{"id":546,"date":"2008-01-26T08:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-26T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=546"},"modified":"2008-01-26T08:34:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-26T13:34:00","slug":"announcing-economic-justice-for-women-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/01\/26\/announcing-economic-justice-for-women-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing: Economic Justice for Women Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/R5spbd5MrrI\/AAAAAAAAA5U\/440Di7oFTFw\/s1600-h\/ej-summit2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/R5spbd5MrrI\/AAAAAAAAA5U\/440Di7oFTFw\/s200\/ej-summit2.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Join the National Organization for Women Foundation, National Council of Negro Women, and the Institute for Women&#8217;s Policy Research for the 2008 Summit on Economic Justice for Women, April 11-12 in Atlanta, Georgia. The summit is dedicated to &#8220;Bringing Together Research and Advocacy&#8211;from Local to Global&#8211;to Advance Economic Justice and Empowerment for Women.&#8221; To register, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.now.org\/foundation\/ejsummit-registration.html\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Goals for the conference include expanding the body of knowledge on critical economic issues; increasing our understanding of the global economic challenges women face; building and strengthening alliances in the economic justice movement; developing recommendations and strategies for enhancing women&#8217;s economic empowerment; and informing policies globally and locally, including helping to shape the 2008 U.S. presidential election debate.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not too late to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nowfoundation.org\/issues\/economic\/events\/ejsummit2008\/proposals.html\">submit a workshop or research paper<\/a>. Workshops will blend research and grassroots action, offering participants an opportunity to hear from experts and apply action strategies to address economic inequality. The deadline to submit a proposal is Feb. 15 (hey&#8211;that&#8217;s my birthday!!)<\/p>\n<p>And hey, while we&#8217;re on the subject of economic justice and just economics, do check out the latest HuffPo piece from PursePundit, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/jacki-zehner\/quickfixonomics-fannie-m_b_83290.html\">&#8220;Quickfixonomics.&#8221;<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pursepundit.blogspot.com\">PursePundit<\/a> suggests we check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/24f73610-c91e-11dc-9807-000077b07658.html\">what George Soros has to say <\/a>about the current financial crisis, too.  How is this all affecting women?  Stay tuned.  More on that very soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join the National Organization for Women Foundation, National Council of Negro Women, and the Institute for Women&#8217;s Policy Research for the 2008 Summit on Economic Justice for Women, April 11-12 in Atlanta, Georgia. The summit is dedicated to &#8220;Bringing Together Research and Advocacy&#8211;from Local to Global&#8211;to Advance Economic Justice and Empowerment for Women.&#8221; To register, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21328,21733,21924],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-events","tag-racial-equality","tag-womens-economic-empowerment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}