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Our Women Vote For Mother Earth Contingent will gather between 9:15
-9:30 am. Please bring colorful signs: Examples: "Go Solar", "Vote Green" and signs of trees, the sun, fish , nature goddesses, spotted owls, be creative! The marbled murrelet, a small seabird which nests in the coastal, old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest, is listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. In North America, the birds' range stretches along the Pacific coast from the Bering Sea to central California, with the largest populations occurring in southeastern Alaska and northern British Columbia.The murrelet's dependance on old-growth nesting habitat and use of coastal marine feeding areas have brought it into frequent conflict with human economic interests, especially in the southern portion of its range in our own threatened Northern California Old Growth Redwood Forests! Please email infocircletheearth@gmail.com if you would like to march with Women Vote for Mother Earth on August 25th! For info on registering your organization's own parade float or contingent go to: http://www.womenequalityparade.com/ call 707-636-2888 If you are marching as a group or organization, the registration fee for the group participation is $25. The Background on the Parade: The California Suffrage Parade Coalition is inviting all women, girls and their supporters to the Second Annual Our Vote=Our Voice Women’s Equality Day Parade and Rally to be held this summer in Sacramento, California. Commemorating the heroic suffragettes struggle in winning the right to vote, the parade starts at 9:30 a.m. at Sacramento’s Southside Park, 5th at T Street, on Saturday August 25, 2007. The parade’s destination is the west steps of the California State Capitol for an 11 a.m. rally with exciting guest speakers, esteemed elected women officials, info booths and music. The non-partisan parade was organized to celebrate the landmark victory of the past and pledge our determination to encourage women today to register as voters and to make our voice count in all elections. They were spit upon, beaten, jailed, vilified in the pulpit, and sometimes scorned by their own sex. They were courageous risk takers who took on a national government and a president of the most powerful nation in the world for a democratic principle, the right to vote. Yes, these were the “suffragettes” so-dubbed by the press and other detractors. Modern women are indebted to their courage and their 72 years of sacrifices to gain a long-denied right to vote. They who gave so much would shudder to learn that 22 million single women voters failed to vote in the most recent presidential election. Women need to be awakened to their ability to change the course of history as their foremothers did. “How to do it? Hold a parade!” That is what a few women decided to do in 2006, emboldened by the 1913 parade depicted in the film “Iron-Jawed Angels” where 8,000 suffragists marched in a procession featuring colorful banners, marching bands, symbolic floats. Contingents of women marched by states alongside those of business and professions and delegations of women in their native costumes marched alongside floats showing women working beside men in the field and factory. The California Suffrage Parade Coalition formed and the held the first parade last year with over 500 women marching and gathering for the rally. “Our aim is to get the word out and increase our numbers at this very inspiring and parade this August” stated Dr. Kim Salter Ph.D, 2007 Women’s Equality Day co-chair. Sponsors of last year’s parade were: Women’s Inter-cultural Network, California Women’s Agenda, National Women’s History Project, American Association of University Women, California NOW, Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, Sacramento Labor Council, Women Democrats of Placer County and Sacramento, LULAC, Commission on the Status of Women, California Nurses Association, Grandmothers for Peace, Women’s International League of Peace & Freedom, Coalition of Labor Union Women, California Association of Social Workers, League of Women Voters & Gray Panthers and others. Parade contingents marching behind their banners included various issue areas or themes important to all women from labor to the environment to social justice with women dressing in period costume or wearing white and purple- the color theme of the parade. This year’s parade will again have a printed commemorative program and parade contingents of women from many cultures, professions and issue areas. Parade floats will be a new addition to the parade this year. The rally will feature notable speakers and music to inspire all of us. There will be an array of vendors with merchandise and services and various information booths from Code Pink to The National Women’s History Project. Below is a Selection of Photos Last years parade! (For more photos go to: http://www.womenequalityparade.com/photos.html)
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Our
Vote = Our Voice 
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will be bringing our flying Marbled Murrelets (signs) again this year!
