Committee
Attention: 37th Annual Summer Institute for Union Women
March 27, 2018
To: Women Members of MoveUP
The Women’s Rights Committee is putting the call out for submissions to our sisters of MoveUP to attend the 37th Annual Summer Institute for Union Women (SIUW). This year, the SIUW is from July 10-14, 2018 at Sonoma State University, in the heart of California’s wine country.
This year’s theme is: “The RESISTERhood—Working Womxn Organizing for Collective Power” lifts up organizing and collective action as integral to the advancement of working women’s issues and building power for all workers. It also reflects our commitment to creating an environment that is inclusive and builds on the strength of our shared but also uniquely different experiences as women from diverse backgrounds in the broader labour movement. We use the new spelling of the word ‘womxn’ in the Institute’s theme to be inclusive of gender non-conforming and transgender people.
The Institute website can be found here.
We have attached an application form for you here to complete should you be interested. The application criteria will be based on participation, an interest in learning and promoting women’s issues through activism along with the following:
· The applicant’s experience and activism.
· The applicant’s attendance at other women’s education courses.
· What has the applicant done already to further raise awareness of women’s concerns.
Participation in all events, (plenary, workshops, protests and core classes) is mandatory.
A written report submitted to the chairs of the Women’s Right Committee detailing the experience is also required. Applicants who have not attended SIUW in the past will be considered before any applicants who have attended in the past, but we encourage all who are interested to apply.
Deadline for applications to be received is 4:30 p.m. on Monday, April 9, 2018.
PLEASE NOTE: you MUST have a valid passport!
Please forward your submissions to the attention of Joanne by email or by fax to 604-299-8211.
In Solidarity,
Janie McDougall
Rysa Kronebusch
MoveUP WRC Co-chairs