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Breaking Boundaries and Building Bridges: Women's Activism, Values, and Vision, April 11, 2008 The Power of Women's Activism: Forging New Alliances of Women in Progressive Organizing, July 13, 2007 Envisioning New Feminist Movements: Strategies for Inclusive Social Justice, June 27- July 1, 2007 Workshop on Women's Activism, June 21, 2007 Together We Can Change the World, June 16, 2006
Breaking Boundaries and Building Bridges: Women's Activism, Values, and Vision The Power of Women's Activism: Forging New Alliances of Women in Progressive Organizing Envisioning New Feminist Movements: Strategies for Inclusive Social Justice Workshop on Women’s Activism Women’s leadership has been central to the creation and growth of Interfaith Worker Justice and many other social justice organizations. Join Interfaith Worker Justice and the Institute for Women’s Policy Research for a day-long exploration of strategies to strengthen women’s leadership in our movement. Together, We Can Change the World: Saturday, June 16, 2007 Women can and should enjoy a full voice in the leadership, policy goals and strategic priorities of our organizations! This interactive workshop will provide tools to advance women’s power and contributions to social justice organizing. Participants will explore the following topics: Presenters include Kim Bobo, Director of Interfaith Worker Justice, Dr. Amy Caiazza, Program Director at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, and Rev. Trina Zelle, Presbyterian Minister and Lead Organizer of IWJ of Arizona. For more information about the session, contact Charese Jordan at IWJ at 773-728-8400 x37 or cjordan@iwj.org or Amy Caiazza at IWPR at 202-785-5100 or caiazza@iwpr.org.
Strengthening Women’s Leadership in Organizing is a pre-conference of How to Register Register early and save Pre-conferences are $40 each and include breakfast and lunch. Daily rates follow: For general information about the conference, contact Kristi Sanford at 773-728-8400 x45 or ksanford@iwj.org.
PAST EVENTS June 1 , 2007, Faith, Feminism, and Academe March 20, 2007, Politics, the Prophetic and the Practical: How Religious Women Can Redefine Public Life Dr. Caiazza discussed the findings of her research on the values that religious women bring to politics and public life, including implications for women’s movement organizing. December 12-13, 2006, the Working Group on Women’s Public Vision met in Washington, DC, to continue its work. October 18-20, 2006 with the Institute for Women’s Policy Research Peacebuilding in the twenty-first century is a complex process. Multiple international resolutions and agreements call for women to be at all policymaking tables for conflict resolution and postconflict recovery. It is essential to understand how peace processes are affected and influenced by gender-inclusive decision making. Who’s making policy? What difference does it make? is an international working conference on the shaping of peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding policies when women and men are more equally engaged. Convened by the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice (IPJ) and the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) with the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, this conference will expose challenges to women's inclusion in, and within, decision-making bodies in multiple spheres of power. The Institute for Women's Policy Research was an official co-convener of a panel on religion and women's leadership. August 24-39, 2006, Religions for Peace Women’s Assembly and World Assembly. Dr. Amy Caiazza attended this powerful conference of activists from around the world in Kyoto, Japan. July 28, 2006, Young Women’s Strategy Meeting. IWPR convened a group of women under age 40 from religious, social justice, and women’s movement organizations to discuss young women’s values, ways that the three movements can collaborate, and strategies for raising women’s voices in public life. What are women's public values? Online Writing Project, May 15 and 18, 2006 Using new and emerging technology, the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) held an unprecedented online convening of women, where participants wrote a statement on women's vision for public life--and how we might live it out in policymaking and practice. The eventwas sponsored by IWPR’s project on Politics, Religion, and Women’s Public Vision, which is raising the visibility of women's values for public life and building networks among women in religious movements for social justice and women's movement organizing. Participants helped develop a statement and policy agenda that seeks to advance women's values in American public life. There are two opportunities to participate: The event used a new online collaborative writing software (Synanim) available through Faith Voices for the Common Good. Synanim is a unique online process that enables participants to contribute as individuals but to share interactively. Information on the process is available at www.syanim.org. April 11 , 2006, release of Called To Speak IWPR released a new report on cultivating women’s political activism and leadership, through an audio news conference with the report’s author and activists. The report is based on interviews with some of the most creative and exciting women in interfaith community organizing today. A main finding is that groups can successfully encourage political activism by providing women ways to feel comfortable expressing anger and outrage in public life, something they are often afraid to do. The conference included: Amy Caiazza, Director of Democracy and Society Programs at the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) and the author of the new report Called to Speak. I will discuss the importance of women’s activism and six strategies to increase women’s leadership. Latifa Lyles , Membership Vice President of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and the group’s youngest-ever national officer. Latifa will talk about how women’s activism impacts critical social programs, strategies that NOW is using to get women involved, and the potential in building alliances between religious social justice groups and feminist groups like NOW. Mary Gonzales , the California Director for Gamaliel Foundation, an international organizing institute building faith-based organizing in the U.S., Canada and South Africa, will talk about a unique program called NTOSAKE, which is transforming women’s leadership by encouraging women to bring their passion and anger into public life. The three speakers believe that to create a truly inclusive American democracy, we must cultivate women’s political activism and leadership; we hope to build a new movement on behalf of community building and social welfare by bringing in women’s lives and concerns. To obtain a copy of either report or to schedule an interview with Amy Caiazza, please contact Sharon Lewis at 914-833-7093 or Erica Williams at 202-785-5100. To access an audio replay of the news conference, (available through April 17) call 888-203-1112 (replay passcode: 6313480). March 9, 2006, Luncheon discussion on religion and women’s movement organizing. IWPR held a discussion led by Dr. Constance Buchanan, Senior Program Officer in Religion at the Ford Foundation, and Dr. Heidi Hartmann, President of IWPR and chair of the Working Group on Women’s Public Vision. A variety of women leaders from feminist and religious movements participated in a lively and interesting exchange on the role of religion in public life and implications for US women’s movements. January 24, 2006, Film Screening sponsored by IWPR & the Pluralism Project of Harvard University Acting on Faith: Women's New Religious Activism in America is a documentary film that offers an intimate look at the lives and work of three American women - one Buddhist, one Hindu, and one Muslim - for whom faith, activism, and identity are deeply intertwined.
December 15, 2005, Online Discussion (Organized by Moving Ideas) Amy Caiazza and Working Group member, Rita Nakashima Brock talked about divides and commonalities among religious women activists and feminist movements, how we can build new ties among these groups, and the centrality of considerations of issues of race, ethnicity, and class to forging a new alliance. View the transcript November 8, 2005, IWPR held a public panel in Atlanta, Georgia on women’s values in feminist and social justice organizing and potential links between the two movements. The Working Group on Women’s Public Vision convened on November 8-9 in Atlanta as well.
June 20, 2005, IWPR held several events on issues of women, politics, and moral values at its Eighth International Women’s Policy Research Conference in Washington DC:
May 23, 2005, Dr. Amy Caiazza, Study Director, and Dr. Barbara Gault, Director of Research, conducted a workshop on encouraging women’s religious and political activism and leadership at the annual conference of Interfaith Worker Justice, Chicago, Illinois. April 21, 2005, Dr. Amy Caiazza, Study Director, lectured on women’s values and experiences in religious social justice groups at Northern Illinois University in Dekalb, Illinois.
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IWPR’s Working Group on Women’s Public Vision has developed a draft statement on women’s values for public life. The statement is designed to provide a new frame for thinking about and articulating policies and practices that respond to women’s needs and concerns. Click here to see the statement. View Amy Caiazza's other speaking engagements on our media page.
Photos from November 8th & 9th, 2005
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