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Category Archives: CONNECT

Sticking Points: On Being Political

18 Wednesday May 2011

Posted by Kaitlin Blanchard in american politics, Antigone Foundation, Antigone Magazine, CONNECT, The Feminist Scholar, Women and politics, women leaders

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So what’s it like to be an activist from afar? In short, it’s not easy. It does, however, bring into relief some of the reasons why I helped to create Antigone Magazine. Expressing oneself politically is a right and a privilege AND a responsibility. I remain convinced now more than ever as Canada enters what is sure to be a trying five years under a conservative government that we are responsible for expressing ourselves, and expressing ourselves truthfully. Thus, the need for community-building exercises to leverage the voices that are underrepresented, unspoken for, and silent is even more pressing. I helped start Antigone to teach young women to express themselves politically and to act on their beliefs, and to help other women doing so. It’s often said that the only way the house of commons will become something more than the cockfights it currently hosts is if women start running the show: I agree.

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Antigone Launches Feminist Social Networking Site on International Women’s Day!

08 Monday Mar 2010

Posted by Amanda in Antigone Foundation, Antigone Magazine, Charter, child care, CONNECT, Environment, Equal Voice, female politicians, Feminists Who Totally Rock, Human rights, I'm a feminist because, LGBT, Media, motherhood, pay equity, poverty, Pro-choice, Queer Issues, Reproductive Rights, sexuality, Single Women, status of women, Women and politics, women in politics, Women's groups, women's issues, Young women, Your Voice

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This post is part of Blog for International Women’s Day

Hi Friends!

Happy International Women’s Day!
My name is Amanda Reaume and I am the Executive Director of The Antigone Foundation. We believe it’s time for Canada’s feminists and women’s organizations to work together to leverage the power of social networking to connect around common causes and concerns across the country, both online and in person.

That is why we are launching Antigone Connect , an online site working to engage women’s organizations and feminists across the country to work collaboratively for women’s rights and equality in Canada and around the world.

Our Goal:

We are hoping to create a powerful online network that will be able to help lead the Canadian women’s movement forward in the coming years. As we approach Canada’s 150th Anniversary, we are all aware that there is a great deal more to be done in Canada to ensure women’s equality. More women in politics and managerial positions, accessible child care, changes to the Indian Act, equal pay, and equal pensions are just a few of the things that the Royal Commission on the Status of Women identified as necessary for equality nearly fifty years ago. They have still not been fully realized and this is going to take cooperation and coordination to accomplish.

Canadian Women’s History

This past fall, Antigone Magazine put together an issue about Canadian Women’s History and we spoke to Marilou McPhedran. She talked about how women organized around constitutional issues in the 1980s to ensure that women were included within the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. As McPhedran mentions, they did this without even a fax machine. With phone trees, letters to MPs and a lot of conviction, these women changed our country. We can too. Many of us now have access to e-mail, the internet, social networking, maybe even Blackberries and Smartphones. Some also have well paying jobs and contacts with women and men in power who support work for women’s equality. We owe it to our foremothers to leverage all the technologies and privileges that we have to connect and make sure that their legacies are not forgotten.

Your Help

But this network is not going to happen overnight. We need your help in the days and weeks ahead to expand it and bring to the table the voices of women from all backgrounds, from groups that might not readily identify as feminists, or those who might have difficulties accessing the internet, and the voices of women and men that are allies to the work that we do. We need you to tell people about it. To e-mail your contacts about it. To post it on Facebook or Twitter. To contact your friends who might have worked for feminist causes in the past but who have gone off in other directions. To help the technically unsavvy negotiate the technology! We need to come together to create this network across Canada.

Canadian Women’s Future!

Inspired by the next issue of our magazine (to be released in March 2010) entitled The Future of Feminism, we will be offering individuals and organizations opportunities to write about their visions for Canadian feminism. In blog entries, on Antigone Connect forums, on Dreams for Women postcards, and by leading online chats, we invite people to contribute to imagining the future of feminism. Email us at antigonemagazine at hotmail.com if you are interested in helping out.

Join Us

We launched this campaign this week and we are moved and excited by the response so far. It would be great to see you at Antigone Connect.

Thanks in advance for giving this a few minutes of your time, and for sharing this message with anyone you know who would like the women of Canada to unite together to transform our country.

Thank you!

Amanda Reaume and the Antigone Team

Executive Director, The Antigone Foundation
www.antigonefoundation.wordpress.com
Author and blogger, Some Leaders Are Born Women
www.someleadersarebornwomen.wordpress.com

photo credit: wikimedia commons

CONNECT Follow Up and Thank Yous!

22 Thursday Nov 2007

Posted by antigonemagazine in CONNECT

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Well, Antigone Magazine’s CONNECT: A Woman’s Networking Lunch was a great success! Thank you to everyone who participated, helped, attended, sponsored and supported our event!

