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TAPESTRY, A UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION JUNE 1, 2020 The Gazette Women’s Rights Action Group (WRAG) MARK YOUR CALENDARS! June 28 Women’s Rights Action Group Meeting-12:00pm Introducing WRAG Talk! Meet on last Sunday of Join Us for a New & Fun Way to Engage on Women’s Issues every month after service. Karen will send out Zoom Next month, the Women's Rights Action Group (WRAG) is introducing WRAG meeting details. Email Talk! Similar to book club meetings, WRAG Talk! is a discussion group that will [email protected] to focus on women-centered issues. Unlike book clubs, we include various be added to our group email list and receive mediums, such as movies, tv and cable shows, lectures, and of course, books! meeting notifications. First up, we will discuss the series Mrs. America -- now showing on hulu.com. Mrs. America consists of 9 episodes that we will discuss in three consecutive meet-ups covering three episodes at a time. More on page 2. June 25 Stay tuned for dates/times and Zoom meeting details. OC Planned Parenthood Advocacy Night, 6-7pm 1 2 3 Please contact our PP Community Organizer andrea.schmidt@pposbc. “I ASK NO FAVOR FOR EQUAL PAY ACT TITLE IX org or WRAG Co- Champions Rona at MY SEX. June 10, 1963 June 23, 1972 [email protected] or Debbie at All I ask of our brethren Enacted to prohibit Signed by Nixon, [email protected] if is that they take their you are interested in discrimination on provides for equal feet off our necks.” learning more about PP account of sex in the access & opportunity action opportunities. ~Ruth Bader Ginsburg payment of wages. for female & male students. 1 THE GAZETTE JUNE 1, 2020 Call to Action: In the News: A she-cession? Women hit hardest during COVID-19 downturn https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/ 500220-a-she-cession-women-hit-hardest- during-covid-19-downturn Work-From-Home Is The New Feminist Frontier https://www.iwf.org/2020/05/31/work-from- Unitarian Universalist Women’s home-is-the-new-feminist-frontier/ Federation Check out these online events by the Unitarian Universalist Women’s Federation: Virtual UU General Assembly Events beginning June 24 at https://www.uuwf.org/events Presentations include Reproductive Justice: Rising to the Challenges at https://www.uuwf.org/event-3850887 WRAG TALK! — MRS. AMERICA "Mrs. America tells the story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and the unexpected backlash led by a conservative woman named Phyllis Schlafly, aka “the sweetheart of the silent majority.” Through the eyes of the women of the era – both Schlafly and second wave feminists Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug and Jill Ruckelshaus – the series explores how one of the toughest battlegrounds in the culture wars of the 70s helped give rise to the Moral Majority and forever shifted the political landscape.” Mrs. America https://www.hulu.com/series/mrs-america Additional online viewing options available. 2.

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