{"article":{"id":123557,"heading":"From Abortion Rights to Reproductive Justice: Building the Movement for Reproductive Freed","author":"Diana","created":"2005-03-10 19:54:20","modified":"2013-11-11 00:32:17","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:32:17","article":"

Activists Gather to Challenge Right-Wing Attacks on Reproductive Rights

Over 500 student and community activists from across the U.S. will gather at

Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts from April 1-3, 2005 for the 19th

annual conference “From Abortion Rights to Social Justice: Building the

Movement for Reproductive Freedom.” This year, they will come together in the

wake of a Presidential election in which it was widely argued that Bush

supporters’ top reasons for going to the polls were “moral values.” The

conference, featuring over 60 women leaders from the U.S., Africa, Latin

America and South Asia, will offer an alternative vision of moral values based

on reproductive freedom, social justice, peace and equality.

The conference will address pressing concerns such as the Bush Administration’s

recent attacks on reproductive and sexual rights at home and abroad, increasing

militarism, the erosion of civil liberties, and the impact of the AIDS

pandemic. Workshop topics include: women of color organizing for reproductive

justice, international women’s health, the new eugenics, abortion access,

population control, violence against women, queer and transgender issues, and

human rights. Speakers will make the connection between grassroots, national

and transnational activism.



Registration for the conference can be found online at

http:\/\/clpp.hampshire.edu<\/a>. For more information and to schedule interviews

with conference speakers and organizers, please contact Juno Obedin-Maliver at

413-559-5416 (phone), 413-559-5826 (fax) or email at joCLPP@hampshire.edu<\/a>.

<\/p>\n","contact":"popdev@hampshire.edu","link":"popdev.hampshire.edu","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"A press release regarding an upcoming abortion rights and social justice conference.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2005\/03\/123557.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}