FAQ

WHAT IS WIN 15 ABOUT? 

Women’s Intercultural Network (WIN) was founded 15 years ago to give all women a voice by connecting them across cultures for collective action.  We launched our mission at the 4th World Conference on Women in Huairou and Beijing, China  We brought the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA) back to California and built CAWA - the California Women’s Agenda - as the policy mechanism to implement the BPFA at the grassroots.

See the WIN and CAWA websites for what they have done since 1995.  For example, read the Beijing+5 Report and Plan of Action for 2000-2005.

Therefore WIN and CAWA will observe our 15 years of accomplishments along with the 15th anniversary of the Beijing Conference on September 25, 2010.  Special guests include the leadership of US Women Connect from MO, MI, NM and HI,  formed at the same time to monitor the US Government’s implementation of the BPFA .  See their report card of 2000 here.  and more information about USWC.

WHAT IS THE EVENING PROGRAM ABOUT? WHO WILL ATTEND?

A Celebration and Commemoration, Saturday evening, Sept 25th, 6:00 – 9:30 PM

WIN and CAWA will observe our 15 years of accomplishments along with the 15th anniversary of US Women Connect and the 4th World Conference on Women, Beijing, China, September 1995. Joining us will be California state and federally elected officials, organization partners, and representatives , long time supporters of WIN's flagship project, CAWA, from all regions of California and leadership from US Women Connect in Missouri, Nevada, Kansas, Minnesota, Colorado, Arizona and others. We will add special guests as they confirm

We will celebrate with ethnic delicacies, a film and music retrospective of WIN and CAWA‘s 15 extraordinary years and be serenanded by the Lesbian/Gay Chorus of San Francisco (LGCSF) and jazz singer Thuy Linh Tran-Arrigoni. Rose Aguilar, MC and KALW, Your Call Radio, will moderate a conversation with visionary activists on the ‘hot button’ issues of the week: “Our Perspective”. A Premier of her new radio talk show.

WIN will honor state and regional leading change heroines and heroes: Elahe Amani, out-going Co-Chair of the WIN Board of Directors and President of the Coalition of Women from Asia and the Middle East (CWAME); Madeline Duckles, 90 year Peace Activist, Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom; Mimi Silbert, Founder and President/CEO of world reknown organization, the Delancey Street Foundation.

Our Jedi Knight Awards for men who have braved the ‘Death Star’ and had our backs all these years will go to Jeff Adachi, San Francisco County Public Defender; Assemblyman Tom Ammiano and Mexican Consul Miguel Escobar Valdez, Yuma, Arizona.

Jean Shinoda Bolen will close the circle of Beijing 1995 - 2010 with “Envisioning the Synergy: A UN NGO 5th World Conference on Women 2015”, sponsored by UN WOMEN the new UN entity for women.

Join with us for our first benefit and reunion since 2007 that will enable WIN to continue mobilzing for action on county, state, US and global women’s agendas.

SILENT AUCTION
A silent auction will be held from 6:00 to 8:30 PM. All proceeds will support WIN’s Calling the Circle initiative. Our Auction Bazaar will include ‘one of a kind’ jewelry from Uganda and the Philippines, exquisite shawls from Asia and Latin America, and an antique Afghan Decorative Afghan Kitchen Window. The story with the painted wooden window tells us that these windows have decorated the kitchens of Afghan homes in the Punjab region during the pre-partition period. Women lived primarily in their kitchens and seldom ventured out of doors. They viewed the world through this tiny, colorful opening

WHAT IS THE CALL TO ACTION LUNCH AND DISCUSSION ABOUT? WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Saturday afternoon, Noon lunch to 4:30 PM, Delancey Street Restaurant Board Room. 600 The Embarcadero

WIN will convene the 4th State Call to Action since the 1996 Assembly launch at San Francisco State where the California Women’s Agenda (CAWA) was formed to implement the Beijing Platform for Action. The first three Reports and Plan of Action are on the website.

CAWA activists and policy makers from around the state will reaffirm and recommend agendas. Mary Wiberg, Executive Director of the California Commission on Women, will join us with a report from Sacramento. WIN’s national partner, US Women Connect (USWC), the 30 state action network, is sending representatives from MO, KS, MI, CO and AZ among others. CAWA’s county and regional coalitions and CAWA policy chairs are invited to merge their agendas into CAWA and into a US Women’s Agenda for presentation to the US Government as the NGO grassroots ‘shadow’ agenda for America. This is the first US Women’s Agenda since 2000 when we presented our reports to US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

The afternoon gathering will include a discussion of the next paradigm for organizing women for more sustainable and collaborative action. The economic and political environments have changed dramatically since 1995 and we need new organization models to give women and girls a stronger, larger, smarter voice in our democracy and economy.

I’M FROM OUT OF THE BAY AREA, WHERE SHOULD I STAY? 

WIN is holding a  block of rooms at the Red Victorian Bed and Breakfast at 1665 Haight St. in the historic Haight–Ashbury neighborhood where WIN and CAWA put down our roots - two blocks from Golden Gate park.  On a bus route. The rooms are reasonable and delightfully decorated .  See the rooms and directions here

Call the Red Vic at 415-864-1978 to reserve and ask for the WIN15  Block held for Friday,  Saturday and Sunday, September 24, 25, 26,  and which rooms are available.   Most of the rooms are a double or queen bed for $79 or $89 (for two persons), some have a third bed for $119.  One has 4 beds at $219.  They all include continental breakfast at their Peace Café.  We will be posting a list of motels as well.  Check back.

WHAT IS DELANCEY STREET? Read about it HERE. Mimi Silbert’s story, our awardee HERE.

HOW DO I GET THERE?  Delancey Street is on the N Judah street car line that goes downtown.  If you are coming into San Francisco on BART, you can catch the N Judah on Market Street. Check your internet map for driving directions to 600 Embarcadero, make sure you use the zip: 94107

WHERE DO I PARK?  A parking lot is a block and half away on Embarcado and valet parking is avaiable; or you might be lucky and find street parking.  There is no game at AT&T ballpark down the street that night.

OTHER QUESTIONS?  Send us an e-mail: win@win-cawa.org   and we’ll post an answer.

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