by couples, families or patriarchal institutions. Cultural
attitudes change when a critical number of people change
their perceptions, when a tipping point is reached and
that which was resisted is accepted as normal. Valuing
women and valuing feminine qualities are what leads
to equal rights and responsibilities. Heeding the urgent
message from Mother will only be possible through the
combined efforts of grassroots activism and enlightened
leaders. A deeper understanding of the problem and the
potential solution comes through mythic insights into
the sacred feminine, the grail and goddess archetypes.
Workshop led by author, Jungian analyst and activist
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.
Sponsor: The Grail-WIST (Women’s Institute for Social
Transformation).
Co-sponsors AWE (Anglican Women’s Empowerment),
Pathways to Peace, and WIN (Women’s Intercultural
Network)
Millionth Circle Workshop and Circle Experience:
A Form and Process
for Sharing Responsibility
and
Caregiving
between Men and Women
March 4, noon 11th floor, Church Center
The circle is the opposite of hierarchy and when it specifically invites
participants to speak from the heart and from their own experience,
it enhances trust and compassion. It is a form and process that leads
to sharing responsibility and caregiving between men and women. Circles
support authenticity and activism. The millionth circle idea draws
upon the example of how consciousness-raising groups became the women’s
movement and changed the world. The millionth circle is the metaphoric
circle that creates a critical mass in perception and ends patriarchy,
through an egalitarian balance between masculine and feminine. This
workshop led by Jean Shinoda Bolen, Peggy Sebera and other conveners
of the Millionth Circle Initiative, includes an experiential portion
for participants to be in small circles with a center.
Sponsor: Pathways
to Peace .
Co-sponsors: Women’s
Intercultural Network (WIN). Millionth Circle
