CWLU News
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The CWLU News was the monthly newsletter aimed at the CWLU membership. Here one can truly sense the diversity of ideas and projects within the CWLU.

The individual issues we have online are scanned copies. We also include a brief listing of the highlights of each issue. We will be adding more issues over time, organized by the year and month.
CWLU Newsletters

Hightlights of 1970 include news about the Playboy action, women's liberation and the 1970 student strikes, devisivness in the women's movement, the CWLU health center and CWLU city-wide meetings.

January 1970

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Highlights of this issue include:

  • Miss Loyola Liberated
  • Announcements of national womens' liberation conferences
  • UC Counter Curriculum
  • The La Dolores Center

April 1970

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Highlights of this issue include:

  • Playboy Action
  • Speaker Policy
  • Women in Viet Nam
  • Importance of CWLU chapters
  • Report from a city-wide meeting

May 1970

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Highlights of the issue include:

  • Campus women's liberations and the 1970 student strikes
  • Women's Liberation protests in the Presbyterian Church
  • CWLU Medical Clinic Training
  • Ecology Conference
  • City-wide CWLU Meeting

July 1970

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Highlights of this issue include:

  • Charlotte Bunch Weeks returns from Hanoi
  • Southside Women's Liberation Center
  • Emergency Anti-War Conference
  • Joreen's Letter of Resignation
  • Divisiveness and self-destruction in the women's movement

August 1970

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Highlights of this issue include:

  • CWLU Health Center
  • August 26th women's strike
  • Legal battle against the Illinois abortion law
  • CWLU staff position now open
  • The CWLU responds to NBC
  • Women's radio in Chicago

September 1970

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Highlights of this issue include:

September 1970

  • August 26th women's strike
  • Huey Newton on women's liberation
  • Employment and women
  • Ellen DuBois on feminism
  • Organizing the CWLU office
  • CWLU speakers bureau

October 1970

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Highlights of this issue include:

  • The Equal Rights Amendment
  • The passing of Alice Hamilton
  • Rock band auditions
  • Ellen DuBois on feminism (continued)
  • Evaluating doctors and therapists
  • Childcare
  • The Middle East
  • Letter to Kate Millet

November 1970

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Highlights of this issue include:

  • CWLU Citywide meeting
  • CWLU student organizing
  • The Pill
  • Birth of the Women's Graphics Collective
  • Gay liberation
  • Alice Hamilton Women's Health Center: Pro and Con
  • WITCH

December 1970

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Highlights of this issue include:

  • City-wide CWLU meeting
  • Membership and sisterhood
  • Women and art
  • Membership position paper
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Abortion Rally
  • Courts vs. women
  • Liberation school