Come see us at the--
Minneapolis Fringe Festival!
How to Fight Like a Girl
Show Dates:
- Friday, August 6: 5:30
- Saturday, August 7: 8:30
- Sunday, August 8: 7:00 p.m.
- Tuesday, August 10: 10 p.m.
- Saturday, August 14: 4pm
Rarig Center Xperimental at the U of M
330 21st Avnu. South, Minneapolis
Opening Night "Cast of Thousands" Party - Friday, August 6 at 7 pm. Acadia Cafe corner of Cedar & Riverside. Everyone is Welcome!
Stud or slut? Boss or bitch? The ERA never passed? Really?! Join Rachel Stewart, host of ‘How to Fight Like a Girl’ for a close look at sex through a gender amplified lens. Along with roving reporter Mitch McGinty, the ghost of Alice Paul, Ross Perot and an absurd cast of characters - luminaries in their own minds, Rachel takes us on a parody of our newest nightly news. An entertaining, boffo comedy about bars, bathrooms, and birth control.
For tickets, call 866.811.4111 or buy online at www.fringefestival.org
We're looking for "Cast of Thousands" Party co-hosts in these levels:
$250 Producer
$100 Directors' Circle
$50 Leading Actor
$25 Supporting Cast
Our big day at the capitol (Wed, April 14).
To see the Webcast -- click here.
If you couldn't make it to the capitol--you can still see the speakers and listen to the great testimony that was given. The first five minutes are of confirmations--then our bill hearing begins.
Press Conference
Sen. Cohen, Rep Knuth, Sen. Moua, Rep. Kelliher, Rep. Kahn
Judiciary Committee Chair Senator Moua opened the press conference--followed by Senate Leadership and bill author Senator Cohen, , House bill author Rep. Knuth, Jill Gaulding from the U of M Law School, Chuck Derry from the Gender Violence Institute and House Leadership Rep. Kelliher.
Sen. Marty, Sen. Cohen, Rep. Hornstein, Sen. Bakk, Rep. Murphy, Sen. Torres Ray
Also present and lending their support were Rep. Kahn, Senator Torres Ray, Senator Bakk, Senator Marty, Rep. Hornstein, and Rep Murphy.
Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing
Here is a brief line up of who spoke and what they covered at the hearing...
- Introduction of Bill
Senator Dick Cohen - Overview of Issue
Jill Gaulding, Worker's Rights Clinic, U of M Law School
Amy Brenengen, Office on the Economic Status of Women - Issue Specific areas:
- Pay Equity
Patty Tanji, Pay Equity Coalition
Deb Fitzpatrick, Humphrey Institute, Women in Policy - Gender Violence
Chuck Derry, Gender Violence Institute
Graham Barnes, Battered Women’s Justice Project
- Gender in the Courts
Marna Anderson, WATCH Minnesota
Aviva Breen, Gender Fairness in the Courts Task Force
- Pay Equity
- Concluding Remarks & Questions
Senator Dick Cohen
Be sure to watch the webcast! Excellent Testimony.
Click on the title to jump right to that story.
- Bills Introduced in the House and Senate
- Think you've got equality? Think again...
- Why do we still need a state & federal ERA?
Bills Introduced in the House and Senate
We have bill numbers! They are:
HF (House File) 3649. Authors -- we have 35 authors in the House led by Knuth, Kelliher, Thissen, Rukavina & Brynaert.
SF (Senate File) 3191. Authors in the Senate are Cohen, Erickson-Ropes, Moua, Marty & Bakk.
Think you've got equality? Think again...
Did you know the Federal Amendment to guarantee women equal rights under the US Constitution was defeated in 1982?
Did you know Minnesota has never been able to get an amendment to our state Constitution put to the people of Minnesota?
Don't you think it is about time the rights of over half of our population are secured into our state law?
Now is the time for Minnesota to support the campaign to pass a constitutional amendment for gender equality to our Constitution.
WHY do we still need a state & federal ERA?
- Neither the Minnesota Constitution nor the U.S. Constitution explicitly guarantees that all of the rights they protect are held by all of its citizens without regard to sex.
- Polling shows 75% of Americans assume women have full equality, while 91% believe women should have full equality under the Constitution.
- An ERA would set a stricter judicial standard of review for deciding cases of sex discrimination.
- Court decisions still reflect confusion and inconsistency about how the law is to deal with sex discrimination claims.
- We need to protect ourselves from a rollback of the significant advances in women's rights over the past 40 years.
- The legislature has the power to replace existing laws by a majority vote, and judicial precedents can be eroded or ignored by reactionary courts responding to a conservative political agenda.
- Example: The Lilly Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire Supreme Court decision erased 20 years of legal precedent in employment law regarding equal pay.
- Our many legal protections (Title VII, Title IX, the Minnesota Human Rights Act, the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, and the Equal Pay Act), are statutes only and statutes can be overturned by a simple majority or by a conservative court.
- The United States needs to practice what it preaches with respect to equal justice under the law.
- Many other countries - including Iraq, Japan, and all the emerging nations since the 1970‘s - specifically affirm legal equality of the sexes in their governing documents. Why don’t we?
- CEDAW (the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women) has been ratified by all but 7 countries in the world: the U.S is in the company of Iran, Sudan, Somalia, Nauru, Palau and Tonga.
- GLOBAL CHANGE MUST START AT HOME!
NOW IS THE TIME TO ACT! We need to secure the progress we’ve made by enacting this into the bedrock of Minnesota’s democracy.
- For the first time in 28 years, we HAVE a Minnesota Legislature that could pass this legislation and put it directly to the people to decide.
Minnesota values women. Minnesota supports gender equality.
Sex Laws Still on the Books.
Pat Kessler, WCCO
... If it's true, Tiger Woods committed adultery. That's not illegal in Minnesota but here's the surprising fact: it's only against the law if his wife cheated... Read the complete article. OR See the video.
