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October-November 2004 CWLU Herstory E-Zine

ARC GALLERY IN CHICAGO TO HOST SHOWING OF CHICAGO WOMEN'S GRAPHICS COLLECTIVE POSTERS

Mark your calendars. You are invited to a potluck reception for -- Feminist Posters of the 1970s by the Women's Graphics Collective - a collection of 40 original posters assembled by the Chicago Women's Liberation Union Herstory Project. Read on...

August-September 2004 CWLU Herstory E-Zine

RUTH SURGAL, ONE OF THE KEY ORGANIZERS OF JANE, DIED AUGUST 29

It was with great sadness that we learned of the death of Ruth Surgal. Only last Saturday, Ruth attended the Midwest Conference of the Veteran Feminists of America to meet her old friends and colleagues and plan how to continue the fight for gender equality. Read on...

May-June 2004 CWLU Herstory E-Zine

HERSTORY HEALTH PROJECT DELIVERS PRESENTATION AT MIDWEST CONFERENCE OF WOMEN AND GENDER HISTORIANS

Herstory Health Project members Mardge Cohen, Kathy Mallin, Coral Norris and Estelle Carol presented a history of the CWLU's health activism in Chicago on June 12th at Loyola University.

Using PowerPoint to show historic photos and leaflets, the 4 women were able to convey a uncover a lot of previously hidden history in 40 minutes. Attendance was small, but Health project members hope to use the experience to edit the PowerPoint show so it can be available for groups and classes. Read on...

March-April 2004 CWLU Herstory E-Zine

Thursday, April 1, 2004 -FREE event from Public Square
WE'VE COME A LONG WAY, BUT WHERE ARE WE HEADED? THE LEGACY AND FUTURE OF FEMINISM

Eleanor Smeal, Feminist Majority Foundation President and Professor Beth Richie, head of African American Studies at UIC and a leading activist in the anti-violence movement and on behalf of incarcerated women will speak
Thursday, April 1, 6:00 p.m.
Harold Washington Library
400 S. State Street, Chicago, IL
Free Admission

Call 312-993-0682 or e-mail info@thepublicsquare.org for more info Read on...

February 2004 CWLU Herstory E-Zine

The Herstory fundraising campaign
SPECIAL SALE ON LARGE POSTER REPRINTS

We are offering our 13x19 Women's Graphics Collective reprinted posters (from the 70s) at 25% off for Women's History Month. Check out our newly opened online store catalog at http://www.cwluherstory.org/CWLUMarket/ccp51/ . You may purchase by check, money order or credit card.

Please report any technical glitches to infogal@cwluherstory.org We need your help spotting problems.

The Women's Graphics Collective began as a workgroup of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union and distributed tens of thousands of feminist posters worldwide until it disbanded in the early 1980's Read on...

January 2004 CWLU Herstory E-Zine

HELP THE HERSTORY PROJECT TEST ITS NEW ONLINE SHOPPING CART OF CLASSIC FEMINIST POSTER IMAGES

As you probably know, many of the classic Chicago Women's Graphics Collective images are now available again on the CWLU Herstory website. However, visitors to the site must download a form and mail it in with their payment.

We now have an online shopping cart with credit card ordering , but we need you to look it over and test it before it goes "public". Please visit http://www.cwluherstory.org/CWLUMarket/ccp51/ and then tell us what you think. You may use the "Contact Us" web form on the site or e-mail infogal@cwluherstory.org Please alert us to any typos or factual errors you find. Let us know if you find anything confusing or if something does not work as you expect.

As an incentive, we are offering a 10% discount on any shopping cart orders from now until February 15 as a way to help us test the online catalog before it goes public. Read on...

December 2003 CWLU Herstory E-Zine

GRAPHICS COLLECTIVE POSTERS NOW AVAILABLE -- FINALLY! CWLU HERSTORY PROJECT LAUNCHES MEMBERSHIP DRIVE

The CWLU Herstory Project is now reissuing reproductions of 17 selected Women's Graphics Collective posters in its new fundraising campaign. We're selling the posters AND offering them as premiums with membership in Herstory Project. Each poster is digitally printed using archival quality materials as orders are received.

There's still time to place your order for the holidays. In addition to poster reprints in 3 sizes, we have poster images on refrigerator magnets and t-shirts. To see the full selection go to our fundraising campaign web pages and download an order form in Adobe Acrobat format. Or ask Estelle to postal mail you one (708-386-7197, infogal@cwluherstory.org).

Purchases -- http://www.cwluherstory.org/CWLUMarket/posters.html
Memberships with premiums -- http://www.cwluherstory.org/join.html

You may phone, fax, email or mail your order and membership. Payment is by check, money order, or credit card via a PayPal link from our site.

We are building a complete online ordering section of the Herstory site with a handy shopping cart. We hope to have this ready by January 2004. In the meantime, you may use our downloadable order form. Read on...