Herland Sister Resources

A Multicultural Event August 2628, 2005 Women Celebrating Ourselves in Community
Camping …
Dance …
Fire Circle …
Drumming …
Swimming…
Workshops …
Creative Activities …
Sweatlodge …
Mud Pit …
Fun …
Creative Activities…
Singing …
Music!!!

Register by August 10th to help us plan a great gathering. Sliding scale fee $40140 includes camping and workshops. Girls over 14 are considered adults. Paying in the upper region of the sliding scale helps us subsidize women who can afford less.
For more information:
Women’s Gathering
138 Twin Oaks Rd
Louisa, VA 23093
Phone 5408945126
Mon -Fri
9am -5: 30pm,
Sat 9-2pm
http://www.twinoaks.org/community/women

Who We Are
Twin Oaks is a community of about 100 women, men and children, aged 181. We are striving to live according to our values of cooperation, nonviolence, sharing and equality. For 38 years, we’ve been learning how to provide for our own needs, both economic and social. Our businesses include making hammocks and rope chairs, making tofu and other soyfoods, and indexing books. We grow much of our own food and provide ourselves with many services, freeing ourselves somewhat from dependence on the larger economy. This gathering was created by the women of Twin Oaks to connect us with women outside of our geographic community.

Location
Near Interstate 64, between Richmond and Charlottesville, 100 miles south of Washington, DC. When we receive your registration we’ll send you more detailed directions and information on public and private transportation.

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No, not Ms. Hallmark. It was, actually, the formidable American
poet and women’s leader Julia Ward Howe who called for the
establishment of the holiday and in 1870 wrote the moving poem
printed below. It was written in the wake of the Civil War, as a
powerful feminist call against war.

Arise, then, women of this day!
Arise all women who have hearts,
Whether your baptism be that of water or of tears
Say firmly:
“We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands shall not come to us reeking of carnage,
For caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
We women of one country
Will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.
From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with
Our own. It says, “Disarm, Disarm!”
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice!
Blood does not wipe out dishonor
Nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plow and the anvil at the summons of war.
Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them then solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace,
Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,
But of God.
In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask
That a general congress of women without limit of nationality
May be appointed and held at some place deemed most convenient
And at the earliest period consistent with its objects
To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
The amicable settlement of international questions.
The great and general interests of peace.