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LADIES OF LIBERTY ALLIANCE
The mission of the Ladies of Liberty Alliance (LOLA) is to cultivate and empower a unique community of liberty-minded women. Through both networking and educational opportunities, we help women achieve individual goals in the fight for freedom, whatever particular goal that may be. Our ultimate hope is that our organization represents a place where we inspire confidence in women and provide the tools needed so that all liberty-minded women will succeed.
For more information visit their website: http://www.iamlola.org or find them on Facebook. -
ASSOCIATION OF LIBERTARIAN FEMINISTS NOW ON FACEBOOK
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Sharon Presley, ALF National Coordinator, now has Facebook and MySpace
pages. She invites all ALF members and other libertarian feminists to
check out her pages and send her a "friend invite". Tell her you saw
the invitation on the ALF web site.
The MySpace link is http://www.myspace.com/sharonlpresley
Sharon Presley is also now on Facebook.
The URL is http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000214887686Her forthcoming book, Standing Up to Authorities: How to Avoid Being Intimidated, Manipulated and Abused, will be published February 14, 2010. There is a blog for the book at her MySpace page. For more information about the book, see Dr. Presley's professional web site: http://www.sharonpresley.com.
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ALF received as a news item this letter concerning the formation of
The Libertarian Women's Caucus.
We provide a copy here for those who are interested.
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The Association of Libertarian Feminists, the Civil Society Institute
and Resources for Independent Thinking are co-sponsoring a conference
entitled "Authority and Autonomy in the Family" on August 19, 2006 at
Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, CA. Speakers lined up so
far include Nathaniel Branden, Peter Breggin (via live video),
Susan Love Brown and Sharon Presley. Topics include nonauthoritarian
childrearing, nonauthoritarian education, alternative family styles,
and egalitarian marriages. Dr. Branden will be speaking on encouraging
self-esteem in children and Dr. Breggin will be speaking on encouraging
critical intelligence and independent thinking in children.
There's never been a conference like this in the libertarian movement before so we hope that ALF members and sympathizers will support it! For information about this event, see the conference web site at http://www.autonomyinthefamily.org
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It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of Joan Kennedy
Taylor, who was National Coordinator of ALF for many years. She passed
away peacefully at 12:30am October 29, 2005 after a long bout with
cancer. She was a remarkable women and a great libertarian and will be
sorely missed. There will be a eulogy in the next issue of the
ALF News. If any of you have memories of Joan you would like to share
with us, please send them to us and we will include them in that issue.
A Special Blog Site Has Been Created:
http://joankennedytaylorblog.blogspot.com/ - This paper on Libertarianism and Feminism has stirred some controversy within libertarian circles. We neither endorse nor disagree at this time. We will comment on it soon. If any of you have an opinion on this paper, we'd like to hear from you.
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Published by SUNY Press, January 20, 2005:
Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre, Anarchist,
Feminist, Genius
edited, with commentaries, by Sharon Presley and Crispin Sartwell.
For more information see the Voltairine de Cleyre website - The Cato Institute has a special page on:
Three Women Who Launched A Movement
Rose Wilder Lane, Isabel Paterson, Ayn Rand - Wendy McElroy's recent book, Liberty for Women: Freedom and Feminism in the 21st Century is available from the Independent Institute. See our links page.