Demeter, Vol. 3 No. 2
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Women's News of the Monterey Bay Area VOLUME 3 NO. 2 MAY, 1980 Demeter Sponsors Team Softball Season Starts June 7 Flushed with the success -of -our basketball team (which was undefeated in Monterey Parks and Rec league play), Demeter will sponsor a women's slow-pitch softball team this summer starting June 7. Play will continue through August 16. Women 16 and older qualify to play in this Monterey Parks and Rec league. Due to an $80 per team registration fee , we will ask for $5 per team member to help us with expenses. In the event we should go over the 18 player per team limit, Demeter will sponsor a second team, Persephone (Demeter's daughter). · Women interested in orgamzmg their own teams can contact Hannah Rothlin at Monterey Parks and Rec, 646-3866, for details. To sign-up for our team, please stop by the Demeter office, 591 Lighthouse, No. 7, PG, or call Maureen or Jill at 625-2830. Our first organizational Deb Ford, pitcher for a team called the Blazers, releases the ball while meeting/practice will be Sunday, May Cheryl Smith, first base, and Leslie Johnson, shortstop, get ready to field 18. Deadline to contact us is Tuesday, a grounder in Monterey Parks and Rec women's softball league action May 13. last summer. -Maureen McEvoy r Gay/LesbianRights """ Women's Theater Group Forms Here Rape Crisis at MPC May 7 A gay and lesbian alliance group for Auction On Wednesday, May 7, the the Monterey Peninsula is in the pro Rape Crisis will hold its annual Monterey Peninsula College English cess of being formed and will hold its Wine and Cheese Tasting Auc and Women's Studies departments will first meeting on Tuesday, May 6 at 7 tion Friday, May 23 at tl~e San join Demeter Productions in present p.m. in the San Diego Savings and Carlos Hotel, Monterey. Items ing an evening of women's theater at Loan Community Room, Alvarado donated by local merchants will 7:30 p.m. in Lecture Forum 103. Street, Monterey. be auctioned off to raise funds. Actress/director Amy Burk Wright The purpose of the meeting is to Ticket donation is $3.50 in ad will lead a troupe of eight women in the decide on goals and activities for the vance; $4 at the door. For more performance of Revelations - Diaries organization. Two main directions in information. · call 373-3955. · of Women, a series of dramatic which interest has been expressed thus monologues based on the book edited far, according to spokesperson Pat by Mary Jane Moffit and Charolet ~.; '•s Painter, which traces the internal and Murphy, are action on civil rights ~ · issues involving gay and lesbian in ...·.. historical development of eight women dividuals, and participation in voter as expressed in their journals and t- • registration and political organizing. !~. diaries. The women represented range Continued on page 11 Continued on page 11 Demeter- May, 1980- 2 An Editorial The Draft As A Feminist Issue The recent proposal to register women for the draft has tims of decisions they have no role in making, commit been interpreted by many as a tactical ploy designed to divert violence on the people of other, often Third World coun the nation's attention from the question of the legitimacy of tries, is hardly what the women's movement has been the draft itself, create division in the women's movement, fighting for. The years of work and struggle spent dealing and cloud the issue of the ERA. Feminist groups across the with the dynamics of classism and racism and the understan nation, however, appear not to be falling for the game, and ding of the commonality of women's struggle worldwide do instead may be causing Carter's proposal to backfire by not lend themselves to the required militaristic belief that the organizing around the issue and focusing attention on its women and people of other countries in similar powerless many implications. positions are the "enemy." As the Phyllis Schlafly types are looking red in the face Demeter supports the anti-draft stands taken by - their anti-ERA "ace in the hole" revealed instead to be a NOW AR (National Organization of Women Against joker as Congress has long had full authority to draft women Registration, a San Francisco Bay Area coalition of feminist without the ERA - it is heartening to see women's groups groups); NOW; the Women's International League for nationwide react in collective outrage at the peacetime draft Peace and Freedom, and hundreds of others across the coun call. try. The hypocrisy of politicians calling for the draft of There is a lot of work to be done. Seeing the draft as a women and yet refusing to ratify the Equal Rights Amend feminist issue also means examining and integrating our ment is not going unnoticed. Involuntary draft registration is politics around the ERA, nuclear power and warfare, U.S. not seen as "equality" in a political system where women are intervention in Third World countries, racism within the critically under-represented at every level of governmental draft system, and discrimination and sexual harassment of and military policy making, and there is understandable women already in the military. reluctance on the part of women to go to war as ''protectors The call for registration of women for the draft has of the patriarchy.'' brought us rather abruptly to a critical crossroad and we War has traditionally been a man's game and public opi have the choice and responsibility for the direction taken. nion polls have shown American women to be measurably Organizing around the draft as a feminist issue is proving to less likely to support military solutions, from World War I be a positive and unifying action - maybe the "issue" the through Vietnam. Feminist principles have centered around movement needs to sustain both focus and viability. life, growth, intellect and cooperation - war demands the very opposite. Supporting a system wherein draftees, as vie- -Debi Busman New Subscribers Moving? Thanks and welcome to our new subscribers. Moved recently? If you have a change of address, please notify us David Hollands at P.O. Box 1661, Monterey, 93940. Aly Kim The post office will not forward Elenore Souza Demeter, so if you want to continue Paula J . Harrill receiving the peninsula's only Monterey Public Library feminist newsmagazine, please keep Donna Ziel us informed of your correct address. Suzanne Judith Deborah Dinkins Lola S. Steinbaum Jeanne K. 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My feet are tapping Editor: only publication I've ever come across right this moment, ready to jump and I appreciated Polly Parker's in that is readable from cover to cover. jive and I can tell you exactly why. The sightful review of Still Beat Noble Hats off to all whose dedication and aliens have landed! Hearts, the dramatic portrait of love went into the making of the Talent· Saturday night at the Second Margaret Fuller presented by New Show (and, of course, the performers Women's Variety Talent Show, the au York actress Laurie James at Monterey and audience). dience was taken over by the film, In Peninsula College in January. Tanya Patterson vasion of the Cat Clocks. Then, as if However, as one of the members of Monterey the crowd weren't entertained enough, Women In Transition, the sponsoring the extraterrestrial feline time pieces organization, I would both commend Women;s Events: left behind four women who played Parker and take issue with her. some great rock 'n' roll. I imagine The production, billed as Part I: The A New Awakening those people who didn't get up to American Years, does end too abrupt dance missed a great chance. ly. Part II of Margaret Fuller's story, Editor: I would like to make one request to The European Years, which is another It was great to be able to feel the those women who played in the band: evening's program, was told briefly in positive energy while being at the River Iris, Raindance, Angie and Sister the printed program. It is hoped that concert. It was my first! And it felt Ringo Maria. When does the women's Ms. James will return to California good to be there. community get a chance to dance until next year with a presentation of The I have a lot I want to learn about dawn to your music? I'm ready! European Years.