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DESCRIPTION:                        WOMEN ACTIVISTS THEN AND NOW\n\nSpecial Event in 
 conjunction with:\n\n                         The Whole World's 
 Watching:\n\n          Peace and Social Justice Movements of the 1960s and 
 1970s\n\nAn Exhibition of Documentary Photography at the Berkeley Art 
 Center\n\nWomen Activists Then and Now examines the legacy of three 
 generations\nof women activists. The panel is open to the public free of 
 charge and takes place\nSunday, November 18, 2 p.m. at the Berkeley Art 
 Center, 1275 Walnut \nStreet\nin Live Oak Park.\n\nModerated by historian 
 Ruth Rosen, author of The World Split Open, the\npanelists include 60s 
 activist, Susan Griffin, author of the Book of\nCourtesans: A Catalogue of 
 their Virtues; Tillie Olsen, author of Tell\nMe a Riddle and Other Stories, 
 whose activism goes back to the 1940s \nand\n1950s\n\nIda McCray, founder 
 and executive director of Families With A Future,\nreuniting children with 
 their incarcerated parents and a former\npolitical prisoner in the 1970s, 
 and Miriam Joffe-Block, in her \ntwenties and\nan activist in the 
 anti-sweatshop movement, most recently working in\nSoutheast Asia. An 
 American Sign Language interpreter will be present \nat 
 the\nevent.\n\nSusan Griffin is the author of more than twenty books and 
 has won\ndozens of awards for her work as a poet, feminist writer, 
 essayist,\nplaywright, and filmmaker. The first volume of an extended work, 
 she \ncalls a\nsocial autobiography, A Chorus of Stones, was a finalist for 
 the \nPulitzer\nPrize and the National Book Critics Award, and won the 
 BABRA award in \n1992.\nWoman and Nature, a classic work which inspired 
 eco-feminism, was \npublished\nin a new addition by Sierra Club Books in 
 2000. Named by Utne Reader as \none\nof a hundred important visionaries for 
 the new millennium. She has been \na\nrecipient of an NEA grant, a new 
 MacArthur Grant for Peace and\nInternational Co-operation, and an Emmy 
 award for her play, Voices. She\nlectures widely in the United Stated and 
 abroad, teaches a course in\nphilosophy called Thinking Like Nature, at the 
 California Institute of\nIntegral Studies, as well as teaching privately in 
 her home in \nBerkeley.\n\nTillie Olsen is a novelist, short story writer, 
 and feminist critic.\nShe was born in 1912, in Nebraska, to a family of 
 Russian Jewish \nimmigrants.\nOlsen, a radical and modernist, had a 
 socialist upbringing. Olsen \ndecided to\nbecome a writer while she was a 
 fellow in StanfordÕs Creative Writing\nProgram (1956-57). She published 
 several widely admired pieces in\nperiodicals during the 1930s. She 
 achieved full national prominence \nwith the\npublication of her first book 
 in the 1060s, Tell Me A Riddle (1961), a\ncollection of stories notable for 
 its subtle registration of working \nclass\nAmerica. Olsen is also the 
 author of Silences (1978), a benchmark of\nfeminist criticism, and of the 
 novel Yonnondio (1974).\n\nIda McCray is the founder and executive director 
 of Families With A\nFuture, a nonprofit organization. She is a former 
 political prisoner \nand has\nworked for the San Francisco Sheriffs 
 Department for the past three \nyears.\nThere she reunites children with 
 their incarcerated parents through \nparent\ntraining, literacy training, 
 and increased visitation. Families With A\nFuture is dedicated to 
 maintaining the bond between incarcerated women\nand their children. Ida 
 McCray was awarded a two-year fellowship\n(1999-2001) by California 
 Wellness Foundation in association with \nEureka\nCommunities for her work 
 in bringing the issues of children of \nincarcerated\nparents to the 
 publics eye. She attends San Francisco State University \nand\nis pursuing 
 her masters degree to become a Marriage, Family, 
 Child\nCounselor.\n\nMiriam Joffe-Block graduated from the University of 
 Pennsylvania with a\nmajor in Cultural Anthropology. She has served as a 
 teacher and mentor\nto ten children in the Congreso de Latinos Unidos 
 Freedom School, and\nco-authored and co-ordinated a pilot project with the 
 Worker Rights\nConsortium. She was an American Center for International 
 Labour Society\nPolicy Intern. She speaks Thai fluently, having studying in 
 Thailand,\nand in 1998 she participated in the Council for International 
 \nEducational\nExchange. She ran an anti-sweatshop campaign, and was the 
 Logistical\nCo-ordinator for the Summer 1999 USAS National Organization 
 Conference.\n\nThe concurrent exhibition of documentary photography, THE 
 WHOLE WORLD'S\nWATCHING, runs free of charge through December 16. The 
 gallery is open\nWednesday through Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. The Berkeley Art 
 Center will\nbe closed for Thanksgiving on November 22-25. A 156 page 
 catalogue\naccompanies the exhibition.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/2083.php
SUMMARY:Women Activists Then and Now
LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center\n1275 Walnut Street (in Live Oak Park) 94709\nBerkeley 
 CA   510-644-6893
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