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Travel and hotel stipends are available for the annual CLPP conference!

Local newspaper, covers the national protest over the anti-abortion ad scheduled to run during the Super Bowl. The article highlights CLPP's participation in the protest through interview material with CLPP Associate Director/Programs, Mia Kim Sullivan.

"The ad takes this personal story about a deeply personal decision, his mother's decision to carry her pregnancy to term, and translates that into a mandate for all women across a range of circumstances: medical, financial and social, which is a very different thing to do," Sullivan said.

Sign the petition to Stop CBS Attack on Choice.

PopDev Director Betsy Hartmann writes in On the Issues Magazine:

It’s back to the bad old days of the population bomb. That was the title of an alarmist book by Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich that appeared in 1968. He suggested that world catastrophe would ensue unless women in poor parts of the world were prevented from having too many children.

This fall’s junk mail carried an alarmist appeal from Population Connection, using its former name of Zero Population Growth (ZPG). According to ZPG, you can blame just about everything on population growth, from traffic congestion, overcrowded schools and childhood asthma to poverty, famine and global warming.

Read more: The 'New" Population Control Craze: Retro, Racist, Wrong Way to Go>/a> On The Issues Magazine, Fall 2009.

CLPP Director Marlene Gerber Fried and CLPP Associate Director/Programs Mia Kim Sullivan published "The Struggle for Reproductive Justice: A growing movement emerges to create broad-based social change" in the September/October 2009 RESIST Newsletter.

Visit our 2010 conference webpage, now live! And join us in April for From Abortion Rights, to Social Justice: Building the Movement for Reproductive Freedom.

The deadline to propose presentations and workshops for our annual national, activist conference was September 28th. CLPP is thrilled with the amount and quality of your responses! Thank you to everyone who submitted. More information about the conference will be posted soon.

From Abortion Rights to Social Justice: Building the Movement for Reproductive Freedom - April 9-11, 2010: CLPP and POPDEV are now accepting presentation topic, strategic action session, and workshop proposals for our 2010 conference! Follow this link to learn the requirements and submit yours. Hurry - the deadline for submission is September 28.

From June 22-25, 2009, 27 reproductive rights and social justice activists gathered in the lush Berkshire region of northwestern Connecticut for CLPP's 5th annual Summer Leadership Institute.

Fear is paralyzing and isolating during a time when we need action and each other. Now is the time to continue to move forward with a sense of justice, accountability, and support.

The fifth annual NLNI Summer Leadership Institute will be held from Monday, June 22 through Thursday, June 25, 2009, at the Trinity Conference Center in northwestern Connecticut. For participants without professional development or travel funds through their own organizations, CLPP will pay for travel and lodging.

On the eve of our 23rd annual conference, CLPP convened 50 members of its New Leadership Networking Initiative (NLNI) to learn about and discuss racism, power and privilege within our movements; new advocacy opportunities to develop the field of climate justice; and new ways to evaluate movement-building work.

This November, on the eve of SisterSong Women of Color Health Collective's annual Membership Meeting, over 50 social justice and reproductive rights activists gathered in Atlanta, GA.

Last spring, CLPP invited six organizations to send staff to its annual national reproductive rights conference to speak about their organizations’ work, interact with other US activists working on reproductive rights and related social justice issues, and to participate in a day-long meeting about leadership development.

This year, over 30 reproductive rights and social justice activists gathered in the beautiful coastal region of Essex, MA at the Essex Conference and Retreat Center for four days of networking, learning, and laughing.

On April 4, 2008, 60 reproductive rights and social justice advocates gathered for the spring meeting of the New Leadership Networking Initiative. The meeting was held on the eve of CLPP’s annual conference at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.

The agenda featured a panel discussion on issues of leadership, power, diversity and inclusiveness. Participants then broke into small groups to discuss their own experiences and to strategize together on how to address issues of racism, hierarchy and exclusion in the workplace. Afternoon workshops included:

• Engaging Religious and Spiritual Communities in Your Advocacy Work
• What Do We Really Think About Late Abortions?
• Project/Organizational Directors’ Caucus

Last December, 30 international, national and grassroots activists, religious leaders, academics, and journalists gathered for a day-long meeting at the Ford Foundation in New York to explore how a reproductive justice framework can enhance our understanding of and ability to advance abortion rights.

The Fall 2007 NLNI Meeting was held Friday, November 9-Sunday, November 11, 2007 at the Northampton Friends Meeting House in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Over thirty reproductive rights and social justice activists convened at the Menla Mountain Retreat and Conference Center in Phoenicia, New York from Monday, July 9, 2007 - Thursday, July 12, 2007 for the 3rd annual New Leadership Networking Initiative Summer Leadership Institute.

The spring meeting of the New Leadership Networking Initiative (NLNI) was held on Friday, March 30, 2007 at Hampshire College. Over 50 reproductive rights & social justice activists met and attended the following panels...

The fall meeting of the New Leadership Networking Initiative (NLNI) was held October 14-15, 2006, at the LGBT Community Center in New York City. Over 40 reproductive rights & social justice activists met over the weekend and attended.