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Topic: NAC is thirty years old
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Judes
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Babbler # 21
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posted 24 March 2002 01:59 PM
The National Action Committee on the Status of Women is thirty years old this year. I went to a dinner Friday night in celebration. NAC has achieved a lot in those thirty years but has fallen on hard times of late. Now the women on the NAC Executive are trying to figure out how it can survive and continue to struggle on women's issues. Some women think a new structure is needed, less hierarchical for example. Just wondering if babblers have any suggestions? [ March 24, 2002: Message edited by: Judes ]Here is a NAC history [ March 24, 2002: Message edited by: Judes ]
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Thandiwe
rabble-rouser
Babbler # 1013
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posted 15 April 2002 10:01 PM
I can't say much on the funding issue -- at first, private funding seems swell, and it might be a step toward reestablishing NAC as a political force in Canada. However, as anyone knows, private funding doesn't appear with the snap of the fingers. And comparing the Canadian situation to that of the U.S. isn't necessarily always helpful. We have one tenth the population of the U.S., and therefore less of a base to pull funding from, private or otherwise. That's neither here nor there, really. If I were to make a suggestion, though, my first one would be to appeal to young women. Like, say, me. NAC -- nor any other feminist organization, really -- has a presence at either of the major universities here in Winnipeg. I might be way off here, but getting young women -- early-mid twenties -- engaged, not necessarily directly involved (though that would be good, too) but aware of issues and the fact that organizations like NAC exist, and have existed, for their good. I know that girls on my campus would be receptive to that, and it seems like a good angle to approach "revitaliazation" from. (I hate that word. But I couldn't think of anything better.)
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strumpet
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Babbler # 2541
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posted 19 April 2002 12:42 PM
I agree with Thandiwe... I think that there needs to be an appeal to young women to breathe new life into NAC -- but along with that, there also needs to be a committment to listening to what young women are naming as important issues.... I don't think it's necessarily true that young women aren't aware of NAC, the history of NAC or that they need to be educated on the issues, though. I think there are many radical, politically aware feminist young women, who may not necessarily agree with the second wave political bent of NAC previously... I think generational tensions might keep the dialogue process between current NACers and younger folks a bit stunted, (an occurence I have also noticed within the university setting). But nonetheless, there definitely needs to be more intergenerational dialogue, I think, for NAC and other feminist organizations, to keep up their importance and presence.
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