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Storm Over Circling Dawn...P.5 DAWN Hung* Ti-NAFT Specia.ra\l c:ou©aLxD9GoUectAonSs osnaSeriail APR 1993 Storm over Circling Dawn...p.5 CMPA $2.25 «f« DAWN Hung* ti-NAFT INSTDF News <INESI A caravan to walk all over NAFTA 3 W01-1720 Grant Str< by Ellen Woodsworth 'ancouver, BC V5L 2 Dusk for DAWN? 3 Tel: (604)255-5499 Fax:(604)255-5511 by Susan Briscoe Loss, win or draw for lesbian rights 4 Kinesis welcomes volunteers to work o by Shannon e. Ash all aspects of the paper. Our next Moge after marriage 4 Writers' Meeting is Apr 5 for the May issue at 7 pm at Kinesis. All women by Lissa Geller welcome even if you don't have Poster campaign against Circling Dawn strikes nerve 5 experience. by Jackie Brown New refugee guidelines count women in 5 Kinesis is published ten times a year b the Vancouver Status of Women. I by Smita Patil objectives are to be a non-sectarian feminist voice for women and to work actively for social change, specifically combatting sexism, racism,classism, homophobia, ableism, and imperialism. Features Views expressed in Kinesis are tr Mexico still says no to NAFTA 8 e writer and do not necessarily Detail of On To Ottawa Caravan route 3 VSW policy. All unsigned materia by Patricia Hume and Ellen Woodsworth responsibility of the Kinesis Edi Dialing pro-choice in Ireland 9 by Erin Mullan IWD Speaking out at the International Women's Day rally 10 speeches by Jane Gottfriedsen, Raminder Dosangh, Miche Hill, Anju Gogia, Fatima Jaffer, Shelagh Day, Carmela Allevato Commentary Feminism and the politics of engagement.. by Mary Eaton Centrespread Immigrant and refugee Iranian women take action 12 by Fahahimeh, Sheida and Fatima Jaffer Arts Review of Sunnybroofc Trip through the mindfield 15 by Nancy Pollak Film review: Speak It! fights the power 16 by Nikola Maria De Marin Film review: Looking at lesbian images 16 by Alice Swift Book review: A Lotus of Another Color 17 by Archana Ghandi and Sur Mehat Book review: Wicked Verses 18 by Pam Fleming Review: The satire of April Narr 19 by Kathleen Oliver does not accept | Editorial guidelines i Regulars DEADLINES As Kinesis Goes to Press 2 Ml submissions must be received in the nonth precede n •>- Note: Jul/ Inside Kinesis 2 Aug and ' • issue Movement Matters 6 Features and reviews: 10th by Faith Jones and Laiwan News: 15th What's News 7 Letters and Bulletin Board: 18th Display advertising by Lynne Wanyeki (camera ready): 1 Paging Women 18 (design required) 1 by Luce Kannen Letters 20 Kinesis is produced c Doppler PC using Wordperfect 5.1, Bulletin Board 21 PageMaker 4.0 and an NEC laser compiled by Lynne Wanyeki printer. Camera work by The Peak. Printing by Web Press Graphics LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEER WOMEN Kinesis is indexed in the Canadian TO TEACH PAGEMAKER 4.0 AND/OR Women's Periodicals Index, the Alternative Press Index and is a WORDPERFECT 5.1 FOR WINDOWS member of the Canadian Magazine PublishersAssociationtion. PLEASE LEAVE MESSAGE FOR ANNE AT 255*5499 Janey in Sunnybrook 56426__ by almost two-thirds, we thought this was going to make the feds look real bad in the papers the following morn. But hey, surprise! It took us hours to find it in The Globe until...yes, there it is...a five-line blurb, barely an inch of text, buried deep inside the paper! We thought we'd better mention the Alberta Status of Women is also closing the doors—"at least until we receive our long-overdue cheque from SecState"—on both its Edmonton and Calgary offices. Heck, that probably received 0.2 mm of text in the Globe already and we missed it. Thank Bell for the telephone! Anyway, now that the staff's laid off, one of them's offered to write a story about what's happening to women (and lesbians) in Alberta—"it's incredible. Womenareunderattackfromalrnosteverysectorof this society.. .It's hard to explain. I'll write." We're holding her to it. Actually, this month is a juicy one for this column (by the way, hope you like it/hate it? nobody writes to say they care any more...) 