Feminist Event: Reproductive Justice Conference Celebrates 30th Anniversary! April 8 - 10, 2011, Hampshire College, USA

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The following press release was sent to me for publication on this blog and elsewhere:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 21, 2011

Contact: Lani Blechman Civil Liberties and Public Policy, Hampshire College 413-559-6834, lblechman AT hampshire.edu


Reproductive Justice Conference Celebrates 30th Anniversary

With activists around the country focused on recent attacks on reproductive rights, more than 1,000 community activists, students and national and international leaders will gather next month to build new strategies for reproductive justice and social change. From Abortion Rights to Social Justice: Building the Movement for Reproductive Freedom, to be held April 8-10, is sponsored by the Civil Liberties and Public Policy (http://clpp.hampshire.edu) and Population and Development (http://popdev.hampshire.edu) programs. The conference is held at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.

The 30th anniversary conference reflects the significant growth of CLPP and PopDev over the past three decades. The conference will be nearly 30 times bigger than the first, with more than 60 sponsors and a diverse, inclusive range of speakers and activists from different generations, the U.S. and abroad. “There’s so much energy and vibration on the campus,” says Leticia Contreras who is a 2011 student conference coordinator. “With activists, artists and social justice participants of all forms of the spectrum—people who really want to change the world in so many different ways. You feel this energy instantaneously.”