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January, 2002
Volume 20 Number 01
Martin Luther King Holiday
Celebrations
NARAL Celebrates Roe v.
Wade
Oklahoma City will observe Dr. Martin Luther
On
King's birthday with several events.
Saturday, January 12, 2002, the Ebony Tribune
will sponsor its annual Keepers of the Dream
Awards Reception, at 12 noon at Langston
University's Oklahoma City Campus at 4205 N.
Lincoln Boulevard. Local activist Paul Thompson
will be honored with an award at this event.
On Sunday, January 2o•h, at 7:00 p.m, the
annual MLK Cross Cultural Event will be held at
Temple B'Nai Israel, 5001 N. Pennsylvania. This
event is co-sponsored by the Temple B'Nai Israel
and the Oklahoma City branch of the NAACP.
Guest speaker will be Dr. Stephen Norwood,
speaking on "Breaking the Color Bar in Baseball:
African Americans & Jews Working Together."
Festivities on Monday, January 21 5 \ will
begin with the MLK Silent March Opening
Ceremonies at Ralph Ellison Branch Library, NE
23rd and MLK Boulevard, at 9:00 a.m., followed
by the silent march which will step off at 9:45
a .. m. and proceed to the Oklahoma Historical
Building, 23rd and N. Lincoln Boulevard. The
Bell Ringing Ceremony will take place there at
11:00 a.m.
Opening ceremonies for the main MLK Parade
will begin at 12:30 p.m., in the parking lot at NE
Second Street and Walnut, with step-off time 2
p.m. The parade will march through downtown
Oklahoma City and return to its starting place.
Please come and join the Herland contingent, or
just stand on the sidelines and cheer us on. It is
always fun and uplifting - a combination that is
hard to beat.
Oklahoma NARAL will be celebrating 29
years of reproductive freedom on
Saturday,
January 12th.
Nancy Kachel, the executive director of
Planned Parenthood of Arkansas and Eastern
Oklahoma will be receiving Oklahoma NARAL's
annual reproductive freedom award.
The celebration will begin at 7:00 p.m. on
Saturday, January 12th, at All Souls Unitarian
Church, 2952 S. Peoria, Tulsa. Tickets are $35 per
person. Please call (918) 494-9585 before January
10th to make reservations or send your check to
Oklahoma NARAL, PO Box 702503, Tulsa, Ok
74170-2503.
www.herlandsisters.org
Berland Supper Club and Road Trip
goes to Stillwater
Saturday, January 19, 5:00 pm
Eat at The Hideaway
230 South Knobloc
(in OSU campus area, North of SH 51 between
Washington and Main)
We plan on also attending the OSU Women's
Basketball Game and can get a discount price for
tickets if we have a group of 15 people or more.
Please RSVP Rhonda and Cindy (if in Enid
area) at (580) 242-4493 or Ginger (if in OKC area)
at 942-1535 so that we may reserve the proper
seating at the Hideaway. Oklahoma City folks can
meet at Herland at 3:30 pm to carpool to Stillwater.
(Please note that this is the third Saturday in
January rather than our usual second Saturday.)
Herland Sister Resources, 2312 NW 39, Oklahoma City, OK 73112
405-521-9696
St. Sybil
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Hi Sybil, it's me again. I didn't do too well with
my resolutions last year, and would like some good
suggestions for this New Year. Can you help?
Thanks,
Nita Lotahelp
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Dear Nita,
New Years Resolutions? Again already? Really,
you don't need my help with this, the basic ones
positively leap to mind - lose weight, stop
smoking/drinking/cussing/fill-in-the-sin;
and
the
others have all been immortalized in song - mostly
·Girl Scout songs and Broadway hits, actually.
•!• "You've Got to Accentuate the Positive/" You
really do.
•!• "Do it the hard way, (and it's easy sailing)" i.e., do it right, no shortcuts!
•!• "If they asked me, I could write a book" .... You
know you want to write a book, Nita, so do it!
•!• .."Before I'll be your dog, I will see you in your
grave"* - make sure there's equity in your
relationships, Nita
•!• "How Much is That Doggie in the Window" Need another dog, Nita? You might resolve to
adopt an old one who needs to be loved in its
declining years ...
•!• "Memories" Right now, go out and buy some
discounted photo albums and organize and sort
If you are getting a little
your photographs.
agey, consider having a friend videotape you
while you preserve some memories for your loved
ones ...
•!• ''A Cockeyed Optimist" - - be one, Nita, you'll
be happier
•!• "Bloody Mary" - Drink one now and then Nita,
you 'II be happier. You don't need to put vodka in
it if you don't want to, but celery is pretty much
required.
•!• "I gotta be ME" - Well, yes, but sometimes in
this world that takes a lot ofresolve.
But instead of a resolution to make you a better,
happier person, how about trying something for the
world?. How about trying to give shape and form to
some amorphous hopes and dreams I know you and
all your friends share:
• Here's a sincere desire I hear murmured a lot: An
end to talk radio. Sorry Click and Clack and
Zorba Paster. Everyone loves you, but they'd do
without you in a heartbeat if it were the only way
to shut up Rush Limbaugh and Mike McCarville.
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A heartfelt desire: for Eddy Gaylord, McGuigan,
McReynolds and Lange to retire to Florida ....
A hard-to-muster prayer:
that the young
woman who drove out of the governor's mansion
driveway past the anti-death penalty vigilers and
yelled at them to go home, they were just making
fools of themselves - to forgive herself.
And here's an odd little prayer that I hear around
Oklahoma regularly: you seem to hope that Frank
Keating doesn't get it in his head to raise
$5,000,000 to build a tribute to some other part of
his anatomy ...
