1137 10 13654 https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/5/2812/080908-005a.jpg 75e129e56e741ccea3dc89ab555d7095 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource General Archives Description An account of the resource Archival records that don't belong to another listed collection. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dawson City Subject The topic of the resource Mining People Description An account of the resource Sepia-tone photograph of men, women dressed in winter clothing. posing for the photograph in downtown Dawson City. Wooden buildings visible include J.P. McLennan Hardware and a Cafe. Sled dogs are sitting in the snow which is covering an otherwise muddy front street Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource H.J. Goetzman Studio Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1900s Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Donated by Mrs. Cochran Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Public domain Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photograph Type The nature or genre of the resource Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context A0014#136,Z/13 scan#080908-005 1900 Dawson City dogs J.P. McLennan sleds winter https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/5/2811/080908-001a.jpg 71a56a230cc7159d390a0f8b17928142 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource General Archives Description An account of the resource Archival records that don't belong to another listed collection. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Moose hunter en route to Dawson on Klondike River Subject The topic of the resource Mining People Description An account of the resource Sepia-tone photograph of a moose hunter en route to Dawson on Klondike River. The sleigh is pulling 1300 lbs of game .75 per pound wholesale. Captions on image: " Moose hunter en route to Dawson on Klondike River 1300 lbs of game .75 per pound wholesale", "Goetzman Dawson, 205. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource H.J. Goetzman Studio Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1900s Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Donated by Mrs. Cochran Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Public domain Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photograph Type The nature or genre of the resource Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context A0014#136,Z/13 scan#080908-001 Dawson Dogsled moose winter https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/5/2810/030908-012a.jpg eb7fc336e84e467d3abfa575d84fa755 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource General Archives Description An account of the resource Archival records that don't belong to another listed collection. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Canadian Bank of Commerce. Klondike Subject The topic of the resource Mining People Description An account of the resource Sepia-toned photograph of Canadian Bank of Commerce. The bank operated from a large brick building on the west side of Front and Princess Street. Staff outside the bank wearing winter clothing. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource H.J. Goetzman Studio Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1900s Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Donated by Mrs. Cochran Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Public domain Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photograph Type The nature or genre of the resource Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context A0014#136,Z/13 scan#030908-012 Canadian Bank of Commerce employees https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/5/2809/270808-001a.jpg 77ed5974f473cc6b4cdc56e930f51e35 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource General Archives Description An account of the resource Archival records that don't belong to another listed collection. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Scene at Bennett Subject The topic of the resource Mining People Description An account of the resource Sepia-tone photograph of Bennett, British Columbia. The photograph of town buildings and walled tents are along shoreline, with several riverboats tied along creek and boat under construction at right, signs for Dawson Hotel and Hotel Portland are visible. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource H.J. Goetzman Studio Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1900s Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Donated by Mrs. Cochran Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Public domain Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photograph Type The nature or genre of the resource Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context A0014#136,Z/13 scan#270808-001 Bennett bridge British Columbia https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/5/2808/300708-004a.jpg 6653a365d447ceb17e0e1e8c677068aa Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource General Archives Description An account of the resource Archival records that don't belong to another listed collection. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Moose shot from Steamer on the Pelly Subject The topic of the resource Mining People Description An account of the resource Sepia-toned photograph of a moose shot from a steamer on the Pelly River. Caption on image: "Moose shot from steamer on the Pelly River", "Goetzman Dawson. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource H.J. Goetzman Studio Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1900s Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Public domain Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photograph Type The nature or genre of the resource Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context A0014#136,Z/13 scan#300708-004 hunting moose Pelly River steamers https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/5/2807/300708-003a.jpg c660552d387d6ea921f7fcf2d25e544e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource General Archives Description An account of the resource Archival records that don't belong to another listed collection. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Fishing on Mica Creek Subject The topic of the resource Mining People Description An account of the resource Sepia-toned photograph of fisherman in the water beside his boat on Mica Creek. The fisherman is showing his catch. Fishing net, dock and boat with oars is visible in the photograph. Caption on image: "Fishing on Mica Creek 75 miles up the Pelly", "Goetzman Photo. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource H.J. Goetzman Studio Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1900s Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Donated by Mrs. Cochran Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Public domain Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photograph Type The nature or genre of the resource Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context A0014#136,Z/13 scan#300708-003 1900s fish fisherman Mica Creek Yukon River https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/5/2806/300708-002a.jpg a7ad87b79610475f7eaab6e2f7db3ddf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource General Archives Description An account of the resource Archival records that don't belong to another listed collection. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pelly River Subject The topic of the resource Mining People Description An account of the resource Sepia-toned photograph of the Pelly River.The river flows through south central Yukon. Caption on image: "Scene on the Pelly River", "Goetzman Photo Dawson". Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource H.J. Goetzman Studio Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1900s Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Donated by Mrs. Cochran Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Public domain Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photograph Type The nature or genre of the resource Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context A0014#136,Z/13 scan#300708-002 1900s Pelly River Yukon https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/5/2805/300708-001a.jpg 9002bfa97b1876b1da29d266c71c0bf4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource General Archives Description An account of the resource Archival records that don't belong to another listed collection. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Str. LaFrance steaming up the Pelly River Subject The topic of the resource Mining People Description An account of the resource Sepia-toned photography of the steamer LaFrance. Small steamers ventured up the Pelly River to the head of navigation at Ross River. Supplies for a trading post above that village were transferred to smaller boats that could be portaged around a dangerous rapid. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource H.J. Goetzman Studio Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1900s Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Donated by Mrs. Cochran Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Public domain Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photograph Type The nature or genre of the resource Still image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context A0014#136,Z/13 scan#300708-001 LaFrance Pelly River steamers https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/16/2804/1988_Vol_11_No_4.pdf 2cf6cb855355c5e9f64f847954243e88 PDF Text Text Volume 11 Thunder Bay, Ontario ON No.4 ) MAR-NA NANC\II Oro Glob 0, 01-1 1`1A9.\/ K ER I JE,.)Nv 9694V $1.50 AND FIND Northern Woman Journal December 1988, ON PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �As we emerge from the despair evoked by the federal election result it is important to understand that the election success of the Conservatives will have consequences immeasurably beyond just the disasterous effects of the free trade agreement. It is hard to think beyond the-trade deal implications. When the sovereignty, the identity, of the country that you love is given away - to appease the greed of the business elite - you may wonder what else matters. But the Americanization of Canada will be subtle, gradual - - and we may be lulled by the misinformation that will continue. If we love this Auntry it is incumbent upon us to support the grass roots movement against the trade deal and foster awareness of the true implications of the Mulroney-Reagan deal. (It will be a citizen movement, not political parties, that we must depend on.) We must, however, also mature our awareness and analysis of the full Conservative agenda - social policy, tax reform, trade - and determine what is in store for us in the next four years. Behind the mask of free trade lies a neo-conservative agenda (which would not on its own be risked) that will devastate the vulnerable in our society, will erode the modest gains that women have made, and will set back the cause of social justice and equality for a decade. ' It is a frightening picture. We can anticipate an intense and sustained backlash against women. Our energies will be spent protecting what little we have, and mitigating the hurt that will be inflicted on the most vulnerable of us. What lies ahead SOCIAL PROGRAMS The threat to social programs was a significant focus of the election campaign. Unfortunately, the opposition politicians failed to make clear to many voters the true ramifications of the trade deal in respect to social policy. The Conservatives and their business allies spent millions of dollars reassuring us that medicare, old age security, and other social programs are unaffected by the trade deal. It is instructive to note that immediately after the election this same business lobby are calling on Finance Minister Wilson to decrease the deficit by cutting social programs. Both the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and the Business Council on National Issues advocate decreased social spending, while business reporter Peter Cook (Globe & Mail Nov. 23) states the government must "... r edUc e) willing to make unpopular cuts in programs that subsidize middle class Canadians." (emphasis added) There is no doubt that universal social programs are at risk. Not from the trade deal itself, perhaps, but from the mentality that says the market must prevail (and the people be damned). The Conservative ideology does not support the concept of universality. Universal social programs have not been implemented by a Conservative government, they were legislated by Liberal governments under pressure from the CCF/NDP. Medicare and pensions will not disappear overnight. Rather, they will be chipped away little by little. The business lobby has always opposed universality, has opposed any improvement of social benefits. The big business community (and their American owners/ counterparts) are the dominant influence on our present government, and will not be satisfied until social programs have been eroded beyor cognition. It is not as though our sc system was ideal. Many exising grams are inadequate. Other uni programs (eg dental care) are solute necessity. Remember the promise to implement pensions f homemakers? It seems to have ted. strugglE x-er..4.1,41,041a.t"4.4.4141, hope of improving social progrE comes a mere fantasy. PRIVATIZATION The flip side of the free coin is privatization. Privati2 is the transfer of ownership, c regulation, financing or decisi making from the government sect private hands. Privatization cz several different forms includi selling of crown corporations ernment agencies to the privatE tor; contracting out through bi agreements with employees beinE ced by contracted out work; de/ tion and removal of legal const franchising and commercial entE use of volunteers; and user feE mentation. continued or I swear it to you I swear it on my common woman's head The common woman is as common as a common loaf of bread and will rise) - PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor NORTHERN WOMAN page 2 �The sotistice is the outermost limit of the sun's rays upon universe. And, in these winter months it provides us Luny nights and chilling air. The spirits bless us with this very special tytne to gather fuel and Eight; And criticaay to give warmth to others, the deep warmth of women in friendship. This is not a dark, mysterious tyrne; ut rather it is a baLance. A tytne of neither lii3ht nor dark, but a blending twitight, Kolding the powerojaLL that has been and can be. U is naturels demand that we recognize her batance; And that we bLend into the twilight. A simple thought: to take tyme to cleanse; to renew; and to thank the spirits and Goddesses who guide us. And perhaps, just maybe, to thank the special, friends who keep us in care. May Mother Earth and The Spirits "Mess us tvery One" And Likewise. (for 114) km i, 1 0 Tbe from Porthrrn Doman Iournat page. 3 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor NORTHERN WOMAN �Josie Wallenius Josie Wallenius has developed a repertoire of "stories" that she performs in artist-run centres and community gathering places. These stories are acoustically punctuated as she strikes on a six-foot crosscut bush saw with a piece of rusted iron...or a rock...or a wooden spoon. Her sound stories talk of racism, sexism, poverty, struggle and Peace. They relate to everyday life and speak to and for the people who have trouble surviving each day -- the ones who will make the change. She came to Thunder Bay from London, England in 1978...later giwing up her full-time job as a registered nurse to become a full-time unpaid peace worker. Josie is a grassroots activist in her own community, and in: Acoustic Storyteller 1985: Worked with the Greenham Women investigating microwave radiation of Peace Women 1984: Participated in the ten-day action at the Greenham Common Peace Camp in England that coincided with NATO's 'Operation Lionheart" An article written by Josie for W.I.L. P.F. (Women's International League for Peace and Freedom) in 1987 has now been translated into Italian, Danish, and German. December 1988: Frightened is it You Are Performed at Medicine Hat, Alberta, Peace and Justice Centre November 1988: Performed at Macalester University, St. Paul, Minnesota, Peace action Coalition Conference. October 1988: Performed'at Project Ploughshares Peace group, Salem, Ontario. August:-1988: Performed at the International Women's Peace Conference, Dallas, Texas June 1988: Performed at the Canadian Labour Congess School, Lakehead University. May 1988: Performed at the Women's Interfaith Network Spirituality Conference, Kitchener -Waterloo Opening performance at Project Ploughshares National Conference, Toronto Ontario Mother's Day Peace Demonstration, Wisconsin, Guest performance, "Speaking Out" ASpace/MAYWORKS, Toronto, Ontario Opening performance, "Souvinir from the Northern_Front, The Funnel, A-Space/MAYWORKS, Toronto, Ontario February 1988: Performance with Nipigon Nylons, Definitely Superior, Thunder Bay, Ontario 1987: Canadian delegate to the International Women's Conference, Moscow, USSR Canadian Delegate to the Libyan Peace Conference, Libya 1986: Worked at support camp at Big Mountain, Arizona during the Navaho Hopi struggle against re-location Worked with the Canadian Electrical Brigade in Nicaragua by Josie Wallenius Frightened is it you are with a bit of trouble with the police Frightened is it I am of Cruise Missiles Frightened is it you are of hurting someone's feelings Frightened is it I am of talking and saying nothing Frightened is it you are to say we are racist Frightened is it I am that Africa will no longer forgive us Frightened is it you are of communism Frightened is it I am that El Salvador will no longer forgive us Frightened is it you are of losing friends Frightened is it I am of burning children Frightened is it you are of a bit of trouble with the police Frightened is it I am of Cruise Missiles empowerment from marginalisation Josie Wallenius October 1988 Having experienced over the last year the power of storytelling and writing as a means of empowerment, both for myself and for other women, I will describe how I first experienced empowerment BECAUSE I was marginalized. I was, and still am, a global woman working for Peace. Three years ago I was asked to go with a male activist to a local meeting of citizens in our community to explain our position. I was a better speaker, and had more knowledge of the issues than the man. Imagine my surprise (I was very innocent) when I found out that there was only time for one of us to speak, and the man was chosen. I should not have been surprised or upset, because, of course, in a mixed audience especially, a man always has more credibility. The next week I spoke to a mixed group, and explained this phenomenon before I started. I asked the men to forget I was a woman, to see if they heard me more by forgetting this. This introduction worked. It turned out to be the most productive part of the debate afterwards. The tactic worked. I'm not interested in things that don't work anymore. I have a favorite picture ove . my desk-an old print by a Dutch ma, ter. It's a picture of two women s: tting at a table, leaning towards ch other, ENGROSSED in their talki] What they are talking about who kn4 ws. Perhaps their husbands or love an unwanted pregnancy, making ends meet to feed the children, what ca: go is coming in at Rotterdam, who ruling Holland. Who knows. All I ki ow they look a lot happier than woi en watching television. This is what I am doing