The event specifically featured UBC groups that support women and we aspired to involve young women and men in these causes. Our goal was to get young women involved in political and social issues that affect them. We feel that it is crucial to facilitate connections between young women and groups that work for women. Approximately 100 students attended the lunch and were able to make important connections with women’s organizations and politicians in attendance. These connections will continue to make a difference for UBC women when CONNECT: A Women’s Online Network is launched in March.

Politicians

Senator Jaffer
Deborah Meredith
Suzanne Anton (Vancouver City Councillor)
MP Don Bell (North Vancouver)
Kim Capri (Vancouver City Councillor)
Heather Deal (Vancouver City Councillor)
MP Suhk Dhaliwal (Newton-North Delta)
MP Ujjal Dosanjh (Vancouver South)
MP Hedy Fry (Vancouver Centre)
MLA Sue Hammell (Surrey-Green Timbers)
Judy Higginbotham (Surrey City Councillor)
MP Kevin Martin (Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca)
Joyce Murray. (Liberal Candidate)
Maxine Wilson (Coquitlam Mayor)
MLA Valerie Roddick

Women’s Groups!

Canadian Women’s Voter’s Congress
Women’s and Gender Studies Undergraduate Association
BC Council for International Cooperation (BCCIC)
STAND
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
Oxfam UBC
Grassroots Women
Womyn’s Centre
Vancouver Rape Relief
Pride UBC
The Safe Choices: Support and Education Program
Sexual Assault Support Centre
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Women Elders in Action (WE*ACT)
Women’s Enterprise Centre
Access & Diversity
Oxfam Vancouver

Sponsors:

AMS
Women’s and Gender Studies Undergraduate Association
Linda Reaume

Access and Diversity
Zellers
Safeway

Organizing Committee!

Kaitlin Blanchard Kristen Myres Sarina Rehal
Jillian Gordon Kat Sorfleet Kristina Welch
Kelly Lau April Tam
Amanda Reaume Joanna Chui

Thank you for your help and your support! If you’re interested in subscribing ($12 for one year) or if you’re interested in advertising in our magazine e-mail antigonemagazine@hotmail.com.

CONNECT Follow Up and Thank Yous!

21 Wednesday Nov 2007

Posted by Amanda in CONNECT

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Well, Antigone Magazine’s CONNECT: A Woman’s Networking Lunch was a great success! Thank you to everyone who participated, helped, attended, sponsored and supported our event!

The event specifically featured UBC groups that support women and we aspired to involve young women and men in these causes. Our goal was to get young women involved in political and social issues that affect them. We feel that it is crucial to facilitate connections between young women and groups that work for women. Approximately 100 students attended the lunch and were able to make important connections with women’s organizations and politicians in attendance. These connections will continue to make a difference for UBC women when CONNECT: A Women’s Online Network is launched in March.

Politicians

Senator Jaffer
Deborah Meredith
Suzanne Anton (Vancouver City Councillor)
MP Don Bell (North Vancouver)
Kim Capri (Vancouver City Councillor)
Heather Deal (Vancouver City Councillor)
MP Suhk Dhaliwal (Newton-North Delta)
MP Ujjal Dosanjh (Vancouver South)
MP Hedy Fry (Vancouver Centre)
MLA Sue Hammell (Surrey-Green Timbers)
Judy Higginbotham (Surrey City Councillor)
MP Kevin Martin (Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca)
Joyce Murray. (Liberal Candidate)
Maxine Wilson (Coquitlam Mayor)
MLA Valerie Roddick

Women’s Groups!

Canadian Women’s Voter’s Congress
Women’s and Gender Studies Undergraduate Association
BC Council for International Cooperation (BCCIC)
STAND
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
Oxfam UBC
Grassroots Women
Womyn’s Centre
Vancouver Rape Relief
Pride UBC
The Safe Choices: Support and Education Program
Sexual Assault Support Centre
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Women Elders in Action (WE*ACT)
Women’s Enterprise Centre
Access & Diversity
Oxfam Vancouver

Sponsors:

AMS
Women’s and Gender Studies Undergraduate Association
Linda Reaume

Access and Diversity
Zellers
Safeway

Organizing Committee!

Kaitlin Blanchard Kristen Myres Sarina Rehal
Jillian Gordon Kat Sorfleet Kristina Welch
Kelly Lau April Tam
Amanda Reaume Joanna Chui

Thank you for your help and your support! If you’re interested in subscribing ($12 for one year) or if you’re interested in advertising in our magazine e-mail antigonemagazine@hotmail.com.

CONNECT Lunch and Blog Hiatus

14 Wednesday Nov 2007

Posted by Amanda in CONNECT, vancouver events

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The CONNECT networking lunch was phenomenal! Thank you to all the fabulous people that attended and helped to organize the event! I will be doing a far more formal report from the event in the next week but I am currently back in Windsor to receive an award and taking advantage of this opportunity to spend quality time with the family… who I apparently love more than my loyal blog readers!

