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Demeter, Vol. 2 No. 8 Women's News of the Monterey Bay Area VOL. 2, NO.8 NOVEMBER, 1979 Feminist Music from Santa Cruz ~River' Returns for Monterey Concert On Saturday, December 1, $3.50 at the door and $2.00 for River will be interviewed on My Demeter Productions will present children and senior citizens. Sister's House, KAZU 90.3 FM, at 1 River in concert at the MPC Music p.m., Thursday, November 15. They Hall at 8 p.m. Demeter Productions will have a will perform some of their material River is a group of four women meeting to coordinate efforts and will discuss the concert and from Santa Cruz: Vicky Blevins, around the concert at 7 p.m., Nov. 7 their upcoming album. Jerilyn Munyon, Beth Marliss and at 757 Grace St., Monterey. Women For more information, contact JT Cacky Gates. Members of River who would like to be involved in the Mason at 659-3752 or Barbara performed For You and About You concert are invited to attend. Bastian, 373-6987. to an enthusiastic audience at the Trish Nugent concert held here in July. After that concert Jerilyn Munyon said, "The audience was so hot, I'd like to take them on tour with us." Ms. Blevins and Ms. Munyon have been writing music and playing together for six years and, along with Ms. Gates, were members of Sister Star, a women's band that opened many concerts for artists such as Holly Near and Meg Christian in the early Seventies. River's music is an acoustical blend of folk and soft country performed on guitar and dulcimer. Demeter Productions will produce their album, to be recorded sometime this spring. The concert is River's debut performance arid will be the first of many. Christina Floyd from Switch Productions and Brenda Warren ~River' from Tran-Sisters will provide Members of the women's band 'River,' who will be in concert at MPC on sound. Sign language interpretation Dec. 1. From left to right are: Cacky Gates, Vicky Blevins, Jerilyn Munyon, and for the concert will be provided by Beth Marl iss. (Photo by Christina Floyd} Sandra Faulkner. Child care will be available with reservation. Tickets will go on sale Given a choice in this life Nov. 12 at Bookworks ·in the I'd rather have a few good friends Country Club Gate Center, Pacific than any kind of money Grove; Do Re Mi Records in the Barnyard; the Women's Center Not a dollar, no, not one thin dime (YWCA), 276 Eldorado, Monterey, To bring me so much tears and laughter and Cymbaline Records in Santa And when I'm down I'm not alone Cruz. Tickets are $3.00 in advance, 2-Demeter-November, 1979 Editorial: Sharing in the Process Demeter Seeks Input From the Community In the past six months Demeter has doubled in size, material should be typed and double spaced. We reserve almost tripled the number of subscribers and improved the right to edit copy (manuscripts) but will contact the its format, allowing for photographs and a wider variety writer if major changes are felt necessary. Graphic art of graphic art. The response from the women's com­ and photographs reproduce best if submitted in black munity has been wonderful and much appreciated. and white, but color reproduction is possible. Please It is our hope to provide a forum for the wide and include name, address, and phone number so we can get varied spectrum of women's groups on the Peninsula, in touch with you. keeping in mind the commonality of women's struggle Calendar Items ·and roots of oppression. Demeter's viewpoint is that of a Demeter would love to have an overflowing calendar feminist publication seeking to provide information of of events every month. If you are having an event you events, news items, organizations and policy of interest would like publicized to the women's community, please to women in the Monterey Bay area. It seems un­ send it to Demeter by the 23rd of each month. necessary in a community this size to define ourselves as Letters to the Editor being something more specific than a "feminist news­ Letters to the Editor are an effective way to maintain magazine." We are not a "gay newspaper;" nor a "NOW an open dialogue with Demeter. It is important to know newsletter;" nor a "Childbirth Education gazette," how you feel about issues, policy, articles, etc., and although we will continue to provide information about letters are a vital way of communicating your ideas. We these issues. need feedback and input. It is sometimes a tricky balance to maintain, but we Personal Perspective feel a valid one for this area. In order to effectively Each month we feature on our back page one woman's provide this forum, however, we need help and input account of the process she went