with I storytelling and writing. Proving at our stories are more riveting tl an the soaps, our lives more import ant to the world than the lives of those that rule us, and our experi( nces as women the most likely to sz ve this earth from destruction, as long as we start telling them. I will do performances, but tt workshops will be participatory one empowering to the women who attend. The instruments (the drum, cymbals, tambourine, dulcimer, etc.) are the re for the people to use as they tell to the group, a story of their 1 : own. page 4web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor NORTHERN WOMAN OCR, PDF compression, �UPCOMING EVENTS IMMIGRANT WOMEN'S CONFERENCE COUNTDOWN TO IMPLEMENrATION Conference employers, Ontario Women's Directorate for employees "MAKING CHANGES" and On December 25th & 26th, 1988 bargaining agents to learn more about the "had to" of pay equity the first Immigrant Women's Conference was held at Ramada Inn implementation. Valhalla Inn, Thunder Bay, Ontario February 9, 1989 Registration forms at Northern Hotel. Office BULLETIN opportunity of Ontario Women's Directorate THE GEORGE BROWN ASSAULTED WOMEN'S FROM WOMEN'S PLACE, KENORA AND CHILDREN'S ADVOCATE/COUNSELLOR PROGRAM AND REAL EYES: THE VISION RAPE CRISIS CENERE FUNDING CRISIS PRESENT Workshops with Sandra Butler Historically the SolicitorJanuary 17-23, 1989 General's office of Ontario has Tbronto, Ontario funded the operational costs of Rape Crisis Centres (R.C.C.'s). Although Healing the Healers - Jan. 17-18 they fund each centre differently, they will pay for rent, telephone Personal Disarmament - Jan. 19-20 lines, pagers and transportation. However they have refused to fund Wbmen, salaries or honoraria for RCC Sexual Terrorism and the State - Jan. 21 volunteers. In April 1988, the Ontario Search for the Mothers - The Coalition of RCC met with Our the Journey Home - Jan. 22-23 present Solicitor-General, Joan The theme of the conference was about the most important problems of immigrant women:- learning English and training and education programs to prepare women for entry into the workforce. The first workshop of the conference was the presentation and discussion of immigrant women's problems. At this time, many of the immigrant women presented their speeches prepared by themselves. They analysed causes and possible solutions. After this two interesting panels took place, one about E.S.L. programs. It was very important because in it was discussion about the possible deficiencies and problems of these programs. The other panel, about training and education programs for Smith requesting funds for staffing more information call costs, since many RCC's wereFor in (416) 654-2206 crisis operating without secure immigrants was the most important, because immigrant women questioned the policies of Canada Employment and Immigration regarding training staffing and with exhausted volunteers. Joan Smith established and FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION an Ad Hoc committee to meet with the MONTH - ACTIVITIES coalition and in June 1988 the coalition submitted a proposal for 5 Several activities produced by year funding for RCC's. The meetings groups in Northern. Ontario who also resulted in emergency funding received funding from the for several shelters (including Directorate took place: Women's Place - Kenora) to cover Public Forums (Beendigen, staffing costs. Family Resource Centre, After several extensions,Northshore it Sioux son -North Women in Crisis)has been announced by the SolicitorComite Contre la Violence Faitr, General's office that emergency aux femmes presented the play "Marc funding will continue until March et Julie" followed by a discussion 1989, and that they will not let any period. more centres close until year end, education the development of that society. The conference also gave great moments that the participants enjoyed. The...program...-includeal--cultural activity that presented folklore music and dance of Central America. Childcare was provided for all who needed this participants group produced a respond to the funding proposal Assault/Abuse this brochure which has been distributed year hospital emergency departments If you are in support to of and adequate funding for RCC's pleaseclinics in Thunder Bay. service. \*, to your local MPP and Warren's Place, Box 687, Kenora, Ontario P9N 3X6. for improvement of their situation so that they can integrate into Canadian society and contribute to The although they will not be able to Interagency Response to Wife send a letter to: The SolicitorGeneral the Honourable Joan Smith, Grosvenor St., 10th 25 Floor, Toronto, Ontario M7A 1Y6 with copies programs immigrants and they discussed their reasons for change. Then the women worked in small groups to make recourendations for After the November conference immigrant women will continue to work together to improve the situation of all immigrant women of Thunder Bay. If you are an immigrant woman and want to be involved call Maria Albizurez at 345-6084 for more information. Maria Isabel de Albizurez CONGRATULATIONS 901 Decade Council New Executive OF: Co-Chairpersons Gloria Harris Brenda Cryderman Secretary Roseann Perron Treasurer Jan Owen 10 CA 0 .1f..°'.1*.°' 000 40° 0116 (31. NOTICE This page is sponsored by the Ontario Women's Directorate. The material contained on it may be photocopied and distributed without y of Northern Women's ions will be ready for tion by the end of Thanks to those groups permission, but with credit to the original source or the Ontario the time to answer our naire. You will be Women's Directorate. your complimentary copy you know of anyone who interested in receiving a se call 345-6084 collect. This month's graphic courtesy of 2$T- :0 at' lazIT :Or 10 010:0 :Or Cbncetta PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor NORTHERN WOMAN page 5 �Update itro.44a4arworogovairoirowsrewee Arizona Gay Rodeo Association News January 13,14, & 15, Release: 1989 are the dates for the 4th annual Arizona Rodeo. The Arizona and the New Mexico Gay Rodeo Assocs. are woeking together to produce the ROAD RUNNER REGIONAL RODEO. This year the name is new and the rodeo arena is newly enlarged just for A.G.R.A. Visit and stay awhile: Make plans now to be in Phoenix this January for the fun of your life. Call or write: Rodeo Hotline. P.O. Box 16363, Phx., 85011, (602)938-3932. Az. PV4z4oJzpke044:04.0443+04,01=0(404-g40404:0 LESBIAN WRITERS! Women's Press is looking for manuscripts for a second anthology of writing by Lesbians about Lesbian experience. They welcome fiction, non-fiction, poetry. experimental work, erotica etc. Deadline is mid-January 1989. Contact Women's Press, Lesbian Manuscript Group, 229 College St., Toronto M5T 1R4 The National Association of Women and the taw (NAWL) has just come out with a new Publications List describing their excellent research papers and briefs in areas of feminist legal concern such ,aa abortion rights, affirmative action, reproductive technology, child care, prostitution, divorce, child custody, pensions, pornography, sexual aggression against women and children, and unemployment insurance. Most recent publications are on the Constitutional Accord, survivor's benefits under the Canada Pension Plan, and benefits for part-time workers. The NAWL Publications List is available through the NAWL National Office at #400 - 1 Nicholas St., Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 7B7, (613) 238-1544. t4c14,04e.oct.4o.treovsies4.044:>44:44:**A4:"-° A GUIDE TO FIGHTING SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN THE WORKPLACE by Bonnie Robichaud is part of a major public education initiative by the Ontario Women's Directorate. Through her own successful case against the Department of National Defence, Robichaud has become a symbol to all who oppose discrimination in the workplace. Of benefit to victims and advocates, this informative booklet is available for $3.95 (postage included) from the Bonnie Robichaud Defence Committee, P.O. Box 149. Osgoode, Ontario, KOA 2W0; (613) Do contact the Bonnie 826-2150. Robichaud Defence Committee if you would like to receive their Newsletter or would like to make a donation to this precedent setting case. c:r4r3+434041:00.04.4,+oar4,40-Iteec*obecy4.040 New Video CREATING LESBIAN MEANING Excerpts: anglophone lesbians at The III International Feminist Book Fair. This video is available in a global four-hour version or a complete version of each specific theme: memory, power, feminist and lesbian political strategies. Among the women featured are Anne Cameron, Sheila Jeffreys, Sonia For more Johnson and Mary Daly. information contact Rgseau VideElle, 4013 des Erables, Montrgal, Qug., H2K 3V7. The Sports illustrated ` Swimsuit Issue may be changed to a "Women and Sport" issue if the members of Athletes for Equality have their The organization is working way. to obtain fair and equitable coverage for women in sports, according to President Beverly Smith. "We are concerned that there are many gifted and dedicated female athletes who are not getting the coverage they deserve", states Smith. "We are also concerned with the presentation of female athletes as sex objects, as we feel that this trivializes their accomplishments, and leads to many misconceptions about women in sports." These include the myths that women do not take athletics seriously, and that women are more concerned about their appearance than about their abilities, Athletes for Equexplained Smith. ality, which was founded by a group of female athletes at the University of Massachusetts, welcomes others with similar concerns. Athletes for Equality works as a clearinghouse for sexist sports articles. These are distributed to members, who are encouraged to write to the publishers and/or advertisers, One of Athletes for Equality's main targets is the magazine Sports Illustrated. From January to April 1987, this magazine allocated only 5% of its total sports coverage to In addition, for professwomen. ional tennis, collegiate basketball, track and field, swimming, golf, horse racing, and skating-sports with widespread female participation, only 13% of the magazine's coverage dealt with women. In addition, ex- plained Smith, when Sports Illustrated does publish a story on a f( male athlete, they often do so ofi ensively, either blatantly emphasizing her sex appeal, or trivializing her commitment to her sport. An obvious focus is the Swim: In 1987 it features 42 pz Issue. ges of models in provocative pose: and minimal-coverage swimsuits. "For serious female athletes who train long hours to excel at their sports to be upstaged in a sports magazine by models chosen for thei appearance (not their athletic ability) is an insult to women," stated Smith. "In addition, the context of the photographs in this issue may be considered pornograpl is in their depiction of power, with nearly naked women posed witt fully-dressed men." Smith also pointed out the captions accompanying the photos: "Kathy is the catch of the day" and "Kathy... makes the Dog course...look very inviting." "These give men the false message that women encourage and enjoy ogling and harrassment. These types of pictures in a sport magazine encourage men to look at female athletes as sex objects, by giving the impression that, for example, women who run marathons do so to be attractive and sexy." Sports Illustrated sold 5 mil] copies of its Swimsuit Issue last year, and flooded television with advertisements. As yet, the magazine has been unresponsiVe to requests to cancel the issue or char it to-a "Women's Sports" issue. Athletes for Equality is urging p( ple to write to Sports Illustrate( corporate sponsors, asking them t( stop supporting Sports Illustrate( Advertising provides approximatell 95% of Sports Illustrated's financial support. Some of the major dertisers include Ford, Chevrolet Nike, Wilson Sporting Goods, and Athletes for E Eastern Airlines. ality is also initiating a petiti drive directed at the magazine it Petitions and addresses ca self. be obtained from Beverly Smith, a 98 Spring St., Amherst MA 01002. icrt0+04040.040401.6.Cirtio4o C.C. A. F. T "We're not through yet" declal Peggy Smith, coordinator of Thunder Bay Citizens Concerned About Free de. The local group, along with the national organization headed by SaE atchewan farmer David Orchard, are commited to "building a grass rootE organization whose goal is Canadiar independence". The national organi2 tion plans to embark on a cross -cot- try tour to develop public awareneE of what the trade deal truly means, and to encourage the continuation c the fight to stop the deal. During the fall Smith has traN led in the Maritimes and eastern CE ada organizing Orchard's speaking t Smith, and other volunteers, left it jobs or studies and dedicated tt, months to spreading the message abc the trade deal. Her car has become continued on page PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor NORTH :=RN WOMAN Tage.6 t �L. U. FIGHTS HARASSMENT by MYRNA HOLMAN On Tuesday October 25, 1988 Lakehead Unoversity was visited by Marilyn McKenzie, Sexual Harassment Investigator for the University of Manitoba. Ms. McKenzie was here to conduct two training sessions for employees who have been designated as contacts for people with complaints of harassment. A two hour information session for senior administrators was also completed. Ms. McKenzie dealt effectively with several myths surrounding the issue of harassment. She clearly indicated that releasing a policy and improving the profile of the policy will not result in a deluge of false People will however, complaints. be more comfortable coming forth with their concerns. She agreed with the Lakehead approach of instituting an informal process where people can talk about their experience without having to sign a complaint or "officially" deal with At the inthe alleged harasser. formal stage, the contact person dealing with complaint will be able to make suggestions, offer support and give direction. If the informal process does not produce a satisfactory result, the complainant will be encouraged to make the complaint formal. At this stage, an investigation into the complaint will be completed and the alleged harasser will be made aware that a complaint has been lodged. Ms. McKenzie's visit coincided with the release of a brochure outlining the Lakehead University Personal Harassment Policy which deals with all forms of harassment covered in the Ontario Human Rights Code. The Personal Harassment Brochure The bright orange is hard to miss. cover poses the question, "Who Can I Talk To?" Inside, there are examples of situations that might happen to staff, faculty or studThe brochure goes on to deents. fine harassment, outline suggestions for dealing with possible harassment scenarios, define the University stance on the issue and, identify three contact people who are trained to help. The contacts are, Myrna Holman, Human Resources Officer, Dave Parsons, Professor of English and, Joy Lawson, Director of Student Services. As well as releasing the brochure and providing training, several other initiatives are in the process of being implemented. A special project, funded by the Secretary of State has resulted in the hiring of project co-ordinator, Jane has recently Jane Livingston. designed a great poster which is prominently displayed throughout the campus indicating that harassment is offensive and unacceptable. She is also about to conduct a survey of staff, faculty and students to asses the incidence of harassment on campus. Jane will also be designing a career strategy project for female students. This project will start in January. Jane can be reached at 343-8022 and will welcome any suggestions or assistance you may have. Things are looking up at Lakeheadt C.C.A.F.T. cont'd. Stop The Deal Mobile, easily recognized with its bilingual signs of Save Canada - Stop Free Trade. "The response to our tour was incredible" Smith says. "All along the way new volunteers joined to help the tour. And we take credit for the dramatic drop in PC popularity in the OAITH Lobby by LENI UNTINEN On ,November- 28, .1988the,011tar440-- Association of Interval and Transition Houses carried out their annual lobby of members of the provincial government, on issues of concern to battered women and to shelters. Hopefully, political response to this action was more attentive than was the press. A prime concern of shelter boards and workers was the proposed funding formula for Transition Houses and Family Resource Centres. The inadequacy of the formula in terms of staff ratios, wages and definition of shelter services is a'major barrier to shelters being able to pro vide safe, accessible, quality services in keeping with the increasing demands. This, however, was not the only issue addressed. Press reports of the lobby could have better served battered women by covering other major issues such as the push by O.A.I.T.H. to force to parliamentary committee Bill 124 addressing access by non-custodial parents. Advocates for battered women have major concerns on the implication of this legislation for families where there is a history of violence. There must be an opportunity for public input and sending the bill to committee is the only avenue which allows this to take place. O.A.I.T.H. received commitment from opposition caucuses to such action. 'tatit Imes ." Sinittielfrettftt their (unfunded, volunteer) organization had had the time to travel the country the election results would have been quite different. She uses the election results in Saskatchewan as another example of the organization's effectiveness. CCAFT was founded in Saskatoon in 1983 and has been holding educational meetings and debates throughout the province in the last three years. The opposition vote in Saskatchewan was 62% and Ray Hynatyshyn, former Minister of Justice, and MP in Saskatoon, admitted his defeat was a result of the strength of the anti-free trade movement. CCAFT are extremely angry that the Liberals and the New Democratic Party appear to have given up the fi- Other issues addressed concerned services-for immigrant, Native and Francophone women; the threat to services for battered women by either free trade or for-profit privatization; inappropriate sentences afforded perpetrators of violence against women; and the demand for the release of a report compiled regarding the instances of police pressing charges in cases of wife/woman assault. The lobby organizers are to be ght against free trade. They point out commended for their efforts coordinthat 53% of voters chose the Liberals ating the focus of the 73 shelters and NDP, while only 43% voted Conseramd 6 organizations represented by vative; that over one million more O.A.I.T.H. as well as for their stroCanadians voted for the parties oppong demonstration of unmet needs, lack sed to free trade than for the trade of emergency beds and houses. Sheldeal Tories; that this election was ters were able to accommodate 8221 essentially a referendum on free trade women and their children in the past and the majority of Canadians clearly year, but unfortunately were forced voted against it. to turn away referBay elsewhere, The and Thunder group have alrea7594dy women, approximately one for met with MPs Lain Angus and Joe one. Comuzzi, The lobbyurging committee prepared the MPs to give leadhuge ership scrollsinwith the names of 7594 fighting against the trade womenagreement. and calledAsupon MPP's to ad- opposiwell as lobbying dresstion their responses to members these women. members, CCAFT are callWhile the earth did not be-them ing and writing Senators move to ask causetoof the lobby, the government did block the deal. not commitThunder to openBay either the public CCAFT will be meetminds purse, hearts their ing their regularly to or plan local activities the voices of advocates were heard, and cooperative action with the nationand the pain of women experiencing For more information al organization. violence at the hands of part- St. contact Peggy Smith, their 301 Cameron ners,Thunder was felt. Bay, P7C 2H1, phone 623-1120. 