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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 
 

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From Women Who Broke the Silence

I do not believe that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislatures, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance.

Jane Addams