MARCH & APRIL 2005

Women’S PRESS
Educate • Enlighten • Empower VOLUME XX, NUMBER 2

A PUBLICATION OF THE WOMEN’S COMMUNITY CENTER • SAN LUIS OBISPO • CALIFORNIA

Inside:
Women’s Community
Center
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Midlife power
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Managing hot flashes

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Women’s Lives
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Women’s friendships
calm the brain
… page 7

Fear in divorce
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Unsung Heroine:
Rochelle Becker
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Redefining the
abortion debate
CHRIS NEIBURGER © 2005

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Local Code Pink

chapter formed
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Community
Bulletin Board
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March is Women’s History Month Community
Call for an application to participate in this year’s Day With Creative Resources
Women. Enter the poster and one-act play contests. ...See page 3 … page 15

Join in an Intergenerational Conversation with women of the community Back Talk

and Cal Poly Women’s Center students at the Oaks in The Villages on … page 16
Mondays, March 28 and April 25. ...See page 3
Giving a workshop of interest to women? List it in the Women’s Press.
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We have a great time brainstorming new
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various tasks that enable the paper to exist, and
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if you can’t volunteer time outside of the meeting, Grace Murray Hooper
we’d love your ideas. The energy of women sitting in Women’s History Month/
Margaret Knight
a circle discussing how to make visible in print the International Women’s Day
richness of our lives keeps us motivated. Sojourner Truth
Beginning at least in 1908 women garment trade
And if you’d like to be more involved, here’s what Carrie Nation workers began agitating for safer working conditions.
we need: A strike by women workers in New York City that
Elizabeth Blackwell
Writers year led to 3 years of intense union organizing to build
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880 INDUSTRIAL WAY • SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA 93401 • 805.544.9313
FAMILY LAW ACTION COMMITTEE
Dealing With Divorce
3rd Wednesday of each month – 7 PM
Upcoming: March 16, April 20,May 18
Talk with other women who have been there, done that in a
supportive, non-judgmental environment. $5 donation
Self-Represented Litigants’ Clinic
4th Tuesday of each month – 5:30 PM
Upcoming: March 22. April 26, May 24
Get family law advice from local attorneys and/or paralegals.
Reservations required $25 donation
Call the WCC- for more information: 805.544.9313
Intergenerational
conversations scheduled
The next two Intergenerational Conversations will
be March 28 and April 25 at the Oaks at the Villages.
Call 544-9313 for directions.
‘Woman’s Story’ film aids the arts, builds community
F
Filmmaker Gary Conway above, met
with the audience after a “Women’s
Story” premier in February
BY RENEE SANPEI
After viewing the artistically told film “Woman’s
Story” in Paso Robles last month, I had an
opportunity to meet the director, Gary Conway,
and lead actress, Erin Gray. Both the movie and the
conversations I had were a breath of fresh air.
His films “tell the truth about our basic
relationships.” This film revolves around a female
attorney approaching 50 who learns her marriage
has been built on a lie and who is defending a man
accused of sexual indiscretion.
Gary Conway – “There’s so much that is falling
apart among us – we should be telling each other
when we are going over this precipice.… I think a
lot about these things, about where we are as human
beings.” He made this movie because being a painter
as well as filmmaker, he felt the need to go beyond
just visual expressions and “give more ideas about our
own humanity, our relationships, society.”
To be a walking, living human being and have
nothing to say is unthinkable for me. We are living
in one of the most deeply disturbing times.. . . My
thesis is to do the opposite of Hollywood,” creative
thoughtful thematic films that aren’t driven totally by
profit. (He gives a portion of the proceeds of these
screenings to benefit local arts programs.)
Erin Gray – Erin has worked to raise the awareness
about domestic violence, and reached out to help
those in need for the past 25 years. Frankly, this was
one of the primary reasons I took in this event. It
was gratifying to meet someone who understands the
impact of this very oppressive, destructive force in
our culture.
She has striven not only to liberate herself from
the effects of this but to advocate for women who
struggle to gain their freedom. We talked about
the family court systems’ participation in enabling
domestic abuse to continue by fueling these fires
rather than acting in the best interest of the victims
and the unfortunate repercussions this has on the
Women’s Press March/April 2005
OUR MISSION IS:
• TO maintain an accessible center to collect and
exchange information of interest and concern to
women
• TO organize and facilitate workshops, clinics,
seminars, classes and support groups on subjects of
interest and need
• TO engage in and facilitate interaction
among local, state and national agencies and
organizations working to benefit women
R
Renee Sanpei, below left, converses
with Erin Gray after a viewing of
“Women’s Story”.
children involved. We shared “war stories” and she
talked about the process of recovery, regaining your
life back and the gratitude one feels for those friends
along the way who help us remain true to ourselves.
What works in shifting the consciousness of our
society? Erin feels that continuing to expose these
matters through conversations with public officials,
media, film, and with one another has been very
important.
For me the overall effect of the film “Woman’s
Story” was one of feeling elevated and that of respect
and reverence for life. Watching the beautiful,
lingering scenes, the shimmering light, as well as the
shades of darkness and color were soul-satisfying.
Hearing the thoughtful dialogue, the pensiveness
of the characters, the humor coming out of the
angst and pain gave me time to digest it all rather
than being overwhelmed. It was cathartic watching
a woman handle herself with such poise while
she is met with the dishonest, heart-breaking and
challenging events of her life, not to be further
degraded but to gather her strength, retain her
warmth and rise above it. In the end, she has
distilled out the things and people most valuable
and there is the quiet joy of the sunset. The music of
Vivaldi complements so well, this celebration of the
invincible spirit.
Having had these meaningful conversations,
I am uplifted by connecting with people who care
about the quality of life and have given a great deal
of time and energy to cultivating more open, honest
relationships.
Gary Conway hopes to do another movie/
conversation/fundraising event in San Luis
Obispo. He is offering to donate some of the
proceeds to the Woman’s Community Center, as he
has been doing across the country at his openings.
If you would like to help make this event
happen, leave your name at the WCC – 544-9313.
eMail the editors: editors@womenspress-slo.org
New Day With Creative
Women Chair Steps Up
Morro Bay attorney Karol Vogt stepped forward
to volunteer as chair of the 31st annual Day With
Creative Women, a fundraiser for the Women’s
Community Center.
“The diversity of American women today is what
we want to showcase in this year’s Day With Creative
Women,” Karol Vogt said.
Vogt has taken on the task of chairing the
31st annual Day With Creative Women slated for
August 13 in San Luis Obispo’s Mission Plaza. The
event is the major fundraiser for the Women’s
Community Center which offers programs to
educate, enlighten and empower women in San
Luis Obispo County.
Vogt is an attorney and recently opened a law
firm with her associate Gloria Drayton in Morro
Bay. She says that even with her law practice and
taking care of her 93-year-old mother she will still
find the time to contribute something back to
the community through chairing the Day With
Creative Women.
“I became very interested in women’s issues
when I met another attorney, Angie King,Women’s
Community Center board President, who told
me about a Pro Choice rally in Washington, D.C.
which I participated in last year. I then became a
board member of the Women’s Community Center,
and when they started talking about the Day With
Creative Women, I jumped at the chance and
volunteered to chair the event this year.” Vogt said.
“The Women’s Center is very enthusiastic and
welcomes the new energy Karol brings to this year’s
event. I’m also excited to see that Karol wants to
expand the scope of the Day With Creative Women.”
King said.
“For some reason when I heard the word
creative, I thought of myself as a business woman
not just artist and craters. I want to open the event
up to all creative women including business women,
homemakers, playwrights, poets, artist, crafters and
entertainers.” Vogt said.
Plans for a one act play and poster contest
around the theme “Ignite Your Creativity” will be
part of this year’s event. The event will also be host
to many local performers, demonstrations, food and
children’s activities.
“I need a lot of help. I like to get everyone doing
something they like to do. When I see someone’s eyes
light up, then I know that’s the right person to chair
that position. I want to reach out into the community
at large and bring them into the event.” Vogt said.
To volunteer, become a sponsor, get a vendor
application or more information about the contest,
please leave a message for Karol Vogt at the Women’s
Community Center at 544-9313 or e-mail her at
vogt805@charter.net.
Enter This Year’s Contest:
Write a one-act play or design a poster around the
theme “Ignite Your Creativity
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Corner
BY ANGIE KING
If you thought January and February
made you crazy with the political and
economic devastation being visited
on the US by this Administration,
March and April are shaping up to be
more of the same.
The good news is that each
month more grass roots opposition
is filtering up to elected officials,
and even Republicans are now
speaking out against Bush’s economic
“reforms” – Social Security, tax cuts
for the rich, funding cuts in health
and human services, and the huge
expenditures for the war and our
alleged homeland security.
The bad news is all of the above
is still the order of the day. So, we
need your help. Become part of
the critical mass. Become an
activist – even if that means you
just read the Press, pass it on to
friends, and send an email to your
mother about the articles you
read. Consider writing a letter
to Capps, Thomas, Boxer and
Feinstein, signing a petition,
joining a peace march. There
are always opportunities to make
your voice heard. We have observed
in the past that adversity makes
more women angry enough to take
action to make changes. I hope that
means you! Your daughters and their
daughters depend on you. We need
your help. Join NOW!
Things you can do:
Attend the rally and march
on March 19, Saturday, at Mitchell
Park in San Luis, to note the second
anniversary of the bombing of
Baghdad.
Encourage your child’s school
to bring a woman in history into the
classroom in March. Some NOW
members are joining members of
AAUW in portraying famous women
in history for grade school classes.
Read a biography or
autobiography of an American
woman in history.
Check out leginfo.gov or
thomas.loc.gov for the latest on state
legislature bill status.
Get on the alert list for
California legislation affecting
women from CANOW at canow.org.
Celebrate Take Your Daughter
to Work Day, traditionally held the
4th Thursday of April. This year
TYDTWD is April 28. This is a great
time to expand the horizons of your
daughters or those of friends, as well
as of your co-workers, to the wide
variety of occupations and careers
open to women. Be the catalyst in a
young girl’s life. Use the opportunity
to talk about self esteem and self
confidence, so important in making
and meeting life goals.
Sorry to get so preachy. It seems
sometimes like I’m the only one
who sees the naked emperor, or as
the London Post headline said last
November: How can 58 million
people be so stupid? Happy spring
equinox to all, and as Pat R says:
enjoy our lovely weather.
❖ Judges Awaiting Senate Action:
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NOWNews
EVERY WOMAN DOESN’T HAVE TO JOIN NOW, JUST THE 125 MILLION WHO ARE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST!
Tell the FDA –Women Need Over-the-Counter
Emergency Contraception with NO Restrictions
“The women who will benefit most
from the availability of emergency
contraception are rape victims, young
women, low-income women, women
without health insurance and rural,
isolated women – and any woman who
is unable to quickly reach a sympathetic
physician to obtain a prescription.
We urge the FDA to remember these
often overlooked women as it makes its
decision. Plan B is safe, effective, easy
to use, and could prevent thousands
of unwanted pregnancies,” NOW
President Kim Gandy said at an FDA
hearing on emergency contraception.
It is apparent that extremist
opponents of birth control are unduly
influencing decision-makers to restrict
access to this safe and effective
contraceptive. News reports indicate
that under pressure from such groups as
the right-wing Concerned Women for
America and others, the FDA has been
reviewing a “modified approval” that
would prohibit teen-agers from buying
emergency contraception (EC) without
a prescription. In addition, EC would
have to be kept behind the counter
so that women would have to ask the
pharmacist to give it to them. This is
an insulting and demeaning approach
that would allow some pharmacists
Reproductive Rights Update
California Challenges Weldon
Amendment: California Attorney
General Bill Lockyer plans to challenge
the recently passed federal anti-
abortion law, which permits health
care providers to refuse to comply with
state laws protecting a woman’s right
to choose, and threatens the loss of all
federal funds to a state if the state tries
to enforce its own laws. The Weldon
Amendment, as it is known, is “an
unacceptable attack on women’s rights
and state sovereignty, and a backdoor
attempt to overturn Roe v.Wade,” said
Lockyer.
Mike Leavitt named head of Health
and Human Services: As governor,
he boasted he wanted Utah to have
the “toughest abortion law in the
nation,” and signed a number of bills
restricting a woman’s right to choose. It
is disastrous that he is head of Medicaid
and Medicare, Family Planning Services,
and a host of other programs affecting
women’s reproductive health care.
Texas Board of Education requires
abstinence-only information in
textbooks: The B of E demanded all
references to “partners” be removed
in favor of “husband” and “wife,” and
prohibits any mention of contraception.
Texas has the 5th highest pregnancy
rate among teenaged girls. A recently
reported study shows that where birth
control information is easily accessible,
the rates of teenage pregnancy drop
dramatically.
Last session, Democrats were able to
mount successful filibusters against
to question or humiliate women who
need to buy emergency contraception.
Remember, condoms are openly
displayed on the shelf.
‘Plan B is safe, effeive, easy
to use, and could prevent
thousands of unwanted
pregnanci.’
– NOW Prident Kim Gandy
The National Organization for Women
believes that sexually-active teens must
have the same EC access that older
women would have. It is also critical to
note that sexual assault survivors need
quick access to the morning-after pill
and many rape survivors are adolescents.
According to the Reproductive
Health Technologies Project (RHTP),
about three million unintended
pregnancies occur each year in the
U.S, as many as half to women who
are already using regular methods
of contraception. For many of these
women, emergency contraception
is a reliable method of back-up
birth control. To be most effective,
seven conservative anti-choice
nominations. Bush has nominated
(or re-nominated in some cases) the
following:
Terrence Boyle (re-nominated to the
Fourth Circuit): declared that states
are not obligated to adhere to equal
opportunity laws in hiring when the
state’s “culture” does not approve
of women working in certain fields.
www.now.org/issues/legislat/nominees/
boyle.html
Janice Rogers Brown (D.C. Circuit,
re-nominated after successful
filibuster): Brown is infamous for her
2000 decision upholding California
Prop.209, which bans affirmative
action for women and minorities in
public contracts, hiring, and college
admissions. www.now.org/issues/legislat/
nominees/brown.html
Thomas B. Griffith (D.C. Circuit):
proposed a series of changes to Title
IX, which if implemented would have
had devastating effects on equality for
women in school sports.
David W. McKeague (Sixth Circuit,
re-nominated after successful
filibuster): dismissed a Justice
Department request to investigate
claims that female prisoners in
Michigan were being abused and
raped by male guards.
William Gerry Myers III (Ninth
Circuit, re-nominated after successful
filibuster): Myers has criticized the
Supreme Court concerning both Roe
v. Wade and Griswold v. Connecticut,
emergency contraception should be
taken within 24 hours (and up to 72
hours) of unprotected intercourse
or contraceptive failure.
Nearly 40 countries make
emergency contraception available
without prescription.
It’s not too late to tell the
Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) to allow drugstores to
sell emergency contraception
without a prescription. NOW
believes that FDA officials are
putting political considerations
above public health concerns, and
in the process jeopardizing the
reputation of (and public trust in)
this important agency.
Action Needed:
Go to www.capwiz.com/now/mail/
to send a message to the FDA
expressing support for approval
of over-the-counter sale of this
urgently needed emergency
contraceptive and opposing any
age restrictions on availability.
Tell them the decision on Plan
B emergency contraceptive
(EC) is critical for the health
and reproductive freedom of
American women. ❖
stating that those decisions were made
on the “personal moral values of the
justices,” and he has praised the decision
in Bowers v. Hardwick upholding a ban
on sodomy.
Priscilla Owen (Fifth Circuit, re-
nominated after successful filibuster):
has supported the elimination and
narrowing of buffer zones around
reproductive health care clinics, voted
against judicial bypass in every related
case that came before the Texas
Supreme Court last year, and supports
“stricter interpretation” of laws that
require girls younger than 18 to inform
their parents before obtaining an
abortion. www.now.org/issues/legislat/
nominees/owens.html
William H. Pryor (11th Circuit,
given interim appointment last year):
has said that Roe v. Wade was “the
worst abomination in the history
of constitutional law.” He argued to
uphold sodomy laws, arguing that if the
constitution protects the “choice of
one’s partner…(then it) must logically
extend to activities like prostitution,
adultery, necrophilia, bestiality,
possession of child pornography, and
even incest and pedophilia.” He has also
argued against the Family and Medical
Leave Act and the Violence Against
Women Act. www.now.org/issues/legislat/
nominees/pryor.html
Henry W. Saad (Sixth Circuit, re-
nominated after successful filibuster): has
repeatedly shown hostility to plaintiffs
who claim sexual harassment.www.now.
org/issues/legislat/nominees/saad.html ❖
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Bush Budget Is Deceptive and Dangerous C
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National Organization for Women You can

