Come and meet Chicago NOW at the Equality Illinois hosted First Fridays. The event will be held on Friday, Sept. 3 from 6-8pm at Sidetrack. Sidetrack is located at 3349 North Halsted Street in Chicago.
For a $10 donation to help further Equality Illinois’ fight for LGBT rights, you receive two drink tickets and a ticket for a door prize drawing.
So come on out  to join Chicago NOW and Equality Illinois supporters and friends for the monthly First Friday networking event!
Please support Between Friends and other concerned community members in being part of a community response that makes it clear that THERE IS NO ROOM FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD. Come share your thoughts about what happened and let’s start talking about solutions.
A Rogers Park man is charged in the murder of a woman who had taken out an order of protection against him. William Caponegri, 49, allegedly strangled Karen Salvino, 52, in his Rogers Park apartment the morning of Sunday Aug. 15th. “In a video statement to police, Caponegri admitted that he put his hand on the victim’s throat and she wouldn’t shut up so he kept on choking her.”
Meet at the corner of Glenwood and Northshore Ave. (the 6700 block of Glenwood) this Thursday August 26th at 6pm.
Participants will tie purple ribbons on trees in the neighborhood to signify the people who are murdered each year at the hands of their current or past intimate partners. After the ribbons are tied, we will hold a vigil to remember Karen Salvino.
For more information feel free to visit the Between Friends website here or utilize the contact information listed below:
Colleen Norton, MSW
Prevention & Education Manager
Between Friends
Building a Community Without Domestic Violence
773-274-5232 extension 26
cnorton@betweenfriendschicago.org
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The Chicago Cultural Center will be holding the Women’s Empowerment Summer Film Series on Sunday, Aug. 15 and Sunday, Aug. 22. All screenings are free and open to the public! The event will feature a series of films that highlight issues affecting women in the U.S. and across the globe. The event is presented by ITVS, Chicago Foundation for Women, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Chicago Public Media.
Film Schedule:
Aug. 15 @ Noon – Made in L.A. by Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar
Aug. 15 @ 2:30 pm – Taking the Heat by Anirban Roy
Aug. 22 @ Noon – Going on 13 by Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and Dawn Valadez
Aug. 22 @ 2:30 pm – Troop 1500 by Ellen Spiro
For more information on the films, events, or venue location check out the event webpage here.
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We would love to see you our annual event, Women Who Dared – Telling Women’s Stories, Giving Women Voices. Women Who Dared is a cocktail reception and fundraiser. This event is the Chapter’s opportunity to thank Chicago leaders for their contributions to the feminist community. We would be honored to have your help in making this year’s event a success.
This year, we are proud to honor Jody Raphael, Senior Research Fellow at the Schiller DuCanto & Fleck Family Law Center at DePaul College of Law and a visiting professor at DePaul College of Law, and Rachel Durchslag, Executive Director and Founder of the Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation (CAASE).
The reception will take place on September 29, 2010 from 6pm to 9pm at Mars Gallery in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood www.marsgallery.com.
For more ticketing information and to purchase your tickets go here.
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The Indigo Girls are to perform with special guest Coyote Grace on Saturday, July 24 at 7 pm. on The Morton Arboretum concert lawn as part of the “In Tune with Trees” Summer concert series. Tickets are on sale now!
For more information on the concert and purchasing tickets go here.
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Want to volunteer with Chicago NOW and Equality IL during Chicago’s Market Days on Aug. 7 & 8? We need people to help with voter registration! Interested?
Contact Melissa at melissasatterlee@hotmail.com for further details!
To learn more about the Northalsted Market Days check out details here.
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On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved the nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan, setting up a final confirmation vote by the Senate. Kagan would become the nation’s fourth female Supreme Court justice. The final confirmation vote is expected to take place before the Senate departs for its August recess. If approved, Kagan will fill the seat of retiring Justice John Paul Stevens and become the 112th person to join the high court.
For more information check out CNN’s coverage of Kagan’s nomination here.
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Canada is currently debating whether or not to add Honor Killings to the Federal Criminal Code. Some say this is a milestone, others say that murder is already illegal and a special classification would unfairly target Muslims and immigrants.
Take a look at the articles below and tell us what you think.
The Truth About Honor Killings – Salon.com
Muslim women’s group opposes addition of honour killings to Criminal Code – Calgary Herald
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Yesterday, under a new law signed by Governor Pat Quinn, Illinois has become the first state to require the testing of all DNA evidence gathered from sex crimes. The law comes about after the Chicago Tribune exposed that many rape kits were being placed into police storage untested. Starting October 1, all state police departments will be required to submit DNA collected from sex crimes to the crime lab within 10 days of collection. From that point, the crime lab will be required to analyze the evidence within six months. This law will not provide new funding for the mandate.
For more information on this issue read this article posted by Chicago Tribune Breaking News.
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The Sister Singers Network will be hosting their 10th National Choral Festival in Chicago at Loyola University Chicago’s Lake Shore campus beginning Thursday, July 1 and continuing through Sunday, July 4. Â The Sister Singers Network is, “a cooperative web of feminist choruses and ensembles, composers, arrangers, and individual singers working together to support and enrich the women’s choral movement.” (http://www.sistersingers.net)
Participating in the event is Chicago’s own Artemis Singers, which is a lesbian feminist chorus “comprised of women with diverse backgrounds who are dedicated to performing music written or arranged by women.” The goal of this choir is to foster positive change in the cultural attitudes towards women, as well as women artists, and increase the visibility of lesbian feminists. (http://www.artemissingers.org/)
Visit http://www.sistersingers.net/ for more information on where and when you can catch performances by the Artemis Singers and a number of other feminist choirs from all over the country.
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