Wac Stats: The Facts About Women - Softcover

Women s Action Coalition

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9781565841222: Wac Stats: The Facts About Women

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ISBN 10: 1565841220 ISBN 13: 9781565841222

Publisher: The New Press, 1993

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WAC was organized in New York City in January 1992 by a group of women determined to fight these and other injustices, which deny women their rights. A democratic alliance of women committed to direct action, WAC now has over two thousand members in New York, more than twenty chapters throughout the United States, and affiliates in Paris, London, Toronto, and Budapest. They have led scores of highly visible demonstrations and media campaigns challenging the economic, cultural, and political circumstances that limit and compromise the lives of women.

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The Women's Action Coalition (WAC) was a feminist direct-action organization founded by a group of friends in New York City on January 28, 1992, in response to the outrage they felt about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' confirmation hearings. Chapters were subsequently formed in other U.S. cities, including Boston, San Francisco, Houston, and Los Angeles, as well as internationally in Canada and Europe. WAC employed a direct action approach similar to that of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) and the Women's Health Action Coalition (WHAM), which encouraged activities such as demonstrations, sit-ins, civil disobedience, educational forums, and letter writing campaigns.

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A straightfoward compendium of facts. -- Boston Globe

If you yearn for a quick, short, meaningful statistic to open, close, or clinch an argument, then you will be delighted with WAC Stats. -- Feminist Collections

More than a compilation of dry statistics, this slim volume is a compendium of useful facts in the battle against discrimination. -- Etcetera

WAC Stats is an invaluable resource of up-to-date facts for any woman whether she be student, activist, or incognito friendly educator. -- Gay & Lesbian Times

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