all &
THE PURPOSE OF NOW IS TO BRING WOMEN INTO FULL PARTICIPATION IN THE MAINSTREAM OF AMERICAN SOCIETY NOW!

do it!

for Women and Families Pres. G.W. Bush

FROM NOW.ORG
Bush’s $2.57 trillion budget deceives
and endangers women and families. As
described in the Washington Post, Bush
employs “smoke and mirrors” to deceive
taxpayers by exaggerating expected
revenues while minimizing the actual
costs and long-term financial burdens.
Bush claims that this plan will
advance his goal of cutting the soaring
federal deficit in half by 2009. Analysts
point out that tax cuts adopted during
his first term costing $1 trillion negate
Bush’s deficit reduction plans, and that
cuts as steep as 16% in all discretionary
programs will be required to halve the
enormous deficit. In fact, as the Center
on Budget and Policy Priorities note,
the ‘06 administration budget increases
the deficit over the next five years.
And, extending these earlier tax cuts
for ten more years would cost another
$2.1 trillion!
Here are some specifics:
Health Care: Women make up
over 70 percent of all adult Medicaid
recipients, relying on the program
for their basic health care coverage
including reproductive health care
services and nursing home care. The
Bush administration proposes to reduce
Medicaid funding by $45 billion over
10 years, putting the burden of funding
on the states rather than the federal
government, even though states are
currently struggling to meet the federal
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Focus on the Love
BY LAURA HYDE
One single loving thought that
you experience has the capacity
to spark hope in someone who’s
feeling hopeless, who may be
giving up on life. Your thought
has the ability to invoke a sense
of oneness in someone who’s
feeling alone and lonely and the
magnitude to affect another in
ways you’ve never dreamed of,
for your love transcends space
and time.
Genuine love never seeks
to “get” anything. When we
remember that our deepest
Self is love, it becomes natural
to extend love to everyone and
everything. So, if you’re feeling
a need to be loved, try giving
love with no conditions and
no strings attached. Extending
love produces immediate
results; where earlier you felt
empty, now you feel fulfilled.
Where before you felt lonely
and incomplete, now you feel
connected and whole.
Love’s presence is
omniscient. Anywhere you
look, you will observe it if you
truly desire. It takes courage
to witness love and to extend
it to, and receive it from
others. For most of us, genuine
love is a foreign feeling. I’m
reminded of a woman in one
of my programs who declared,
“I never knew how afraid of
love I was until this past year.
I keep thinking I want it, then,
when it’s given to me by my
partner, a big part of me wants
to run away – as fast as I can!”
Each of us can appreciate her
fear. Everyone, at one time or
another, has sabotaged love’s
presence and blocked heartfelt
intimacy with another. Yet
once we taste love without
conditions, nothing less will
ever suffice. Genuine love is our
essence, the foundation of who
we truly are. Who wants to
settle for mediocre, superficial
encounters after we’ve
known meaningful, authentic
relationships?
Surrender and acceptance offer midlife power
BY RUTH CHERRY, PH.D.
Mid-life brings an urgency to
become ourselves in capital
letters. What we have ignored
inside ourselves now demands
integration. For many of us
that includes vulnerability. Just
as sex was the dirty word of
the Victorian age, vulnerability
now is despised. It seems that
people would rather tolerate
abuse and rationalize that
it really isn’t abuse (“that’s
just the way she is”) than to
acknowledge that they are hurt
by another’s words. Feeling
hurt is more fearsome than
being physically injured. A
football player will charge a
line of oversized men but will
not sit with his tears alone or
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Health and Spirituality
Let us remember that love is
not about getting our needs
met nor any of the things we’ve
been taught by society. Below
is a list of loving principles that
will increase the amount of
genuine love you experience in
your relationships as you learn
to focus on the love in your
heart:
• I desire to join with you
from the love in my heart.
I commit to releasing the
selfish needs I have had in
the past and to give to you
without conditions.
• I care about you enough to
be honest with you and to
express my truth from my
heart with compassion.
• I accept that we are both
going to make mistakes, so
I ask that you be patient
with me and forgive me, as
I am willing to be patient
and forgive you.
• Out of my love for you,
I am willing to listen
from my heart and to
listen to what is in yours.
I commit to suspending
judgment so that we may
experience connection,
not separation.
• I’m willing to support you
in your growth and accept
you as you are.
Laura V. Hyde, M.A., is
Founder of Infinite Wisdom
and has her own private
practice where she provides
spiritual counseling and
soul purpose coaching. A
national author and speaker,
Laura offers numerous
workshops for awakening
the heart and spirit. Laura
is the host of “Relationship
Wisdom” on Public
Television and a frequently
requested keynote speaker
throughout the U.S. and
Canada. Please visit Laura
at: www.laurahyde.com or
e-mail: laura@laurahyde.
com or call: 805.748.7506.
in the company of his best
friend. A business woman will
work 14 hours a day without
complaining or acknowledging
her need for play.
Our years until mid-life have
been devoted to augmenting
our armamentarium of
resources to distinguish
ourselves as valuable, desirable,
and worthy. At mid-life,
however, we must BE ourselves
and that implies owning those
unintegrated aspects. We
realize that true power is not
about dismissing what our
minds fear but about owning
the fear. We can’t escape the
traits we don’t want to see and
at mid-life we don’t even want
to escape because it’s only
ourselves we leave behind.
Make menopause a healthy
and comfortable transition
BY MELODY PICKELL
This is the second of a two-part
article on managing menopause.
Part one emphasized strategies
for dealing with the effects
of stress.
S
ome tips on the
most common
complaint:
hot flashes.
Depending on the
severity of the hot
flashes, one or two of
these suggestions should
help.
1. Soy foods. 1 or 2 servings a
day can help if you have a
low estrogen pattern.
Be aware. Some people are
allergic to soy.
2. Flaxseed meal. 1-2
Tablespoons of ground
flaxseed per day.
3. Black Cohosh. 40-80 mg
1-2x per day; also brand
named Remifemin.
4. Chasteberry or Vitex. 500-
100 mg 1 to 3 times a day.
This is particularly good for
Women-focused
health websites
Over the past few years,
vital data has been deleted,
buried, distorted, or has
otherwise gone missing
from government websites
and publications, so the
National Council for
Research on Women has
begun to document how
these changes and exclusions
affect women’s lives.
National Council on
Research for Women
Misinformation
Clearinghouse
http://www.ncrw.org/
So we move into that
vulnerability that has scared us
so. We feel touched by a scene
in a movie and we cry and then
keep crying. We’re offended by
a mean-spirited comment and
we don’t pretend that we’re
not. How others see us isn’t
as important as being true to
ourselves. Integrity becomes
the overarching value. And
with that commitment to our
integrity, we allow ourselves
to experience intense feelings
when they come rather than
trying to “understand” them.
Earlier in our lives sobbing
for five hours alone on the
floor would have terrified us.
Holding onto Control for what
seemed like our very survival
was the first priority. All that
a pattern with high estrogen
relative to progesterone
levels but not for people with
diminished libido.
5. Natural progesterone
cream. 1/2 teaspoon 1-2 x
a day. This is not wild yam
cream. Progesterone is made
from wild yams but only
in a laboratory not in your
body. This can also be very
helpful for PMS and some
perimenopause problems
with heavy periods.
A non-profit organization
that serves as the national
clearinghouse for women’s
health information,
with providing access to
health information and
resources its primary
goal. Information is
comprehensive, objective,
and supported by an
advisory council composed
of the nation’s leading
medical and health experts.
National Women’s Health
Resource Center
http://www.healthywomen.org/
has shifted now as living large
compels us undeniably. So
what if a tidal wave of emotion
threatens to drown us? We’ve
lived through our worst fears.
We can live through whatever
today brings, too. Suddenly
Control is not only irrelevant,
it impedes our aliveness.
Vulnerability is power.
We know that when we
surrender to Life, we are
carried through the storm to
peaks we haven’t before seen.
We are shown vistas our eyes
can’t perceive when we hug
the ground in avoidance of our
feelings. We experience power
that moves through us. We
don’t control it or even use it.
We open to it and accept it and
let it carry us. And that’s when
6. Vitamin E. 400 IU
- 2x a day. Check to see
how much is in your
multivitamin before
adding more. These may
take from 2 weeks to 2
months to take full effect.
If they don’t seem to
work, you may need some
individualized attention
to your particular
pattern of hormones and
symptoms.
For more information, go to
www.doctorbagheri.com
Melody J Pickell LAc,
MSTOM has a Master of
Science degree in Traditional
Oriental Medicine. This
scope of practice includes
among other modalities the
use of acupuncture, herbs,
and dietary supplements.
Recently, she joined the Bagheri
Medical Group in San Luis
Obispo to realize her dream of
combining the best of Eastern
and Western medicine.
From “Women And Men: 10
Differences That Make A Difference”
Heart Disease –Heart
disease kills 500,000
American women each year
– over 50,000 more women
than men – and strikes
women, on average, 10 years
later than men. Women are
more likely than men to have
a second heart attack within a
year of the first one.
Pain – Some pain
medications (known as
kappa-opiates) are far more
effective in relieving pain in
women than in men.
– Society For Women’s
Health Care Research
www.womenshealthresearch.org
we own our power–when we
let Life happen and say Thank
You no matter what. We see
Life acting through others and
realize we’re all here to learn
our lessons. Power is accepting
our humble stance, knowing
that staying in rapport with
Source energy (as Wayne Dyer
says) is our only job.
Only by moving deeply into
our vulnerability and trusting
it to carry us, do we realize
what power truly is: that force
that is moving and directing us
without input from our minds.
And that is the magic of mid-
life–we grow into the fullness
of our power through surrender
and acceptance.
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Calming brain chemicals
released when women gather
From an article in the Sydney
Daily Telegraph
While women have never
needed scientific proof of the
value of great friendships, it has
been validated in the form of
a university study that reveals
women’s friendships may even
explain why women outlive
men. A UCLA study found that
special bonds between female
friends apparently produce a
calming effect that does not
occur in men. So, American poet
Emily Dickinson was obviously
onto something when she said,
“My friends are my estate.”
The study found that
women’s friendships counteract
the day-to-day stress with a
“cascade of brain chemicals,”
leading them to seek and
maintain friendships with other
women. Until this research,
scientists believed that,
during stress, hormones are
released that tell the body to
Watching from Afar
BY ANNE LEE
It is March 8th International
Woman’s Day. I sit in a hospital
room holding my day-old
grandson. My daughter-in-law
rests comfortably in a clean,
attractive room. She is very
fortunate; she lives in the U.S.
and has medical insurance.
In Nepal, where I spent two
months last year, many rural
villages lack basic amenities:
potable water, sanitation, and
health care. Women in one
community I visited told me
of three babies who died at
birth, just the month before.
The hospital is 30 miles away
over rough roads; there are no
telephones or cars. It would
cost only $1,000, “small-
Contemplating the Fear in Divorce
BY ROBIN WERDERITS
Many women who are
contemplating divorce may
have some fears surrounding
that decision. Will I have
enough money? Can I rely on
him for support? Who keeps
the house? Do I need a job?
What about the kids?
My girlfriend, Debbie,
who lives in Chicago, is married
to a man she refers to as “the
mannequin” He uses silence
as a weapon and it obviously
“pushes her buttons”. He won’t
even give her a simple “hello”
or “goodbye” or much more
in-between. Important issues
usually don’t get discussed, or
if they do, he gives the absolute
minimum input. Having had
her fill of Mr. Mannequin, she
is considering divorce. She
has communicated to me her
many fears: money, her kids and
the effect of divorce on them,
being alone.
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stand and fight, or to flee- an
ancient survival mechanism.
Researchers now suspect that
women have a more extensive
behavior store that neutralizes
the “flight or fight” response
and instead encourages them
to gather with other women.
During this bonding session,
the female body produces more
oxytocin (the same hormone
that is released during breast
feeding), which has a calming
effect. American researcher
Laura Cousin Klein says
the calming response does
not occur in men, “because