1, page NORTHERN WOMAN evaluation PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �8 WOMANPOWER (bon M/A) I toil along weighed down within my eatthey body, Tiled spitit searching sot the wett-wotn path and cti46 beyond. Some strength inside remains to push me even, upward Through the dense and hostile bush, Tit I can stop and test in that cleaning Mete Hope hangs warm and musky in the ait. (Az I climb, the Power grows gtaduatty sttongel) She us in the warmth oi the suntight that glides outside a cloud and tipples along my ctouching back. She is in the coot damp eatth that I gtasp beneath my sctambting hands. She titts het sweet siten sounds through the panting ofi my .labour, and {tom the ctiii above me. I zee het in the tich sag 6/towns oi Moth et Earth that suit/wand and encompass me. She ptay.6ut in the small-animat sounds that ctackte around me. (Az I teach the top, the Powet grows mote coniident, comes neaten) She inteteaus tightly with my ttembting .6ingetz. She is so6tty on my patted tips tike a gentle wind. She sweeps through my tired veins and gtowz strong and con4ident in the warm inside o6 me. Sift y, she cavort t6 on that ptateau and draws me taughing to the. na 4-tzP, (I beet the ptimat cart begin to gather deep within) I Anise my arms made strong high above me, Firm palms outzptead with welcome, To invite the body-seating joy to join and zttengthen me. Ftom deep inside and all around the primal Powet gatheAz iotth Hex drat buAzt. The hilts, the white-tight sq,the zpatkting emetatd Land gash with my enetgy my vatidity my competence my strength. sttong gowing, gather up my eaittht.Tpatp, down the path once mote. 1%4 Swe song upon my tips, sentry smite within' my thtOat, To goat above, and then to mesh with time Untit I need again the welt -warn path and eti44 beyond. Hea - ' . R.P. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �WORDS WE LIVED BY... The following is excerpted from the Ladies' Guide, a popular reference book of the 1890s. tal weakness and inactivity. Unnatural boldness in little girl. If she has previously been rea. The expression of the eyes. The dull, lusterless eye, surrounded by a dark ring, tells the tale of sin. EFFECTS OF SOLITARY VICE IN GIRLS served, this is just ground for the Palpitations of the heart, hys- suspicion of secret vice. teria, nervousness, St. -Vitus's The victim of this evil habit is cer- A forward or loose manner in company with little boys. Girls dance, epilog, and incontinence addicted to this habit are guilty of the most wanton conduct. Languor and lassitUde. In a girl who has possessed a marked de- bed. tain to suffer sooner or later the penalty which nature invariably inflicts upon those who transgress her laws. Every law of nature is enforced by an inexorable penalty. This is emphatically true respect- vvv and pains of which girls complain, dn....-. IN ....J..% HEALTH AND DISEASE, by no means easily ject slavery, the iron fetters of habit daily closing the prisoner more and more tightly in their grasp. The effect is to weaken the moral sense perhaps more rapidly than any other vice, until there is little left in the child's character to which an appeal can be made. load, iligdenhcol,- 1V1ifthood, which thousands of girls break down in health. The constitution, already weakened by a debilitating, debasing vice, is not prepared for the strain, and the poor victim drops into a premature grave. which when thoroughly estabterrible vice is held in the most ab- 4 LADIES' GUIDE worthlessness of girls originates in this cause alone. The period of puberty is one at The habit of self-pollution is one broken. The victim of this most us that a great many of the backaches, side-aches, and other aches are attributable to this injurious habit. Much of the nervousness, hysteria, neuralgia, and general HOW TO CURE VICIOUS HABITS lished, is ing the laws which relate to the sexual organs. Wide observation has convinced of urine, giving rise to wetting the kat eilac:i BY J. H KELLOGG M. D The mother should first carefully set before the child the .exceeding sinfulness of the habit, its loathsomeness and vileness, and the horrible consequences which gree of activity and energy, this should give rise to earnest solicitude on the part of the mother for the physical and moral condition follow in its wake. But in most cases, the evil is not so easily of her child. every moment of her waking alert to detect the first evidences of An unnatural appetite. Some- this vice in their daughters, since later nothing but almighty power times children will show an exces- hours. Care should he taken that the child dies not feign sleep for the purpose of gaining an opportunity to avoid observation. SIGNS OF SELF-ABUSE IN GIRLS Mothers should always be on the seems competent to loosen its grasp. The only positive evidence is detection of the child in the act. A suspected child should be watched under all circumstances with unceasing vigilance. [But ] aside from positive evidence, there are other signs which may lead to the discovery of positive evidence. A marked change in disposition. When a girl who has been truthful, happy, obliging, gentle, and confiding, becomes peevish, irritable. morose, and disobedient, she is under the influence of some foul blight. Loss of memory and loss of the love for study. The nervous forces -are weakened, giving place to men- sive fondness for mustard, pepper, vinegar, and spices. Little girls who are very fond of cloves are likely to be depraved in other respects. The presence of leukorrhoca. Self-abuse occasions a frequently recurring congestion of the parts, together with the mechanical irritation accompanying the habit. Ulceration about the roots of the nails. This especially affects one or both of the first two fingers of the hand, the irritation of the fingers being occasioned by the acrid vaginal discharge. mastered. The little girl should be kept under constant observation It is much more difficult to cure this soul-destroying vice in girls than in boys. They are seldom as ready to confess their guilt as are boys, and then are less easily influenced by a portrayal of its terrible consequences. Sleepless vigi- laqce must be coupled with the most persevering patience. In obstinate cases, severe means must be adopted. We were once obliged after every other measure had failed, to perform a surgiral operation [clitoridectomy] before Biting the fingernails. The irritation of the tigers, which gives rise to the habit of biting nails, grows out of the irritable condi- we were able to break the habit in tion ,of the nails mentioned above. degree. the case of a girl of eight or ten years who had become addicted to the vice to a most extraordinary szo PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISIONNORTHERN PDFCompressor WOMAN page 9 �continued from p2 The past four years of Tory rule has demonstrated an unprecedented move toward privatization, with the resulting loss of jobs in the public sector, and contracting out to nonunionized agents (where women workers earn barely the minimum wage). With the right of national treatment and the right of establishment provisions of the trade agreement, American pressure will reinforce the already odious privatization of the Tories. With increased privatization everyone suffers. We are not simply talking about selling Air Canada. We are talking about the privatization of services -- health care, social services, education, day care. Workers will suffer job loss, lower wages, decreased benefits, inadequate health and safety workplace conditions. Consumers will suffer because the quality of service will decrease. WORKING CONDITIONS Free trade is about "competition". To be competitive Canadian workers (women and men) will be under assault. Wages, working conditions, health and safety standards will all be eroded in the name of competition. On average, Canadian workers enjoy better employee benefits, more regulated health and safety standards, than do American workers. But as Ralph Nader said you never harmonize up, you only harmonize down. As with social programs, worker benefits and protection will be eroded. This erosion will affect non-unionized workers (the majority of women) first, but even organized workers will be pressured to give up hard-earned gains. EMPLOYMENT EQUITY/PAY EQUITY We will be lucky to retain the concept of 'equal pay for equal work' much less advance the concept of 'equal pay for work of equal value'. Pay/Employment Equity is not addressed in the trade agreement. It doesn't need to be. It will be the business lobby that will demand the government backtrack on its (inadequate) commitment to employment equity for the disabled and visible minorities, to pay equity for women. It will be too "expensive", just not "competivie" to ensure justice and dignity for disadvantaged Canadians. DAY CARE With a majority government the Tories doubtless will reintroduce TheearGAMTO'f Bill C-144, the JOBS Thousands of Canadian women will lose their jobs in services, manufacturing and agriculture because of the trade deal. The majority of women are employed in the service sector and their jobs will be threatened as restrictions on the provision of services from outside the country are removed. Just about every type of service can be traded internationally, including banking, data processing, telecommunications, computer servicesa and culture. In the manufacturing sector it is women's jobs that are most at risk eg textiles, clothing, food processing, electrical and electronic products, and other consumer goods. It is speculated that in Thunder Bay some 200 manufacturing jobs will quickly disappear -- jobs held primarily by immigrant women. disasterous Child Care Act, that died when the election was called. Two things should be kept in mind regarding this child care legislation. Firstly, the promotion of the Tory plan is a fine example of the newspeak the government is capable of, when declaring the proposed child care act "will encourage economic justice and development by giving many more mothers a chance to join the workforce" (CJ July/88). The legislation does no such thing. Rather this new bill will restrict the expansion of day care spaces. Remember that 1,000,000 new day care spaces are needed today to even approach the needs of Canadian families. Under the existing Canada Assistance Plan it is projected that 300,000 new spaces would be created in seven years, but under the new act a limit of 200,000 new spaces will be imposed. This is regressive legislation which will only worsen the day care crisis that already exists. The second thing to remember is the refusal of the government to consider the advice of child care experts (who unanimously condemn the plan). "Why should I listen.." Brian Mulroney arrogantly replied during the TV leaders debate. Since the Tories are not listening to the child care community, we must ask just who they are listening to. Consider the links to free trade. Bill C-144 would give unprecedented tax support to commercial day care operations. The doors will be open to American day care chains... with their history of exploitative wages and poor working conditions for staff, and lack of quality care for children (never mind the indoctrination of American culture on three year olds). Commercial day care has never been a problem in Northwestern Ontario... we must recognize that the influx of American day care chains could destroy the quality day care Northwestern Ontario communities now take pride in. ABORTION What will happen here is not so easy to read. There are, of course, significant numbers of anti-choice Tories and Liberals. The Conservative Cabinet yearns for a "compromise" solution, but given the abortion legislation exercise witnessed last summer, a simple compromise seems unlikely. One suspects that most Tory men would like strong anti-choice legislation, but their legal experts caution that such would not pass Supreme Court scrutiny. About the only safe presumptions are that (1) abortion legislation will not be introduced early in this government's term; (2) that anti-choice crusaders will increase their efforts to influence parliament, and (3) that the prochoice movement still has many years of hard work ahead. continued on p14 Comparable worth is just a disguised attack on our free enterprise system. It flies in the face of the values that made this country great? 1\( C.itrot4v.5imsev PDFNORTHERN compression, OCR, lo web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor WOMAN page �Book Review Reviewed by Kit Minor A Passion for Friends: Toward a Philosophy of Female Affection. Janice Raymond. Beacon Press, Boston, 1986. I found this one of the most moving texts that I have read in many months. It definitely should be on every Feminist bookshelf. The New York Times states that Raymond provides "an unsentimental, playful yet sobering look at female friendship through the ages." She begins the book with an intriguing and informative look at the origins of female friendship and the roles which they have played through the centuries. She develops terms such as Gyn/ affection for those tremendous bonds that bring women together. She is clear and well documented in her analysis of the myths that have been perpetuated concerning women and our role in hetero-relations, i.e. the wide range of effective, social,political and economic relations that are ordained between men and women by men. Music Review Raymond particularly attends to two groups of women, nuns and the Chinese marriage resisters, to emphasize the characteristics of female friendship and also points out clearly the struggles which these two groups have had to endure to retain the friendship and the chosen lifestyles. Although these two groups offered to women a community, Raymond is careful to point out that this does not necessarily mean a Feminist community. She cautions, "feminists can learn that when a movement or women's community becomes hardened into rhetorical positions, when the language of thought and cliches begins to prevail, there is no genuine feminist movement." (pg. 111) The obstacles to female friend" ship which Raymond introduces are indeed thought provoking and ,indeed, she does challenge some of the "gi- vens" within a feminist perspective. One of these areas is the "personal is political". To this Raymond asks do we really want to publicize our personal lives. She supports the need for private space and time while living in the world as opposed to dissociation from reality. She points out that if we are not in reality we may well become ignorant of the real conditions. The part of A Passion for Friends which had the greatest affect upon myself was that of victimism. "Women's primary female or feminist identity seems to be grounded in women's shared state of having been victimized by men" (pg.181). We then take on the traits of the victim and begin to centre our friendships along common lines of that victimism. Our friendships result out of how we feel as victims. The result is that we fall into the tyranny of therapist, where feminists feel that we are not completely whole unless we search deep into our souls and spirits and pull out every dark shadow. The real_ty here is that after we have done this we very often end up in worse shape than when we started. Raymond also challenges the tyranny of tolerance where we as feminists put up with incompetence among other women because we tolerate the situation and silently DITYMITT.7177711701NMETTMITTITCM #x7 , a a a a 1111 I, W nfth help, Ar mm "m;#, sense oi betonging, an otganization az needed ptace of equatz where att were we come middte point equally distant 4tom att sides ptace where ate sides were allowed thein iocu4 L/ , C/ A) by JANE SAUNDERS The women's music industry which has been in existence for 15 or more years, has evolved into a major facet of women's culture. The number of artists and the quality of production has greatly increased. Two recent albums from a couple of women's music regulars are Deidre McCalla's WITH A LITTLE LUCK (Olivia Records 1987), and Heather Bishop's A TASTE OF THE BLUES seniousness and 6tivotity teach out and allow to be /Leached the embtacing o6 .idea, oi spiALts a sense oi betonging, potiticat the need waz thete a sense o6 ziztethood AegaAdtess of potiticz my 6ocuz het limo Nth iOCU4 no tonget a community, a meeting peace no tango equatty distant atom alt side's (Iceber:;g Records 1987). Deidre McCalla has been on the women's music scene for many years, touring, and playing small clubs with mixed audiences. In the last few years she has really come into the limelight with her debut album DON'T DOUBT IT (Olivia Records 1985), WITH A LITTLE LUCK is very similar to DON'T DOUBT IT with its' dancable, energetic style. Both are very professionally produced by long-time women's music singer and songwriter Teresa Trull. WITH A LITTLE LUCK has all of the qualities which make women's music great. It is womanly, loving and reflective with strong personal and mildly political views. Deidre's voice weaves through the ballads TOO GOOD, MAMA'S LITTLE BABY GIRL, AND WAIT UNTIL MORNING. Then there is the 'hot' Teresa Trull duet WOULD YOU LIKE TO DANCE, and the punchy, upbeat blues tune THE CAT SONG (for those who have lived with other peoples cats). Also, there is the upbeat dancable pop style ALL DAY AL- 1114 11 114111 1212ZIMIZZ The album has a well-rounded variety of rock, blues and country/folk. It is a successful follow-up to her smash first album. Deidre McCalla is a very popular women's music entertainer who is energetic, personable and very professional (and woman produced and managed). HI sjiglizati INS 41 Heather Bishop's TASTE OF THE BLUES is a continuation of the stylish trends apparent in her previous album I LOVE WOMEN WHO LAUGH, and blends with her older music as well. This album contains rock influences, discusses lesbian/feminist politics and portrays women as strong builders and healers. Those women's music connoisseurs who know Heather will not be disappointed (and for those less fortunate, there is no better place to start). My personal favourite on this album is the cute, stylish and humourous SEDUCED. The new upbeat sound of ON THE RUN AGAIN is typical of Heather's new style trend. IF YOU LOVE FREEDOM is destined to become a political anthem, and the blues tune TELL ME MORE AND MORE must be heard. Heather also pulls out and revamps some 'oldies' PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor NORTHERN ( +/OMAN page 11 �Book Review continued from p.11 ranny of therapist, where feminists feel that we are not completely whole unless we search deep into our souls and spirits and pull out every dark shadow. The reality here is that after we have done this we very often end up in worse shape than when we started. Raymond also challenges the tyranny of tolerance where we as feminists put up with incompetence among other women because we tolerate the situation and silently accept it. It has become unfeminist to speak out against a woman, particularly a feminist, even when the woman is incompetent, manipulating and may well damage the movement. "The tyranny of tolerance deprives not only the individuals but also a political movement of its capacity for discernment. It gaps a moral