through in becoming a from the community. We have a small, totally volunteer feminist. Arriving at a feminist perspective is a staff which can't, and shouldn't have to, cover profoundly personal experience, yet one which often everything. Ideally, Demeter should function on a kind of reflects common patterns and themes involved in exchange basis with the women of the community, growing up female in America. We encourage readers to receiving information of events, ideas and issues from send in their own accounts of their emergence as many individual women or groups, and returning it all in feminists. printed form to the community at large. To submit calendar items, graphics, photographs, Writing for Demeter articles, etc., please include name, address, and phone Basically, our policy is to consider for publication number and mail to Demeter, P.O. Box 1661, Monterey, material of interest to women that is not sexist, ageist, CA93940. racist or homophobic in content. If at all possible, written -De bi Bus man r Thanks and welcome ® HAVING AN to our new subscribers: EXCITING- Nadine Davis HAPPINESS 1-WB-BY Linda Robinson IS ••• Nanette F. Maysonave BY Lois Van Beers ~~ F. Kathryne Burwell Joanne B. Lasnik Elaine Cass Nina McGiveran Gwen Scott Jennifer Isensee Susan Bernhardt Nancy Kilduski Delores Berry Polly Parker Marian Penn • Kathleen Goulding American Association of U niversRy-wc>men Special thanks for renewals: Leslie Springer Claire Parrish Tim Farmer Mieke Barnett Cathy Kozak Carole Anderson \.. Dorey Hollin Laura Tracy ..J Demeter-November, 1979-3 Confronts Pope in D. C. Nun Demands Priesthood for Women Seven days, six cities and 76 at what he calls "the church's made in the image of God; women addresses after landing in Boston biggest scandal, sexism." are not full members of the church; Oct. 1, Pope John Paul II returned At first glance the issue seems to menstruation makes women im­ to Rome. concern only the few women who pure." At the Sanctuary of the want to be priests. But feminists That style of theologizing is passe Immaculate Conception in everywhere- may make tl1e1ssuea to a large number of American Washington, D.C., the Pope was symbolic one, according to the Rev. Catholics. Some Catholics believe welcomed by Sister M. Theresa Richard McBrien, professor of that the exclusion of women from Kane, president of the Leadership theology at Boston College. "By the modern priesthood could still Conference of Women Religious, ordaining women," he says, "the change, becau~e i~ _!§__rgot~Q._ in old who extended the "profound church would be uttering a sociocultural patterns and will respect" of her constituency and prophetic word that the world, eventually be seen not to derive then called point blank for the which keeps women in a second from any mandate of Christ. church to provide "the possibility of class status, could not ignore." If many, both Catholics and women as persons being included in Father Callahan says that others, were disheartened by the all ministeries of the church." About assigning the priesthood on the Pope's language, few were sur­ 50 of the 5,000 nuns in the basis on sex alone, cutting out half prised; he had said the same things congregation stood in silent protest the human race, is discriminatory. before. Meanwhile, however, there as the Pope praised the traditional "No, I'm afraid that the church's is little doubt that those "old socio­ religious life for women, including position on the ordination of women cultural patterns" have left an the wearing of religious habits, and is a symbolic summation of the way imprint on the clergy that will not noted that even the Virgin Mary people matter around the world: easily be erased. One church historian believes the issue is "50 to 100 years ahead of its time." One wonders if John Paul knows that once there was a female pope, "The church's decision to call men to the priesthood, and not to call named Joan. A brilliant scholar, women, "the Pope said, "is not a statement about human rights, nor Joan disguised herself as a man to an exclusion of women from holiness and mission in the church. " study in Athens, obtaining a degree in philosophy. Still in the attire of a monk, she went to Rome where Pope Leo IV made her a cardinal. Upon Leo's death in 853, she was was not present at the Last Supper The people who are poor and op­ elected pope by her fellow cardinals. or "inserted in the hierarchical pressed almost everywhere are After two years, four months, and constitution of the church." women." eight days as pope, she was Opening the priesthood to women According to the Rev.
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