testosterone, which men
produce in high levels when
they are under stress, seems
to reduce the effects of
oxytocin. Estrogen seems to
enhance it.” Many women
rarely react without seeking
a girlfriend’s opinion.
“Women by their very
nature tend to be relational.
change” by U.S. standards, to
train a midwife.
A small resource-poor
country like Nepal is not
newsworthy. The recent take-
over of the country by King
Gyanendra, who suspended
the government and arrested
opponents, gave Nepal its “15
minutes of fame.” The King
promises “effective democracy”
within three years. Did you
know that Nepal has suffered
ten years of armed conflict,
resulting in 10,000 dead and
many more displaced persons?
Women and children are
deeply affected by this conflict.
Both sides use sexual violence
as a tool to punish women. On
After many hours on the
phone, and lots of cups of tea …
we came to some conclusions.
1) She CAN divorce and live
to tell about it! I am living
proof that a woman living
alone can be a lot happier
than a woman living with
Mr. Wrong!
2) Worried about the kids?
My own kids, ages 14,
13, and 13 (yes, twins) are
three very happy kids…
they are all honor roll
students and are very well
adjusted. They are fun to
be with, and very witty.
There is a lightheartedness
in the house that was
never there before. We
really do laugh out loud!
3) Money. Let’s face it – it
does make the world go
round. Most women today
have a job, but whether
you do or you don’t, most
Women’s Lives
You only have to look at little
girls at play - they are extremely
happy talking with each other
about stuff that boys find silly,
said Australian psychologist
Jonathan Toussaint. “Most
women are happy to have a chat
over the fence, while men tend
to be doers - they would rather
go and kick a football around or
go to the pub.”
The research has
significant implications for
health. It has already been
proven that relationships
and social ties lower blood
pressure, heart rate, and your
cholesterol. Another study, by
the Harvard Medical School,
shows the more friends a
woman had, the less likely
she was to develop physical
impairments as she aged. That
same study concluded that
not having close friends was as
detrimental to your health as
smoking or being overweight.
October 31, 2000 the United
Nations Security Council
(UNSC) unanimously adopted
Resolution 1325 that addresses
the unique impact that armed
conflict has on women. UNSC
Resolutions 1261, 1314, 1379,
and 1539 address protection
of children affected by armed
conflict, yet “Children have
been subjected to killing,
maiming and other violations
of their rights committed
with impunity by both the
rebel Maoists and government
personnel . . . through July
2004, 286 children under the
age of 17 are reported to have
been killed”.
please see Nepal, page 10
women can supplement
their incomes or get by
with child and spousal
support.
4) The court fight: Debbie’s
biggest fear. This is based
on my phone bill and the
amount of tea consumed.
I told her, as I will tell
you – If at all possible
try mediation first. It is
infinitely better to sit
down at the table under
the watchful eye of a good
divorce mediator than
to spend your children’s
college tuition on attorney
fees. Debbie found a
mediator in Chicago that
she feels comfortable with,
and Mr. Mannequin has
agreed to go. I wish her all
the best!
Robin Werderits is with Core
Mediation Services 544-6334
medeee8@aol.com
Numbers don’t lie
BY ANNE WARNER-HOWE
Did the #’s you used to read
your Numerology forecast in
the last issue hold any meaning
for you? Well, how about
testing the possibilities of this
ancient folk science again? Try
reducing a group of #s (i.e. a
birth date, phone # or address)
to one digit (for example,
1+9=10, then 1+0=1), then test it
with these interpretations.
O NE the # of leadership,
indicates a consciousness
of self and the ego. This
pioneering, independent spirit
can have difficulty working on a
team, unless leading. Governing
the head and spine, attainment
rules. With the circle as its
symbol, this entity is self-
contained and self-reliant.
Avoiding arrogance will feed
your succeeding.
T WO represents symmetry,
balance, reflection and
rhythm. Receptive, adaptive
and cooperative, this # can
contribute a great deal to
peacefulness. Feminine qualities
are nurtured here. Symbolically
represented by the line between
two points, such polarity can
contribute to ambivalence or
balance.
T
HREE engenders the force
of the triangle. Unifying,
sociable, clever and charming,
this is an understanding and
progressive energy. The bearer
of such power will be wise
to avoid the scattering of its
gifts by being overly critical,
superficial, nervous or boastful.
Honoring the three graces,
faith, hope and charity will
serve you well.
F OUR, solid, practical,
steady and “down-to-earth”,
this merciful constructor is
symbolized by the square. Its
feminine, elemental nature
gives form and reality to ideas.
In spite of its aversion to hard
or menial labor, it manifests
the foundation from which
success grows. Do avoid being
“stone-cold”, judgmental or
pessimistic.
F IVE, symbolized by the
star or pentagram, is a
spirited dynamic. Representing
our five senses, speculation
and rejuvenation, five is
fascinated with the unusual. It
will do well to avoid conceit,
sarcasm and excessive sexual
activity. Its freedom and
intuition can be undermined
by dark perversions if not well
managed.
S IX is a voice to be heard.
The # of universal love,
familial and domestic harmony
nurtures wholesomeness,
loyalty and the arts. Usually
balanced and well adjusted, this
influence is best experienced
without smugness, obstinance
or prissiness. Symbolized by
the six-pointed star, this #
often indicates a proclivity
to other than heterosexual
preferences.
S EVEN, the # of this year,
is innately reclusive and
scholarly. Dreamy imagination
can become aloof pessimism
when not understood and
tempered. Difficulty expressing
the deep beliefs and curiosities
being explored can weigh
heavily on interpersonal
relating. From this source
comes significant power when
wielded patiently.
E
IGHT bears concern with
the material world and
requires a vigilance to succeed.
With an ongoing challenge
to balance the intellect and
emotions, choosing just
or unscrupulous behavior
determines your bounty. In
spite of repeated challenges
to your achievements, you
mustn’t quit.
N INE, the # of
humankind, desires love
and popularity. A distaste
for ugliness, poverty and
unhappiness are motivating
factors for the compassionate,
tolerant and philanthropic
characteristics of this
influence. Recognize that
caring for yourself will enhance
your love of giving. In your
self-preservation avoid the
imposition and abuse of those
you care for.
Anne Warner-Howe is a
multi-disciplinary folk
scientist with thirty years
of experience, who uses
Numerology as one of many
tools to help her clients learn
to use what they have to get
what they want. She assists
with individual issues and
situations, romantic and
business relationships, baby
naming, relocation, and
general problem solving.
(805) 481-9597
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Unsun Heroine:
Unsung Heroine
INTERVIEW BY BAILEY DRECHSLER
Please tell us about
yourself. How long have
you lived in SLO? Who have
been your sources of inspiration
and role models?
My family moved into our home
in Grover Beach in 1978. My husband
Tom, daughter Tama, and I moved to
Pismo in 1971 and then lived in Santa
Maria from 1973-1978.
My sources of inspiration are
many; however the woman who
inspired me most in SLO activism and
who continues to be a role model is
Sandy Silver, one of the founders of
the Mothers for Peace.
Women in political leadership
positions were few when I was
growing up. But dinner conversations
in my home often consisted of
opposition to war (my father was a
decorated veteran of WWII), striving
for civil rights, helping others in need,
and standing up for our belief in a
better world for all. ‘. . . my beautiful granddaughters remind me that activism is
Please tell us about Mother’s
for Peace and your history with not an option . . . ’ – Rochelle Bker
this group
I began my involvement with the Mothers for
Peace in 1977. I had learned about a nuclear plant
being proposed on our precious coast and then about
an active earthquake fault less than 2½ miles away.
Then in March 1979 I awoke to learn there had been
an accident at Three Mile Island – thus begun my life
as a nuclear safety activist.
The Mothers for Peace are an intelligent,
committed and selfless group of individuals who have
remained focused on the safety of the Diablo Canyon
Nuclear Plant for over three decades. All members
are volunteers who remain dedicated to protecting
the future.
In my 28 years with the Mothers for Peace I have
led a sit-in at the CPUC (1980), testified before state
Celebrated Women in American History
Elizabeth Cady Stanton – Wrote the Woman’s
Bible, drafted the Seneca Falls Declaration of
Sentiments and Resolutions, and co-founded the
National Woman’s Suffrage Association. Long time
friend and collaborator with Susan B. Anthony.
Sacajawea – Guided Lewis and Clark on their
expedition through the northwest US. Gave birth on
the route when she was only 16 years old. Without
her help, Lewis and Clark would have perished in the
harsh winters amid hostile Indians.
Harriet Tubman – Former slave who led hundreds
of slaves to freedom through the Underground
Railroad.
Helen Keller – Although born deaf, mute and
blind, the friendship and support of many helped
her overcome these disabilities. Graduated from
Radcliffe College in 1904 and became a strong union
Read about Code Pink on page 11
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the will to do and the soul to dare
Rochelle Becker
and federal agencies as well as the state legislature and
Congress. I have been interviewed by local, state and
national press. I never belonged to an organization I
was prouder to represent.
Have you always been an activist? What
keeps you going?
I have been an activist since high-school, as the
1960’s and early ‘70’s were a time when we felt it was
our duty to speak out on issues of peace, environment
and civil rights. It was an exciting and empowering
time to be young, believing your voice could make a
difference.
The faces of my beautiful granddaughters remind
me that activism is not an option, but a responsibility.
I have never lived in a time when I felt greater peril.
supporter and socialist activist.
Amelia Earhart – Pioneer aviator who challenged
male pilots and often won in competitions. Crossed
the Atlantic solo in 1932. Vanished mysteriously
during flight over the Pacific; the plane has never
been found.
Maria Mitchell – Largely self-educated astronomer,
discovered new comet in 1847. First woman named
to American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Relied
on keen observational skills in the absence of
sophisticated tools.
Maya Ying Lin – While still in architecture
school, won the national competition to design a
memorial to the Vietnam War soldiers. Her design
was controversial at the time, but is one of the most
visited sites today.
Grace Murray Hooper – One of a small team
The world is in turmoil, the environment
is at risk from pollution created in the
name of progress. Now I believe we
must conscientiously address issues of
aging nuclear power facilities which
have been bombarded with radiation for
decades, and seriously question the daily
production radioactive waste which is
being stored on our fragile earthquake-
active coastal bluffs.
What words of encouragement
do you have for young women in
particular as they take on leadership
roles in social activism?
Many members of the Mothers for Peace
are now grandmothers and look to the
next generation of young women to
join us in fighting to protect the health,
safety, environment and economy of this
beautiful county and this precious planet
which is home to us all.
Standing up for the future is an
incredibly rewarding experience, one
that money cannot buy. My focus now is
to prevent the relicensing of California’s
dangerously sited nuclear power plants
and expanding radioactive waste dumps.
To achieve this goal the Alliance for Nuclear
Responsibility was founded in January of this year to
create legislation that will prohibit license renewals
for Diablo Canyon and San Onofre. We need the
help and ideas of young women and welcome new
members.
I close with a quote by Charlie Bell which sums
up my activism: “At our heart is the will to do and the
soul to dare”. I hope your readers will have the heart
and soul to join us.
Rochelle Becker, Executive Director
Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility
PO Box 1328
San Luis Obispo, Ca 93406-1328
www.a4nr.org rochelle@a4nr.org
of women who developed computer programming
languages during WWII, including COBOL, still in
use today.
Margaret Knight – Prodigious inventor of useful
household devices, including the window sash, and
the square-bottom grocery bag.
Sojourner Truth – Powerful anti-slavery speaker in
1840’s and outspoken feminist.
Carrie Nation – Famous for breaking up saloons
with a hatchet. Founded the Women’s Christian
Temperance Union to curb excessive drunkenness
and the consequent abuse of women by drunken
husbands.
Elizabeth Blackwell – First woman to graduate
from an American medical school. Opened Women’s
Medical College in 1868 to teach other women to
practice medicine.
Women’s Press March/April 2005
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It’s Not About Choice or Life