passion and purpose from feminist politics" (pg.171). These obstacles, to female friendship (and these are lust a few of the many which Raymond points out) keep us from the true power and caring which happens when women come together. The obstacles hasten us towards heafero-relationism and silence within the world. And yet, as Raymond points out Gyn/ affection "has given us an understanding that a life of mere survival is insufficient for the spirit" (pg.200). In a vision of a female friendship Raymond points out that there is no magical formula, nor should it be taken for granted that women have a natural possession of virtue. "Rather it is anchored in the historical, cultural and material bonds that women have created for ourselves in spite of the 'State of Atrocity "'(pg.218). She encourages the reader to vision and to develop "thoughtful theory one that restores the thoughtfulness to thinking. Or better still, thinking is the theory, thoughtfulness Word Search Women Authors J YKSNELFRASERSSWD IAREVLISNOSTAWHL CULLETONSGIEMITAA N NAERCUNXONOSYORN E AWESTGIOMHEMMOVO RMUNROHGFTMSROFO D U KFBBUTALALLCRRRE AITKENONNIEONAANC L NNOCRNAPGNOTNBWT MARLATTPNNSWRNEDE W ILSONEEEIOUYIAWR B SBARRBLLOBSNEDAW G RSOJRLLDLPZRDLRR AEAAECALLAWSNEELR U BCNNNIFGESYNADAA L KGADDSEICONWAYNC TBEILTOGBROSSARDA Music Review continued from p.11 1 such as Joan Armatrading's TAKING MY BABY UPTOWN and a sultry version of Leslie Gore's YOU DON'T OWN ME. On the heavier side is the song DAD DY'S LITTLE GIRL; similar to Lucy Blue Tremblay's VOIX d'ENFANT (A CHILD'S VOICE) it decries the horro of incest. Rounding off the album is Heather's classic SPIRIT HEALER. A TASTE OF THE BLUES captured the vocal power of Heather Bishop's singing exactly as I heard it on he This alspring of '87 album tour. bum is a must for Heather Bishop fans. the practice" (pg.218). She encourages us to include passion within our friendships but points out that time is a critical factor. Friendship takes time, thoughtful passionate friendship takes more time, thought and caring, and commitment from both. Friendship is a togetherness journey. I obviously enjoyed this book immensely. In fact I read it twice. It is one book that I know I will reflect back upon and will want to reread every so often. At times the book is painfully truthful, and then Raymond has a wonderful gift of being able to see through the pain to a vision of truthful friendship; however somehow through the writing the reader begins to form her own idea of friendship. Raymond asks some hard questions, which most feminists are just too polite or silent to ask, but she asks so gently that the reader gets a sense of having gone through the struggle, feeling good about that struggle, and thinking a lot more about thoughtful, passionate, caring friendship with women, and taking the time for those friendships to grow. Aitken (Johan Lyall) Allison (Gay) Alley (Jennifer) Anderson (Doris) Atwood (Margaret) Barfoot (Joan) Barr (Elinor) Beadle (Gert) Bersianik (Louky) Bertell (Rosalie) Blais (Marie Claire) Brand (Dionne) Brossard (Nicole) Burnard (Bonnie) Butala (Sharon) Carr (Emily) Conn (Jan) Conway (Shelagh) Crean (Susan) Culleton (Beatrice) Danys (Milda) Decter (Ann) Donald (Christine) Engel (Marian) Finn (Geraldine) Finnigan (Joan) Fox (Bonnie) Fraser (Sylvia) Gadd (Maxine) Gault (Connie) Gotlieb (Phyllis) These albums and more will soon be available in the Northern Women's Bookstore. Watch for advertisement. in the Journal or contact Margaret Phillips at the Bookstore. Harvor (Elizabeth) Jiles (Paulette) APOLOGY Laurence (Margaret) Lenskyj (Helen) Marlatt (Daphne Meigs (Mary) Moran (Mary) Munro (Alice) THE NORTHERN WOMAN JOURf APOLOGIZES ABJECTLY Naubert (Yvette) O'Connell (Dorothy) Oughton (Libby) TO Page (P.K.) Roy (Gabrielle) PHOTO ARTIST Sand (Cy-Thea) Silvera (Mikeda) Slipperjack (Ruby) Smyth (Donna) Swan (Susan) RUTHANN TUCKER OF TORONTO Thomas (Audrey) Wallace (Bronwen) Warland (Betsy) Warren (Dianne) Watson (Sheila) Weinzweig (Helen) West (Ann) Wilson (Ethel) Wiseman (Adele) Yanz (Lynda) FOR FAILING TO CREDIT HER WITH LAST ISSUE'S COVER PHOTO. 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VIDEO: $2 EACH DAY 16 mm: $4-$8 service charge, valid for five days (excluding time in transit) Available for pick-up or by mail from all NFB libraries in Canada. Buy a video for as little as $29.95; film prices start at $72.80. Members of the NFB's Women's Market Development Group are located in NFB offices across Canada. They can help you select films and videos for your group or event. See "National Film Board" listed under the "Government of Canada" section in the blue pages of your telephone directory. r 7 I'd like to know more about NFB films for women . Please add my name to your mailing list announcing new releases and send me a copy of your video rental catalogue. Please send me your new catalogue of films for women (available in early 1989). Please send me the new publication Women Breaking Through, a 28-page audiovisual guide for secondary schools. MAIL TO: National Film Board of Canada, Women's Market Development Group, D-5, P.O. Box 6100, Montreal, Quebec H3C 3H5 NAME INSTITUTION POSITION ADDRESS PROVINCE CITY POSTAL CODE National Film Board of Canada Office national du film du Canada L NORTHERN WOMAN page 13 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �continued from n.,10 CANADIAN CULTURE FEMINIST LITERATURE Over the past decade the growth With good reason, Canadian wriof feminist literature - the heart, ters, artists, musicians, have been amongst the most passionate opponents head and soul of the feminist moveof the trade deal. This article canment - has been phenomenal. Hundreds of new Canadian women writers are pubnot begin to address the issues surlished each year, women's presses have rounding our cultural industries, developed, and feminist bookstores except to note that - despite government rhetoric - Canadians, indeed, have sprung up across the country. The contribution of this surge of wrishould be fearful for the future of our cultural industries. ting - both creative and theoretical is immeasurable. But if the ConservaWe need also to make a distinctives have their way this continued tion between cultural industries and growth of feminist (and alternative) culture. We must understand the threpublications will be hampered, perhaps at to Canadian culture, as expressed by Martin F. Katz in the November iskilled outright. sue of Quill and Quire. Katz states High on the Tory agenda is the "Culture is that bedrock of shared implementation of tax reform which beliefs and understandings that alwould replace the federal sales tax lows Canadians to exchange ideas, with a new broad-based, multi-stage Feelings, and priorities about busitax which would apply to books. (At ness and poverty and the role of the present books are not taxed.) It is military and social justice and the projected that this new sales tax woenvironment and gun control and equuld add a tax of between 17% - 20% on ality, for example. This bedrock of all reading materials. (Your $9.95 understanding - of common or similar Almanac will become $12, your $22.95 goals and principles - constitutes Our Bodies, Ourselves will be $27.50, the foundation of our culture... To even the least expensive paperback the extent that the trade deal will will increase $1 or more.) import into the Canadian cultural bedThe end result will be that many rock some of the basic and fundamentsmall Canadian presses (which, in the al economic principles of American main, are the publishers of new women life, it will subvert or alter the writers) will go bankrupt. Most of development of this culture. Once we the independent bookstores in Canada accept, for example, as we have in will close. Most Canadian women writhe trade deal, that regional deveters won't get published. Our words lopment programs distort "free trade" will not be heard. while military installations that Periodicals will be likewise afbrings jobs and prosperity to the comfected. And the "unfair subsidy" ismunities in which they are establishsue of the trade deal may come into ed do not, the way we think about govplay. Most Canadian literary and speernment spending', among other things, cial interest magazines now receive changes. This kind of 'change in our government subsidies, and their futthinking means that our culture will be ure is in jeopardy. The demise of HERaffected by the trade deal." izons and Newsmagazine for Alberta Women is fair warning of what happens NORTH ERN WOMAN'S BOOKSTORE 184 Camelot St Calendars when subsidies are withdrawn. (As th Northern Woman Journal does not acce government funding we may survive th fate of subsidy-dependent magazines. But we, like every periodical in Can ada, enjoy a postal subsidy, which most likely will disappear, thus the Journal may have to pass resulting cost increases onto our readers.) If we want to continue to have a choice beyond Cosmopolitan or Hust ler, we must all join the DON'T TAX READING campaign presently being organized by Canadian publishers and booksellers. It is particularly ironic that the government proclaims to be suppc tive of programs that address the pr blem of illiteracy, at the same time it plans to impose a tax on reading. Misinformation Campaign The federal election is over. The Conservatives waged (at taxpayer expense) a misinformation campaign about free trade, a misinformation campaign about their child care strz tegy. We can expect a similar misinformation campaign about tax reform and other new policy initiatives. The Conservatives do not have a mandate for their agenda (57% voted against the Conservatives, 43% for). They do, however, have the power to impose their agenda as they have the majority of parliamentary seats. The have the power to destroy the modest reforms the feminist movement create The power to destroy our culture, ou identity, our country. We must not let this happen. Now more than ever, we must advance a feminist agenda of the futur We do not have the financial resourc of government - of big business. But we have our commitment. It is our fu ure that is at stake. CHILDREN OF THE WORLD AFRO-CARIBBEAN CALENDAR MOON CALENDAR CARRY IT ON .. PEACE CALENDAR LET NICARAGUA LIVE AT LOVERS AGAINST THE BOMB CRYSTAL CALENDARS LUNAR CALENDAR DATE BOOKS PICTURE A WOMAN EVERYWOMAN'S ALMANAC CONTEMPORARY WOMEN ARTISTS HERSTORY PEACE DATE BOOK WE'MOON ALMANAC 1 9 11 9 CALENDAR Thursday & Friday : 11.30 -600 WOMEN ARTISTS DATEBOOK WOMEN WRITERS Saturday :11.30 -4.31 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor NORTHERN WOMAN page 14 �Ferron By Donna Koivisto "We love you Ferron:" a female voice cries out from a back row. There is some applause and a few whistles. Ferron puts her hands on her chest, lifts her eyebrows as if to say, "Who me?" Then she leans close to the mike and says softly, "I love you too." The intensity and poetic magic of Ferron's music has earned her It is in acclaim across the world. this spirit that Kamazon Productions is proud to present an evening with Ferron, tentatively scheduled for February 14, 1989. Originally from Vancouver, B.C., Ferron has progressed from coffee houses to sellout crowds in 2000 seat venues. Het two albums, Test imony and Shadows on a dime have sold more than 80,000 copies. However, despite success Ferron has maintained a low centre of gravity and an interview with her would more likely focus on the metaphysical, dreams or the mystery of songwriting than on tour schedules or record She is, in fact, an intimsales. idating figure to unenlightened "I'm a spirit who bereporters. came a person." She said in a recThis philosophy ent interview is not condusive to mainstream news reporting. Concert Planned But her substantial talent, wisdom and compassion have brought her above the need for media categorization, yielding fans who have remained unshakably loyal to the feminist/lesbian bard. Perhaps Ferron's hardest task was becoming the self-assured performer she is today. "When I was younger I was so afraid of the audience, because I needed their love so much," she says, "It took me a long time to realize they did love me." This bond of love between Ferron and her audience evolved because she is simply herself. Amid the stren strength of her poetic words the audience senses her vulnerability and honesty. "They honour me and I honour them." But I don't ionget about the iacto4y, I don't expect thi.z 'tide to aLway4 be, Can I give you what you want to zee? Can we do it one mate time? Tickets for Ferron will be available For more information phone soon. Kamazon Productions at 344-4811. Bookstore News Let's start with fiction this month. Heading the list of course is Margaret Atwood's new novel CAT'S EYE. (McClelland and Stewart) I've been saving it as my Christmas treat to myself, as I'm told once you start it you can't put it down. Of particular interest to Northwestern Ontario readers will be Ruby Slipperjack's HONOUR THE SUN (Pemmican), a first novel which gives us a glimpse of growing up in an isolated native community on the CNR line. From the eyes of a 10 year old girl we see the beauty, the pathos, the joy, the dispair of coming of age in an alienated community (so familiar to Northern Ontario). HONOUR THE SUN is not a gentle book, yet it is told in such a gentle voice, I'm left with a sense of awe. Several new titles from the small Saskatchewan publisher Coteau Books who in the past have given us such impressive books as Sharon Butula's QUEEN OF THE HEADACHES, and THE WEDNESDAY FLOWER MAN. This year they give us two short story collections that sound great: WOMEN OF INFLUENCE by Bonnie Burnard, and BEST KEPT SECRETS by Pat Krause. The most powerful indictment of violence against women I've ever read (and I've read many) comes from the novel WOMAN AT POINT ZERO (Zed Books) by Nawal el Saadawi, (translated from the Arabic by Dr. Sherif Hetata). el Saadawi is Egypt's foremost novelist. Her prose is magnificant but it is her passion that makes her books exceptional. We are very happy to find a number of great books back in print. Three of Margaret Laurance's early works - THE TOMORROW TAMER, THIS SIDE JORDAN, and THE PROPHET'S JMEL BELL. And finally I've had Lhe chance to read Marian Engel's THE GLASSY SEA - a very, very fine novel. Also PATIENCE AND SARAH by Isabel Miller, considered by many to be the best lesbian novel ever published. Turning to non-fiction, a title we mentioned last issue but one that bears greater description, THE COURAGE TO HEAL by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis (Harper and Row) is a guide book for women survivors of child sexual abuse. This is a practical and healing guide covering Recognizing, Coping, Breaking silence, Trusting Yourself, Grieving, Anger, Self-Esteem, Feelings and much more; as well as guides for supporters of THE COURAGE TO HEAL is survivors. proving to be a vital resource to survivors and counsellors. Two new books on date rape, both useful healing and prevention resources. I NEVER CALLED RAPE, the Ms. Report on Recognizing, Fighting, and Surviving Date and Acquaintence Rape by Robin Warshaw (Harper and Row), and WARNING: DATING MAY BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH: by Claudette McShane (Mother Courage Press). _Following in the path of tne essential health book OUR BODIES, OURSELVES, comes an equally important resource for midlife and older women, OURSELVES, GROWING OLDER, by Paula Brown Doress and Diana Laskin Siegal and the Midlife and Older Woman Book Project (Simon and SchusThis is the only book I've ter). found that gave me useful information about a recent health concern, I'm sure this comprehensive book will be equally welcomed by other mature women. Another new health book is ALIVE AND WELL, a Lesbian Health ,Guide, by Cuca Hepburn, Ph.D. with Bonnie Gutierree, R.N., CPNA (Cross"...a well-informed, ing Press). loving guide to lesbian health, both mental and physical. Rather than to prescribe specific health care, the goal is to present a range of health care options for losbians to considet:" Finally, for last minute Christmas shoppers some gift ideas: Motherpeace Tarot Cards and/or Playbook; records/cassettes by Kim Erickson, Karen Howe, Cathy Miller, Heather Bishop; posters, or any of a wide variety of calendars and date books. Or, if your imagination falters, give a gift certificat to the Northern Woman's Bookstore. HAPPY ROPY ROLINYs' Mar Phillips PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor NORTHERN NOMAN oaae 15 �Share your innovative and original expressions with all of us -7- same deal! him-tech YES INDEED WE NEED TO KNOW YOU'RE OUT THRRE We can be Our subscripticn lists are now on computer. Please date with our mailings. more accurate and up to check your label to see if your address and expiration date is correct. We haven't heard from some of you in a while. 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Not only did it serve as a newsletter to keep local women up to date on feminist issues in Northwestern Ontario, but also as a safe space to discuss women’s resources, law, politics, economics, health, racism, sexism, homophobia, feminist organizing and activism, transnational feminist issues, poetry, feminist reading, feminist art, and women’s diverse lived experiences.One of the longest-running feminist perodicals in North America, the Northern Woman Journal reached its end in 1995. Throughout its 22 years, the Northern Woman Journal was produced by its many collective members, with membership evolving year to year. For many years, the journal worked closely alongside and shared space with the Northern Women’s Centre and the Northern Women’s Bookstore. With the exception of a year-long government grant in the 1970s, the journal relied entirely on subscription fees and donations in order to maintain publishing, which presented challenges throughout its entire existence. 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Title A name given to the resource Northern Woman Journal, Vol 11 No 4 Description An account of the resource Vol. 11, No. 4 (December 1988) Title: Northern Woman Journal Topics include: Newly elected conservative government Threat to social programs Privatization Winter solstice Spoken word The power of storytelling Rape Crisis Centre funding crisis Family violence prevention month Immigrant women’s conference National Association of Women and the Law Sexual harassment in the workplace Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue Call for lesbian stories for Women’s Press Thunder Bay Citizens Concerned About Free Trade Lakehead University harassment prevention workshops Transition house lobbying Poetry Job availability Working conditions Pay equity Employment equity Daycare acces Abortion access Feminist book review of A Passion for Friends: Toward a Philosophy of Female Affection by Janice Raymond Music review National Film Board of Canada films for women Feminist literature Ferron concert Northern Woman’s Bookstore news Authors/Contributors: Josie Wallenius Ontario Women’s Directorate Myrna Holman Leni Untinen Kit Minor Jane Saunders Donna Koivisto Carolyn Greenwood Mary-Ann Kleyendorst Jonie Mace Loretta Pavan Margaret Phillips Rose Pittis Cynthia Stolz Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Northern Woman Journal Collective Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1988-12 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Published on this site with permission. Language A language of the resource English https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/16/2803/1988_Vol_11_No_3.pdf c064bc5d77f3f0fedf7ce78e4ccd7ba3 PDF Text Text Volume 11 No.3 Thunder Bay, Ontario Northern Woman September 1988, Journal $1 . 