Apologies! It is not a matter of loving anyone more really, but I do get to communicate with them far less than with Antigone’s readers. So, I guess this and the expected announcement of a super cool feminist art project will have to be put on hold until I get back to Vancouver… I’ll give you a hint though… do you notice the new donate now button on the left? It may or may not have something to do with the cool feminist art project/fundraiser….

CONNECT: A Woman’s Networking Lunch – THIS FRIDAY!

06 Tuesday Nov 2007

Posted by Amanda in CONNECT, vancouver events

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Well, the blog will be on a bit of a hiatus this week as we prepare for our big event this Friday and for the release of the Fall edition of the magazine! We hope to see you at the CONNECT event!

Stay tuned next week for the announcement of a really cool feminist art project!

Dear Friend,

Please forward the information about this event to your networks and listservs! The women of Vancouver (and their allies) unite! We want to invite you to Antigone Magazine’s and WILLA UBC’s (Women Involved in Legislative Leadership Association)…

CONNECT: A Woman’s Networking Lunch
Friday, November 9th, 2007
11:30-1:30
UBC’s SUB Ballroom
FREE for UBC students and $7 for the public
The event will feature women’s groups from UBC and across Vancouver, as well as, politicians who support women’s issues. In attendence will be Adrienne Carr, MP Don Bell, MP Hedy Fry, Vancouver City Councillors Heather Deal and Kim Capri, Coquitlam Mayor Maxine Wilson and Liberal Candidate Joyce Murray. Members of the public can reserve their tickets today by e-mailing antigonemagazine@hotmail.com or calling 604-730-0264!

Celebrate Antigone Magazine’s First Anniversary at the event and get the Fall issue of Antigone Magazine entitled ‘Women World Leaders’. Antigone Magazine is a non-profit, non-partisan magazine about women and politics that started at UBC with the help of WILLA, but whihc has since expanded nationally. For more information about Antigone check out our blog at http://www.antigonemagazine.blogspot.com/.

Sincerely,

Amanda Reaume
Editor
Antigone Magazine

Women of Vancouver Unite!

20 Saturday Oct 2007

Posted by antigonemagazine in CONNECT

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I’m doing an interview with the lovely girls from the F-Word radio program today (a new initiative from the Vancouver feminist action project) on Vancouver Co-op Radio 102.7FM. For those who hear about CONNECT or Antigone Magazine from that appearance – here’s some details about the lunch! We hope to see you there!
CONNECT: A Woman’s Networking Lunch!
Friday, November 9th, 2007
11:30-1:30
UBC’s Student Union Building Ballroom
Free to UBC student – $7 for the general public
E-mail antigonemagazine@hotmail.com
to reserve your tickets today!

It’s hard to believe that it’s already been a year since Antigone first officially launched it’s magazine… but indeed it has! Which means we need to celebrate and further our mandate of connecting young women with other women, women’s groups and politicians who work for women’s causes. That’s why we’re holding CONNECT: A Woman’s Networking Lunch!

The lunch will bring together women and men of all ages who support women’s causes. Primarily we will be targetting women’s groups from across Vancouver, UBC students and politicians who support women’s causes. We believe that it is crucially important to bring these groups together to help encourage collaboration and faciliatate the work that they are doing.

We still need tons of help with the event – so feel free to sign up to volunteer during the event, or help promote it!

Please forward this info on to any other people you might think would be interested in this great event!

Women of Vancouver Unite!

20 Saturday Oct 2007

Posted by Amanda in CONNECT

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I’m doing an interview with the lovely girls from the F-Word radio program today (a new initiative from the Vancouver feminist action project) on Vancouver Co-op Radio 102.7FM. For those who hear about CONNECT or Antigone Magazine from that appearance – here’s some details about the lunch! We hope to see you there!
CONNECT: A Woman’s Networking Lunch!
Friday, November 9th, 2007
11:30-1:30
UBC’s Student Union Building Ballroom
Free to UBC student – $7 for the general public
E-mail antigonemagazine@hotmail.com
to reserve your tickets today!

It’s hard to believe that it’s already been a year since Antigone first officially launched it’s magazine… but indeed it has! Which means we need to celebrate and further our mandate of connecting young women with other women, women’s groups and politicians who work for women’s causes. That’s why we’re holding CONNECT: A Woman’s Networking Lunch!

The lunch will bring together women and men of all ages who support women’s causes. Primarily we will be targetting women’s groups from across Vancouver, UBC students and politicians who support women’s causes. We believe that it is crucially important to bring these groups together to help encourage collaboration and faciliatate the work that they are doing.

We still need tons of help with the event – so feel free to sign up to volunteer during the event, or help promote it!

Please forward this info on to any other people you might think would be interested in this great event!

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