TO: Beijing Conference Action and Resource Network
FROM: Judy Kramer <jahkramer@aol.com> 415-494-3222
 
This online update, published weekly in the greater San Francisco Bay Area,
covers events, resources, and information related to follow-up to the UN
Fourth World Conference on Women and the issues covered in the Platform for
Action document. You are encouraged to send in information about activities
in your area. Please pay special attention to the urgent appeal from Prof.
Tam Stevenson of Sonoma State University.  

ONLINE UPDATE #3 
Please share this information with your own networks.

EVENTS
*** "Dr. Edith Geller: The Remarkable World of Abigail Adams"--Palo Alto
Saturday, March 8, 10:30 am coffee.11 am program.
Annual Board Luncheon, St. Andrews Church, 4111 Alma Street, Palo Alto
Sponsored by AAUW-Palo Alto
No reservation needed.
Contact Diane Rolfe, 415-326-6328, by March 4 if you wish to reserve an
autographed book to purchase.

Stanford Prof. Gelles's interest in the omission of women in written history
led her to write the award-winning,  women-centered biography, "Portia: World
of Abigail Adams."

*** "Dream Power at Work and at Play"--San Francisco
Tuesday, March 18, 6 pm.
Sinbad's Restaurant, Pier 2, Embarcadero Drive.
Sponsored by Women in Business-San Francisco
Cost $30 for members, $35 for non-members.
Contact: Ceciley Bachnik, 415-627-8710

Program features Marcia Wieder, an international motivational speaker and
author, management consultant, and trainer. She has appeared on national tv
programs and written for national newspapers and magazines, including a
regular column for The World Times.  

NEWS
*** New Interracial Sisterhood Project announced
An ad hoc committee is planning an InterRacial Sisterhood Project, building
bridges of peace, friendship, and understanding among women of different
races and cultures in Northern California. A conference is being planned for
October 1997. A similar group held a successful fall conference in Southern
California. 

You are invited to attend a reception and press conference introducing this
project.
Sunday, March 16, 3 - 5 pm,
Home art gallery of Sheila Hill-Fajors, 1631 Estudillo, San Leandro.
Contact: 510-782-1770.

Co-chairwomen are Omni Durst and Christine Froelich of the Women's Federation
for World Peace; Lilian Litzsey of Black Women Organized for Political
Action, South Alameda County; and Melody Powers of African American Community
Enrichment.    

URGENT APPEAL FROM DR. TAM STEVENSON
Please let me know ASAP all you know, or can find out about  the National
Coalition of Free Men, and their Bay  Area coordinator, Sunnyvale engineer,
Pradeep Ramanathan.  Also, what do you know about the Men's Defense
Association, and Men and Women for Gender Justice?

My workshops have been  picketed by members of these groups; I am being
harassed; and my students have been threatened. 

When Andrea Johnson and Gloria Steinem came to Sonoma recently to promote "
Girls Speak Out," they were also  given a hard time here. 

I'm concerned about safety issues first, and more broadly, First Amendment
rights. 

Your thoughtful attention to this query is most appreciated.

Yours in sisterhood,

Tamsen  Stevenson, Ph.D.
Prof. Anthropology/ Women's Studies; Co-Chair WIN/CAWA Task Force on the Girl
Child ( Girls and Young Women of California)