Paradigm Shift

From The White House Project:

Nine years ago, The White House Project created the EPIC Awards to honor innovators who bring positive images of women’s leadership to the American public. The White House Project is the nation’s foremost women’s leadership organization, working with leaders from Academy Award winning actresses to local female elected officials – changing the face of leadership with our award-wining training programs, and high-profile events.

The 2011 EPIC Awards have been scheduled for April 7th, 2011 at the iconic, Frank Gehry-designed IAC building. The theme of the this year’s EPIC Awards is “Celebrating the New Face of Leadership”.  After the awards ceremony, we will be continuing the celebration by holding an after-party, with celebrity hosts, including HBO’s Aleksa Palladino, star of Boardwalk Empire.  There will be music by DJ SeekTen, an open bar (!), and clips from the acclaimed Sundance documentary, Miss Representation, which features our founder Marie C. Wilson and is co-sponsoring the event. Tickets for the party are only $25 and cover the entire night’s festivities.

The EPIC After Party will be happening on April 7th at 10 PM in the IAC building!  Buy your tickets here!

All invited – spread the word!

“DEFEND OUR NEW HEALTH CARE LAW!”

WHY THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT
MATTERS FOR EVERYDAY NEW YORKERS

A Citywide Rally and Press Conference

Join your fellow New Yorkers to:
• celebrate the first anniversary of the new health care law
• find out about how the new law is already helping New Yorkers
• hear about what’s already underway here in New York to fully implement the new law and how best to keep moving forward
• learn about new moves in Congress to take health care away from us and our communities, and how to fight back

Saturday, March 26 at 1 p.m.

Community Healthcare Network’s
Long Island City Health Center

36-11 21st St. in Long Island City (Queens)

(Take N train to 36th Ave, or F train to 21st St.)

Special guest speakers to be announced!

Bring loose pennies to symbolically support keeping health centers open
(since Congress is now debating cutting their funding.)

More information: 212-925-1829, metrohealth@igc.org, or www.hcfany.org

Sponsoring groups [list in formation]:
Children’s Defense Fund of New York, Citizen Action of New York City, Committee of Interns and Residents/SEIU Healthcare, Community Healthcare Network, 504 Democratic Club, Disabilities Network of NYC, Downtown East for Change, Greater NYC for Change, Goddard-Riverside Community Center, Health Care for All New York, Long Island City Alliance, Make the Road New York, Manhattan Young Democrats, Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign, National Physicians Alliance New York, New York Immigration Coalition, Queens Young Democrats, Public Health Assoc. of NYC, Queens Drinking Liberally, Raising Women’s Voices, Rekindling Reform, UFCW Local 1500, Young Invincibles

Ladybits co-founder Abbi Crutchfield has long been co-hosting New York’s longest running clean comedy show, Living Room Comedy, with Luke Thayer at the Postmark Cafe in Park Slope.

This month, Living Room’s shows will feature all-female lineups as Ladybits meets the Living Room in a grand estrogen explosion!

Featuring Arden Myrin, Nikki Glaser, Jennifer Grant, and Ladybits co-founders Abbi Crutchfield and Jen Dziura.

Come and make yourself at home with Abbi and Luke at this unique comedy show. It’s just like your living room…only hilarious! (By “just like your living room,” we mean there’s good coffee and scones!)

Friday, March 25 @ 8pm
NO Cover, NO Food/Bev. Minimum! Totally FREE!

The Living Room at Postmark Cafe
326 6th Street (between 4th & 5th aves)
Park Slope, BK 11215
www.livingroomcomedy.blogspot.com
or call (718) 768-2613

Take the F train to 7th Ave stop or 4th Ave/9th Street stop
OR Take the R train to 4th Ave/9th Street stop.

Tomorrow, March 13th, join Sunsara Taylor for a discussion entitled “Ending Women’s Oppression: Imagining – and Fighting For – a Different World!”  The talk will be taking place at 3:00 pm at Revolution Books (146 W. 26th Street, New York, NY). Remember to set your clocks ahead!

Taylor is a writer for Revolution newspaper and sits on the advisory board for The World Can’t Wait!, a group that “organizes people living in the United States to repudiate and stop the fascist direction initiated by the Bush Regime, including: the murderous, unjust and illegitimate occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan; the global “war of terror” of torture, rendition and spying; and the culture of bigotry, intolerance and greed.”

If that alone is not enough to convince you to attend this talk, here is a brief description of the event:

“If you are a woman, your body is a battleground. Spin the globe. Anywhere you look women are being held down and slammed backwards, objectified and degraded. But there is no biological, god-given, or man-made reason why things have to remain this way. All this can change through revolution and through building a movement for revolution — starting now!”

A donation of five dollars will be requested at the door.

RSVP on Facebook!

On Friday, March 18th, and Saturday, March 19th, the New School will be hosting “Endangered Species: Preserving the Female Body,” “an international summit to challenge the toxic culture that teaches women and girls to hate their bodies.”  The conference is being organized by the Women’s Therapy Centre Institute and plans to “launch a comprehensive, worldwide campaign in collaboration with the leading organizations and individuals already on the front lines of this public mental health epidemic. This campaign will engage government officials, educational institutions, multi-national corporations, the fashion industry, and the mainstream media to join us in creating a new visual culture–one where the diverse, real beauty of women and girls is valued and magnified. The time is now. Take back your body. Re-imagine the world.”

“The summit will be a lively combination of keynote speeches, panels, international video testimonials, LOVED BODIES, BIG IDEAS presentations, and group discussions/action groups. We hope it incorporates frank, complex, and solution-oriented conversations among a genuinely diverse range of people.”

For more information about the schedule and speakers, check out the program.

The website also has information about online registration, details about other activist events in New York City, and great blog posts about body politics!

The Second Annual ‘Engendering Progress’ event honoring women thought-leaders, activists, and trailblazers will be held on Thursday, March 24th from 7-11pm at popular establishment Marquee at 289 Tenth Avenue in Manhattan.

This year’s honorees include: GEMS, Domestic Workers United, Women’s Media Center, Krista Brenner (pro-choice activist and one of the few women in New York State to hold the position of campaign manager in 2010) and Lizz Winstead, co-creator of the Daily Show. We are expecting a strong showing of several hundred progressive young people and a special guest elected official!

HERE is information on last year’s honorees as well as some pictures of the event which attracted over 100 young people and brought together many groups that had not had the chance to meet previously.

RSVP on Facebook and

Co-sponsors include: NY Downstate Young Democrats, NYS Young Democrats Caucus of Color, Greater NYC for Change, New Kings Democrats, Paradigm Shift (NYC’s Feminist Community), Women Elect, and NARAL Pro-choice NYC.

Meet PShifters at 12:30 PM Tomorrow- Front of Duane Reade at 111 Worth St., corner of Worth and Lafayette

Look for the PShift banner (cell 201.394.8173)