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TALKING BACK TO THE BACKLASH
A Forum on Bush's War on Women
Free and open to the public
Wednesday, August 25
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
The Graduate Center of CUNY - Proshansky Auditorium
365 Fifth Avenue @ corner of 34th Street

Featuring Laura Flanders, renowned print and radio journalist and editor of the new Feminist Press anthology The W Effect: Bush's War on Women

Other special guests include:
Jennifer Baumgardner
Sean Cahill, Task Force Policy Institute Director
Richard Goldstein
Maria Raha

How are women really being affected by the policymaking of the new millennium? The W Effect uncovers the deadly impact of Bush-era policies in the workplace, in the economy, in the military, in the bedroom, and in other war zones at home and abroad.

Book signing to follow panel.
For more information or to buy the book contact Jessica Roncker at (212) 817-7920 or jroncker@gc.cuny.edu.

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