We would like to apologize for the lack of updates.  Finals are a crazy time for both students and faculty. There have been many meetings regarding the Burma Shave signs (including one with President Nazarian) that have been consuming much of our time as well.  Currently, RIC Women’s Studies Org has some decisions to make in regards to our future ( Read more... )

I would just like to update everyone concerning the situation at hand regarding the burma shave signs.  Today, Leslie Schuster and I had a meeting with Dr. Penfield (Vice-President of Student affairs).  As expected the meeting did not exactly yield the results we were seeking.  As an organization, however, we are currently looking into our options ( Read more... )

The following are the photos taken of our Burma Shave immediately after we put the signs up on Sunday night.  It was dark, so please excuse the poor quality!  You would have all been able to see how great these huge 3X4 feet signs looked if they hadn’t been taken down (by the order of President Nazarian) soon after they were put up.  Just to keep ( Read more... )

The banners came in today and they look oh so amazing ( Read more... )

PLEASE CONTACT US IF YOU WOULD LIKE ANY MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ANY OF THESE GREAT EVENTS!! 
Most importantly to RIC Women’s Studies Org - Please keep your calendars open for this Sunday, December 4th at 8:00 and join us on campus in putting up signs to promote awareness and take a stand on reproductive rights issues!!

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WE ARE VERY MUCH INVOLVED IN PLANNING NEXT WEEK'S DISPLAY OF ACTIVISM, THE BANNERS ARE ORDERED AND WE ARE EXCITED! LET US KNOW IF YOU WANT TO GET INVOLVED ( Read more... )

Even if you have not yet made it to a meeting, let this be your first!  Get involved in raising awareness on campus!!

We hope that everyone uses their best effort to come to the next meeting! We will be making decisions about our last event (a day of activism) and we very much need everyone’s input!!

Wednesday, November 16th

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On Monday Night we had a brief meeting to outline our goals for the rest of this semester into next semester. It went well. We plan to heavily advertise for next week’s meeting in hope that we can get a few more people to help us with our day of activism! We plan to take a day in early December and promote activism on campus and actually do ( Read more... )

Hey there!

The month of October brought us a lot of events and networking opportunites around RIC and the Rhode Island community which has kept us busy!  We have also had a couple of great meetings (RI Pro-Choice Coalition, RIC SCG Roundtable meetings, etc.) during the past couple of weeks andso we have a lot of information to spread to everyone ( Read more... )

[We just received an e-mail about this from partners of the pro-choice coalition :)]
United for Choice

Building the Movement

Presents:
Dance Revolution
The Revolution of Choice through Dance

Saturday, November 5th
Come and enjoy music, lessons, and drinks while celebrating choice
Latin Dance Lessons with Anastasia
Infinyt
And other great ( Read more... )