And a most heartfelt prayer, from me and all of
you: Peace and justice throughout the world.
Love,
Sybil
We're Number One
By Margaret Cox
Thursday, December 6, 2001, The Daily
Oklahoman published a political "cartoon" that
plumbed the depths of meanness and bad taste. The
odd thing was, that if it had been published in a
national magazine it would have been recognized by
all as meant to stigmatize and shame 0 klahoma. Yet
the Oklahoman and its cartoonist Lange, published it
proudly- a little defiantly, perhaps, but proudly.
The cartoon was captioned "We're# I", with a
drawing of an upraised fist with first digit held high except that the digit was a hypodermic needle.
December 6, 2001, Oklahoma executed its 18th
prisoner of the year. Not so many, you might think,
when you realize that half of them, nine, were
executed in the first 30 days of the year.
When the year 2001 began, three women lived on
Oklahoma's death row. Today there are none.
People think of Texas as the execution capital of
the United States. Per capita, Oklahoma in 2000 outkilled Texas, and in 2001, we had more actual
executions than they - 18 to 17. Remember, Oklahoma
has less than one sixth the population of Texas. At our
killing rate in 2001, had we had as large a population as
Texas, we would have executed 108 people, nine per
month - in other words, each succeeding month would
have been as bad as January.
Currently, John Romano is slated for execution on
January 29, 2002, and David Woodruff for January 31,
2002.
If you are interested in joining the protests
against these executions, or just in learning more about
the death penalty and those opposed to it, visit the
Oklahoma Coalition Against the Death Penalty at
www .ocadp.org .
Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda
Annual screening for breast and cervical cancer
is a very important prevention measure for all
women. Half of the cervical cancers in the United
States occur in women who have never been
screened.. Death from cervical cancer is almost
completely preventable through diagnosis and
treatment of pre-cancerous conditions. The Pap
test is the screening tool used for the detection of
cervical abnormalities; this test is done by doctors
or nurses in health clinics.
Monthly breast self-exam should be included in
the routine of every woman, and a yearly clinical
exam by a doctor or nurse is necessary to help
prevent breast cancer.
Approximately 44,000
women and 400 men die of this disease each year.
Breast cancer is the leading cancer site among
American women and is second only to lung cancer
in cancer deaths. For women ages 35-54, breast
cancer is the leading cause of death. When breast
cancer is confined to the breast, the 5-year survival
rate is over 95%. Early detection is the key. If
you would like more information on how to do
monthly Breast Self-Exam, call 419-4245.
The American Cancer Society recommends that
all women age 40 and older have a screening
mammogram done yearly. Many insurance plans
pay for mammograms or cover most of the c~st.
The mammogram is a combination of compression
and X-ray of the breast tissue.
Oklahoma City-County Heahh Department has
a breast and cervical cancer screening program at
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Health Center West, 4330 NW 10 Street, m
Oklahoma City. The screening exams are for
residents of Oklahoma County who are uninsured or
underinsured, meet income guidelines, and are not
covered by Medicaid or Medicare. Exams are
performed by registered nurses. If the woman
qualifies, she may also receive a coupon for a free
mammogram. For more information, call 425-4452
or 419-4245.
The Voice is published by: Herfand Sister Resources'. In~.
2312 N. W 39th, Oklahoma City, OK 73112.
The Voice is
offered as an open forum for community discours"!. Mieles
reflect the opinions of the author and not necessarily those of
Herfand Sister Resources. Unsolicited articles and letters to
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with full name and address. Upon request, letters or articles
may be printed under a pseudonym or anonymously.
Subscriptions to The Voice are free upon request a~ho_ug~ a
donation is requested to meet publication and distribution
costs
From the Best Minds of the Wor1d
Thanks to the OK Greens email for this news release:
At the Nobel Peace Prize Centennial
Symposium in Oslo on December 6, 2001,
celebrating the 1OOth anniversary of the Nobel
prize, 100 Nobel laureates issued a .brief but dire
warning of the profound dangers facmg the world.
Their statement predicts that our security depends
on immediate environmental and social reform.
The following is the text of their statement:
THE STATEMENT
The most profound danger to world peace in
the coming years will stem not from the irrational
acts of states or individuals but from the legitimate
demands of the world's dispossessed. Of these poor
and disenfranchised, the majority live a marginal
existence in equatorial climates. Global warming,
not of their making but originating with the weahhy
few will affect their fragile ecologies most. Their
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situation will be desperate and manifestly unjust.
It cannot be expected, therefore, that in all
cases they will be content to await the beneficence
of the rich. If then we permit the devastating power
of modem weaponry to spread through this combustible human landscape, we invite a
conflagration that can engulf both rich and poor.
The only hope for the future lies in co-operative
international action, legitimized by democracy.
It is time to turn our backs on the unilateral
search for security, in which we seek to shelter
behind walls. Instead, we must persist in the quest
for united action to counter both global warming
and a weaponized world.
These twin goals will constitute vital
components of stability as we move toward the
wider degree of social justice that alone gives hope
of peace.
Some of the needed legal instruments are
already at hand, such as the Anti-Ballistic Missile
Treaty, the Convention on Climate Change, the
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties and the
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. As conce_med
citizens, we urge all governments to commit to
these goals that constitute steps on the way to
replacement of war by law.
To survive in the world we have transformed,
we must learn to think in a new way. As never
before, the future of each depends on the good of
all.
Signed by 100 Nobel laureates, i~ Physic~,, Chemistry,
Medicine, Peace, Physiology, Economics, and Literature
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