Phoenix feminists and friends. Come celebrate Women's History Month

Veteran Feminists of America at ASU with pioneer feminists, ASU students and Women's Studies' prof , Alejandra Elenes present:

Jacqui Ceballos - Founder/president of Veteran Feminists of America, and mother of Michele Ceballos Michot ( for Michele's friends. Please come with friends, and bring your business cards).
"Women of the World Unite"

JACQUI CEBALLOS PIONEER FEMINIST of NEW YORK to give an informal talk about some dramatic and often humorous demonstrations of the early feminist movement, including the famous take over of the Statue of Liberty and the supposedly bra burning Miss America pageant demonstration.
Monday, March 30th, 2009
5:00 pm- 7:00 pm
Arizona State University at the West campus
H4701 W. Thunderbird Rd
Glendale, Arizona
YOU ARE INVITED TO THE RECEPTION AFTERWARDS

Ceballos, the founder and president of Veteran Feminists of America, worked closely with Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem from 1967 to 1975. She’ll tell about the Statue of Liberty take over in 1970, when women draped a WOMEN OF THE WORLD UNITE banner around Ms Liberty to alert women to join the march for women's rights down Fifth Avenue on August 26th, the 50th anniversary of the suffrage amendment.

She'll describe the madness of the Ladies Home Journal sit-in, when two radical feminists threatened to throw the male editor out of the 30th floor window; about confronting the New York Times for its sexist want-ads, and other mind-blowing actions. In addition to being in the trenches, Ceballos was president of New York NOW, NOW's Eastern VP, a delegate to the U.N.'s International Conference on Women, a founder of the National Women's Political Caucus and the Women's Forum.

Fast-forward to 1992, when Ceballos founded Veteran Feminists of America, an organization to reunite early activists, document the history of the Second Wave and pass the torch to insure that the feminist movement would not be erased from history as it so often was in the past. VFA has published a book about pioneer feminists, Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975 and hosted events around the nation honoring more than 5,000 early activists (yes, there had been even more than that in the trenches). We're now dedicated to our final and very important goal, PASSING THE TORCH TO YOUNG WOMEN AND MEN, especially college students.

Ceballos will be joined by local pioneer feminists who will share their tales of early events, many of which took place right here in Phoenix. So make it a point to be there to celebrate our history and have some fun.

Directions to the West campus:
From Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport --Take I-10 West to I-17 North.Exit Thunderbird Rd. and turn left. Turn left onto 47th Ave.
From East Valley --Take Loop 202 West to I-10 West. Take I-10 West to I-17 North.Exit Thunderbird Rd. and turn left. Turn left onto 47th Ave.
From Northeast Valley -Take Loop 101 North to I-17. Take I-17 South to Thunderbird Rd. Exit Thunderbird Rd. and turn right. Take Thunderbird to the 47th Ave.
From Southeast Valley - Take 60 West to I-10 West.Take I-10 West to I-17 North.Exit Thunderbird Rd. and turn left. Turn left onto 47th Ave.
Parking information: Various parking structures and lots on the ASU campuses offer attended parking where guests pull a ticket upon entrance to one of these gate-controlled facilities and pay (cash only) upon exiting.

PLEASE LET US KNOW IF YOU WILL BE THERE.... by emailing "michele ceballos"