BACORR Educational Series

presents 

REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY

Asian Pacific Islander Women's Struggle for a Hazard-Free Nail Salon Industry

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4th @ 7:30 PM -- FREE

at the Women's Building, 3543 18th St. #8, San Francisco, CA 94110

   The Bay Area is home to hundreds of beauty salons, most of which employ immigrant women workers from Asian Pacific Islander communities. In recent years, scientific and legislative reports have documented the negative effects of prolonged exposure to cosmetic products like nail polish and other beautifying agents. This increases health problems ranging from the frequency of miscarriage to asthma and other respiratory ailments. These reports often go unnoticed, as do API women's health issues in a society that marginalizes immigrants and women of color.

Come here what local community-based organizers working under the California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative and from the Asian Law Caucus, National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, and Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice are doing to mobilize workers and challenge politicians to ensure that nail salons are safe and healthy working environments for all.

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November 20, 2007

Dear Defenders of Women’s Rights,

While California voters rejected Proposition 85, the parental notification act in last year’s elections, the fight for reproductive rights continues and your help is needed. This January will be the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. The rightwing remains on the offensive and for the fourth year running will be coming to San Francisco on Saturday, January 19 for their annual “Walk for Life—West Coast”. But, as in previous years, Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights (BACORR) activists will be organizing a multi-issue response to the anti-abortionists.

We are initiating a January 19th Coalition to bring together local and national community groups and activists to organize a counter demonstration with one united voice. We need you to join this important effort and to send the message that the San Francisco Bay Area stands for reproductive rights and that Roe v. Wade must be defended and expanded.

In past years our efforts were endorsed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, San Francisco Labor Council, ACCESS, East Bay NOW, Watsonville Brown Berets, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, Radical Women, Code Pink, Women of Color Resource Center, GABNet, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, and many more.

Here’s what we need you to do:

1. Attend the upcoming January 19th Coalition meetings: Wednesday, November 28 at The Women’s Building, 3543 18th St. (between Valencia and Guerrero) in San Francisco. The meeting will go from 6:30-8:30 p.m.

2. Endorse the counterprotest of the “Walk for Life—West Coast”. We ask for a $25 donation, but any amount is appreciated. Contact bacorrinfo@gmail.com for donation information.

3. Commit to bringing folks to the counterprotest on Saturday, January 19, 2008! Please call 415-864-1278, email bacorrinfo@gmail.com, or visit www.BACORR.org for more information.

BACORR stands for: free, accessible abortion on demand; no forced sterilizations; universal healthcare; pre- and post-natal care and childcare for all; safe and accessible contraceptives; an end to discrimination against people of color, queer, immigrant, and youth communities; embracing (not controlling or denying) sexuality; providing reality-based sex education in our public schools, and more. Fight back with BACORR!

In solidarity,

Anita O’Shea

Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights (BACORR)

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