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[Claire Kaplan <>]

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> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:05:09 -0700
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> Subject: [mmuf-grad] FW: [MALCS] SISTERFIRE Tour
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> >From: Ana Clarissa Rojas <>
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> >Subject: [MALCS] SISTERFIRE
> >Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 08:51:50 -0800
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> >>>Hermanas, Folks,
> >>>
> >>>Please help make SISTERFIRE happen and get your message/ad to
> thousands 
> >>>of women of color!!!
> >>>
> >>>What is SISTERFIRE?
> >>>
> >>>Sisterfire is an INCITE! project.  INCITE! Women of
> Color Against 
> >>>Violence is a national activist organization of radical
> feminists of 
> >>>color advancing a movement to end violence against women of
> color and our 
> >>>communities through direct action, critical dialogue and
> grassroots 
> >>>organizing.  For more information, check out
> www.incite-national.org.
> >>>
> >>>Sisterfire is trying to reach women of color of all ages and
> backgrounds 
> >>>with the message that we're tired of the all the kinds of
> violence we 
> >>>endure as women of color, violence is not normal, violence
> against women 
> >>>of color destroys our entire communities, and we ain't gonna
> stay quiet 
> >>>about it...
> >>>
> >>>Sisterfire is a national/international (Mexico/US border)
> tour of running 
> >>>Spring through Fall of 2004. We will be working with existing
> local 
> >>>groups to support local grassroots organizing efforts and
> bringing out 
> >>>artists/activists to inspire and build a movement for sister
> liberation!
> >>>
> >>>You’ve heard of the Color of Violence Conferences we have
> hosted in the 
> >>>past.  This year we are bringing the power of these
> conferences to the 
> >>>people.  Instead of hosting a conference that people
> have to travel to, 
> >>>INCITE! is hitting the road with radical women of color
> artists to take 
> >>>the issues to communities.
> >>>
> >>>A mass tour of this scope with hopes to build a movement of
> women of 
> >>>color needs a lot of support to actually happen, and we
> especially need 
> >>>financial support to make the tour happen...
> >>>
> >>>We are putting together a SISTERFIRE! program book where you
> can send a 
> >>>message and/or your organizational information in ads that
> will hit the 
> >>>road alongside us and reach THOUSANDS of WOMEN of COLOR
> throughout the 
> >>>country.
> >>>
> >>>COSTS
> >>>Full page Ad:   $1000
> >>>½ Page Ad:      $500
> >>>¼ Page Ad:      $250
> >>>Business Card:  $125
> >>>
> >>>You can also make donations of any amount
> >>>and your name/organization will be mentioned in the
> program/adbook:
> >>>
> >>>-- $15 will help us will help pay for outreach materials to
> bring lots of 
> >>>women of color to SISTERFIRE!
> >>>-- $25 will help fill up a gas tank to get artists from one
> city to 
> >>>another
> >>>-- $50 will help us rent sound equipment for the tour
> >>>-- $75  will help us rent venues to hold
> SISTERFIRE!
> >>>-- $100 will pay the honorarium for an artist's
> performance
> >>>
> >>>PAYMENTS: donations are tax deductible
> >>>
> >>>Please make checks payable to:
> >>>National Center for Human Rights Education.
> >>>Mail your check to Sisterfire, PO Box 74488, Los Angeles, CA
> 90004
> >>>
> >>>Please send this information along with your payment or
> simply email this 
> >>>information to us at
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>NOTE: PAYMENTS must be in by Feb. 23rd to make it into the
> >>>program/adbook.
> >>>
> >>>Name
> >>>Organization
> >>>Address
> >>>Phone#
> >>>Email
> >>>
> >>>We will take your ad in as a .TIFF, .GIF, .JPEG, or Adobe
> pagemaker or 
> >>>photoshop file.  Please email your copy ready file to:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Thanks in Advance for your thoughtful support,
> >>>
> >>>Clarissa Rojas
> >>>Sisterfire National Planning Committee
> >>>INCITE National Planning Committee
> >>>415 934 8684
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >At 07:32 PM 2/18/04 -0600, scha0560 wrote:
> >>Hola a todas,
> >>I am attaching a copy of the updated meeting report from the
> submissions
> >>that were forwarded to me.  As I was not at the meeting, I
> am limited as 
> >>to
> >>editing and adding information, so please let me know if you'd
> like
> >>anything else documented.
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>Felicity
> >>
> >>
> >>***************
> >>Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel
> >>UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow
> >>Latin American / Latino Studies
> >>University of California, Santa Cruz
> >>
> >>
> >>
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Claire N. Kaplan, Ph.D.
Coordinator, Sexual Assault Education
UVA Women's Center
P.O. Box 800588
Charlottesville VA 22908-0588
434.982.2774 Voice/TTY
434.982.2901 Fax

http://sexualassault.virginia.edu