Upcoming
For more information contact Advocates for Women
September and October 2023
9/4 Monday, 6-7:30 pm A4W Monthly Meeting, via Zoom
10/1 Sunday, 11:45 am-1:15 pm A4W Monthly Meeting, RE 1/2 and Zoom
October Sunday Offering: Open Arms Perinatal Services (A4W nominated)
10/15 Sunday, 4-5 pm Letter writing party for Ohio reproductive rights initiative, via Zoom
10/19 Thursday, 11 am-12:30 pm Cafe Connections discussion of violence against indigenous women, Third Place Books
November and December 2023
11/6 Monday, 6-7:30 pm A4W Monthly Meeting, via Zoom
11/19 Thursday, 7-8:30 pm A Council of Dolls, book discussion, via Zoom
12/3 Sunday, 11:30 am -1:00 pm. A4W Monthly Meeting, RE 1/2 and Zoom
January and February 2024
1/8 Monday 6-7:30 pm A4W Monthly Meeting, via Zoom
1/8 – 3/8 Lobby Room – Reproductive Justice, Women and Families
February Sunday Offering: Native Action Network (A4W nominated)
2/4 Sunday, 11:30 am -1:00 pm. A4W Monthly Meeting, RE 1/2 and Zoom
2/11 Sunday 4-5:30 pm. Discussion of the film Women of the White Buffalo, via Zoom
March and April 2024
3/4 Monday 6-7:30 pm A4W Monthly Meeting, via Zoom
4/5 Sunday, 11:30 am -1 pm. A4W Monthly Meeting, RE 1/2 and Zoom
4/13 Saturday 11 am-3:00 pm Invisible No More Faceless Dolls Workshop on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People, with Carolyn DeFord
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Past
All events from March 2020 through May 2022 were via Zoom unless noted.
Note: Many events in the 2022-2023 year are a part of a congregational educational plan preceding the congregational vote on a Stand for Reproductive Justice. These are marked **ReproJ**.
2023
January and February 2023
1/8 Sunday, 11:30 am-1 pm A4W Monthly Meeting, in-person (EUUC RE-5)
1/8-4/10 A4W works in the Lobby Room to promote bills that will help Washington women and families
1/16 Monday, 7-8:30 pm Reproductive Justice Work Group, via Zoom
1/25 Wednesday, 1-2:30 pm Cafe Connections: Discussion on Religion and Abortion, via Zoom **ReproJ**
2/6 Monday, 7-8:30 pm A4W Monthly Meeting, via Zoom
2/8 Wednesday, 7-8:30 pm Lobby Group: Our Reproductive Justice Legislative Agenda for Washington State, via Zoom. Contact the Lobby Room. **ReproJ**
2/28 Film discussion ” Abortion and Women’s Rights 1970″ by **ReproJ**
March and April 2023
3/6 Monday, 7-8:30 pm A4W Monthly Meeting, via Zoom
3/16 Cafe Connections. Discussion: Washington as a Safe Harbor State.
3/19 Sunday Intergenerational Panel: EUUC members from different generations discuss reproductive justice, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm (EUUC RE-1/2). **ReproJ**
3/26 Sunday, 4-5 pm. Information/feedback session on the proposed Congregational Stand for Reproductive Justice, via Zoom **ReproJ**
4/3 Monday, 7-8:30 pm A4W Monthly Meeting, via Zoom
4/16 Sunday, 10 am-1 pm Reproductive Justice Sunday.
- Service – Imagine a World with Reproductive Justice for All, Rev. Ranwa Hammamy (EUUC Chapman) **ReproJ**
- Congregational stand on Reproductive Justice – information and feedback session 11:30 am -12:30 (EUUC RE-1/2) **ReproJ**
- Celebrate and Contemplate: Music and Reproductive Justice – listen and discuss! 11:30 am -12:30 pm (EUUC RE-5) **ReproJ**
4/19 Wednesday, 7-8 pm. Information/feedback session on the proposed Congregational Stand for Reproductive Justice, via Zoom **ReproJ
May and June 2023
5/7 Sunday, 11:45 am. A4W Monthly Meeting, RE 1/2 and Zoom
5/24 Wednesday, 2 pm. Book discussion Birth Strike, by Jenny Brown. Via Zoom. *ReproJ**
5/21 Sunday 2 pm. Congregational Meeting Vote on proposed Stand on Reproductive Justice *ReproJ**
5/31 Wednesday, 10:45 am. Cafe Connections discussion of bodily autonomy. Third Place Books. *ReproJ**
6/4 Sunday, 11:45 am. A4W Monthly Meeting, RE 1/2 and Zoom
July and August 2023
7/22 Saturday, 3-5 pm. Songs for a Summer Day, a vocal concert to benefit Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho. It is also a time to bid farewell to our Administrator Susan. Co-sponsored by Sunday Offerings.
