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		<title>Is Racial Profiling Racist?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[August 2009
Women &#38; Girls CAN and the Chicago Freedom School work collaboratively through the Chicago Alliance Against White Supremacy.  In summer 2009, a group of CAAWS members wrote this statement about recent cases of racism and white supremacy in the news, to promote public dialogue.
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		<link>http://womenandgirlscan.org/2009/08/18/is-profiling-racist/</link>
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		<title>Transformative Justice Zine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[June 2009
A day-long Transformative Justice Teach-in happened on June 6, which bought together over 85 organizers, activists, adults and youth, for a day of popular education workshops and movement-building.  The event was organized by Women &#38; Girls CAN, the Queer Transformative Justice Working Group, DePaul&#8217;s Program in Women&#8217;s &#38; Gender Studies, and dozens of partner [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://womenandgirlscan.org/2009/08/13/transformative-justice-zine/</link>
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		<title>Beyond Chris Brown &amp; Rihanna</title>
		<description><![CDATA[February 2009
FUFA stirred up city-wide and national discussions  this spring through our youth-authored article &#8220;Beyond Chris Brown and Rihanna&#8221;.  The article was published by the Chicago Tribune and used by schools and organizations not just in Chicago, but all over the country.  In order to share the article with other youth, FUFA leaders turned it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://womenandgirlscan.org/2009/08/13/beyond-chris-brown-rihanna/</link>
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		<title>Stop the False Race/Gender Divide: A Call to Action</title>
		<description><![CDATA[June 2008
During the heated Democratic primaries in early 2008, WGCAN leaders called on white progressive women activists and feminists to join us in challenging the onslaught of reactionary and racist arguments being put forward in the name of feminism and in defense of Hillary Clinton. Read our Call to Action.

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		<link>http://womenandgirlscan.org/2009/08/13/stop-the-false-racegender-divide-a-call-to-action/</link>
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		<title>Maasai Women Against Violence</title>
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Too often, white western feminists have, in the name of human rights, been disrespectful of the opinions, needs and strategies of women in developing countries. Issues of female genital mutilation (FGM), for example, have been taken on by some white western feminists, often without seeking the input of women activists on the ground.
A different example [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://womenandgirlscan.org/2009/03/19/maasai-women-against-violence/</link>
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		<title>Send us info about your group!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Women and Girls Collective Action Network and DePaul University&#8217;s Program in Women&#8217;s and Gender Studies are collaborating on a national documentation project of innovative anti-violence groups.  This work expands the findings of the December 2007 report, &#8220;Communities Engaged in Resisting Violence&#8221; (see link: http://www.womenandgirlscan.org/communities_engaged.pdf) nationally.  &#8220;Communities Engaged in Resisting Violence&#8221; documents the dialogues and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://womenandgirlscan.org/2008/10/13/send-us-info-about-your-group/</link>
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		<title>Sleeping Beauties / Bellas Durmientes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the Women’s Worlds/Mundos de Mujeres 2008 conference in Madrid, we had the opportunity to view the Bellas Durmientes / Sleeping Beauties exhibit and meet the artist.  María María Acha, a visual artist from Lima, Peru, who currently resides in Spain, initiated and compiled the exhibit.  It’s based in a collaborative project of artists and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://womenandgirlscan.org/2008/07/29/sleeping-beauties-bellas-durmientes/</link>
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		<title>Report from Madrid: Colombian Women for Peace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We’ve just returned from the Mundos de Mujeres conference in Madrid, where we had a chance to meet with progressive women from around the world, including anti-violence activists, and begin to share strategies.  In the coming days, we’re going to feature a couple of the groups and projects that we learned about that are doing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://womenandgirlscan.org/2008/07/15/report-from-madrid-colombian-women-for-peace/</link>
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		<title>An anti-violence pledge card</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We just received this great anti-violence pledge card from REVOLT, a new student group at DePaul University.  First, here’s some info about their mission: “REVOLT (Radical Education against Violence and Oppression for Liberation and Transformation) consists of graduate and undergraduate students who are committed to challenging violence, privilege, and oppression on DePaul’s campus. We believe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://womenandgirlscan.org/2008/06/19/an-anti-violence-pledge-card/</link>
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		<title>Introducing Voices of Change!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Voices of Change! We have created this as a space to continue to share ideas, strategies, and lessons learned about how communities can work to end violence against women and girls.  
Voices of Change will feature many different voices and perspectives from people who are using a variety of community accountability strategies.  Dialogue [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://womenandgirlscan.org/2008/06/17/introducing-voices-of-change/</link>
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