HCCC students learn about Iroquois influence on women’s rights
That was the basis of a lecture Sally Roesch Wagner, executive director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation and author of “Sisters in Spirit,” delivered to Herkimer County Community College’s Gender Studies program on Thursday. During her presentation, she recounted the struggle for freedom and equality waged by women in the United States and documented the influence and inspiration Native American women gave to their social movement.
Mimi Kennedy and Sally Roesch Wagner on 100 Women of Destiny Panel
Ready to celebrate 100 years of International Women’s Day? Mimi Kennedy and Sally Roesch Wagner will be kicking off the 100 Women of Destiny Tele-Retreat on March 1 at 8:00 PM (EST)! Join us and other women from around the globe at the Tele-Retreat which runs from March 1st through March 31st. Find out more information here: http://bit.ly/fi3PDr
Registration is free.
Welcome To The 19th Century
Welcome to the 19th Century:
Gateway to a Future of Peace and Social Justice
Enter into an Eerily Familiar History …
- A woman exposes the sexual abuse of children and women by priests
- Religious fundamentalists try to gain control of the government—and are stopped
- Civil disobedience topples an unjust system—twice
- Women demand an end to trafficking, violence against women, child sexual abuse, and demand reproductive rights
… A History Never Told in Textbooks
- A woman runs for President—on a platform of absolute equality for all, an end to monopoly and world peace
- A coalition of poor and rich, women and men, young and old, African-American and white, join to bring the government to its knees—and win
- Economic justice is claimed as a human right
- A state repeals medical licensing laws—forcing the AMA to change its medical practice
- A woman proposes to rewrite the Bible—removing all the parts that justify oppression
- Workers in the United States stage a 24 hour revolution that changes the nature of work
The riveting story told today in lecture or performance by nationally acclaimed performer, lecturer, historian and writer, Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner.
Gage Performance Reaches 20,000 Online
Matilda Joslyn Gage came to life for 23,000 people at the 2009 Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, Calif., Oct. 16. The audience of 3,000 at the Marin Convention Center were joined by another 20,000 people watching the webcast in satellite conferences around the country as Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner, Executive Director of the Gage Foundation, spoke Gage’s words of peace and social justice in character.
Bioneers is inspiring a shift to live on Earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other, and future generations. Bioneers are social and scientific innovators from all walks of life and disciplines. A nonprofit organization, Bioneers provides a forum and social hub for education about solutions presented through the Bioneers Conference and various programs.