5 0 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �the Canada Council that will allow me to travel across the country for interviews and research. If anyone is interested I can be contacted at the address given, and I will explain my project in greater detail and make arrangements for an interview. All information will be strictly confidential and no names will be printed. Thank You Dear Editor: What were you doing during the Vietnam War years? I am collectingpersonal experiences of all facets of Canadian involvement in the war for a book to be published by Harbour in the fall of 1989. Because war is such a male dominated subject, I have to go out of my way to locate women with stories to tell. I found the address of your group through Fem/Direct and am writing with the hope that I may find some women who were involved. For example: relatives of those who fought, medical personnel serving in Vietnam, anti-war activists, women who left the United States in reaction to the war. Would it be possible to put my query in your publication? Even posting my letter on your bulletin board would be helpful. So far there has been no popular overview of how Canadians were affected by this war and I feel very strongly that this is a story that must be told. I have joist received a grant from Jean DuGal 4876 Saskatchewan Ave. Powell River, B.C. V8A 3G4 Our Voice Letter sent to the Northern Women's Centre from the Northern Woman Journal Collective. To Northern Women's Centre Collective: This letter is intended to outline to Women's Centre members our decision to leave the collective space previously enjoyed by Northern Women's Centre, Northern Woman Journal, and Northern Woman's Bookstore. In order to ensure that our feelings are deal ly understood by the Northern Women': Centre Collective we ask that this letter be read into the minutes of the August 2, 1988 business meeting, posted at the Centre, and be includec in the next Centre newsletter. As a collective we feel that oux Ifirst priority is to provide a feminist press alternative for all women. In order to do this the collective requires a space with positive feminist energy. We feel that the Norther Women's Centre is presently unable to offer us a space with this feeling an indication of this is that the rel ationship between Northern Women's Centre and the Northern Woman Journal has deteriorated to the point where we no longer share collective space but exist as landlord and tenant. We had originally arranged to meet with the Northern Women's Centre. Collective after the potluck on July 19, 1988 in order to communicate our intentions face to face in a feminist way. However, we have been forced to deal with this in a patriarchal mat because we were not invited to address all of the Collective members present at the potluck. We hope that this letter and our move will encourage dialogue within the Centre towards regaining the positive energy of which feminists are capable. We see this as a positive step that will allow us to recreate the energy needed to continue publishing the Journal. 1 1 Kim Erickson Seeks iViembers For New Women's Choir YOMEN MUSICIANS WOMEN MUSIC WOMEN ART Women's Music and Art Kim Erickson is back in Thunder Bay after an intensive year of vocal study and composition in Holland. She is now in the process of forming an acapella (unaccompanied) women's choir. Repertoire would include Ukrainian and Balkan music, Kim's own compositions, and African-influenced pieces improvized with the help of the group, and requiring both movement and"body" percussion (hand claps and foot stamps) from the singers. The aim is to begin to uncover what is Women's music today, by building on the lost and dying traditions of our past, Major requirements for potential members are a love of music, singing and moving, and an openness to exploration in this area. It is also helpful to have a good ear and a sense of rhythm, as well as some music-reading skills. Both amateurs and professionals are welcome. Members must be willing to commit an evening of their time every week. A first meeting is currently being organized. If you are interested or require more information, please call Kim at 768-0934. (Don't be shy!) Prehistoric Egyptian terra, cotta figurine fashioned from Nile mud, circa 4000 a C. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �FREE TRADE : By: IS IT A WOMEN 'S ISSUE ? Peggy Smith I recently returned to Thunder Bay, my home town, to take up studies at Lakehead University in the School of Forestry. I have been active since 1985 in the fight against free trade in Citizens Concerned About Free Trade, an organization which originated in Saskatoon. I was dismayed to find almost no organized opposition in Thunder Bay to free trade and was somewhat surprised because Ontario is supposed to be the heart of opposition to this deal in 4' and to isolate groups opposed to the pending talks.... For special interest groups, the documents propose that in many cases the best tactic will be to 'divide and neutralize' groups that oppose the free-trade option.... Canada. Recently there has been a spate of publications about women and free trade and the formation of a new group, Women Against Free Trade. Facing the imminent implementation of the free trade agreement in January 1989, the urgent need for a united opposition to defeat the deal before its implementation by forcing the Conservative government to hold a general election, and this focus on women and free trade has prompted consideration of the question, "Is free trade a women's issue?" Through an examination of the women and free trade publications, an interview with a founding member of Women Against Free Trade, attendance at a Thunder Bay lecture billed "Women and Free Trade," and a brief examination of the practice of Citizens Concerned About Free Trade, I hope to demonstrate that free trade is not a women's issue, but an issue about the survival of our country which should be addressed as such by every Canadiaecitizen--women and men. To ensure we have control over the future direction of Canada, we must stand united against this deal and be aware of how the deal effects our national direction, rather than simply our individual directions, whether as women, workers, consumers, farmers, Native people, or business people. This is not to deny the importance of fully understanding the implications of the free trade deal for each Canadian or particular groups of Canadians, but to narrow the scope of the examination of the deal, or to fail to put an examination of the deal in a larger context, and, worse, to limit that questioning to a particular group will lead to ineffective opposition at a time when a strong, united grass roots movement among Canadian people will be the only action that will stop the giveaway of our country. ..ineffective opposition Knowing the Conservative government's strategy to sell free trade to Canadians reinforces my concern about how best to oppose the deal. In 1985 a secret Conservative government document outlining the government's strategy was leaked to the Toronto Star (Sept. 20/85): The program calls for Prime Minister Brian Mulroney to focus exclusively on the possible benefits of free trade, to avoid mentioning possible job losses, to discredit Liberal and New Democrat MPs who raise concerns about the free-trade negotiations 'Such an approach must take full account of the risks inherent in the issues while ensuring that a positive, confident tone is projected--a sense of real opportunity for Canadians in all regions to advance their own best interests.' the government has followed its strategy to the letter. The Tories have in place a wide-ranging publicity campaign to "sell" free trade, to the tune of millions of dollars of taxThis campaign payers' own money. includes the production of glossy pamphlets addressing particular groups, including one entitled "Canada's New Free Trade Agreement: How It Benefits Canadian Women." In it the government promises: Canadian women will share. in the growing economy that Free Trade will bring.... Free trade means: more and better job opportunities for women and men; lower consumer. prices and greater choice in goods and services; retention of our Canadian values,institutions, and social programs; higher family incomes; and wider economic opportunities for our children into the 21st century. Sleep comes no easier after reading more about the government's secret strategy: At the same time, a substantial majority of the public may be willing to leave the issue in the hands of the government and other interested groups if the government maintains communications control of the situation. Marjorie Cohen has made a tremendous contribution to the debate on free trade. An economist who has spoken publicly against free trade, written an essay "Women and Free Trade" in Duncan Cameron's The Free Trade Papers (James Lorimer, 1986), published her own book Free Trade and the Future of Women's Work (Garamend Press, 1987), made a submission to the Parliamentary Hearings on Free Trade on behalf of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women in 1987, she has pointed out how the free trade deal will affect women: It will increase women's unemployment; it will confine women's work to an even more narrow range of occupations than we already have; it will adversely affect women's ability to pursue better working conditions through unionization; it will accentuate the wage gap between males and females; and it will inhibit the effective use of social policies to correct labour market inequalities between males and females. Also, we think it will increase the privatization of social programs. She explains her interest in free trade and women thus: All problems should be of interest to women, particularly those related to the economy, because women more than men are liable to be Zong to the Zowincome group that has the most to lose through this initiative. (Address by the National Action Cttee to Parliamentary Hearings.on Free Trade, November 5, 1987) But it is just this narrowing of focus to how free trade will affect women that has led to shortcomings in her analysis and limited the audience she is able to reach. Her book Free Trade and the Future of Women's Work gives information about the Canadian economy that is general and should be read by all Canadians, but how many will pass it over because it deals with "women's work"? By narrowing the focus of the book to women's job losses in manufacturing and the service sectors, questions, distracts tne reaaer Irum drawing conclusions about overall job losses, national sovereignty, and the source of the free trade push: American multinationals with their Canadian subsidiaries and government supporters in both the U.S. and Canada. Describing the effects on the food processing industry, Cohen states: The Canadian Food Processors Association estimates that twenty plants will close and production will become more concentrated in a few large plants. This would mean an immediate loss of many product lines and about 3,000 full-time jobs. (p. 30) She gives one line to what I would consider the crux of the problem, Canada losing control over its food supply: In particular, Canada would cease to be self-sufficient in a number of fruit and vegetable commodities. Rather than examining the implications of Canada losing control over its food supply, a problem exacerbated by treaty terms covering many other food production areas, Cohen concludes: The loss of employment in the food processing sector would affect women in manufacturing across Canada because the industry is regionally dispersed with plants located in every province. After a thorough analysis of U.S. corporate interests in various service industries from health care to child care, and hinting at the potential of free -trade in services- If free trade in services is negotiated so that the right of national treatment and the right of establishment are guaranteed, we may well see more of our health care privatized and being carried out by American health groups. p 76)-con't on p13 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor NORTHERN WOMAN adge:3 �FEMINIST BOOK FAIR By: Margaret Phillips There were more books than any feminist could read in a lifetime. Thousands and thousands and thousands of books. There were 275 publishers and 212 authors from 55 countries. And hundreds more women - booksellers, translators, editors, artists, actors all gathered at the 3rd International Feminist Book Fair in Montreal June 14-18, 1988. And we read and we talked and we listened and we struggled and we laughed and we cried, as we celebrated the vision, the courage, the strength, the creativity, the passion of feminist writers. "Feminist consciousness stimulattansgtessive, and Vihtes subvetzive, tualy otigina/ thought in us. We ate constantly called upon to innovate, to invent strategies and novel positions, and to petceive new, appeating sounds. Like an opera o- desite, that each one (16 uz can syntonize in evety language, these sounds modulate out voices and send them resonating out oven teatity." SISTER VISION PRESS is a teAtection o4 OUA tives as non-white women in this country. It teptesentz QUA ongoing smuggle sot survival and visibitity in a society that is tac-1st, aeassist, sexist and homophobic. We cute pubtishing in a countty that stite denies that &tacks once existed as staves o6 white people hete. A country that whispeA that people o4 colour have no histoty here. A countty whete the powets that be think it is a waste (,4 time {yon stu- dents to teatn about the histoty o4 the Native people, the Japenese people, the Chinese people and the many other Thitd Wottd peoples who tive in Canada." (SISTER VISION PRESS) ARNAWALE 1.414.f.61110TE DWAU 19 AdIV 1968 tvIONTREAL (Nicole Btossatd) 'ONLYWOMEN, Btitain's sore lesbian tishets) whethet ditectey thkough toss o4 otdets PLUM Local tibtaties and {funded bookshops, ot inditectey through a process o4 set4-censotshi) 4tom bodies which don't 6cLet undet the ptovision o6 the new taws. OWL publishing venture chattengez these teatities and out Aeminism is the bl 6tom which we work. We betieve we can and do speak to a growing nor bet o4 women and we'te determined t( shout SHEBA 4tom the too4tops." (SHEBA - FEMINIST PUBLISHERS) But there were yet more publis hers to discover. I only regret tha being unilingual I was unable to fu ly appreciate the extensive Quebeco feminist literature or the Latin Am erican and European publishing. But I welcomed the chance to learn abou Kali for Women (India); Tana Press (Nigeria); New Women's Press (New Zealand); the University of West In dies Press --- and to meet writers publishers from the Phillipines, Zii babwe, the Caribbean and Central Am ica. The Fair was an amaging event. Superbly organized with the leadership of Ariane Brunet and Diana Bronson and the help of hundreds of volunteers. As a bookseller/reader the Trade Show was sufficient joy in'itself. (I found at least lop books I want to make available to Northwestern Ontario readers. rrIrhaV-e-IQG-old tteg-e-titIes in stock by the end of September and another 100 by November - I promise you.) The first two days of the Fair were closed to the "trade" with workshops specific to publishers, editors, booksellers, etc., and organized and spontaneous meetings of bookstores and periodicals. (There will be a Canadian Feminist Periodicals Conference in 1989!) There was time as well to bookbrowse and to talk to the publishers to meet the women from the small presses that make a feminist bookstore possible. Our Canadian feminist presses: Sister Vision, Women's Press, Press Gang, Gynergy/Ragweed, Lilith the new Native press Write-On, and Theytus - who along with Pemmican give us the opportunity to obtain Native women's writing. From the. U.S. were Firebrand, Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, Spinsters/Aunt Lute, Cleis, Seal, Naiad, the Feminist Press, Chicory Blue. From the U.K. Women's Press, Virago, Onlywomen, Sheba, Feminist and Ireland's Attic Press. These are the presses that are the "heart" of women's bookstores. These are the presses that make women visible. "We (SISTER VISION PRESS) ate Canadian Aeminist pubtishets whose ptiotity iz pubtizhing books by Btack women, Asian women and Native women in Canada. We wanted to devetop a press that ... wowed date to take tusks, a press that wowed work with wtitetz in Canada, aftitets who _Ott they had nothing to say, but whose vow lives spoke volumes. We knew we didn't want to sepatate activism Atom wtiting Understanding that the "price one book equals one-tenth of one's monthly wage" (Donna, Stree lekha, India) makes you more aware of the challenge being met by Third World publishers. '60)t (14; eadit6.7o6 what u have done in the past {yew yeah, is contained not only in the books we have pubtished, but art in the acts vibes and debates we have patticipc ted in, the matetiaes we have devetc ed, and the links we have sttengthey ed with the movement. Thus 4ot us, the Autute o6 KALI does not only mec mote and mote books and subsequent-et, (hope6utey!) commetciat success ... it also means a steady, setiouz and growing potiticat commitment." (KALI FOR WOMEN, INDIA) We (SHEBA) want to be bad and put ounsetves on the intetnationat map, make mote connections actoss continents, get out books better known and say loud and cleat that 4eminist publishing can be both a successAut pa-Uticat and business project. SHEBA is at the centte 06 CUA working and potiticat lives and yet we ate ate 4otced to seek wotk etsewhete in otdet to survive. Such 416 the nature (16 smart publishing evetywhete Let us be cream: Btitain today suiAetz Ptom racism, otchesttated backlashes against lesbians and gays, and an incteased economic division between those who have money and powet and those who don't. Ctause 2g, which wowed ptevent Local authonities atom 'ptomoting homosexuatity', on suppotting 'ptetended Aamities', win aiAect pubtishing, (and especially Important and exciting as the trade days were the essence of an International Feminist Book Fair emploded in the final four "public" days, through workshops and panels on the themes of Memory, Power and Strategic of Feminist Consciousness. "Memoty is a theatte o4 the bod the Ainst stage in teptesentation. Whether we tike it on not, memory is always with us, just beneath the sot Aace (,4 the skin: prickly, embedded, tenacious as a sea etch in, OA Zustto tangoutouz supple as sick .... with the help o4 wotds and images, we jou ney .through the ptimotdiat landscape 06 memory: a (w)tite:o4 passage thto ugh ptivate and cottective tettitoty on which ate based QUA certitudes an out dreams. In memory we bind the se tet Aite that consumes out energy wh le simuttaneousty teptenishing its intensity." (Nicole Btossatd) con't on p12 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor ANT tin& 'Wahl page 4 �RESOURCE CENTRE Ontario Women's Directorate SUMMER EXPERIENCE 1988 Summer is slowly coming to an end and so are the community Summer Experience programs sponsored by Ontario Women's Directorate and Ministry of Skills Development. Thanks to Decade Council, Faye Peterson Transition House, Atikokan Crisis Centre and Chadwic House, Wawa for providing excellent projects with positive working and learning experiences for young women. Periodicals - Soon to be available - Resources fc,r Feminist Research - Healthsharing - Breaking the Silence New Audio-Visuals - Doing It Ourselves: 20 minute VHS about rural women in Huron County, their concerns and self help groups formed during the project. New Books Taking Sex into Account: Policy Consequences of Sexist