Fall Branch Meeting, Luncheon, and Fundraiser
Saturday, 11/6/21, 11:45 AM to 2:30 PM
Reginato Ristorante, 34 Leggs Mill Road, Lake Katrine

For our Fall Branch Meeting, Luncheon, and Fundraiser, we are very excited to welcome guest speaker Suzanne Young-Mercer, who is the Diversity and Cultural Director for AAUW-NYS and is a member of the Rockland County Branch. She will address the question “Are Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Still Relevant?”. DEI is a term used to describe programs and policies that encourage representation and participation of diverse groups of people, including people of different genders, races, ethnicities, abilities, disabilities, religions,
cultures, ages, and sexual orientations.

Menu:
– Cash bar
– Soup or salad
– Sorbet
– Entrée choices:
Chicken Francese
Eggplant Rollatini
Sole Almondine
Pork Marsala
– Choice of coffee or tea
– Dessert: Choice of cake or ice cream

Cost: $35 (members)
          $40 (non-members)
Scholarship donations are very welcome!

Registration form:
https://kingston-ny.aauw.net/files/2021/10/AAUW_Kingston_Fall_Luncheon_110621.pdf

Make your check out to AAUW Kingston and send
by Friday, 10/29 (with your entrée selection) to:

Marjorie Bot, 58 Twin Ponds Drive, Kingston, NY 12484

Come catch up with old and new friends!
50/50 drawing and door prizes!

For more info or to join us on Zoom, contact: lynngore54@gmail.com

Wednesday, October 27, 2021, 4 PM ET

AAUW’s 140th Anniversary Webinar Series:
AAUW in Conversation with Dr. Patricia Bell-Scott

To register, go to:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vssH23W_Q2WSy2h6AdwTSg

Join us for a discussion with AAUW fellowship alumna Patricia Bell-Scott, Ph.D., an award-winning author and professor emerita of women’s studies and human development and family science at the University of Georgia. Her most recent book, The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice, won the Lillian Smith Book Award and was named Booklist Best Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year by the American Library Association. Her previous books include Life Notes: Personal Writings by Contemporary Black Women, which was a featured selection of The Quality Paperback Book Club, and All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women’s Studies, an award-winning textbook that was named to the Black Issues Books Review list of “Books that Made the Century Great.” Dr. Bell-Scott served for a decade as co-founding editor of SAGE: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women. She is a former contributing editor to Ms. Magazine. She is also a co-founder of the National Women’s Studies Association, for which she served as co-convener of the inaugural coordinating council.

Thursday, October 14, 7 PM
A Virtual Evening “High Tea” with AAUW Kingston
Welcome back, old and new friends!

Make a cup of your favorite tea and bring a delicious snack.
Share your choices, including your special china, with the group!

AAUW Kingston needs your help!
We would love to expand our membership.
Invite a friend to join our Zoom (the link will be sent out on 10/13).

This will be a social event with a brief introduction and
breakout rooms, so you can meet up with old and new friends.

All are welcome, please join us!

For more information, contact:
Lynn Gore
lynngore54@gmail.com
845-687-9210

From AAUW National —

AAUW is partnering with more than 150 organizations to host the Rally for Abortion Justice this Saturday, October 2. People will take action in 600+ events nationwide and online to demand an end to the dangerous, escalating attacks on reproductive rights and freedoms in this country. Join us!

We have long known that the day is coming when the Constitutional right to abortion will be challenged. While the Supreme Court of the United States has repeatedly confirmed this right since the Roe vs. Wade court decision in 1973, it has been systematically under attack for decades. States have enacted medically unnecessary restrictions and barriers making access inconsistent. The only answer now is Congressional action.

Access to critical health care should not depend on where someone lives.

This is where you come in: we need you now. Civic participation takes many forms, especially with an ongoing pandemic. Committing to calling your elected officials and empowering friends and family to join is just as, if not more, powerful than going to a rally or march in person. Please make decisions on where and how to advocate safely and take note of public health precautions required in your area. This weekend, you could:

• Attend in person: Check for a rally or march near you (for example: 11 AM at Kingston Academy Green and Woodstock Village Green)
• Engage virtually: Support the Women’s Health Protection Act and take action on social media
• Build community: Have a conversation with friends and family on the importance of defending reproductive health and freedom for all (read more in Where We Stand: Reproductive Rights)

Every person should have the ability to make their own informed decisions regarding their reproductive life. It is beyond time for abortion to be secured legally, funded fully, and equitably available for all who need it, when they need it, without shame or stigma.
Join us on October 2 and every day to protect reproductive health and freedom!