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		<title>VOTE for imMEDIAte Justice Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 07:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vote for imMEDIAte Justice today! http://pep.si/vote4imj

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Create a sexuality education video for youth by youth
Train 100 youth in media literacy &#38; sexual health
Connect 1000 youth to our reproductive justice online community


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imMEDIAte Justice trains youth in media literacy and reproductive health with a gender conscious lens. Professional filmmakers provide the mentorship, tools, &#38; distribution teens need to [...]]]></description>
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<h3>Goals</h3>
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<li>Create a sexuality education video for youth by youth</li>
<li>Train 100 youth in media literacy &amp; sexual health</li>
<li>Connect 1000 youth to our reproductive justice online community</li>
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<h3>Overview</h3>
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<p>imMEDIAte Justice trains youth in media literacy and reproductive health with a gender conscious lens. Professional filmmakers provide the mentorship, tools, &amp; distribution teens need to share their vision with the world.</p>
<p>The focus for summer 2010 is to create positive sexuality education films by LGBTQ youth. We envision sexual education as an inclusive, exploratory, youth-driven process that utilizes new media as a tool to share and safely access information. Our online community, CALIBODYPOLITIX, keeps young women informed about reproductive health and justice in California with the largest network of national and local reproductive health resources for youth.</p>
<p>The program and retreats foster positive self-image, supportive female alliances and media literacy skills, as participants graduate through a two-tier leadership development program that increases their influence as filmmakers and leaders of the next generation of women.</p>
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		<title>Writers&#8217; Workshop Prompt 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Write a series of odes to inanimate objects that hold importance in your life. Things that you rely on every day. Imagine your life without them, then tell them what they&#8217;re worth. And if there happen to be some living things you rely on everyday&#8230;write about them too.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><!--StartFragment--><span style="font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Write a series of odes to inanimate objects that hold importance in your life. Things that you rely on every day. Imagine your life without them, then tell them what they&#8217;re worth. And if there happen to be some living things you rely on everyday&#8230;write about them too.</span></span></p>
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		<title>Pachamama Skill Share</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Writers&#8217; Workshop Prompt Week 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attack something. Get on your soap box. Rant. Curse. Be unfair. Be ruthless. And then apologize. But not til you&#8217;re ready. Take your time. You have a week&#8230;
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, give us your version of the seasons and the weather that comes with them. The traditional and the non-traditional. Help us understand the seasons by how you experience or personify them.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This week, give us your version of the seasons and the weather that comes with them. The traditional and the non-traditional. Help us understand the seasons by how you experience or personify them.</span></span></p>
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		<title>WCC Writers&#8217; Workshop Prompt 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Write a series of love letters this week to a film or fictional icon that you&#8217;ve had a &#8220;complicated relationship&#8221; with trying to unpack the meaning of their representation or a love letter to an old teddy bear in your room, a tree in your backyard or . . . someone you actually love and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Write a series of love letters this week to a film or fictional icon that you&#8217;ve had a &#8220;complicated relationship&#8221; with trying to unpack the meaning of their representation or a love letter to an old teddy bear in your room, a tree in your backyard or . . . someone you actually love and haven&#8217;t told in awhile.</p>
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		<title>January WCC Newsletter</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 07:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tani</dc:creator>
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Long Beach, New York, Rhode Island, Seattle, and very recently the Bay<br />
Area. We&#8217;ve started a summer media justice program for high school girls and will<br />
be gathering for our second annual Skill Share in Joshua Tree this April. It&#8217;s been exciting to watch us grow as a community and I feel very honored to have been able to share this sacred space with you. You&#8217;ve<br />
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                ImMEDIAte Justice</b></font></span><br />
                <span style="font-weight: bold;">Summer Film Camp for Girls</span><br />
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<div>ImMEDIAte Justice is a media collective that empowers young women and queer people of color with the knowledge and skill sets to generate new images of reproductive freedom that inspire community action and global dialogue. ImMEDIAte Justice raised 13,000 dollars to start a pilot program this summer which trained fifteen young women in media production to create documentary films about reproductive justice. We are currently looking for additional staff with film experience for this this summer. Check out our website and apply! http://ij.dhamano.com</div>
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<p>                WCC January Workshops</b></font></span><br />
                <b>The Personal Transformation Session</b><br />
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<div>Women&#8217;s Creative Collective LA is hosting a series of workshops this January that activate personal transformation and energy healing Friday 8pm-10pm January 15th, 22nd, 29th at 1254 S. Mullen Ave., LA 90019. Please bring food and drinks for the potluck dinner. For more information about workshops in other cities visit our website www.womenscreativecollective.org&nbsp; </p>
<p>January 15th- Out with the old, in with the now! For the first WCC session of the year, we&#8217;ll focus on letting go of emotional bassage and setting intentions for the new year and the new you. As active participants you should come as an open vessel ready and willing to heal past wounds and create healthy intentions that will reverberate for years to come. We will use guided meditation, counsel, and ritual to prepare ourselves to make meaningful choices on a daily basis. Bring a notebook and an altar item that represents healing. </p>
