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“Lioness” Film and Discussion

Event info: Friday 10 October 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

They went to Iraq as cooks, clerks, and mechanics and returned a year later as part of America’s first generation of female combat veterans. Despite an official government policy that states that women are not supposed to partake in direct ground combat, the five women featured here most certainly did. LIONESS, tells the story of [...]

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“Iron Ladies of Liberia”

Event info: Friday 22 February 2008 – 6:00pm to 6:01pm

Due to inclement weather, this event is being postponed.
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Catch it on WGBH stations:
Wednesday, March 19, 8 – 9pm, WGBH WORLD
Sunday, March 23, 9 – 10pm, WGBX, Chanel 44

She’s already overcome tremendous obstacles to [...]

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“Miss Navajo” Documentary Screening

Event info: Friday 26 October 2007 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

 
First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist, Parish Hall
How many beauty contestants can say “I competed in a pageant where I butchered a sheep?” Crystal Frazier can. Follow this introverted, self-proclaimed tomboy as she makes bread, weaves a rug, sweats her way through a language quiz—and that’s just the first day—on her quest to be [...]

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Ellen Bravo Takes on the Big Boys

Event info: Wednesday 6 June 2007 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

First Church in Jamaica Plain Unitarian Universalist, Parish Hall.
Ellen Bravo Takes on the Big Boys

Nancy Pelosi’s election to Speaker of the House, Hillary Clinton’s realistic shot at the presidency, and Drew Gilpin Faust’s appointment as president of Harvard are being celebrated as breakthroughs for all women.
But are the barriers to women’s workplace success really [...]

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