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Are you interested in what people were saying before, during, and after the conference? Do you want to learn more about a workshop you didn't get to attend? We are lucky to be a part of an excited and exciting community of bloggers and media makers who participated in the conference and are continuing these conversations after returning home. As conference coordinator Lani Blechman said at the closing plenary on Sunday, "The conference doesn't end here." Read on to continue learning and connecting!
As we wind down from an amazing weekend of sharing, learning, and strengthening ourselves and our work, the blog posts and reflections are beginning to come in. Here are a few thoughts we've found online so far. More will come soon. And feel free to add your own! “I had an activist’s dream of a weekend.”
We are excited to announce the 2012 Reproductive Rights Activist Service Corps (RRASC) summer interns. We congratulate these 23 students from six area schools who will represent CLPP, Hampshire College, and their home institutions this summer at organizations from coast to coast. The interns, their current schools, and their internship host sites are...
I’m excited. I’ve been excited ever since September, when the CLPP Student Group began another year of hosting reproductive justice workshops and creating visions for our organizing. Now we’re hard at work planning transportation, childcare, the Abortion Speak Out, and so much more for our 26th annual conference, From Abortion Rights to Social Justice: Building the Movement for Reproductive Freedom. Things are busy around CLPP and PopDev this time of year!
The CLPP office is filled with boxes of programs, packets, and conference workshop materials. Students and staff are channeling their passions by working overtime to get everything set. People have been supporting us flowers and snacks. And all the strong, smart, amazing people who will be attending and speaking this weekend are getting excited to learn, connect, and renew! By Luis Vargas at PopDev: “Every conference is a reminder that there is still so much to do...."
After capturing the nation’s attention in 2011 for using a babysitter’s address to secure educational opportunities for her 5-year old son, this past week Tanya McDowell pled guilty and was sentenced for “stealing” her son’s education. McDowell was sentenced to 12 years in prison, suspended after five years, and will be released with strict probation conditions. Her probation will include paying back up to $6,200 to the city of Norwalk, CT, for the education her son received. The assertion that a single mother – already struggling to survive – is a criminal because she wanted a good education for her son has pulled at the heartstrings of people across the country. It is also a reproductive justice issue.
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