8/12 Saturday, 11:30-4:30 pm. Annual Retreat.
2022
January and February 2022
1/3 Monday, 7-8:30 pm A4W Monthly Meeting
1/10 – 3/10 A4W works in the Lobby Room to promote bills that will help Washington women and families
1/11 Tuesday, 11-12:30 Cafe Connections on Zoom. We will talk about the article, What can Biden do about abortion?
2/7 Monday 7-8:30 pm. A4W Monthly Meeting
2/17 Tuesday, 11-12:30 Cafe Connections on Zoom. We will discuss: How Abortion Has Changed Since 1973 | FiveThirtyEight
March and April 2022
3/7 Monday 7-8:30 pm. A4W Monthly Meeting
3/15 Tuesday 11 -12:30 . Cafe Connections at Third Place Books. We will discuss two articles: People Are Getting Creative Obtaining Abortion Pills Online – Ms. Magazine and “Shame On You”: 16-Year-Old in Texas Refuses To Be Silent About Her Reproductive Rights – Ms. Magazine
3/22 Tuesday 7-8:30 pm Book Discussion: On Juneteenth by Annette-Gordon Reed. (via Zoom).
4/4 Monday 7-8:30 pm. A4W Monthly Meeting
May and June 2022
5/2 Monday 7-8:30 pm. A4W Monthly Meeting
5/17 Tuesday 11 -12:30 . Café Connections at Third Place Books. We will discuss two articles on religion and abortion: Religion Must Not Substitute Science in the Abortion Debate by Kelly Percival in Ms. Magazine and The Prochoice Religious Community May Be the Future of Reproductive Rights, Access, and Justice by Frederick Clarkson in Political Research Associates.
5/24 Tuesday Last day to donate to Worldwide Fistula. All online donations to Advocates for Women made through 5/24 will be sent to Worldwide Fistula.
5/25 through June 17 Fundraiser for I Need an Abortion. To donate, use the Give button at the top right of this page. During the fundraiser, all online donations will be given to I Need an Abortion.
6/6 Monday 7 – 8:30 pm. A4W Monthly Meeting
6/16 Thursday 4:30 – 6 pm. Whatever Makes You Happy, Happy Hour. Location to be decided. We will discuss the same articles as we did for the May Café Connections; there is plenty to talk about.
6/18 – 9/1 Any online donations to Advocates for Women during this time will go to the cause you specify in the Comments field, unless we have already sent the check to the organization. In that case we will hold your donation and it will benefit the beneficiary that is chosen by the A4W members for the 2022/23 year. Donations will go to Worldwide Fistula if the beneficiary is not specified.
July and August 2022
7/31 Sunday 11:30 am – 3:30 pm. Annual retreat and potluck, off site.
