‘ abortion caravan proposals (5)

beginnings of this travel by the end of the month.

organizing suggestions: (from the meeting on dqueday) This work seated ga
beginning by the end of the month, and building up towards oe caravan in

a. high schools: (Heather Jon Maroney and Anne Boody are working as high
school organizers for the Student Administrative Council at U. of T. They
might be willing to co-ordinate work with high school students.)

b. community colleges: (These are becoming very important and are growing

very quickly - the courses are shit and don't train people for anything, the ©
women are channeled into general arts and science programmes or into traditional
women's areas like child-care, home economics and social work). Initial contact
might be made through Sue Counsell at Ryerson who has been organizing women's
liberation there.

c. nurses: We might consider leafleting dorms of student nurses. Contacts
can be made through the U. of T. Women's ereup, and through nurses that have
been involved ‘in women's lib here. Also Aili Black from Ottawa, vay — have
written some stuff on nursing and is a nurse herself. :

d. the just society: One of the members, Doris Power, wrote an article for
the last newspaper’on abortion, and there is possibly already some interest
there. kad il Hane Code vee contacts there, as does Paulette Jiles;

e. unions: We should have a discussion of Wid tndt we want to work through -

the bureaucracy at all’or at the rank and file level. (We feel our priority.

is to build up local contacts). ‘Claire Booker who worked for SAC is now working
for CUPE , the SAC staff (Sandra Foster and Liz Willick)are members of the

CUPE ‘local, also through Dierdre Beckerman we could make a lot of contacts. —
Possibility of choosing a couple of plants or offices and leafleting them. |

£. U. of T., York and Glendon: organizing work here can be done by the campus
women's liberation groups.

gs NDP: the NDP has a woman's caucus that we might want to involve in the —
caravan. o ; ba

h. community organizations: local ward association in the deentane area.
(Sarah Spinks and Sue Irwin have contacts here)

g- other possibilities include leafleting welfare offices, OCE, night school
at the university, using sound trucks on the streets, outside high schools ete

(These suggestions are eee on some political assumptions of who we are trying
to reach. So far, women's liberation has only organized among young women
who have been on the university campus or feel pretty much at home in this
scene. We must now begin to extend this base. We feel chat our priorities lie

in involving working women, young women, especially from "working class" families,