Redefining the Abortion Debate
The following information is part one of a summary of an
article by Lisa Littman of the Rockridge Institute to be
continued in the next issue. this article is available in its
entirety at www.rockridgeinstitute.org/projects/reprod/
littmanabortion – Editor
The abortion debate is not about “choice” or “life”.
It is not even about being “anti-abortion” or “pro-
abortion”. This debate is how we approach the
issue of unintended pregnancy: Prevention
or Punishment. The Prevention Approach is
about supporting policies that prevent unwanted
pregnancies and decrease abortions while the
Punishment Approach is about supporting policies
that increase unintended pregnancies and increase
abortions in order to punish people for having sex.
Define the Progressive and Conservative Values
George Lakoff, in Don’t Think of an Elephant, describes
two worldviews that inform people’s perspectives
of politics: the Nurturant Parent Model and the
Strict Father Model. The Nurturant Parent Model,
held by Progressives, values Responsibility and
Empathy. In this view, children are taught to be
responsible decision makers through knowledge of
the consequences of their actions. Conservatives
adhere to the Strict Father Model, valuing Obedience
and Discipline. They believe that children need
punishment to learn right from wrong.
Define the Prevention Policies
The Nurturant Parent/Progressive views abortion
as the result of an awful situation—a woman with
an unintended pregnancy. Treating the woman as
someone in need of empathy and taking responsibility
to avoid this situation in the future leads Progressives
to take a prevention approach and support policies
such as: increasing funding and access to family-
planning clinics, improving access to contraception
and emergency contraception, supporting the use
of sex-education and other programs that have been
proven to be effective in lowering teen pregnancy,
keeping abortion safe and legal.
Furthermore, Progressives also support social
safety nets and community assets like prenatal care,
health care, family leave, improved public schools,
and aftercare programs which make it easier for
women to raise their children in a healthy, supportive
environment.
Define the Punishment Policies
An alternative approach to abortion and unplanned
pregnancies is favored by those adhering to the Strict
Father or Conservative viewpoint. It includes cutting
funding for family-planning clinics, decreasing access
to contraception, withholding information about
contraception and condoms, promoting unproven
“abstinence-until-marriage” programs while opposing
the programs that are effective in reducing teen
pregnancy and criminalizing abortion. This approach
also includes opposing welfare, prenatal care, healthcare,
family leave, aftercare and undermining public schools,
essentially dismantling the programs intended to
support women and families raising children.
What Research Has Shown About
Punishment Policies
Extensive worldwide research has revealed that the
effects of these policies consistently lead to negative
consequences. Policies that increase barriers to
contraceptive and condom use don’t alter rates of sexual
activity. Individuals who are sexually active and do not
use contraception or condoms have much higher rates
of pregnancies, abortions, and STIs compared to those
who use contraception and condoms.
Legal restrictions on abortion have very minimal
impact on whether women will have abortions.
But making abortion illegal makes it more likely
that women will have illegal, unsafe abortions and
subsequently more women will be injured and will die
in the process. Furthermore, undermining the social
safety nets and community assets makes it harder for
women to be able to continue pregnancies and raise
children. Although the Conservative punishment
proponents claim to be “anti-abortion,” it appears
as though the policies they support are specifically
designed to increase the number of abortions and
harmful effects for women and families.
What Does the Public Believe?
The vast majority of Americans harbor discomfort
concerning the act of abortion. It is unlikely,
however, that most believe that all women should
be made to suffer when faced with an unintended
pregnancy. If one were to pose the question: “Are
you willing to deliberately increase the number of
abortions, unintended pregnancies, and sexually
transmitted diseases in this country in order to
teach people the lesson that sex is wrong?” most
people would answer no.
In the next issue: How the Conservatives Sell
the Punishment Approach; Punishment and
Prevention Policies: What Happens; How Do We
Win the Debate?

