Women

Don’t miss two timely short documentaries about the crucial importance of protecting women’s health choices.

Speakers
Dr. Glennah Trochet
(fmr. Sac Co. Public Health Officer)
Ana Sandoval Planned Parenthood
Christi H. Ketchum Our Rightful Place, LLC

Sun April 22nd 7PM

“Movies On A Big Screen” at
The Guild Theatre
2828 35th St (between 3rd & 4th Ave)
Sacramento
Admission Free • Donations Appreciated

Sunday, October 9, 2011 : Crest Theater 1013 K street, 12 noon - 4 pm

Lights! Camera! Action!

Film screenings and the live performance are shown one time each and are free and open to the public.

12 p.m. "Seneca Falls" - This award-winning documentary film takes viewers on a life-changing journey with nine high school girls bound for the birthplace of women's rights in America. This film breathes life and relevance into a revolutionary act barely mentioned in the history books: America's first women's right convention which was a public protest meeting held in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848.
Winner, Honorable Mention, Documentary Short Los Angeles Reel Film Festival 2010
Winner, Best Score/Soundtrack, Los Angeles Reel Film Festival 2010
Nominee, Best International Documentary, Okanogan Film Festival 2009
The Director, Louise Vance, will introduce the film and be available for brief questions after the screening.

PROGRAM

Monday, October 10, 2011 - experience the victory!
(Voters registration all day at the California Museum and 12-3 pm outside Capitol)

9:30 am Gather at the California Museum – 1020 “O” Street
Site to assemble for the stroll and craft corner.
Sign making and storytelling for all ages.
“American, the Beautiful” with alternative lyrics song by Rev. Janice Steele

10:30 am Celebration Stroll – Stroll in a lively procession on the sidewalks down 10th Street to the North Steps of the Capitol (L Street side) with banners, signs and lusty voice.

11:00 am Capitol Steps program –
Welcome – Centennial Co-Chairs
“Star Spangled Banner “ song by Belinda Liu
Elected officials and invited guests and California Suffrage Singers

12 Noon All Activities inside the Capitol must enter “L” Street security doors

Access Sacramento Channel 18 will replay The Power of Choice, D. Fadiman's documentary on the struggle to secure safe and legal reproductive health services for women in the U.S. Access to abortion and critical reproductive health care continue to be in peril, now more than ever in post Roe v Wade years. Please tune in and reacquaint to recommit. Please work to protect a women's right to determine her future. And stream radio program Tipping Point (C. Jones & M. Metzler) Thursdays at noon www.accesssacramento.org

Tuesday, January 25th @ 10:00pm

A Celebration of Women’s Suffrage
and a Protest of Meg Whitman
Whose Voting Record Dishonors that Tradition

Thursday, August 26, 2010
Gather for March
3:00 pm
Convention Center, Sacramento

March and Rally
4:00 – 6:00 pm
Capitol West Steps, Sacramento

Join our special celebration of Women’s Right to Vote and protest billionaire CEO Meg Whitman’s record of rarely voting for nearly three decades — except now that she is on the ballot.

Hop on board to join us for a very special celebration of the 90th anniversary of the 19th Amendment legalizing the right of women to vote in the U.S.

Thousands of women, and men, fought for decades to secure this basic democratic right.

On August 26, we will honor the achievements of the suffrage movement, and the women who were imprisoned and abused in the fight.

Celebrating the “Free Women” of the West on August 28th
... 98 and counting

This Equality Day, the California Suffrage Parade Coalition and the National Women's History Project will celebrate the 98th anniversary of women in California winning the right to vote with a free reception featuring refreshments, speakers and a presentation on the vital role western women played in the Woman Suffrage Movement. This celebration will take place August 28, 6 p.m. at the Trinity Cathedral Great Hall at 2620 Capitol Street in Sacramento.

Molly Murphy MacGregor, cofounder and executive director, of the National Women's History Project will present a brief overview of how the victories of women in the Western states established the ground work for women in the United States winning the vote. This audio visual presentation will feature historic photographs, posters, and images from the period that called on voters to “Give Your Girl An Equal Chance With Your Boy.”
A representative from the California Commission on the Women will give an overview on the “Current Challenges Facing California Women."

For the past three years, women in Northern California have been holding Equality Day parades that stretched for several blocks in downtown Sacramento. This year, instead of a parade, they will host the free reception to honor the political legacy of California women and to discuss plans for the upcoming Centennial in 2011.

Western women – and their male supporters – were at the forefront of the drive for equal rights. Women in the west played a vital role in the national drive for equal rights during the early 20th century. Suffragists in nearly a dozen western states, including California in 1911, convinced enough male voters to approve Votes for Women years before the 19th Amendment enfranchised women nationally.