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MONTHLY PROGRAM
MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
7:00 PM
Meeting location:
First Baptist Church, 19
West Main Street, Moorestown, NJ
The church is across from TD Bank; please use
the side entrance of the church, nearest to Carl's Shoes.
Please park in the municipal lot behind the
shoestore and the shopping center.
Program
Topic/Speaker:
"What is a Divorce Concierge and Why Every Woman Facing Divorce Needs One"
After experiencing a painful divorce, Kay Larrabee created "Women on the Mend" which provides personal support and resource management to women. As many of us know, the divorce process can leave one feeling overwhelmed and powerless.
A certified career coach for more than ten years, Kay had worked with hundreds of people going through the trauma of job loss which made them question their identify as well as face the loss of their livelihoods. After her own 20-year marriage ended, and her ex-spouse withdrew most of the funds from their checking account, Kay was understandably devastated. When this happened, she had been creating a non-profit that would provide interview and workplace clothing to economically-challenged women -- rewarding work, but unfortunately one that did not provide a salary.
On top of being faced with no means of support and having to deal with three special needs children, Kay quickly discovered that there were no resources to answer her questions or provide the support she desperately needed. So, using her career coaching skills, she decided that she might be able to work with women who were also going through a divorce and facing not only the loss of relationships, but also the loss of trust, loss of identity, and loss of the future they had envisioned.
Please join us for an intriguing discussion of some of the ways that Kay helps women not only protect their financial future, but move through a traumatic time with empowerment and grace.
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Meetings include speaker, refreshments,
announcments and letter-writing activity.
Meetings open to members and nonmembers.
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE by Jessica Van Liere, President
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January is a month to celebrate our namesake, Alice Paul, in honor of her birthday on January 11th. The best way to celebrate is to redouble our efforts and finally make this the year that we pass the Equal Rights Amendment. U.S. Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney and our own U.S. Senator Robert Menendez reintroduced the E.R.A. yet again in June 2011. If you have not already written your legislators in support of S.J. Res. 21 and H.J. Res 69, now is the time. In March 2011, U.S. Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin also introduced H.J. Res. 47, which would eliminate the deadline initially imposed on the E.R.A ratification process and make it effective as soon as three additional states ratify. Visit www.equalrights amendment.org for more information helpful in advocating for the E.R.A.
In November our chapter wrote letters in support of bills S1745 and H.R. 2970 to recognize Alice Paul with a Congressional Gold Medal for her work to enfranchise women and open the door to equality for all people. Please continue to spread the word to potential supporters so that we can finally pass this legislation as well.
If you have not read Mary Walton's book A Woman's Crusade: Alice Paul and The Battle For The Ballot, it is the single best depiction of Alice Paul's suffrage work available. Before I read it I had no idea that Alice Paul's 1913 suffrage parade down Pennsylvania Avenue was the largest the nation's capitol had ever seen. She was a true visionary with an iron will, whose commitment to nonviolence in the face of incredible brutality during peaceful public protests and incarceration make her worthy of respect from all Americans. It is impossible to read this book and not come away wondering why we do not have a national monument and national holiday dedicated to Alice Paul's work. Even the statue Alice Paul commissioned in 1920 to celebrate suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott and Susan B. Anthony was relegated to the basement of the Capitol just two days after it was unveiled in 1921. U.S. Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney bravely adopted a two year fight which finally returned the statue to the Capitol Rotunda for display in 1997. She describes the ordeal in her book Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated, including the fact that the statue's inscription had also been removed for being "blasphemous", though it never mentioned God. Re-printed here are the incredibly inspiring words originally printed on the statue. Share them with friends and know that the erasure of women's history will not continue in 2012.
"The three great destiny characters of the world whose spiritual import and historical significance transcend that of all others of any country or age. Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the call of that first Woman's Rights Convention of 1848 initiated and Susan B. Anthony marshalling the latent forces through three generations down more than a half century of time guided the only fundamental universal uprising on our planet.
The Woman's Revolution. Principle not policy. Justice not favor. Men their rights and nothing more, Women their rights and nothing less, was the clarion call to the most astounding upheaval of all time. A call which waked the world, signaled and inaugurated a revolution without tradition or precedent, and proclaimed the first incontrovertible concept of human freedom -- that of individual liberty -- personal responsibility, including women. Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen declared herself an entity to be reckoned. This mightiest of revolutions encircling the globe accomplishing without bloodshed the overthrow of entrenched dogma and hoary bigotries reached to the farthermost roots of being. Here indeed was the first, the only impeachable demand for right as might ever made. Spiritually the Woman Movement is the all-enfolding one.
It represents the Emancipation of Womanhood. The release of the Feminine Principal in humanity. The moral integration of human evolution come to rescue torn and struggling humanity from its savage self. Historically these three stand unique and peerless."
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HOW CAN I MAKE A DIFFERENCE WITH SOUTH JERSEY NOW TODAY?
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WOMEN'S INFORMATION NETWORK OF NEW JERSEY (WIN-NJ)
The Women's Information Network of New Jersey (WIN-NJ) was made possible through a grant from the Women's Agenda
of New Jersey. WIN-NJ provides an online database of women's organizations within the state that deal with issues of
particular relevance to women's social, political, economic, educational, and legal advancement. This project was developed
to help promote and facilitate effective communication within the women's organizational community on these issues.
The database is accessible through API's website and provides links to each
organization. It is available in three formats:
by area of subject expertise, alphabetically as a .pdf file, and
alphabetically as an Excel spreadsheet that can be sorted
by various fields. Information provided for each organization includes,
where available, the organization's name, address,
phone, fax, e-mail, website, principal contact and title, and up to three
areas of subject expertise.
DIVORCE INFORMATION KITS FOR $10!
South Jersey NOW-Alice Paul Chapter's Divorce Information Kits are now
available at the reduced price of $10.00. If you, a
loved one or a friend are facing a potential divorce and need more
information about your rights and what to expect in the
process, then this kit will be extremely helpful. To order one today, please
call 856-552-6731 or you can purchase one at the
monthly program meeting.
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