Locals show their suort January 22, 2005

Annual Roe v Wade March & Rally in downtown SLO
From left to right, Lynne
Levine, NOW corresponding
secretary, Susan Howe, Women’s
Community Center board
member, and Angie King, NOW
president, kick off the 32nd
anniversary rally celebrating the
Supreme Court’s historic ruling
in 1973 which gave women the
right to safe and legal abortions.

Alicia Morin a development

associate with Planned Parenthood
and one of the rally’s organizers
reads a poem to the crowd at
Mitchell Park.

Cal Poly English

Major Ruth Osorio
stepped up to the
open mike to read
Roe v. Wade supporters marched from the rally at Mitchell Park to the San Luis Obispo a poem dedicated
county court house waving signs and chanting “keep your laws off our bodies.” to her mother.

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I’ll Go to the Reunion book review
Without the Botox or Implants What Matters?
BY JILL TURNBOW What Works?
What’s Next?
The time has come. I must now take stock of my
accomplishments and reassess my goals. All because
of an email. Yep, nothing jump-starts a journey into
self-awareness like an invitation to your 30th high
school reunion. In just seconds, several hundred
people I haven’t seen (or thought of for that matter)
in 30 years are guiding my every waking moment,
and even a few creepy dreams. (Like the one about
the Supreme Court made up of hundreds of familiar
faces, each pounding a gavel shouting, “Why don’t
you have children?!”) I don’t know whom to call
first…my oldest friend (to make sure she’s going) or a
plastic surgeon.
Frankly, I didn’t think my life was sucking. I’m
blessed with good health, loaded with friends, well
traveled and financially secure. Not too bad. But to
the jock star and that cheerleader with four kids,
I’m just an unmarried woman living with a couple of
cats. I don’t know if that makes me a stereotype or a
statistic. Either way, what felt like “freedom to move
about the cabin” now feels pitiable. And the rubbery
chicken dinner hasn’t even hit the table.
Surely, I can’t be alone in my anxiety. I just
know there have been dozens of gym memberships
renewed, a few lipo appointments made, and I’ll bet
money there are a few boxes of Rogaine now lining
some trashcans.
Women’s position on Social Security
STATEMENT OF NOW PRESIDENT KIM GANDY
The plan to privatize Social Security will undermine
women’s financial security.
Women are more vulnerable to the reduction in
benefits that will accompany privatization because
we have smaller benefits to begin with, and because
women are less likely than men to have a pension or
other means to supplement those reduced benefits.
Playing the stock market always creates winners and
losers, and women will end up on the losing end when
Social Security falls prey to the boom and inevitable
bust of the stock market.
The existing system is progressive, in the sense
that lower lifetime earners have modestly higher
proportional benefits relative to their earnings. This
increased benefit is critical for women because of our
lower average earnings and time out of the workforce
for caregiving.
The Bottom Line
If you’re a woman, you’re being asked to take your
money out of a system that offers guaranteed
retirement, disability and survivor benefits, and move
it into a privatized system that will discriminate
against you in the amount it pays out because you are
female. Women weren’t born Democrat, Republican,
or yesterday.
So much of the discussion to date has focused
on retirement, but Social Security is also a disability
and life insurance program. Privatization puts at risk
disabled women, widows, single and divorced women
and the children of a working parent who dies or
becomes disabled.
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Women’s Lives
Why do we put ourselves through it? It can’t
be for the bad food and crappy band. What can we
possibly want to prove? Especially now that I won’t
be making the entrance I envisioned in my youth.
(from a helicopter amongst cheering fans as I tell
Katie Couric, “I just can’t be interviewed tonight.
Tonight is for my REAL friends.”) Yeah, that’s
probably not the way it’s going to happen. I’m just
hoping I have enough airline miles for a free ticket
home.
But don’t think for a minute I would miss it.
Maybe I do want to prove something. Maybe I want
to prove that I have survived, that cats really are
good company…that I really could be thin if I wanted
to…that money isn’t everything if you have your
health…that…that…. ok, even I’m not buying it.
But I’ll go. And I’ll go without Botox or
implants, without losing that last 40 lbs, and without
a husband or kids in tow. I’ll go with the knowledge
that my life is pretty good, that I’m where I’m
supposed to be and I still don’t think I look my age.
I’ll go hear the crappy band, dust off some indelible
memories, laugh at old yearbooks and smile at
pictures of grandkids. (I’ll leave the cat photos at
home) And besides, how could I not go? I hear Tom
doesn’t have any hair, Judy’s kids didn’t turn out so
hot and Jan’s husband is still in prison. I’ll be fine.
Let’s fix and fund the current system.
Some improvements have been made, but more
adjustments to this basically sound program must be
undertaken.
• Reduce the child care penalty
• Increase the widow’s benefit
• Raise benefits for disabled widows and
divorced disabled spouses
• Increase the divorced women’s spousal benefit
These improvements would bring more equity into
the system. These suggestions recognize patterns of
pay discrimination, uncompensated child care, today’s
marriage and divorce trends, and women’s increased
participation in the paid workforce, which result in
higher numbers of women drawing Social Security
worker benefits, instead of spousal benefits.
Let’s make two simple changes. These will cover
the costs of improved benefits and assure long-term
financing for generations.
Beginning around the year 2020 when Social
Security begins to draw down on the surplus, a
modest increase in the payroll FICA rate-for both
employees and employers, and an increase in the
taxable wage base at the same time.
With these few changes, we can make our
guaranteed insurance and retirement program the
envy of the world and assure that all women who have
given so much to society live out their later years in
economic security.
For more information, please check out www.
now.org
Nepal, continued from page 7
SOURCE: Watchlist on Children and Armed
Conflict January 2005.
I ask myself “What can I do to make a difference?
I truly believe that each one of us can bring about
lasting change. We can create a better world for all
children. The solution is simple: “The only way to
achieve lasting peace is through mutual trust, respect,
love, and kindness. The only way.” Dalai Lama.
Anne Lee will be giving a presentation in the
SLO Library on Nepal Today: Challenges &
Opportunities, April 7, 2005, 7 – 9 p.m. E-Mail:
sealmaiden1944@aol.com
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BY KATHLEEN DERAGON
The title Inventing
the Rest of Our Lives
certainly piqued my
attention when I saw
Suzanne Braun
Levine’s book
advertised in Ms.
magazine. Her subtitle “Women
in Second Adulthood” did, too, because I
knew exactly what she was talking about.
She points out that those of us in our 40’s – 60’s
are the first generation of women, 37 million strong,
who have tasted social, political, and economic
empowerment. We have the voting power, economic
clout, the leadership skills, and the organizing
experience to reshuffle the priorities of our society—
and not just for ourselves. Our years ahead are a new
frontier.
Before our generation, the rest of a woman’s life
happened to her. Not for us. We have the freedom to
take risks because we are confident we can deal with
the consequences.
We are answering the Question That Has Many
Answers: What am I going to do with the rest of my life? by
asking: What matters? What works? What’s next?
She talks a lot about the Fertile Void – the place
where we begin the process of sorting things out
and shaking things up, trusting our own voice, and
deciding which pieces of our true self to carry forward.
She fills the book with stories of real women and
how they are dealing with these years. Chapters topics
include reconsidering work and recalibrating your life;
rediscovering your passion; and redefining intimacy.
At the end she includes an annotated list of pertinent
websites and organizations.
I enjoyed the case she makes for what we in our
40’s-60’s are facing: I found myself saying page after
page: yes, yes, yes!