'cos there's lots of things going on. Or, at least, coming up. The infamous Canadian Panel on Violence Against Women is supposed to It's Spring time and we'd love to shake off the rainy day blues with some juicy gossip come up with its report this month. The infamous-er Royal Commission on New Reproduc­ to start off with. We thought 'bout being really daring and telling the one about Martina tive Technologies should be out by June—we didn't say it will...it should. Navratilova and kd lang, but someone beat us to it—and it's not true anyway. Everyone's Probably the biggest thing coming our way in terms of long-overdue, much-welcome talking about Gord and Judy but we switched off on that story ages ago and we're happy direct action is the Anti-N AFT A caravan to Ottawa [see page 3]. We figure it's about time we to be able to keep you in the dark too. How about Kim Campbell's constructed "affair" (?) all got together and swept the country up in a wave of socially progressive conscience., .think with the entire country? Nah, that won't wash in Vancouver. Nobody cares! Actually, about it.. thousands of people descend upon Ottawa to protest the Tory government's trade speaking of Kimmie, seems like the horrendous amendments to the Human Rights Act agreement with themultinationals...it's the most powerful display of left-wing organization aren't going to go through after all 'cos Kim would have had to debate it in the House of and action... and The Globe gives it 2 inches on page 9...!! Cormorans (sorry) and she jus' can't take the flak right now...what with upcoming Anyway, Women to Women Global Strategies dropped us a note to say women conventions and elections and all.. interested in joining the caravan, attending their next meeting or buying their new, improved Actually, thinking about Spring time doesn't exactly make our hearts bounce with pure, anti-NAFTA T-shirts should call 430-0458. unadulterated joy (there's a cliche—we promise, no more!) Yeah, we'll admit we're faking More on NAFTA. Or is it AFTA. That's the Southeast Asian equivalent to NAFTA, kind our upbeatness... of—a large, homogenous market intended as a base for investment and a local market for ...the BC budget's on its way in and it's not going to be good news for most of us. At products. Anyway, sounds like there's talk afoot (another cliche?) of combining NAFTA and a public meeting with finance minister Glen Clark last month, we got a taste of what it's going AFTA (to make NAAFFTTAA??) to create a massive, trans-Pacific, free-trade zone. Hmm. to be like. Bureaucrats point at chart after chart in their painstaking, efforts to explain why You'll notice we indulged and went with a two-page spread on International Women's cuts are the way to go this year., .decade? Lifetime? You see, chart number one shows us why Day in this issue...that's 'cos we had some great photographs and transcripts of some the deficit is squeezing provincial coffers...chart number two shows why federal cuts to powerful speeches we wanted to share...and 'cos we jus' knew you wouldn't read about it provinces are squeezing provincial coffers...chart number three... in the Globe and Mail. We've got a history of Press Gang Printers coming up in the next What we learnt from the forum was that we're all going to be poorer and the NDP loves issue., oh yeah, don't forget to support their latest fundraising bash on April.../see ad, page using charts, diagrams, and numbers. We were at an anti-N AFT A forum later in the month 7]. Minutes to go before we hit the presses and the phone's silent, no one's rushing in the door [see page 3] and the MC was Joan SmaUwood, minister of social services—she only spoke with that last-minute notice...and we're going to go before they do... for a few minutes but she used a million charts to help her through it all...Well, we're smart and not easily fooled. It didn't take us long to figure out that the province can't afford increases to social services 'cos they're spending all the money on charts and projectors and things like that... Oh, before we forget, we received a press release as Kinesis goes to press announcing that Smallwood's demanding "a national review of...federal/provincial cost-sharing safety nets to help ensure the provinces...get a fair deal from Ottawa." What we think she's wondering is how provinces are going to continue paying for ever-rising welfare costs...they estimate over 10 percent of Brit. Columbians are on welfare...the press release has an awful lot of "because of changes to federal social policies..." and "recession and economic restructuring combined with federal policies..." and "due to federal off-loading of financial obligations..." Sounds like they're preparing us for the worst... Anyway, we're watching to see what happens in the next budget...to welfare rates, pay equity, funding for women's groups and disabled people and ...and lots more. Read our story next month. Looks Hke that's going to be the only (official) budget we're going to have to deal with Well, the weather outside hasn't been did some pretty wonderful things too—no, this year...the feds aren't planning to have one 'till after the elections...speaking of which, the best this production—it's been pouring Shannon, not just taking minutes.
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