Women's issues

Reintroducing Helen Keller as Pacifist, Socialist, Suffragist and radical thinker of her times. The sculpture exhibit and talk will focus on two questions that relate to Keller and Anne Sullivan, her teacher and mentor: What did your teacher help you see that was once invisible?  What did your teacher help you hear that was once silent? Presentation will include short film clips and audio recordings.

• Lewis Randa is the Director of the Life Experience School which has offered a unique peace program for its students with disabilities since its establishment in 1972.

“Stop the Next War Now:
Speaking Truth About Power in a Permanent Warfare State”
with Kathy Kelly

Drawing from experiences living alongside Afghans in the Afghan Peace Volunteer community and from recent studies regarding U.S. complicity with human rights violations and war in Yemen, Kathy will assert that one way to stop a “next” war is to continue telling the truth about wars the U.S. is already waging.

In 1968 • Sarah-Ann Shaw made her first television appearance on Say Brother (now known as Basic Black), a public affairs broadcast by Ray Richardson. After numerous appearances on the show, she was hired the following year by WBZ-TV as Boston’s first female African American reporter. A community activist for most of her life, Shaw worked on stories which provided positive images of urban life of Black, Asian, Latino and other communities of color in Massachusetts.

Our encuentro5 Revolutionary Compañeros are Providing Food and Beverages/
Nuestros compañeros Revolucionarios del encuentro5 están proporcionando comidas y bebidas

Due to inclement weather this program has been postponed until April.

Using Ntozoke Shange’s "Spell #7", Talib Kweli’s "For Women", Arthur Jafa’s "Love is the Message, the Message is Death" and Dr. King’s "Letter from Birmingham a Jail", this sermonette explores the relationship between identity reclamation, liberation, and resistance.

Dr. Cynthia Enloe will speak at the WILPF annual speaker retreat; she is a feminist writer, theorist, and professor.  For women who want to make change for women on many issues, check out her words and research.  Her newest book is The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy.  Chapter 6 gives insights regarding how the military industrial complex needs women to continue their work.        

(Service starts at 2:00 PM - No 11:00 AM Service)

“Grannie D: The Power of One” 
a play performed by Dixie Tymitz, mc’d by Lawrence Lessig

David Cay Johnston, a Pulitzer prize/winning investigative reporter, has covered Donald Trump for more than 30 years, longer than any other journalist. Last year he published part of Trump’s 2005 tax return. In 1990 Johnston broke the story that Trump was no billionaire.

Johnston wrote the international bestsellers The Making of Donald Trump (2016) and It’s Even Worse Than You Think (2018) and five other books. 

The Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom presents…

Dr. Thea Iberall’s play is a tour through the journey that women have undergone to get rights in the U.S. Through historical characters this poignant and entertaining musical tells the stories of ordinary yet strong women who stood up against slavery and fought for suffrage, education, equality and peace.

Special 3 p.m. Service (No 11 a.m. service):