Some wisdom and humor from Inventing the
Rest of Our Lives:
When Sleeping Beauty awakens at fifty, she’s done
with fairy tales and ready to write her own—in her
own voice.
As we begin to adjust to the notion that we are not
who we were, only older, we can imagine that what life
is offering us is a chance to experience the rebirth of
the soul.
Futurist Ken Dychtwald says we are the most
amazing women our country has ever seen, educated
and empowered.
We get to the point where we don’t stop caring
what other people think, but we finally care more
what I think. “I call it the Fuck You Fifties.”
Each of us listens to another woman’s life in terms
of our own, and each takes away her own inspiration.
We underline different sentences of the same
paragraph.
Lauren Hutton: “We’re part of this gigantic
crest, this extraordinary generation of women who
haven’t hit the shore yet . . . We’re going to have this
enormous wall of power when we hit.”
At this time in our history, we should take nothing
personally. Least of all ourselves. Try to do whatever
you do as an act of celebration. WE ARE THE ONES
WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR. –Hope Nation,
“Wisdom of the Elders”
Menopausal women have a stunning burst of
energy and assertiveness Germaine Greer called
“peaceful potency” and Margaret Mead identified as
“postmenopausal zest.”
Women’s Press March/April 2005

Local Code Pink
Chapter Formed
BY DIAN SOUSA
Like most rational Americans, I woke up on the
morning of November 7th feeling horrified, betrayed,
and full of sorrow over the results of another spurious
election and the apocalyptic effects it would wreak on
our country, our environment, and the entire world.
After a day or two of Turret-like sputtering
involving unique combinations of animal parts and
curse words, I realized that even though it was
cathartic, it was useless. Plus, I remembered a quote
by Noam Chomsky, “If you assume there is no hope,
you guarantee there is no hope.”
I am fortunate to know a lot of strong and
brilliant women, so I called one-- Vivian Longacre
– whom I knew would be better organized and more
energetic than myself, and she generously agreed to
help start a Code Pink group for our area.
Code Pink is a worldwide network of women
and men committed to working for peace and social
justice. Code Pink takes its name from a play on
the Bush Administration’s color-codes signifying the
varying degrees of terrorist threat. “While Bush’s
color-coded alerts are based on fear, the Code Pink
alert is based on compassion and a feisty call for
women and men to wage peace.”
Our local chapter seeks positive social change
through creative protest and education, our emphasis
being on the word “creative” and keeping our sense of
humor intact.
To date we have had three meetings which have
been well-attended by excellent women who bring
energy, creativity, and compassionate intelligence to
every topic. We have made the following decisions
and actions:
1. We vehemently oppose the unjust and monstrous
occupation of Iraq and add our voice to the
growing howl begging the United States
government to bring home the sons and
daughters, mothers, and fathers it sent over there
under the twisted lie of “freedom,” to bring them
home, care for them, and educate them.
2. It is imperative that we educate everyone in SLO
County about the possibility of a re-instatement
of the draft and what they can do to help stop it
and stay out of it. In April we will hold a mock-
draft with the help of the Cal Poly Progressive
Student Alliance and local high school students.
3. We will be joining a coalition of other activist
groups on March 19 from 2-4p.m. in Mitchell
Park to promote education and social programs
instead of the 82 billion dollar war fund Bush is
urging Congress to approve.
4 . We are also sponsors of the courageous and
informative films presented by Hope Dance.
Watch for a Code Pink event to take place either
on the morning of March 19th or at the farmers
market on the preceding Thursday. This action will
involve costumes and street theatre.
To quote the novelist and activist, Starhawk, “We
call on mothers, grandmothers, sisters, daughters,
workers, students, teachers, healers, artists, writers,
poets, and every ordinary outraged woman willing to
be outraged for peace.”
For more information email Dian Sousa at
ososousaville@aol.com or Vivian Longacre at
vlongacr@calpoly.edu or call 528-8533. Check out
the Code Pink website: www.codepink4peace.org.
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Cynic's Corner
BY DOLORES DEL RIO
Live Local, Buy Local, Work Local
I am one of those people who believe in
supporting the local economy. Instead of shopping
in a mall or a big box store, I will get whatever I
need locally, from small business owners. It seems
the proper thing to do, especially when you live in
a town like San Luis Obispo. However, some things
have happened that have made me question my
way of thinking:
Live local: In 2004, I opened escrow on an
affordable mobile home on Los Osos Valley Road
in a (mostly) senior-owned park. The park’s owners,
a major corporation from Chicago, denied my
purchase application based upon a ridiculous, and
possibly unlawful, technicality. What I learned was:
the Chicago huge-opolis has been trying to break
Rent Control at many California mobile parks
hoping to double or triple the monthly space rentals.
How (you may ask) do they accomplish this? They
reject sales; they hire high-priced legal counsel to
write letters and threaten senior citizens who live on
fixed incomes. So, I rent now ... it’s safer.
Buy local: I needed to buy a used car.
Everyone told me that the best deals are in LA
or other cities, but I wanted to buy local. I went
to the dealership that sells BMWs. People who
bought BMWs raved about the dealership’s
service, responsiveness and quality. But I was
buying a used Nissan, and it was a totally different
experience. The salesperson lied about the price,
the warranty, the repair record, the condition and
Community Suorted Agriculture
Cal Poly Farm shares organic bounty
BY SANDRA SARROUF
Healthy food and a healthy local economy begin
with community. The movement to support local
agriculture, local business, and build community
is growing throughout the United States. The Cal
Poly Organic Farm (CPOF) is participating in this
movement through their Community Supported
Agriculture Program (CSA).
CSA is a worldwide movement connecting
community members to local farms. The CSA
model helps support local farms by giving them the
capital up front to cover farming costs. In return
members receive shares in the farm’s bounty.
With the growing concern of food safety and food
quality, CSA members see where their food is
grown, how it’s grown and who is growing it. Fresh
produce grown without the use of any pesticides,
synthetic fertilizers, or chemicals is healthier for
you, your family, and the environment – and you
can taste the difference!!
This year CPOF is expanding their cooperative
model of food production to supply their CSA by
collaborating with several growers in the county,
which allows for more diversity of product and
economic support of local agriculture. This model
is beneficial both to the consumer and the farmer
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safety of the vehicle. The dealership let me drive
out of the lot with no gas, severely worn tires,
balancing problems, serious emissions problems,
etcetera. The car went back to the dealer the next
day -- where it stayed for two weeks! The sales
manager gave me a loaner and an apology. Apology
was accepted, but to this day, when I pass that
dealership, I still say, ouch!
Working local: When I was a fledgling in this
town, I was hired as a sales rep by a local radio
station, that, unbeknownst to me at that time, was
known as much for its poor employment practices,
as for its radio stations (KJUG/KZOZ). They lured
me away from a secure but mundane job with
scenarios of big bucks, a promising future and an
exciting work environment.
I went for the bait. Just three months later,
BOOM, I was given the boot! Why (you may ask)
did this firing happen? The answer can be found
in the history and reputation of this company:
long-term central coast residents have told me
that this is the station’s usual hiring/firing practice.
There I was, resume in hand, standing on the
unemployment line with no hope of a paycheck or
a future in show biz.
Live local, buy local, work local ... I do, but
sometimes it can be painful.
Jacqueline Turner is on hiatus. Dolores Del
Rio is writing Cynic’s Corner in the interim.
and we hope serves to support and stimulate local
food production and distribution in our area. Our
County and climate allow food to grow year round
and at CPOF we want to share that bounty with
our local community through a CSA.
The Cal Poly Organic Farm is beginning
their 6th year. It is a market-oriented agricultural
project jointly managed by students and the
farm staff; in which CSA members directly
support the education of students in alternative
and sustainable farming practices while also
supporting farmers and the local economy.
Members become a part of the farm, join in the
decision-making process, and are welcome to
volunteer and participate in any farm events and
workshops.
Become a member: This year the CPOF
CSA season will begin April 18th and last for 26
weeks. Produce is harvested the day CSA members
pick up their harvest share. Each week members
will receive a box full of veggies and some fruit,
newsletters containing recipes, and farm updates.
For more information on the Cal Poly Organic
Farm or its CSA program, please call Sandra
at 756-6139 or ssarrouf@calpoly.edu.
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Queen Victoria’s Great-Great-Great-Great Grandchild Scholarships

BY JULIET JAKE
So I’m here at 2 Dogs Coffee
listening to Indie Now -- an Internet
radio station, sipping a black cherry
cream soda, and a thought came to
my head. Are there any descendants
of Queen Victoria?
Most people who are remotely
aware of this monarch’s presence in
history, who bothered to study her
reign in England, tend to think, “Well,
nice lady, but what a prude,” because
during her reign you couldn’t get away
with showing much skin (so I’m told)
– head and hands at best. I think even
The future belongs the hands were gloved.
Now I don’t know a whole lot
to those who can see more about Queen Victoria than
it coming. any of you reading this. In fact
some of you reading Women’s Press
We could be amused. may know more than I do. At this
point I’m speculating that if she had
procreated during her reign, and
those offspring of hers had likewise
hopped on the good foot to do the
bad thing, and in doing so spawned
more privileged children who
likewise had the gall to bring more
descendants of Queen Victoria to the
world, what kind of people would
they be today?
I’m not so sure they’d be
anything like her in opinions and
attitude. I mean, they’d have her
DNA and everything, but beyond
that …
You might see a tattooed
ankle as her great-great-great-great
granddaughter fixes a latte for one
of our customers, dressed in tapered
jeans and a little tank-top, exposing
shoulders and navel. Or she might
be dressed in ribbed leggings and a
red shirt with white stripes, sipping a
bottle of black cherry cream soda and
listening to an Internet indie radio
station as she’s writing this.
The Paso Robles branch of the American
Association of University Women
(AAUW) is sponsoring a Re-entry
Woman Scholarship for women in the
greater Paso Robles area. Financial
needs, personal goals, and involvement
in community are considered. A personal
Interview may be required.
For an application or information, contact
Jonesie Abernathy, 434-3145 or pick up an
application at the Cuesta North Campus
Financial Aid Office. Documents must be
received by May, 4.
Local artist’s exhibit
Gathering: A Celebration of Local Artists
presents the work of Heather Herrera,
Jill Targer, Kate Rogalsky, Michael
Masicampo, and Richard Campas. Oil,
watercolor, and photography.
University Center Gallery
3171 Temple Street, Halcyon, CA
Gallery open Saturdays
March 19-June 4, 2-4 PM
Contact Barbara Ricardo 489-2822