8/14 Sunday, 4-5:30 pm Reproductive Justice Work Group meeting
September and October 2022
9/5 Monday, 7-8:30 pm A4W Monthly Meeting
9/12 Monday, 7-8:30 pm Reproductive Justice Work Group meeting
9/26 Monday, 7-8:30 pm Reproductive Justice Work Group meeting
10/3 Monday, 7-8:30 pm A4W Monthly Meeting
10/17 Monday, 7-8:30 pm Reproductive Justice Work Group meeting
10/20 Thursday, 10-11:30 am, Cafe Connections off-site **ReproJ**
10/26 Wednesday, 7-8:30 pm How to Talk about Abortion: An Interactive Post-Roe Mini-Workshop **ReproJ**
November and December 2022
11/4 Sunday, 11:30-1 pm A4W Monthly Meeting (EUUC RE1/2 )
11/20 Sunday, 11:30 am-1:30 pm, “And Reproductive Justice for All”, An introduction to the big tent of Reproductive Justice. Light lunch served. (EUUC Chapman Hall) **ReproJ**
11/21 Monday, 7-8:30 pm Reproductive Justice Work Group meeting
12/4 Sunday, 11:30 am -1:00 pm. Book Discussion: Take my Hand by by Dolen Perkins-Valdez. (EUUC RE-1/2) **ReproJ**
12/5 Monday, 7-8:30 pm A4W Monthly Meeting
12/19 Monday, 7-8:30 pm Reproductive Justice Work Group meeting
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2021
January 2021
01/04 – Monday, 7-9 pm. A4W monthly business meeting
01/10 – Sunday, 2-3 pm Letter Writing Party Save Secular Healthcare (CHI Franciscan and Virginia Mason Merger)
01/21 – Thursday, 2-3:30 pm Cafe’ Connections get-together
February 2021
02/01 – Monday, 7-9 pm. A4W monthly business meeting
02/11 – Thursday, 3-4:30pm Book Discussion Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
02/17 – Wednesday, 2-3:30pm Cafe’ Connections get-together – Topic: First look at the new book “White Feminism”, by Koa Beck
March 2021
03/01 – Monday, 7-9 pm. A4W monthly business meeting
April 2021
04/05 – Monday, 7-9 pm. A4W monthly business meeting
04/13 – Tuesday, 1 – 2:30 pm. Cafe’ Connection
Discussion Topic: Calling it like it is: Misogynistic Male Violence
(Please read the following 2 articles)
Opinion | How Many Women Have to Die to End ‘Temptation’? – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
In Her Words: ‘Pay Attention to the Misogyny’ (nytimes.com)
04/15 – Thursday, 7-9 pm Book Discussion: The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State by: Nadia Murad
May 2021
05/03 – Monday, 7-9:00 pm. A4W monthly business meeting
05/10 – Monday, 2:00 pm. Cafe’ Connection
Discussion Topic: Human trafficking in the US today
4 questions answered on sex trafficking in the US (theconversation.com)
Racial Disparities, COVID-19, and Human Trafficking
05/19 – Wednesday, 4:00 pm – The Heroes of the Suffrage Movement | Finish the Fight a film by NY Times Journalists
June 2021
06/07 – Monday, 7-9 pm. A4W monthly business meeting
06/17, Thursday, 2-4:00 pm. Book Discussion: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by: Kim Michele Richardson
July & August 2021
A4W is on hiatus for the months of July and August with the exception of our retreat.
08/21 – Saturday, 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm A4W Retreat
September – October 2021
09/06 – Monday, 7-9 pm. A4W Monthly Meeting
09/08-09/12 Kitchen Box collections for Afghan refugees
09/21 – Tuesday, 4-5:30 pm. Cafe Connections / Whatever makes you happy “Happy Hour”
10/04 – Monday, 7-9 pm. A4W Monthly Meeting
10/13-11/2 I Support the Girls fundraiser
November-December 2021
11/1 – Monday, 7-8:30 pm A4W Monthly Meeting
11/11 – Thursday, 11-12:30 Cafe Connections. We will talk about the book Handbook for a Post-Roe America, by Robin Marty. Come and learn more!
11/18 – Thursday, 3-4:30 pm. Discussion of the book The Three Mothers, by Anna Malaika Tubbs. The three mothers, whose stories have been neglected, had a profound impact on their three sons: Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin.
12/6 – Monday 7-8:30 pm. A4W Monthly Meeting.
12/12 – Sunday 4-5:30 pm – Discussion of the film Ask for Jane, a fictionalized movies about the Jane Collective, which helped women in Indiana find abortions in the late 1960s.
No Cafe Connections meeting in December.
2020
September 2020
9/20 – Sunday, 2-3:30 pm. VoteForward Letter writing party
9/24 – Thursday, 2-3:30 pm. Bring your own letter/postcard writing party
October 2020
10/7-11/7 Fundraising for ethnic hair care and similar products for clients of Pathways for Women (collaboration between Advocates for Women, Racial Justice, and Social Concerns Committees)
10/5 – Monday, 7-9 pm. A4W monthly business meeting
10/14 – Wednesday, 6-8 pm. Work to Approve Referendum 90 – phone bank, text bank with Planned Parenthood & NARAL
10/21 Wednesday. 7-8:30 pm. Book discussion: Red at the Bone
November 2020
11/2 – Monday, 7-9 pm. A4W monthly business meeting
11/18 – Wednesday, 7 pm. Discussion of the movie Joy
December 2020
12/7 – Monday, 7-9 pm. A4W monthly business meeting
For more information contact Advocates for Women