5/19/2012
On May 19, The CORPS partnered with Planned Parenthood at the Stoller-Filer Health Center in Watts to post fliers around the community to notify residents of the facility and its services.
In just two and a half hours, CORPS members Alison Agosti, Eva Anderson, Aubrey Bellamy, Matt Braunger, Sofia Gonzales, David Harris, Erika Heidewald, Brandon Johnson, Lauren McGuire, Lauren Tyree, Joe Wengert, Kulap Vilaysack, and Christine Woods spread the word to close to 3,000 residents.
The fine print: (from Planned Parenthood)
[Planned Parenthood]…reaches 118,000 women, men and teens in Los Angeles County with reproductive healthcare – but we know that there are still 500,000 women in the County who need our services and aren’t receiving them.”
Outreach events occur two Saturdays a month. For more information about how you can be a part of the next event, click this!
UPDATED artwork by Lauren Bair.
This time we’ve got the right email & tumblr address on it! BAM!
new artwork by Lauren Bair
Prior to the BIG SHOW and for many weeks before hand, Each student was assigned a mentor who, using theater games and storytelling exercises, helps the student to fully realize his or her story into one with “action, dialogue, fade-in’s and blackouts.” CM Casey Wilson was one of the mentors.
We Rallied. We Marched. We Came Together.
Thank you to all who made it out last Saturday.
More pictures to follow.
Please Photo Reply if you have any pics of the event.
— The CORPS
Why we care. Why we march. Why we rally.
Enough is Enough.
This past weekend we made signs for the Unite Against the War on Women’s March & Rally.
What is this rally you ask?
From the organizers UniteWomen.org:
On Saturday, April 28, 2012, in 54 cities and Capitols across America, a new and growing movement will march and rally to Unite Against the War on Women. Los Angeles will host its Rally from 10:00 a.m to 3:30 p.m. at Pershing Square in Downtown Los Angeles (located at 5th and Olive Streets). The Rally program will include speakers, entertainment and a march in the streets surrounding Pershing Square.
Speakers presently scheduled include: Jerry Tetalman, Democratic Congressional candidate running against Darrell Issa, Jan Perry, Los Angeles City Councilperson and candidate for Mayor, Sarah Silverman, comedian and actress, Caroline Heldman, Professor from Occidental College, Dinah Stephens of Planned Parenthood, Blasé Bonpane, Director of the Office of the Americas and human rights activist, Sophia Rossi and Molly McAleer, founders of Hellogiggles website, DuVergne Gaines of the Feminist Majority Foundation, Zoe Nicholson, founder of Pacific Shores OC Now Chapter, and MC and comedian, J.C. Coccoli.
The organizers are calling on Americans to join together and denounce what they call the “ongoing legislative and political attacks on women from the extreme right, while honoring the diversity and continued fight for the freedom of women to choose their own destinies.” March and Rally organizers cite legislative proposals, government regulations, and political rhetoric, as evidence that “war” is being waged against women and “our bodies, rights and freedom.” Unitewomen.org cites as an example legislation recently introduced in Arizona which would make the use of birth control without employer permission an offense for which a worker could be terminated. While birth control expenses are covered in 28 states by law by health insurance plans, Viagra is covered in all 50. Rape victims must undergo vaginal probing before seeking an abortion in TX and PA and last year, Topeka, Kansas decriminalized domestic violence. Currently over 400 similar bills are being considered federally and within states including the current debate on the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (S. 1925) in the U.S. Senate.
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The Work:
Our task was to sort through donations of clothes, shoes and accessories. We divided everyday clothes, job interview clothes and dressy clothes. We tossed anything that was in bad condition, rubber-banded pairs of shoes & organized the area.
They said we did the best job.
With very little coaxing.
We did the best.
Oh, yeah.
Check it:
Spring is here, and now is as good a time as ever to look in your closet and pitch the stuff you don’t wear anymore. Maybe look around your house, perhaps its time for a clearing. We are talking clothes, shoes, bags, beauty products, jewelry, bras, socks, household items etc. Go here to see what they are most in need of now.
DWC accepts donations at 442 S. San Pedro Street, LA 90013, during the Day Center’s hours: weekdays 6am-4pm and weekends 8am-2pm. If you have any questions email at donategoods@dwcweb.org or (213) 680-0600. They unfortunately cannot pick up donations.
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On Saturday April 21st, The CORPS volunteered at the Downtown Women’s Center.
The day started off with checking out MADE, a cafe & gift boutique attached to the DWC - 100% of the proceeds go directly to supporting homeless and low-income women at the Downtown Women’s Center.
There we met Romina, a DWC intern who gave us a tour of the beautiful center. Founded in 1978, DWC is the only resource in LA that is exclusively dedicated to serving the unique needs of homeless and very low-income women in downtown Los Angeles’ Skid Row community.