Research, CRIAW Best' wishes to Delene Devisscher, Barbara Grace, Cheryl Kitzel, Margaret Campbell and Catherine Pappas (OWD) as they wrap up their work, pack up their belongings and begin another year in university. UPCOMING EVENTS Laval University research group on women's issues 12th Annual Conference of Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW) Date: November 11, 12 and 13, 1988 Theme is Women .1.1c1 Development: Women from Here and Elsewhere Telephone: 1-(418)-656-2832 Colloque 88,47 Conference in Longlac sponsored by Francophone Women of Geraldton, Nakina and Longlac. Date: September 16, 17 and 18 Employment Equity Workshop for employers - re: Women and Native people at Ramada Inn, Thunder Bay Sponsored by Ontario Women's Directorate Date: November 4,1988 Workshop for Parents, Teachers and other Professionals - TEENAGE DATING VIOLENCE Date: October 12, 1988, Valhalla Inn For further information call Charles Casselman, 623-2218 COVNUNITY CONSULTATIONS Women from Kapaskasing, Kenora and Thunder Bay met on August 10 to preview television ads produced by Ontario Women's Directorate to be aired during November 1988. These ads are part of the Directorate's campaign to encourage us all to realize that as a community we must take responsibility for the prevention of violence against women and that batterers must be held criminally accountable for their Women's Reality: An Emerging Female System in a White Male Society, A. Schaef Women and Poverty, University of Chicago Press Feminism in Canada from Pressure to Politics, Black Rose Books Ltd. NEW VIDEOS Here Today Where Tomorrow a 26 minute docudrama designed to assist young people, especially girls, with career preparation. The video is complemented by group discussions with teenagers commenting on school, relationships and the impor An excellent resource or guidance counsellors and teachers. A teacher guide is available. An Even Break - 22 minutes. This management training video speaks to the issues of disabled, visible minorities and non-traditional work for women in the workplace. A joint effort of the Directorate and the Oshawa Group, the video is aimed at private and public sector management levels where hiring decisions public. ,Thank you to the women who provided us with their special insight of this issue and their positive discussion and feedback. OWD received an overwhelming number of applications for grant funds from groups across Ontario to provide public education programs in their communities. Northern Ontario groups to receive funding are: Northwest Atikokan Crisis Centre Hoshizaki House, Dryden Rainy River District Committee on Family Violence, Fort Frances Geraldton Family Resource Centre Kenora Family Resource Centre Northshore Family Resource Centre, Marathon Women in Crisis, Sioux-Hudson North Beendigan, Thunder Bay Comite Contre La Violence Faites Aux Femmes, Thunder Bay Interagency Response to Wife Abuse/ Assault Group, Thunder Bay Decade Council/Faye Peterson Transition House Northeast Union Culturelle des FrancoOntariennes, Chapleau Elliot Lake Women's Crisis Centre Pavilion Family Resource Centre, Haileybury Habitat Interlude Family Resource Centre, Kapuskasing CMHA Family Resource Centre, Matheson Manitoulin Haven House Inc. Weechakewen Centre, Moosonee Nipissing Transition House/Family Life Centre, North Bay Esprit Place Resource Centre; Parry Sound Sturgeon Falls Family Resource C Violence, Sudbury Centre de Counselling Familial Timmins Inc La Federation des Femmes Canadiennes Francaises, Sudbury ' Good luck to all of you. Please call our office with any questions or concerns you might have and remember we have publications and a resource centre available,to you. are made. Women in Ontario - 12 minute video dealing with the expected life patterns of 100 teenage girls based on recent statistics regarding women in terms of marriage, child bearing, sole support parenting, the workforce, divorce, etc. h40-4.-6-49-9 NO T I CE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY March 8, 1989 The Ontario Women's Directorate, Northern Office has some funds available for International Women's Day activities in Northern Ontario. For further details contact 345-6084 actions. One ad is aimed at women; the other at men. Both will be available in French, and English. Brochures in Greek, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and Chinese (Cantonese) will also be produced and available to the FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION MONTH - NOVEMBER This page is sponsored by the Ontario Women's Directorate. The material contained on it may be photocopied and distributed without permission, but with credit to the original source or the Ontario Women's Directorate. NEW FUNDING PROGRAMS Federal Childcare Initiatives Health and Welfare Canada will fund childcare projects and programs which assist in the development of new services and enhance existing ones. The focus is on unique needs and underserviced areas. Eg. native children, special needs children, part-time and shift work services, rural and flexible services, etc. $100 million is available over 7 years. For information and application forms contact: Childcare Initiatives Fund Health and Welfare Canada Brooke Claxton Building 6th Floor Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 1B5 (613) 954-8255 Telephone (613) 957-0638 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy NORTHERN of CVISION WOMAN PDFCompressor )9w. �WOMYN'S MUSIC: By Jane Saunders and Keri Shephardson This year, Olivia Records celeThe brates its 15th Anniversary. incorporation of Olivia Records officially marked the start of the "Womyn's Music" recording industry. Prior to that time, in the late 1960's and early 170's, there was some activity in New York, led by Alix Dobkin, Kay Gardner and Maxine Feldman. Their pioneer efforts have long been recognized as important and it is only because of the early diligence of these and other women that music has become a significant component of the growing womyn's culture. Who are the people involved in womyn's music? After 20 years of womyn's music, we have 2 major rec ord labels (Redwood and Olivia), numerous smaller independant labels and many networks, large and small, throughout the United States and .Canada which help spread o'ir womyn's music and culture. There are many more people involved with womyn's music than just the artists themselves. There are producers and managers Evand promoters and distributors eryone involved in any capacity has helped the "womyn's music" industry grow to what it has become today. What are the elements which make womyn's music truly unique? (unique that is to say, a music not "popular", not supported by the public at large, not in the "mainstream ", not the dominant'style of music - an alternative form of music.) One need only turn on the radio or watch a music video to experience the derogation of women that is promoted by the popular music industry. The "good girl/ bad girl" dichotomy, the "metal queen" and the helpless lover/ victim are all negative stereotypes which are continuously reinforced in the mainstream. In contrast, womyn's music exposes the listener to real life, positive, healthy women of all ages, walks of life and character. I believe this to be the most appealing element of womyn's music. In addition to reinforcing positive role models, our inter-relations are celebrated, our struggles supported and our spirits set free to explore and expand. Our celebration of sisterhood is often the subject of song - "Every Woman", and Southern gospel-influenced Teresa Trull classic and Holly Near's "You Bet". Meg Christian's haunting "The Rock will Wear Away" explores our life cycles. Our caring and love for one another is expressed often and with great musical richness. Margie Adam's "Tender Lady", Holly Near's "Rock Me in Your Arms" and Cris Williamson's "Waiting" are only three of the gems from which to choose. Social concerns ranging from nuclear war to farming and prison to Vietnam highlight many women's songs as well. Works like "Fight Back" (Holly Near) and "Woman's Anger" (Heather Bishop) have become anthems in our struggle against daily oppression. Meg Christian's poignant "Rosalind" is a strong statement in interracial relations. Similarly, "Child" by Holly Near and "A Child's Voice" by Quebec native Lucie Blue Tremblay address the tragedy and horror of child abuse. While there has always been a mixing of styles from the past, a topic of more current interest (the last five years) is the influence of mainstream music, as seen in the albums "A Step Away" by Teresa Trull and "Don't Hold Back" by Holly Near° Although this potentially dangerous musical/political move may seem unfounded, the natural progression of certain artists to explore and accept the influences of more mainstream sounds is a healthy one. In order to grow, all artists must change and expand their musical horizons. In do soing, the resulting product of newer sounds within older styles is an exciting one. Musically, each singer/ songwriter has her own style. It is a joy for the avid listener of womyn's music to learn the distinguishing elements which make each artist unique. For example, Cris Williamson's earliest heartfelt albums. "Cris Williamson" and the classic "Changer and the Changed", present a musical style relying on emotion and'vocal power. Her progression from the mellow rock album "Blue Rider" to the present "Prairie Fire" and "Wolf Moon" albums clearly demonstrates her musical growth. While continually changing the sounds of her music, Cris williamson has retained the ability to 0 In many cases, womyn's music had become a vehicle for women to make known their political and social concerns for our world. Fundamentally, womyn's music has some musical ties to folk music. Like folk music, womyn's music grows as part of the tradition of a community or group. The reliance on aural transmission of the music, passing on "by word of mouth" so to speak, follows folk tradition as well. Musically, these two styles share a concern for melody, the expression of a story, feelings or characters through lyrics and comparatively simple music is an example of the similarities between womyn's music and folk music. However, each individual who has contributed to the development of womyn's music has brought her own style and musical influences. Musical elements from jazz, pop, rock, classical, gospel, country, blues, acoustic, Latic and ethnic styles are not only abundant but essential in any discussion of womyn's music. write songs in her original style, that of simple yet beautiful melody and innovative choral progressions. Meg Christian's melody writing truly magical. Her guitar accompani ments are sensitive and technically impressive. Most importantly, her musical observations of relationshi life and human nature, which she ex presses through song, are valuable ones. Meg's songs showcase her sens /f humour ("Ode to a Gym Teacher"), her sense of self recognition ("Tur ning it Over"), and her growing sense of spirituality PS heard in t ethereal"Darshan". Womyn's music fans anxiously await Meg Christian' return from her journey of selfdiscovery. While we wait, we have a wealth of songs to discover and fully appreciate. Holly Near - musician, poet, a tivist and dramatist - has done muc to bring womyn's music to the "outside" world. Her concerns for our world and our movement are reflecte with style and distinction in her a Musically, her choice of colourful chords, finely crafted melody lines and accompaniments and word paintin making the music sound like the wor musical onomatopeia so to speak. make her style ecclectic and progressive. From many of her earlier al. bums, Holly Near has given us some womyn's music classics. "Imagine My Surprise" and "Something About the Women", to name only two, are insightful poetic statements which gi, us strength and inspiration. One of the most powerful voice: in womyn's music today is our ox(/.4,,,, Heather Bishop of Woodmore, Matitob( With depth and insight, she sings of Canadian life and pride, as well as our environment, our land and our foremothers. Becauc2 The is influenced by many types of music, her style is a memorable and widely appealing one. Although these women are all vc successful, there is more to womyn's music than the individual success of each artist. The sense of community which evolves around the many artist serves as an inspiration to us all. On many of the early albums, artists combined their talents; Meg Christie "I Know You Know" and Holly Near's "Imagine My Surprise" are only two examples of the collective effort. This continues today as female producers, recording engineers, arrangers (Mary Watkins is one of the best and studio musicians combine their talents to produce the high quality recordings which we buy. Many women artists own and/or operate their owr recording lables: Heather Bishop (Mc they of Pearl Records), Alix Dobkin (Women's Wax Works), etc. The use of such alternatives to relying on the mainstream, heavily male-dominated recording industry ensures that womyn's music can be recorded and dist/ ibuted while maintaining its inherer integrity. The variety and, diversity of womyn's music is wonderful!! For those who have musical tastes which incluC any or all of jazz, rock, country, new-age, reggae, classical, gospel, traditional music, there are many female artists who perform in these styles. Jazz music fans will undoubt edly enjoy Rhiannon and Alive, who recently opened at the Montreal International Jazz Festival. con't PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor NOFTH,ERN WOMAN pag e 6 �Women's Music (continued) o o763AYeko 0,samagx°_,Gvb_,A6v0.4"V 'k0 Deuce, a jazz-funk instrumental duo from New York, is one of my favourite acts at Michigan and on record. For those who enjoy the healing properties of music, Kay Gardner ushers in the New Age, as does Beth York. Cassleburry and Dupree is a fine reggae duo, mixing rhythm, social issues and politics in music. Of special mention is Canadian dub poet, Lillian Allen of Toronto, who is a vibrant performer and creator of musical/poetic art. Pianists/singers Margie Adam and Debbie Fier both blend jazz and acoustic styles into smooth, easy-going instrumental/vocal music. Sweet Honey in The Rock is an a capella group which combines the gospel style and social politics encased in lush harmonies. For easy listening, soft rock/pop vocalists, Lucie Blue Tremblay, Deidre McCalla, Hunter Davis and Jasmine are unbeatable! For those who prefer rock, Tret Fure and Sherry Shure (Cana dian) are both fine performers in this These are the lyrics to an original composition by Jane Saunders which was performed at the recent London Status of Women Action Group 10th Anniversary Celebration by the choir Womyn's Voice. OUR SISTER1100D FOA too Long, Out voice4 have been zitent, We were Living in the datk, We knew nothing oA out power, Then we iat the zpatk. area. Unfortunately, few written resources exist on the subject of womyn's music, Of those that do exist, many of the writings are contained in books which feature womyn's culture, including arts and literature. "Our Right to Love" is a genuine treasure chest of infor- The 6paniz butzt into Lame, The game grew into tight, And now we know That out voicez ate out tigh;('-.. ma tion. We witt We witt Fot out Fot out Possibly the best written resource is the "Lady slipper Catalogue and Resource Guide" - an annotated catalogue which lists musical and literary recordings by women. This publication profides advertising and an ordering service for mghy women-run alternative labels. Hot Wire, the Journal of Women's Music and Culture, is an excellent quarterly focusing on all aspects of womyn's Although only a few artists have been mentioned, countless women exist who are developing their own style of "womyn's music". Some of these women have recorded and distributed their music; some play in coffeehouses and at marches or rallies; some play only for themselves and friends. Wherever women are performing music - by, for and about women - womyn's music exists and will be passed on to entertain, inspire and enrich all who have the opportunity to experience it. zing out Loud, zing out proud, STRENGTH FREEDOM Fait out SISTERHOOD. NottThey 5peafz o6 Love, They zing of batttez we have And of 4ttuggtes yet to come, And they zing o6 ptide. OA ptide Sot what we ate, 0A ptide dot what we'LL be, Out 6eatz have kept us bound, Now out zpitit zetz uz 6tee. We witt. zing out Loud, Ne witt Fot out Fot out Fot out zing out proud, STRENGTH FREEDOM. SISTERHOOD. References: 1. Ladyslipper Catalogue, 1987 c. 1986 Ladyslipper Inc. 2. HotWire Volume 4 Number 3, July88 3, HotWire Volume 4 Number 2, March88 fATAO* Northern Woman'sBookstore CONGRATULATES Ruby Slipperjack ON THE PUBLICATION OF HER NOVEL HONOUR THE SUN PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor NORTHERN WOMAN'. 'peccie.' �'Ike World needs the. love of a ree woman The world needs the Cove of a free woman not the love of a good woman there's already too much of that good woman's Cove waiting in the bantustans while her husband's soul is mined deep in South Africa. input* of the love of n. good. woman Jar in the dark my at a high small window Lying on a bed Ct131.419 in her steep not to disturb the others. The world needs the love of a free woman but early to the suburban gleam assisting the suds and cleansers at their chores to the woman whose dreams are dried and stacked on tininatufate shelves her mask now fixed for the trick the hoax the stench of tile's betrayat a curse without deftance. Poor bitch, gnawing at the bars of your penalty tour children know the love that cuts the heart of the holder tts dishevelled fogicat madness. The world has seen and seen dui one who keeps these things in her heart she kneels beholding the bleeding feet of her boy Messed ddrt Thou Among Women and never a nuisance. Me. world needs the love of a tree woman t4410 jOrtfltVeS nod. but. doesn't ask. him for an explanation for her brother's murder her daughter's rape her mother's unrepresented fife. She speaks loud naming ties she moves deartng the piercing forest of guns and crosses held aloft she works pfanttng the hopes mut jatilu.n9 fram. tha Ficarczan the thoughts of the free. women rising to mullions from this shantytown an Peacock Ciutstrhurch, batfiados PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor NORTHERN WOMAN page 8 �What " you Were Both Too young' really tans 't was his cherished. doff, To dress up and show off 'lo all his frtetuts, fifteen at a sittuig-'lake some money.' he soul Buy a dress so 1. can take you to the bars." but 1. bought a dress for farriilii werldtruis And a matronly bathing suit That my mother's boyfruend nut& fun of. 't was his kitten An amusement for the bribil gunny and wild kitten aro-wing placid and fat. The kitten never knew its place And once '4 saved. its Itfe (from gun) When it took, one situ* bite from his barely-alive houseplants. 1. was the dancing chicken Scratching neat little ink treatises Ile couldn't read. 'it's good.' he'd say " but what does it mean?" fie was proud of me without Ever understanding he was afraid. of me, unable 'Jo rapture my thoughts. peturtratert nul soul, Thrusting fits sword Itn-tit 1. lay bleeding The depth of the wound It)as the measure of our love. Susan Gothns Life Ln the Valley 'The woman who rented my old apartment getttru3 married., she came there. a tsar a9o, haul.; with grief and tears. 