[Wamvan] One billion rising
Joanna Chiu
chiu.joanna5 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 12 09:26:41 PST 2013
Sounds great! Thanks for looking into it, Jill. Did the organizers say
there was anything specific else we could do to support them?
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 1:21 AM, Jill Goldberg <jygoldberg at hotmail.com>wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I did a little research to see if there are already events planned for
> Feb. 14's One Billion Rising event, and I found one that is planned for 10
> am at Main and Terminal. The organizers of this one plan to join up with
> the women's memorial march after they're done rising. I won't be able to
> attend because I'll be at work, but, my thought right now is that perhaps
> rather than replicate their event, we should join them!
>
> Here's the link to the Rising event that's already planned:
> http://onebillionrising.org/page/event/detail/startarising/wlq
>
> What do you all think?
>
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> Subject: [Wamvan] The drum is the heartbeat...
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