Monday, March 8 was International Women’s Day. Women around the city organized and participated in activities to celebrate that event.
On the previous Saturday women from Youth Against War and Fascism had a literature table at the Lincoln Park Sears industries…
Available from Wayne State Women’s Liberation: the first issue of their magazine Moving Out. Also, a chapbook—a collection of stories, poems, graphics called Free Women: call 577-3409 for info….
Women’s Film Festival in Ann Arbor: Thursday, March 25 through Sunday, March 28 in Union Ballroom and Rackham Auditorium. Films will be shown all four evenings as well as Sat. and Sun. matinees. Each film will be followed by discussion/reaction session. Films include The Misfits, Le Bonheur, All About Eve, Joan of Arc and She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry. Child care available. For more information call 1-761-0923….
The Women’s issue of the Fifth Estate was reprinted without the dated material—the calendar, the classifieds, etc. Copies can be bought in bulk for ten cents each at the office or call 831-6800….
Shopping Center where they distributed women’s literature and leaflets. Despite the fact that they received much harassment from Lincoln Park and Ecorse police they were able to rap with many women who stopped by, especially women who worked in the Sears store.
On Monday at Oakland Community College (Orchard Ridge campus) hundreds of women participated in workshops on sexism, alternatives to marriage and motherhood and the raising of children. At lunch time the women were treated to the singing of Jane Powell who composes her own songs and the Women’s Street Theatre group which put together a crankie, that is, a picture story on a continuous role of paper. They accompanied the story with music and sound effects. They also did a skit on abortion. In the afternoon there were more workshops including one on body awareness and one on karate.
At Macomb Community College the Macomb Liberation Front organized a day of activities including two panel discussions. In the afternoon they showed movies and had speakers, who had gone to Cuba, talk about Cuban women.
Wayne State Women’s Liberation scheduled different activities every hour of the day which included a karate demonstration and testimonies from women who had had to undergo illegal abortions.
The Women’s Liberation Coalition of Michigan had two open houses at their center in the downtown YWCA. They also distributed leaflets downtown all day.