't could tell by her dainty ttuncing walk and pampered skin it would not be long before some old soldier saw fits duty and gave her fragile helpless hands some mascuttrie support. A winter in her mobile home in Florida produced the reason for this giggling oldster who is now selling off every memory of her and. Papa, 1 bought her old eight tracks heavy with nostalgia. and Vera Lynn. fle is there beside her, Cooking good carrying out what she names the garbage. it's like. starting over she chirps and 1 can see that it is a new chapter in an old song, but the tune wilt be the. same. 'lakes me wonder what madness makes some of us see no virtue in fragile need when its so productive. aert Beadle PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor NORTHERN WOMAN txtae 9 �Set Back For Day Care! By: Margaret Phillips On July 25, 1988, Bill C-144 (the Canada Child Care Act) was introduced in the House of Commons. At the time of writing this article (Sept. 5) tht Bill has passed second reading and is before Committee. It is expected to receive third (and final) reading in mid-September, and with the massive Conservative majority the Bill will undoubtedly pass. If this Bill is enacted it will set back the development of day care for decades. The hyperbole surrounding the introduction of this policy camoflagues the reality of its intent. This legislation will, in effect, restrict the expansion of day care. What it means is that this legislation is WORSE than no new legislation at all. While there are many aspects of this legislation that are flawed, the most serious problem for Northwestern Ontario day care is the restriction placed on the province concerning child care spending. The existing system, the Canada Assistance Plan, is an open-ended cost-sharing between the federal and provincial governments. Thus, the responsibility for day care expansion rested on the province. When the province expended day care services the federal government was required to contribute its 50% share. Under Bill C-144 ceilings are placed on what the provinces can spend. It is suggested that because of this restriction the modest expan sion plan of the Ontario government must be cut-back by 15%, and that Ontario's current planning presumes this restriction. The effects of this cut-back are already being felt. Limitations on subsidy-spaces have been imposed on many day care organizations including (for the first time in memory) the City of Thundey Bay. Across Northwestern Ontario existing day care services are experiencing extensive waiting lists. The demand for expanded services is obvious NOW ... a restriction on expansion will exacerbate the crisis. Bill C-144 has many other flaws. It fails to recognize or support the diversity of needs for high quality child care services across the country. Bill C-144 lacks national objecNational objectives and federal criteria for provincial participation in cost-sharing are essential features of other effective national social programs in Canada. Without the inclusion of strong guiding principles setting out a long-term vision for a national child care system, Bill144 will entrench the current fragtives. Decade Council The Northwestern Ontario Women's Decade Council will hold their Annual Meeting on Saturday, October 22, 1988 at the Airlane Hotel - Tiberio Room. Decade Council has undertaken a number of special projects. FREE TRADE AND PRIVITIZATION: A WORKSHOP FOR WOMEN will be available at the Decade office by the end of September. The package contains background information and discussion papers, a quiz, Fact Sheets, Quotes from politicians, publications, position papers and notable Canadians. The kits were developed through the summer with money made available from a SEED grant and Kirsty Barclay and Cathy Woodbeck were the principle authors. The project was undertaken to demystify the Free Trade agreement and to help women make an informed decision about this issue. The package/kits will be presented as a workshop at Decade's Annual meeting. MUNICIPAL/EDUCATION ELECTION BROCHURE "Ask Your Candidate": Through the summer Lynda Falvo worked on nreparing the issue sections of the election brochure for the upcoming municipal and board of education ele ctions. Background information and questions focus on: Economic Development, Women and Decision Making, Housing, Violence, Child Care and Employment Equity. The guide will assist women in assessing a candidate's position on women's issues and help her make an informed choice. This work Tins also made possible through a SEED grant. WOMEN IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND DECISION MAKING: a report was researched and prepared by Barbara Grace to understand how effective women in decision making positions feel they are. Approximately 100 questionnaires were distribute to women on various economic decision making bodies across Northwestern Ontario.'Ques tions focused on how women felt about their involvement and participation in decision making. The results of the questionnaire were written up in narrative form, to make up the bulk of the report. The Economic Development Committee plan to study the report in the fall and make recommendations prior to publicly releasing the document. Funds were made available for this project through the Ontario Women's Directorate. BOARD. DEVELOPMENT Throii-,h fundirw from northern Development and mented approach to child care in Cana A further problem is that this r legislation appears to leave low income families vulnerable. Under the Canada Assistance Plan low income families were assisted with child car costs. Bill-144 provides no guarant( that such assistance will continue. The provision of public funding to for-profit (commercial) day care operations is of immeasurable concert to day care advocates. All research demonstrates that, on average, the quality of care in commercial centre! is inferior to that provided by nonprofit services. (Child ratios, staff training, staff turnover, health and safety, wages and working conditions are all quality factors.) Bill C-144' support for commercial day care, coul led with possible free trade scenarios, can see the infusion of large All erican day care chains, which will create serious problems for years to come. Also lacking from Bill C-144 is any provision for enhanced maternity leave, parental leave, family responsibility leave. These aspects must be addressed in an adequate day care policy. For the past four years day care parents, workers and advocates from across Northwestern Ontario have taken every opportunity to put forward our vision of a comprehansive, highquality, non-profit day care system that will meet the diverse needs of Northwestern Ontario children and fan It is obvious that the federE ilies. Conservative government have ignored our recommendations. Bill C-144 is a serious set-back to all who desire social policy that will ensure our The children receive quality care. enactment of Bill C-144 will clearly be a disaster. It is the well-being of our children that is at stake. Mines a video is being produced to b trAed as a board training tool for bo ards of Transition Houses and Family Resource Centres. The package will cover a history of the battered women's movement in Northwestern Ontaril and the issues of violence against women. SOCIO ECONOMIC PROJECT: the Economic Development Committee is under taking a seven month research projec that will guide Decade Council and tl Committee to address and adequately represent the issues and concerns of Northern women as they pertain to so cio-economic development. It is anticipated that this information will a so provide local, provincial and federal governments with a clear pictur of the identity of women residing in Northwestern Ontario and thus enable them to formulate and implement more appropriate and relevant policies. Copies of RUN TO WIN, a how to manual for women running for municipal office are available at the Decade office. For anyone who has not already purchases a copy of NORTHWESTERN ONT ARIO STATUS OF WOMEN INITIATIVES the are still available. They make wonde ful gifts and Christmas is not far away. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor NORTOERWOOMMI.Page:10 �Book Review Reviewed by Kit Minor MisEducation: Women and Canadian Universities, Anne Innis Dagg and Patricia Thompson, OISE Press, 1988. MisEducation: Women and Canadian Universities is a much needed testimony of the plight, and struggles, as well as the cruel and horrendous treatment, of some of the most gifted scholars and students in Canada, who are women and particularly feminists. As one who has weathered years of academia as a student, and now five years as a professor, there is no doubt in my mind that this text is a powerful, and long overdue analysis of what does go on in the patriarchy of university institutions. Quite honestly, I could not put the book down; it validated a great deal for me, as to my own struggles as a student, and at Laurentian where I taught for four years, and was constantly battered by patriarchy, and misogyny. I am convinced this book will play a major role in collective action, by women academics, and students, in English speaking countries, to struggle against the patriarchy imposed upon us, in these institutions of higher learning. The objectives of the text are explicit, and well developed. The authors provide concrete research findings from a number of respected sources, to document the extent, and tragedy, of patriarchy and misogyny prevalent within Canadian Universities at all levels. They review the sciences and engineering citing numerous examples of inequality towards women. In biology where 50% of the students are women, women faculty comprise 8%. In engineering I was startled and saddened at the initiation rites still practiced in Canada's supposedly major universities, by the male students. Rites which are blatant examples of hatred towards women. The use of case studies adds power,. and undeniable truth to these testimonies, and this strength of delivery is used throughout the text. The text is well documented, and sound. In discussing the systems of patriarchy within schools of,Law the authors refer to the Sheila McIntyre case at Queen's University. McIntyre was hired as a Law professor in 1985. In her courses, she included women's concerns and encouraged women to participate in classroom discuss-4 ion, Her efforts were met with anger, lack of co-operation and disruptions by several men. This led to a heated confrontation and attempts to discredit the professor. As presented in both the analysis of Dagg and Thompson, and the CAUT Bulletin (Jan.1987), this whole scheme was based upon anger Council for $5000, it was turned down. The authors documented several university centres which in recent years have had to close due to lack of funding. They also document centres which have suffered harassment and were broken into and trashed, for example Carleton. Dagg and Thompson add some enlightening concerns over Child care and the delivery of this service, where, and when it is available. This service is one that can benefit all, both women and men. There are many women and men at university who participate in child towards the Feminist inclusion which care: faculty, staff and students. ThMcIntyre proposed, and grounded ere needs to be increased funding, more in fear and a loss of power by the male available spaces and flexible hours students involved. As a professor due to the irregularity of course times who does teach from a Feminist Perspand variation in the duration of courses. ective I find it astonishing that The authors chose to present the students who have been taught a pathorrors of sexism, sexual harassment riarchal perspective most, or all of and violence on campus through a numtheir lives would not welcome a new ber of short case studies. These approach, some new insights. Are these are frightening and powerful, and a not the halls of academia, or are women' s rude awakening to the truths of what concerns, thoughts, and writings to women must suffer to be within these be be dismissed as trivial, nonexistent. halls. Has it really changed that My present experience, having left much since Virginia Wolf, or is it Laurentian for a more welcoming and just more subtle; or, and this is more enthused group of academics in Social frightening, have we learned to just Work at Lakehead, is that I now find accept it? co-operation and excitement that a Feminist perspective is included as a teaching style in a core course. Mind you, some students battle the notion, or "put up with it" and these students are not exclusively men, nor by any means is the majority of male students included in this small group. This past year I have been told by numerous women and men that the Feminist perspective has had a major impact upon their lives, a good healthy impact towards awareness of self and others. However, as I read through MisEducation, I know that this acceptance and support are rare. In every area of academia, women are scapegoated and abused. The authors cite several examples from each discipline. Dagg and Thompson view three critical factors as progressive for women, both students and faculty, within university structures. These are the creation of a women's study program, a women's centre and provision of adequate, and flexible day care. They are clear that a women's study program must begin with a Feminint perspective and the hiring of full-time track, or tenured, Feminists within that program. It will do little good to create such a program, as has been done in some universities, where the professors are women, but not necessarily Feminists There seems to be at several universities this irrational fear that feminists will take over and seek a gull monopoly upon knowledge. The fact is that Feminists have studied women, and are the best to teach in that area of Further Dagg and Thompson exp erti4e. expose the lack of funding towards both university women's centres and Day Care. The University of Toronto received in 1919, a donation of $125,000 for wothen's sport and meeting facilities In 1986, this finally materialized. However despite the fine work done through this centre, when the members approached the Student Administration MisEducation: Women and Canadian Universities is not only an original testimony but a very brave, and honourable text. Academic women and students need to know that we are not alone; as well, the patriarchal forces which pervade our university systems must be held accountable for their abuse of women academics and students. There is no doubt in my mind that this testimony will result in much dialogue, and hopefully collective action amongst women. To quote Sasha McInnes "This book is a must for every professor, university administrator, and politician. Any woman who has had contact with a Canadian University will read her own untold story here." The text is powerful, as is. I believe also it will be meaningful, as well as personal, to most women academics and students. I congratulate the authors on their ability to put the personal into the political with such a charging, and dynamic force. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor NORTHERN WOMAN e.11 �CIRCLING TO THE LEFT By: Josie Wallenius I am making notes sitting on a plane going to Dallas, Texas, because some things have happened in the last 24 hours which connect up with what I learned from the native writer and poet, Lee Maracle when she was in Thunder Bay a few weeks ago. Margaret Phillips had first met Lee at the feminist book fair in Montreal and had arranged for her to visit Thunder Bay on her way back to Vancouver, to talk to women here. Lee had' said in Montreal that she was going to spend her time with native women from now on, as it seemed as though women of colour in North America were wasting their time speaking to white women about racism. She said its a white institutionalised problem, and we must look to our own empowerment to change things, and above all, stop writing for, and about, native women. That means even Anne Cameron, who Lee has been dialoguing with for four years and who now agrees with Lee. On the first night Lee was here, we went with her to the native expressions night, where we were made welcome, and'heard her poetry reading, which was wonderful. She spoke a poem, to and about her husband, Dennis, who was in the audience with her two sons. In front of strangers she made herself vulnerable, and I was moved to tears. The next day Lee visited with native women, and spoke to two classes of native women in the afternoon, encouraging tlibm to write, and advising them about publishers. White women reading this may well ask why I am writing about Lee, if she is now only working with native women, so I will explain why I wanted to talk with her after I had read her book, I Am Woman. To overcome patriarchial capitalism and give birth to matriarchial socialism, we are going to need every morsal of advise, knowledge, guidance, and global communal empathy. I knew in my gut Lee knew more than I, I knew it after reading her book, so I wanted to learn more. For the next five weeks I put it all on a back burner, which was fueled by friends. "Can't white women be spiritual then?" "I wouldi use it Josie, if Lee said we shoul, not be writing about native women, we should not use their drum." "Di n't be silly, its just deerskin ani wood." My overt thoughts, "I need a drum, I love the sound of this co I bought it, and I have already usl it." My covert thoughts, "Why do feel the need to explain why I am using it each time I drum a story, why do I feel troubled if I tell al angry story with it, why am I worr' ing?" On top of all this, I had two very important questions for her from me. 1) Did she believe in a cosmic something?, and 2) What did she think of me using an Ojibwe drum for my story telling? The answer to my first question was an elaboration of her belief system described in her book, and affirmed my belief that something or other is on our side. The answer to the second question brings me to the reason I could not write about Lee 'till six weeks later, on the plane to Dallas. When I had asked Lee about using the Ojibwe drum which I had bought, her eyes told me something. For a moment she seemed to withdraw into herself, then she came back, and smiled, saying, "Well, if you know what you are doing, but if you don't I had felt before meeting Lee that native people have a confidence in making decisions that white people sometimes lack because native people believe in things coming full circle, so I felt that Lee was saying it wasn't her burden to give me advice, it was mine, and nobody can help you make sixth sense decisions. So six weeks later I am with good friends in Minneapolis the nig before going to Dallas. I have my drum, cymbals, bells, and tambourin in my case. Sherry, my native frie told me with a laugh that native pE ople are now calling white people w try to copy them, "The Wannaby Trib SuSu, my wicca friend who is a sham drummer, heard my story about tracing my own Gaelic roots, and whiske me off to a music shop the next mor ing and lent me the money to buy a drum made of strong plastic and cow hide. I live in plastic land, and my Grandmother came from Hereford. I put ribbons hanging from it, whic look like Maypole ribbons. Well they do to me. The Ojibwe drum. I have just met an elder white woman, who is ex perimenting with sounds and resonance, and she is a real whitehaired elder, and wiser than me. She will use it softly, make no mistakes. Meanwhile, Dallas, here I come good and angry, and at ease. Thanks Lee you cautioned me as a friend. We are all moving in circles, sparking and touching each other, but always in circles, and to the left. FEMINIST BOOK FAIR (continued) In all there were 52 workshops/ panels stimulated by the wisdom and vision