<p>January 22nd- &#8220;What would you do if you knew you could not fail?&#8221; To help manifest our intentions into reality, we&#8217;ll get crafty and create vision boards and magnets. First, we&#8217;ll explore our life paths through a guided meditation and writing exercise, then we&#8217;ll dig down deep to establish our visions&#8217; roots by creating a visual map to our waking dreams. Your vision boards and magnets will serve as a daily reminder to take conscious and meaningful steps towards what you want and need in your future. Come prepared to dream true and listen to yourself and others without judgment. Bring old magazines or pictures to cut up and WCC will take care of the rest!</p>
<p>January 29th- Now that we&#8217;ve called our awareness to our own lives and increased our energy circulation, let&#8217;s combine that with crystals-a powerful window into the realm of spirit. Learn about the healing and energizing properties of many different varieties of crystals. We&#8217;ll show you how to wrap crystals with wire so you can wear them and team them up to best transmit their spiritual properties on a daily basis. Also, we&#8217;ll uncover how to use crystals to open and unblock your chakra system and more fully release your inner energy flow. WCC will provide crystals, wires, and a limited number of tools. If you have small jewelry making tools please feel free to bring them. </div>
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<p>                <b>A Women and Gender Variant Skillshare</b><br />
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<div>Women&#8217;s Creative Collective Presents our second annual Skillshare at Joshua Tree April 9th-11th 2010. This year&#8217;s workshop themes focus on respect, responsibility, and relationship to story, spirituality and the earth. We invite gender conscious collectives and individuals to come build a stronger web of resistance to state violence against our bodies and land. If you are interested in being apart of the movement and would like to volunteer please connect with us at info@womenscreativecollective.org. Help build strategies for healthy urban communities at our next meeting: Ragazzi Room Wednesday Jan. 13th 7:30pm.&nbsp;&nbsp; </div>
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                <span style="font-weight: bold;">Honoring Womyn in the Community</span><br />
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<div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Chavonne Taylor</span> aka Vida Starr is one of the original WCC members and has been with us for the past four years. She is an innovative and charismatic leader who hosts the hip hop radio show On Blast every Thursday 7pm PST/pm central/10pm EST. Tune in as she talks about critical issues of gender, popular culture, and politics as well as introducing new idependent and underground Hip Hop music on www.blogtalkradio.com/obr</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ching-in Chen</span> is one of the talented &#8220;Burning Your Secrets&#8221; workshop facilitators at the first annual WCC Skill Share Retreat. Ching-in has published a beautiful book called The Heart&#8217;s Traffic. This novel-in-poems chronicles the life of Xiaomei, an immigrant girl<br />
haunted by the death of her best friend. Told through a kaleidoscopic<br />
braid of stories, letters, and riddles, this stunning debut collection<br />
follows Xiaomei&#8217;s life as she grows into her sexuality and searches for<br />
a way to deal with her complicated histories. Below is an excerpt from her book. You can buy The Heart&#8217;s Traffic at http://www.arktoi.com/books/heart.shtml </p>
<p>                <span style="font-weight: bold;">Xiaomei&#8217;s First Heartbreak<br />By Ching-in Chen</span>
<p>Gone the clanging midnight door, perpetual raised voice.<br />
<br />Xiaomei wakes in the dew, the traffic of her heart missing. </p>
<p>Her father did not say goodbye.  Or he visited her, a stealth-owl dream. </p>
<p><img height="1" border="0" width="300" src="http://www.arktoi.com/images/blank.gif">Either way, her memory does not<br />
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<p><img height="1" border="0" width="175" src="http://www.arktoi.com/images/blank.gif">who like cereal. </p>
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<div>Thank you womyn warriors, we are building a very exciting movement together!</div>
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<div>Sincerely,</div>
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            Tani Ikeda<br />
            Women&#8217;s Creative Collective for Change</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apr 8 on FM: ‘Killer’s Paradise’ and The Women’s Creative Collective
Hosted by Melissa Chiprin and Christene Kings
Joining us are activists Ana Castillo and Azalea Ryckmanm, we will have a conversation about the film- Killer’s Paradise- Since 1999 more than two thousand women have been murdered in Guatemala, with the numbers escalating every year. Yet, lawmakers [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Apr 8 on FM: ‘Killer’s Paradise’ and The Women’s Creative Collective</p>
<p>Hosted by Melissa Chiprin and Christene Kings</p>
<p>Joining us are activists Ana Castillo and Azalea Ryckmanm, we will have a conversation about the film- Killer’s Paradise- Since 1999 more than two thousand women have been murdered in Guatemala, with the numbers escalating every year. Yet, lawmakers and government officials continue to turn a blind eye.</p>
<p>Killer&#8217;s Padadise</p>
<p>Bringing the Circle Together, A Native American Film Series, this month features this powerful and uncompromising film, Killer’s Paradise, which uncovers one of the most emotionally- wrenching hidden human rights abuses taking place, while exposing the impunity allowed by an inept judicial system. Castillo and Ryckmanm will also discuss their work with Mujeres Abriendo Caminos (Women Opening Paths); connecting L.A. Women’s stories to Guatemalan Women through radio, and focusing on issues of Women’s rights in Guatemala.</p>
<p>Womens Creative Collective Later, We will have a discussion with Tani Ikeda and Andrea Penagos of The Women’s Creative Collective. The collective is a movement of wholeness- dedicated to bearing witness to undertold and untold stories, as well as committed to a feminist, post-colonial ideology. They believe in the importance of diversity, both within their organization, and in the communities with which they collaborate. We will focus on The Women’s Creative Collective First Annual Skill Share a two day retreat starting April 11th in Joshua Tree with workshop themes of respect, responsibility, and relationship to story, spirituality and the earth.</p>
<p>http://feministmagazine.org/2009/04/apr-8-on-fm/</p>
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