AIA

AAUW In Action (AIA) …

AAUW in Action is a study group that serves as a spring-board for community service activities for our branch that promote AAUW’s mission. If you are interested in joining us for a meeting, or just knowing what we’re planning, please ask to be on our email list by sending an email to Erica at moogs56@hotmail.com

We’d love to hear your ideas too. Please join us!

Some of the activities that we’ll talk about for the year: • Celebrating our Connections
• International Women’s Day Panel
• Women’s History Month window display
• Promoting Equal Pay Day

When the AAUW In Action (AIA) group started in 2010, we brainstormed many ideas about how we could do activities in our community that would support women and girls, as well as other local organizations supporting them, and increase our branch visibility. During the past 12 years, we’ve done quite a few initiatives: WINGS workshops, Cyberbullying awareness workshops, 25 Books for 25 years, bringing the Equal Means Equal movie to La Crosse for a community showing and discussion, Profiles of Women programs, Women’s History Month newspaper biographies, Women’s History Month window displays, International Women’s Day events, Smart Start workshops, Equal Pay Day tables at UWL, providing activities and dinners with YWCA women and teen programs, sponsoring community viewings of the Ironed Jawed Angels movie, doing most-needed item collections for New Horizons and Brighter Tomorrows, setting up an internship program with UWL for Public Policy, Social Media and Diversity, and a few more. Every time we asked branch members to help–by providing food, supplies or funds– you’ve all stepped up and given generously! Thank you!! We have A LOT more ideas and hope that we’ll be able to get going on those this coming year after the past 2 years of lockdown (being AAUW Inaction, instead of In Action).

Please think about joining us and sharing your ideas and talents. Traditionally, our May meeting is a potluck where we review the year and enjoy good food and company. We invite you to attend this year. Please send me an email at moogs56@hotmail.com and I’ll let you know as soon as we’ve set a date.

Woman Breaking Ground
We invite you to write down your memories of people in your life who broke ground in large or small ways, helping to develop women’s rights and share them with us. Please send your stories for our Celebrating Our Connections column to Erica at moogs56@hotmail.com. They don’t have to be long or illustrated (although a picture of your subject WOULD be great!). We’ll print them in future issues of The Current.

Internships
Now that students are back on the UWL campus, we’ll be offering our 3 paid internships again next semester so we hope we’ll have a Social Media, a Public Policy and a Diversity Interns in the spring.

2022 DECEMBER NEWS:

One of the new ideas this fall is thinking about how we can help support Iranian Feminists as they protest their restrictive situation. Would you like to be in on this? Join us!!

Support for Iranian and Afghan Women
Jan Eriksen spearheaded the writing of the resolution for AAUW WI support. As a group, we developed the resolution that will be presented to the AAUW WI state convention in April for voting. We’ll publish it here before that; it will be in the Badger Briefs as well.

We agreed that it would be a good idea to contact these groups to brainstorm and plan activities:

  • International Women of La Crosse group
  • UWL groups: ALANA, Awareness Through Performance, College Feminists, International Student Org
  • Central High School: – Fem Club
  • Viterbo: Global Connections club – International Club

    Our goal is to collaborate with them to do meaningful activities. If you are a member or know a member of any of these groups, please contact us so we can reach out to them.We would like to hear your ideas for action. We’ll also be asking for your participation in activities, as they are developed, so we can use our passion for women’s advocacy to show that the women of Iran and Afghanistan do not stand alone.20

    Here are a couple of inspiring articles to read:

    Women Need to Support Each Other
    10 Inspirational Quotes From Afghan Women

 

We’d love to hear your ideas too. Please join us!
Contact: Erica Koonmen, moogs56@hotmail.com

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Hearth & Home study group to explore new ideas, culinary experiences, fun activities. Currently on hiatus, the group is looking for ideas and ways to do activities. Please contact Sharon DeCicco at 788-5356

We are concentrating on social media posts to keep the community aware of AAUW and the issues we support. You can follow, like and/or share our posts from:

https://www.facebook.com/aauwlacrosse
https://www.instagram.com/aauw.lacrosse/
https://artfaironthegreen.org/
https://www.facebook.com/AauwArtFairOnTheGreen/ https://www.instagram.com/artfaironthegreen/

Note: Please send items that you feel are relevant to AAUW’s mission for posting on any of the above to our branch email: aauwlacrosse@hotmail.com.