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Community Counseling
Center offers support group
for adult lesbian and bisexual
females.
Wednesdays from 6-7 PM.
Space is limited and regular
attendance is highly
encouraged.
The group will be
facilitated by a Marriage &
Family Therapist and focus
on specific issues, such as
relationship difficulties,
discrimination, and coping with
the “coming out” process.
A support group for gay
and bisexual males will also
be forming soon. Interested
individuals are encouraged
to call 543-7969 for more
information or to sign-up.
Made possible by a grant
from the SLO Community
Foundation’s Growing Together
Initiative
Cambria Women in Black
chapter gathers first Saturday
of each month
Main & Burton at Noon
Men are welcome. Please try to
dress in BLACK.
Gather after at Michael
Lemacher’s organic food stand
located on the same corner or
go across the street for coffee
and pastries at Robin’s French
Bakery. 927-2515
Caring for a Loved One? Don’t
Panic – Plan Ahead!
Free Classes on Long-Term
Care Issues
March 15 and 22; April 5 and 12
6-9 p.m.
Conference room at French
Hospital, SLO
Free and open to the public
Two additional sessions will
be held on April 9th and
16th for those interested in
becoming certified Long Term
Care Ombudsmen. Certified
Ombudsmen receive free
monthly training, participation
at a yearly recognition banquet,
and mileage reimbursement.
For more information, please
call Jessica Cheda at (805) 785-
0132.
The mission of Long-Term
Care Ombudsman Services is
to ensure the highest possible
quality of life and care for
residents of long-term care
facilities. Funding in part by
the Area Agency on Aging for
San Luis Obispo and Santa
Barbara Counties.
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Community Bulletin Board
Conversations on Eating
Saturday, March 19th
12:30-4:30
Meadow Park Bldg., SLO
Join in viewing the film Nepal Today:
“Eating” followed by an SLO Little Theatre Holding Auditions Challenges &
informal discussion on
following a plant-based diet and “Over the River and Through their 70s, one male in his Opportunities
its impacts on the environment the Woods,” by Joe DiPietro, late 20s to early 30s, and one Presentation at SLO Public
and physical health of both directed by Judith Jessness. female in her 20s. A copy of Library
humans and other animals. the script is available at the April 7, 2005
Auditions to be held April
4th, 7 pm, at Ramsden Hall, SLO library reference desk. 7 – 9 p.m.
Health-friendly snacks will
be provided. Donations St., Stephans Church, Nipomo For further information, sealmaiden1944@aol.com
appreciated. and Pismo Sts, SLO . Seeking contact Larry Rutter
four actors (two male, two at 781-3889, or
Contact Debbie Bennett at
female) to play Italians in larry@slolittletheatre.org.
550-2487 or debbie@blakeslee-
blakeslee.com
March Cooking Classes
6-9 PM
$40 a person
Edna Valley Vineyard
2585 Biddle Ranch Rd.
San Luis Obispo
Complimentary wine tasting
included
Reservations required
Reservations can be made
via the internet at www.
EdnaValleyVineyard.com or by
phone at 805-544-5855 ext. 42.
Tuesday, March 22
Grilled Accents
Not just grilled meats with
marinades and rubs, but also
seasoned vegetables and fruit.
Also ethnic flavors when April Child Abuse Linden, San Luis Obispo Chief ceremony to commemorate
BBQ’ing. Prevention Month Opens of Police this county’s 700 abused and
With A Symbol Of Hope neglected children.
Tuesday, March 29 Performers: The Apprentice
Sausage Making CASA –Court Appointed Choir, Central Coast Children’s When: Thursday, April 7,
Gary Vierra, owner and chef Special Advocates of San Luis Choir 7 p.m.
of Phil’s Catering, will share Obispo County presents Major Sponsors: New Times, Where: On Garden Street
7th Annual Light of Hope
the tips, the spices and the Days Inn SLO and Johnsen & during Kids’ Night at Farmers
connections for making great Emcee: Andy Morris, Coast Johnsen Legal Support Service Market
sausages. 101.3 FM Community members will For more information or to
Special Guest: Deborah participate in a candle lighting reserve a candle, call 541-6542.
Marking the Second Anniversary of Iraq War
Representatives of local downtown San Luis Obispo in economics, effects on women, For Peace” groups. Over 1,500
groups have come together to support of peace and bringing national security and more. To wooden crosses and a flag
coordinate several public events the troops home. Bring your have a table or volunteer to covered coffin are meticulously
over the second anniversary own signs. help call: 541-1279. laid out on the beaches on most
weekend of the U.S. attack Sundays, begging the public to
2 - 4:30 p.m. Gathering to Saturday, March 19, SLO
on Iraq, Friday and Saturday, Say No to War! Speakers Library, 5 p.m.The SLO acknowledge U.S. soldiers killed
March 18 and 19. will address the cost to our premiere of documentary and the hidden cost of the
community, our country and “Arlington West” by filmmakers Iraq war.
Friday, March 18, SLO
Library, 7 p.m. A talk by our youth. Other presentations Sally Marr and Peter Dudar Sponsors of the preceding
Frank Kahl, retired academic include a Code Pink Political interviews more than sixty events include Code Pink SLO,
economist - “America’s Beauty Pageant, aum circle, soldiers who have returned Information Press, HopeDance,
Addiction to War: What Is It music, and words for lives lost from or are about to leave for Passion for Peace, Central
Costing You?” and injuries suffered. Included Iraq. Arlington West refers Coast Peace and Environmental
will be letter writing, children’s to “temporary cemeteries” Council, and Peace and Social
Saturday, March 19, activities and many tables with that are constructed along Concerns Committee of the
Mitchell Park, 1 - 2 p.m. Walk information related to the war: the shores of the Pacific by Central Coast Friends and
from Mitchell Park through morality, recruiters on campus, Southern California “Veterans Investigate the Vote.
&
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Allstate Foundation donation supports
Women’s Business Partners
Children’s Day
in the
Plaza, 2005 Habitat for Humanity Seeks
Volunteer Coordinator
April 9th Habitat for Humanity for San San Luis Obispo County is
SLO Mission Plaza Luis Obispo County is looking currently building a home in
for a volunteer to serve as Cambria. Volunteers are also
10 a.m.-3 p.m. Volunteer Coordinator. Duties needed at Habitat’s ReStore
Admission is FREE include working with Cal Poly’s Recycled Building Materials
campus chapter of Habitat Store in Templeton.
and other groups to recruit
Fun, food, volunteers for construction and For more information and to Mr. Ed Cox, Mr. Gerardo record keeping, employee
games, other projects, and organizing
volunteer orientations.
volunteer call 782-0687 or go
to Habitat’s web site at www.
Bojorquez, and Ms. Lila
Alvarez from Allstate Insurance
management, risk management,
working with financial
entertainment, Habitat for Humanity for hfhsloco.org. presented the Allstate institutions, understanding,
and Foundation check for $12,000
on Thursday, February 3rd
building and repairing credit
and using financing wisely in
informational to continue their support of operating a small business.
booths Mission Community Services
Corporation (MCSC) and its “Allstate Foundation supported
for all to enjoy! Women’s Business Partners MCSC last year with $7,300
Program. Over the past year, and has provided another
A group of Cal Poly Mr. Edward Cox and Mr. $12,000 for MCSC’s 2005
Psychology students is Gerardo Bojorquez Balderrama programs because they see
working with SLO Child Pedaling the Past, a family- Local merchants interested also volunteered their personal results from our small business
Care Planning Council and oriented bicycle tour of historic in sponsoring and/or time to aid in educating training and mentoring
SLO-CAP to coordinate a San Luis Obispo is set for participating in the May 15th small business owners of risk activities.” said Andrea Zeller,
special Children’s Day to Sunday, May 15, 2005. This events are encouraged to call management and liability MCSC’s Executive Director.
recognize the children and event promotes local history the SLO Bicycle Club hotline concerns. “We are very grateful for
youth in our community and celebrates San Luis Obispo’s at 543-5973. Allstate’s continued interest
who are “capable of Spring 2005 Bike Week. The The $12,000 Allstate and support of San Luis Obispo
anything” and “stopping tour provides an opportunity Pedaling the Past tour Foundation grant will small business community.”
at nothing”. for young and old to bicycle participants will receive a tour enable MCSC and the
past intriguing sites, to learn guide and map showing several Women’s Business Partners Additional information about
For more information, interesting stories about those routes that pass through flat to to increase Spanish language Mission Community Services
contact Kaysie, Publicity who lived and worked here gently rolling terrain. Routes entrepreneurial training, Corporation and Women’s
Coordinator, (805) 593-0664 before us, and to have fun are planned with flexibility and education and mentoring Business Partners may be found
or knherrera@hotmail.com cycling back in SLO time. safety considerations in mind. in topic areas of cash flow, at www.mcscorp.org.