of hundreds of women writers. Writers that we know and love - Dorothy Livesay, Audre Lorde, Marie-Claire Blais, Olga Broumas, Anne Cameron, Dale Spender, Mary Daly, Frances Duncan, Judy Grahn, Makeda Silvera, Betsy Warland, Donna Smyth. And writers, unknown to many of us, whose words it is essential we hear: Merle Hodge, Lee Maracle, Alicia Portnoy, Daysi Zamora, Janet Campbell Hale, Kumari Jayawardina, Ellen Kuzwayo, Sheila Jeffries, Gloria Joseph, Miriam Tlali, Nell Mc Cafferty. (This list is by no means inclusive ... there are hundreds more women writers we must hear/read.) It was the workshops that demonstrated that this was a feminist fair. A time to renew our feminist analysis. A time to challenge ourselves to confront and address our racism, our classim. A time to feel. A time to dream. A time to remember. The Fair held many memorable moments for me. The thrill of conversing with Dorothy Livesay; the awe of meeting Ellen Kuzwayo; the challenge of hearing Audre Lorde; the joy of renewing friendships with Women Writers colleagues - stimulating my renewed urgency to write. But the highlight of the Fair was the Native poetry reading, most particularly Alanis Obasiwin's BUSH LADY. This came at the end of the day and week. I went to the reading physically, mentally and emotionally exhausted. I left the reading - restored. Alanis' BUSH LADY poster hangs for my easy view in the Bookstore. It stimulates my memory and gives me energy and hope. (The quotations in this article are taken from the official program of the 3rd International Book Fair) PDF compression, OCR,page web12optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor WORTHE71 NOW! �Free Trade (continued) Cohen focusses on women's job losses in the service sector. After predicting that Canadians may lose control over health care and child care services, she concludes: Free trade in services will cause job loss and downward pressures on wages and working conditions in many areas which have traditionally been growth areas for women's employment: data processing, transportation, and public service occupations. (p. 79) In both manufacturing and services, rather than concluding that women will lose jobs, isn't the more important conclusion the fact that we, as Canadians, will no longer be able to decide the future direction of our social programs, and that we are giving control of our food supply to a foreign power? This focus simply on job loss prevents an examination of the larger question of national sovereignty. It is similar to some labour organiza tions' contention that Canadian workers will oppose free trade only if it can be shown that it will hit them in the pocketbook. In response to a question from a panel member at the Ontario government hearings into free trade in Thunder Bay in November 1987, about whether workers in the lunchroom expressed concern about culture and sovereignty, a local labour spokesman rctplied: "Canadian workers don't care about culture or sovereignty, they only care about jobs.' Is it this same attitude that has given rise to the "women and free trade" approach, that women will only act out of self interest? self interest? Another result of limiting the debate to free trade and women is that many people are excluded from learning about the issue. This was demonstrated at a lecture given by Maude Barlow of the Pro Canada Network at Lakehead University on March 7, 1988. Her lecture was titled "Women and Free Trade' but its contents were not limited to that subject. She covered a history of the recent free trade initiative, the forces pushing for free trade, Canadian demands for secure access and a binding dispute settling mechanism that were never met, and an overview of the actual terms of the agreement. Only peripherally did she cover how women might be adversely affected. It was a speech that should have been heard by a large audience. The common response of most people in Thunder Bay, as it is across Canada, when it comes to free trade is that they do not know enough about it. This is no accident. Again, it has been the government's policy to keep Canadians in the dark. The leaked Toronto Star document stated: It is likely that the higher the profile the issue attains, the lower the degree of public approval will be.... The strategy should rely less on educating the general public than on getting across the message that the trade initiative is a good idea. In other words, a selling job. In the face of deliberate government secrecy and lies about the contents of the free trade deal, it is the wrong time for the opposition to be limiting its audience by aidressing the concerns of particular =roups. Less than twenty people attended the Barlow lecture; only one man was in attendance. How many people, both men and women, didn't attend because the lecture was titled "Women and Free Trade"? Another group, Women Against Free Trade, was recently formed in Toronto, initiated by the Ontario Federal of Labour's (OFL) and. NDP Women's Committees. In an interview in Thunder Bay in March, Carol Anne Sceviour of the OFL explained the reasons for setting up a group to address women and free trade issues. Women are disproportionately affected by the deal, she said. Women are the ones who use social services the most and will be most affected by changes to them. Women are better at grass roots organizing. And, finally, many women are "sick and tired of going up against the boys" in those organizations where they are fighting free trade together. But do these arguments not simply further isolate women from mainstream politics and encourage our limited involvement in questions that affect the country? Should we not be striving for equal participation with men on this issue that affects us all as citizens, rather than retreating to groups where we limit our questioning of the effect this deal will have on us as woman? The group's pamphlet, "Women Against Free Trade Manifesto," like Maude Barlow's lecture, gives an analysis of free trade that is not restricted to "women's issues." This begs the question: Why another group, saying similar things as other groups, formed by people who are already involved in anti free-trade groups (the OFL Free Trade Committee, the Ontario Coalition Against Free Trade, the Council of Canadians, the Pro Canada Network) that involves a further expenditure of energy and money? Their manifesto states: Our great-grandthothers set the example. Told they didn't understand politics, they were denied the vote. They organized, apparently against all odds, and they won 'personhoOd' and the vote. We have won the right to participate equally in the political life of Canada, and this is the time to exercise that right, when we're facing the most important issue we've ever faced as a nation. The time for women to organize separately is when it's time to fight for those issues that are truly "women's" issues, such as reproductive rights, not on issues affecting the future political and economic direction of the country. .. the right to participate equally. The National. Actioa Committee has published a poster entitled "Women are Against Free Trade" outlining job loss, lower wages and poorer working conditions and poorer access to social programs as ways women will be affected by free trade, and a pamphlet "Free Trade: A Bad Deal for Women." They qualify their opposition to free trade under the heading "Free trade is not just a women's issue": Free trade dramatizes the very different interests dividing ordinary people from the rich and powerful.... Employers with the most to gain are large international corporations. Employers with the most to Zose are producers who can expect increased outside competition in the Canadian market. In both cases workers, ordinary men and women, lose. One important issue for people in Canada is unemployment. Free trade won't solve that or oter social and economic problems that we face as a country. NAC limits its examination of the impact of free trade to job loss, never naming the problem of Canadians giving up the right to control their economic and political future. And, further, when it comes to "What Women Can Do" NAC advocates that women "organize a women's coalition against free trade in your area" (emphasis mine). Living in an area in Ontario where there is next to nothing in the way of organized opposition to free trade, and where most people in the area know little about the deal, advocating a "women's" coalition against free trade is misguided, to say the least. It is interesting to note how the proponents of free trade address the issue of women and free trade. 'Katie Macmillan is an economist who wrote one of three papers on free trade commissioned by the Advisory Council on the Status of Women and who has worked with the Economic Council of Canada, the Canada West Foundation and the C.D. Howe Institute. In an essay in the pro-free trade collection, Free Trade: The Real Story '(Gage, 1988), she writes that free trade promises women a rosy future: Free trade offers Canadian women the potential to improve their economic standing, both relatively and absolutely.... While some job.losses would occur, women have demonstrated capac a to adjust to, and even profit from, changes in the workplace. Labor mobility and upgrading programs can help women to adjust to the better opportunities that free trade will generate. Women can be winners from free trade by using the changes that it brings to permanently improve their economic status. (p. 125) It is this appeal to self interest that forms the basis of the govern-lent's strategy to sell free trade. Those opposed to it need not buy into this strategy, but should widen their examination of the deal to how it will affect the country as a whole,. To this end, Citizens Concerned About Free Trade provides an example of a successful strategy to fight PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �free trade. The organization, formed in 1985, is non-partisan with no ties to any political party or organization. It is supported financially by donations from members and the public. Within the context of Canadian sovereignty and by examining Canada's history as a nation trying to maintain independence in the face of constant pressure to develop closer economic and political ties with the U.S., the group has been educating people in Saskatchewan and across the country about the implications of free trade. Beginning with a small meeting in Saskatoon in 1985, CCAFT has grown to the point where it draws large crowds throughout Saskatchewan. Last December 1500 people attended a debate between the group's spokesman, David Orchard, a grain farmer, and the provincial trade minister, Bob Andrew. It was the largest meeting on free trade anywhere west of Toronto Through its commitment to public education, the organization has built a strong following in Saskatchewan and now has brances in all Western provinces. The leadership Of the group is shared by women and men, who have worked tirelessly to make sure that Canadian people have a say in whether they want economic and political union with the United States. A recent membership leaflet from the group encourages individuals to do what they can to end this deal: We can and must take an active role in putting an end to the most undemocratic phase in Canada's history, during which our country has been systematically weakened by the Meech Lake accord and fundamentally changed into a mere colony of. the U.S.A. through the free trade deal. As individuals we can do the following *inform ourselves fully about the_ meaning of this treaty for Canada's survival as a nation. *speak publicly against free trade whenever we have a chance, such as in governmental 'information' meetings on free trade, in political meetings of all sorts, in meetings by groups and organizations we belong to. *call in on open Zine radio programmes, locally and nationally. We must speak from our hearts and guts, because 'free trade' is not just a matter of Yacts', but is a question of whether we want to have a country or not. The openings for speaking out in our society are few, and we should seize each one that comes along. Every voice counts. *keep up the pressure on the federal and provincial opposition parties to do more to oppose free trade than they have done up to now. They must not only make good speeches, but must educate and mobilize Canadians against free trade.... We need to also realize that if there is no election before Congratulations To I DIVERSITY The Lesbian Rag From NWJ the agreement comes into effect, there is no guarantee that the opposition party in power would be able (or even willing) to cancel the treaty after the 1989 election. ALL OUR ENERGIES MUST GO INTO FORCING AN ELECTION BEFORE THIS TREATY COMES INTO EFFECT. The group warns: The free trade treaty comes into full effect on Jan. 1, 1989, and it is the government's plan to have it fully operational before the next election. MUlroney's own utterances that he will call an election, mean nothing more than that he wiZZ call it sometime in 1989! We must not allow ourselves to be lulled into thinking that this government will VOLUNTARILY' call an election in 1988. Instead, We must ceaselessly pressure that the election take place this year and we must use aZZ the means at our disposal to make sure that some semblance of-democracy will be restored in Canada! In conclusion, I would encourage individual women who have not considered the implications of the free trade deal to educate themselves about the meaning of the treaty. As well as reading the text of the agreement, a good place to start is with McLelland & Stewart's 1987 book, If You Love This Country. For those women who are in leadership positions in the political arena, I would encourage you to think serious': about your strategy in opposing free trade and caution against narrowing your organizing efforts to so-called "women's" issues only. In this case, such a focus does a disservice to Canadian women-who are full citizens of Canada who deserve to be treated as such, and to men in this country who will be just as affected by job loss, changes in working conditions and poorer access to social programs. Citizens Concerned About Free Trade has a wide range of information on free trade from audio tapes to video tapes to leaflets. Membership and information can be obtained by writing to CCAFT, P.O. Box 8052, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan SY' ',77. Don't Forget to Renew I your Subscription 1 1 1 I The AIDS Committee of Thunder Bi (ACT-B) is launching another voluntet recruitment drive. Volunteers are needed to staff the ACT-B AIDS Information phoneline ACT-B is particularly interested in finding volunteers who can give time during regular business hours. Volunteers will receive training which will include information about AIDS, its transmission and treatment. as well as on social issues related to AIDS such as homophobia, fear of sexuality and discrimination toward persons with AIDS. Opportunities for service in other ACT-B projects and programs will be outlined. For more information call 345-1516. 40.......,.....,..m,._,.. oefte SEE- RIGHT a ivx 8A" ° co4ek -----------t (.4.1044i This lc --"e6741- 5 rm. PI A PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor ',NORTHERN WOMAN paye.14 �WHAT'S NEW in the BOOKSTORE More than 100 new titles have been acquired by the Bookstore in the past few months. Here are a few WOMEN CONDIDOTES of them. CHARTING THE JOURNEY: Writing by Black and Third World Women, Sheba WOMEN'S FICTION FROM LATIN AMERICA, edited by Evelyn Picon Garfield, Wayne State University Press THIRD WORLD, SECOND SEX 2, compiled by Miranda Davies, ZED Press YOU CAN'T DROWN THE FIRE: Latin American Women Writing in Exile, edited by Alicia Partnoy, Cleis FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES: Philosophical Essays on Methodaricr:MuraIs, edited by Lorraine Codo, Sheila Mullett, Christine Overall, U of T Press EVERYDAY WORLD AS PROBLEMATIC: A Feminist Sociology, by Dorothy E. Smith, University of Toronto Press REFLECTING MEN AT TWICE THEIR NATURAL SIZE: Why Women Work at Making Men Feel Good, by Sally Cline & Dale Spender, Collins COMPETITION: A Feminist Taboo? edited by Valerie Miner and Helen E. Longino, The Feminist Press WORK IN PROGRESS, Building Feminist Culture, edited by Rhea Tregebov, Women's Press THE NEW DAY RECALLED: Lives of Girls and Women in English Canada 1919-1939, by Veronica Strong-Boag, Penguin I NEVER CALLED IT RAPE: The Ms. Report on Recognizing, Fighting and Surviving Date and Acquaintance Rape, by Robin Warshaw, THE COURAGE TO HEAL: A Guide for SurvivoT4s of Child Sexual Abuse, by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis, Harper & Row THE PERFECT MACHINE: TV in the Nuclear Age, by Joyce Nelson, Between the Lines MAKING IT: A'Woman's Guide to Sex in the Age of AIDS, by Cindy Patton & Janis Kelly, Firebrand 'HON TO WIN' All the information you need to successfully run for Municipal Council or Board of Education is contained in this practical, locally produced handbook. fluailable from: FIERCE ATTACHMENTS: A Memoir, by Vivian Gornick, Simon & Schuster THE BOX CLOSET, by Mary Meigs, Talon Books AND A VOICE TO SING WITH, by Joan Baez, New American Library A BURST OF LIGHT essays by Audre Lorde, Firebrand WIFE, bu Bharati Mukherjee, Penguin GONE TO SOLDIERS, by Marge Piercy, Fawcett SOMETHING SHADY by Sarah Dreher, Pandora BITTER MEDICINE, by Sara Paretsky, Ballantine The Bookstore would like to remind regional readers that we do have a mail order service. We no_longer publish a catalogue as it becomes outdated too quickly. Instead we regularly put out book lists by category. Current lists include Health, Violence Issues, A.C.O.A., and International. These lists may be obtained by writing us at _184 Camelot Street, Thunder Bay, P7A 4A9. Northwestern Ontario Women's Decade Council 905 Tungsten Street, Thunder Bay, Ontario. P7B 5Z3 Telepnne 18071 623-7556 Cost: $5.00 plus $2.50 for postage Citizens Concerned About Free Trade now has a Thunder Bay office. For information call 623-1120 or 344-6736. to ow').-solA146evomPgamtzoslowz-am*00 ,0: ,,t0A,,Nt.z,A3-k--totiott,w---)A.wowvonto 044,;;Npt A GUIDE TO FIGHTING WORKPLACE SEXUAL HARASSMENT/ASSAULT has been published by Bonnie Robichaud. This is a stepby-step guide on fighting a sexual harassment complaint, how to recognize the barriers to proceeding with a complaint and how to overcome those barriers. 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Title A name given to the resource Northern Woman Journal, Vol 11 No 3 Description An account of the resource Vol. 11, No. 3 (September 1988) Title: Northern Woman Journal Topics include: Women’s choir Thunder Bay Women against free trade Feminist book fair Resources for northern women Family violence prevention month Federal childcare initiatives Womyn’s music festival Poetry Daycare access Daycare legislation Women in economic development & decision making Book review of MisEducation: Women and Canadian Universities by Anne Innis Dagg & Patricia Thompson Native women Women & race Comics Call for submissions Authors/Contributors: Peggy Smith Margaret Phillips Ontario Women’s Directorate Jane Saunders Keri Shephardson Nan Peacock Susan Collins Gert Beadle Kit Minor Josie Wallenius Carolyn Greenwood Mary-Ann Kleyendorst Joni Mace Loretta Pavan Rose Pittis Cynthia Stolz Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Northern Woman Journal Collective Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1988-09 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Published on this site with permission. 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