The CWLU News was the monthly newsletter aimed at the CWLU membership. Here one can truly sense the diversity of ideas and projects within the CWLU.
The individual issues we have online are scanned copies. We also include a brief listing of the highlights of each issue. We will be adding more issues over time, organized by the year and month.
Hightlights of 1970 include news about the Playboy action, women's liberation and the 1970 student strikes, devisivness in the women's movement, the CWLU health center and CWLU city-wide meetings.
JANUARY 1970
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Highlights of this issue include:
Miss Loyola Liberated
Announcements of national womens' liberation conferences
UC Counter Curriculum
The La Dolores Center
APRIL 1970
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Highlights of this issue include:
Playboy Action
Speaker Policy
Women in Viet Nam
Importance of CWLU chapters
Report from a city-wide meeting
MAY 1970
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Highlights of the issue include:
Campus women's liberations and the 1970 student strikes
Women's Liberation protests in the Presbyterian Church
CWLU Medical Clinic Training
Ecology Conference
City-wide CWLU Meeting
JULY 1970
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Highlights of this issue include:
Charlotte Bunch Weeks returns from Hanoi
Southside Women's Liberation Center
Emergency Anti-War Conference
Joreen's Letter of Resignation
Divisiveness and self-destruction in the women's movement
AUGUST 1970
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Highlights of this issue include:
CWLU Health Center
August 26th women's strike
Legal battle against the Illinois abortion law
CWLU staff position now open
The CWLU responds to NBC
Women's radio in Chicago
SEPTEMBER 1970
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Highlights of this issue include:
SEPTEMBER 1970
August 26th women's strike
Huey Newton on women's liberation
Employment and women
Ellen DuBois on feminism
Organizing the CWLU office
CWLU speakers bureau
OCTOBER 1970
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Highlights of this issue include:
The Equal Rights Amendment
The passing of Alice Hamilton
Rock band auditions
Ellen DuBois on feminism (continued)
Evaluating doctors and therapists
Childcare
The Middle East
Letter to Kate Millet
NOVEMBER 1970
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Highlights of this issue include:
CWLU Citywide meeting
CWLU student organizing
The Pill
Birth of the Women's Graphics Collective
Gay liberation
Alice Hamilton Women's Health Center: Pro and Con
WITCH
DECEMBER 1970
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Highlights of this issue include:
City-wide CWLU meeting
Membership and sisterhood
Women and art
Membership position paper
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Abortion Rally
Courts vs. women
Liberation school