HopeDance Media
Friday, March 11, 7pm Thursday, April 7, 7pm
All films, talks, and slide presentations at the SLO
Bliss – film about a marriage entering into Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion
Library (Osos and Palm) cosponsored by Code Pink,
the tantric realm of healing. Friday, April 8, 7pm
Information Press, Sierra Club, Green Party and other
progressive organizations Sunday, March 13, 7pm $5 or $10 donation
Last Chance for Eden – an exploration of Films and discussion: Judith Bourque’s bio-
By donation except where noted
healing racism in the workplace graphical documentary The Real Patch Adams
For more details, call 544-9663 or go to www.hopedance.org plus two short films about Canadian insurance
Wednesday, March 16, 7pm
Talk: Rejuvenating & Healing Miracles and Single Payer legislation in California

Friday, March 18, 7pm Saturday, April 9, 7pm

Talk: “America’s Addiction to War: What Is
It Costing You?”
PLANNINGTORETIRE? Saturday, March 19, 5pm
Arlington West – interviews with diverse
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from “The Buddha at War”
Friday, March 25, 7pm
One Nation Under God – the way religious
and medical institutions treat and attempt
to “cure” homosexuals with Q&As with
Dr. Marie Moore, president of PFLAG
(Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbians
and Gays)
Thursday, March 31, 7pm
Susan Rodriguez Sick, twisted, funny and politically incorrect
Registered Representative video shorts
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Friday, April 1, 7pm
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Talk: “Palestinians and Jews in Dialogue”
Thursday, April 14, 7pm
Doing Time, Doing Vipassana -- how
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Friday, April 15, 7pm
Talk: “Social Security, Wall Street, and the
Big Lie”
Thursday, April 21, 7pm
Socially Responsible Investing
Investing With Your Values
Friday, April 22, 7pm
Touched – about Dr. John Mack and the
alien abduction phenomenon
Friday April 29, 7pm
The Take – how workers took over the
factories in Argentina
ONLY IN CAMBRIA: (at the Joslyn Center;
950 Main; 7pm $5 donations)
Saturday, March 26
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Saturday, April 30
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ABUSE SENIOR PEER COUNSELING (LIFESPAN) WOMEN’S SUPPORT/THERAPY V (GENERAL)
ADULTS MOLESTED AS CHILDREN SUPPORT GROUP (AMAC)
545.8888 free, trained in-home counseling for 60+ 534.1101
CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 549.0150 WOMEN’S HEALTHCARE SPECIALISTS
781.6406 TRANSFORMATIONS COUNSELING CENTER 544.4883
NORTH COUNTY WOMEN’S SHELTER & RESOURCE CENTER, Free monthly workshops 541.7908
(inc. domestic violence support groups) POLITICAL
461.1338 FINANCE/BUSINESS COMMISSION ON STATUS OF WOMEN
RAPE SURVIVORS SUPPORT GROUP, SLO CONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING SERVICES 545.8412; Dawn Williams
545.8888 800.540.2227 LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS
SARP (SEXUAL ASSAULT RECOVERY & PREVENTION) 543.2220
545.8888 GAY & LESBIAN NOW (NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN)
SUPPORT GROUP FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT SURVIVORS GAY AND LESBIAN ALLIANCE (GALA) 542.8242
545.8888 Chips ‘n’Chat social 1st Friday of month, 7 PM
WOMEN’S SHELTER PROGRAM OF SLO 474.9405 READERS/WRITERS
781.6400 www.womensshelterslo.org PFLAG.PARENTS & FRIENDS OF LESBIANS & GAYS ADULT LITERACY
438.3889 541-4219
ADDICTIONS SOL (SINGLE OLDER LESBIANS) CUESTA COLLEGE LIBRARY BOOK SALES
546.3190
AA MEETING Mostly socializing! Call 474.9405
541.3211 NIGHTWRITERS
ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS (ACA) HOSPICE 549.9656; contact Shirley Powell
SISTERS IN CRIME
595.2695 AIDS BEREAVEMENT GROUP (HOSPICE)
CAMBRIA CONNECTION (12 STEP SUPPORT) 544.2266 2nd Saturday of month, 10 AM, Borders, SLO
927.1654 HOSPICE OF SLO COUNTY http://SinC-CCC.blogspot.com
CASA SOLANA 544.2266 and 434.1164
Women’s Recovery Home 481.8555 SENIORS
COMPULSIVE EATERS ANONYMOUS, H.O.W.CONCEPT JOBS/CAREERS ADULT DAY CARE
Meets: Wed. 6:45 PM & Fri. 7 PM THE CREEKSIDE CAREER CENTER 544-4355 ext.531
546.1178 www.slocareers.org COMPUTEROOTERS:
DRUG & ALCOHOL SERVICES 788.2631 or 788.2690 Get help with computers.
781.4275 PRIVATE INDUSTRY COUNCIL (PIC) elisenhenderson@charter.net
NA 800.549.7730 www.jobhunt.org 788.2601 DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES:
OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS DEPARTMENT OF REHABILITATION In-Home Support to the Elderly/Homemakers
541.3164 549.3361 help with ADLs 781.1790
SCA, SLAA & SAA (SEX, LOVE & ROMANCE ADDICTIONS) AARP 788.2643 nursing help for the terminally ill 781.5540
461.6084 CAL POLY FOUNDATION EQUAL SINGLES 60+ MEET MONTHLY
TOPS (TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY) Jobline 756.7107 489.5481
929.1789 CAL POLY UNIVERSITY dege1@juno.com
WOMEN FOR SOBRIETY http://calpolyjobs.org 756.1533 FOSTER GRANDPARENTS.SENIOR COMPANIONS
http://www.womenforsobriety.org CUESTA COLLEGE 782.9200
215.536.8026 http://www.cuesta.edu Jobline 546.3127 SENIOR PEER COUNSELING (LIFESPAN)
free, trained in.home counseling for 60+
ARTS LEGAL 549.0150
MOTHERTONGUE FEMINIST THEATER COLLECTIVE ACLU HELPLINE
3rd Sunday each month, 2:00 PM 544.0142 SPIRITUAL (OR NOT)
For info call: 528.6827 CORE MEDIATION SERVICES A COURSE IN MIRACLES
544.6334 Mondays, 7 PM, Unity of SLO, 995.1390
CHILDREN & FAMILIES medeee8@aol.com AWAKENING INTERFAITH SPIRITUAL COMMUNITY
CHILDCARE RESOURCE CONNECTION DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE – VICTIM WITNESS CENTER Sunday service, 10–11 AM; 772.0306
541.2272 or 800.727.2272 781.5821 CENTRAL COAST JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY &
COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES (CASA) FAMILY LAW FACILITATOR CENTRAL COAST FOLLIES
“A child’s voice in Court in SLO County” 546.3769 543.9452
541.6542 LAWYERS REFERRAL SERVICES/LEGAL AID ALTERNATIVE MEDITATION GROUP
CHILDREN’S SERVICES NETWORK 788.2099 Mondays, 7:30–8:30 PM; 772.0306
781.1847 PRO PER DIVORCE WORKSHOP NEW BEGINNINGS CHURCH
FIRST 5: CHILDREN & FAMILIES COMMISSION 544.9313 Every Sunday, Coalesce Bookstore, MB
781.4058; ask for Susan Hughs SENIOR LEGAL SERVICES REIKI IN-SERVICE
HOMESCHOOLING IN SLO COUNTY (HSC) 543.5140 528.6996
462.0726; ask for Barbara
LA LECHE LEAGUE MEDICAL SUPPORT/SERVICES WOMEN’S CENTERS/SHELTERS
Moe 541.3471 ALS SUPPORT GROUP (LOU GEHRIG’S DISEASE) HOMELESS SHELTER
MIGRANT CHILDCARE PROGRAM 772.5990 781-3993
544.4355 and 466.3444 ALZHEIMER’S SUPPORT HOUSING AUTHORITY
PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN 534.9234 (LO); 481.9364 (SLO); 543.4478
541.8666; ask for Beth 226.8669 (Templeton) NORTH COUNTY WOMEN’S RESOURCE CENTER, SHELTER
REAL F.A.C.T.S. (FORUM ON ABUSED CHILDREN) Caregivers of Early-Stage Alzheimer’s 461.1338
460.9016 547.3830, 481.9364 (SLO/Los Osos) WOMEN’S COMMUNITY CENTER, SLO
SOCIAL SERVICES AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY 544.9313
781.1600 Paso Robles 238.9657 WOMEN’S SHELTER PROGRAM OF SLO
SUPPORT FOR KIDS COPING WITH DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ANOREXIA NERVOSA & BULIMIA SUPPORT GROUP 781.6400
473.6507 541.9113 www.womensshelterslo.org
ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION
EMERGENCY/CRISIS 892.5556 OTHER WOMEN’S ORGANIZATIONS
HOTLINE CANCER/ BREAST CANCER SUPPORT GROUPS ALTRUSA INTERNATIONAL, INC.
www.slohotline.org 543.1481 ext. 3 for information 481.1039; Cici Wynn, President
549.8989 or 800.549.8989 CAREGIVERS OF AGING PARENTS HADASSAH.SLO
SEXUAL & RAPE PREVENTION (SARP) 547.3830 (AG); 927.4290 (Cambria); 543.9452
545.8888 or 800.656.HOPE (4673) 239.1313, 226.8669 (PR); WOMEN’S NETWORK, SLO
TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER & VICTIM WITNESS 547.3830 (SLO) 546.3727
PROGRAM 781.5821 ENDOMETRIOSIS ASSOCIATION www.womenslo.org
www.endometriosisassn.org
EMOTIONAL SUPPORT EOC HEALTH SERVICES CLINICS OTHER GROUPS & GATHERINGS
A.D.A.P.T. (AID IN DIVORCE ADJUSTMENT PROBLEMS TODAY) no or low cost reproductive health services CENTRAL COAST PEACE AND ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL
543.0388 544.2478 (SLO); 489.4026 (Arroyo Grande) 544.3399 or 783.2383
ALZHEIMER/DEMENTIA RESOURCE CENTER LARYNGECTOMY SUPPORT GROUP END OF LIFE CHOICES (FORMERLY HEMLOCK SOCIETY)
434.3061 or 534.9234 or 800.443.1236 Speak EZ’n SLO 543.4112 434.1883 or 927.5732
CALL–CONCERNED AGORAPHOBICS LEARNING TO LIVE LONG-TERM CARE OMBUDSMAN SERVICES OF SLO COUNTY FRIENDS OF OCEANO
543.3764 772.3059 474.9094; fax 805.474.9096
CO-DEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS (CODA) LYMPHEDEMA EDUCATION & SUPPORT GROUP SLO GREEN PARTY
542.0577 (SLO) 481.5093 (Grover Beach) 2nd Monday, 4:00-5:00 pm http://www.slo.greens.org
927.1654 (Cambria) 782-9300 for info Meet 1st Sunday, 5 PM 544.1580
466.8600 (North County) PARKINSON’S SUPPORT GROUPS VIP–VEGETARIAN INCLINED PEOPLE
COMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER 466.7226 (Atascadero/Templeton) Meet 1st Tues., SLO 489.5481
543.7969 481.7424, 473.1714 (Arroyo Grande) dege1@juno.com
EATING DISORDERS SUPPORT GROUP 544.1342 (SLO)
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