Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...move toward working with men on women's issue this year's convention passed a resolution allowing men into the caucus--to the dismay of many members. One delegate said she was afraid the presence of men in the caucus would intimidate women who weren't used to dealing with men on an equal basis. Another said the resolution was "the worst thing that could have happened I here's move merit to the idea that out search for equality should include men. But women's politics puts you in an adversary position with the make establishment. How can that...
...white college teacher said the racial tension come out during the convention in "turns of phrase". She said the caucus was risking the same mistakes made by the women's suffrage movement, which alienated the abolitionists by protesting the enfranchisement of black illiterates in the face of educated women's exclusion from the vote. "If we drive out the black women, the Puerto Rican women, the Chicanos and Oriental women, we will be playing right into the hands of the male power establishment. It will destroy the caucus...
Actually, political pleas are to be left to the discretion of each local caucus. The important national policy switch was to forget about Congressional elections and concentrate resources in a few target states that are the most likely to ratify ERA. The consensus was that it its still too early to name the target states but it is probable that the list will include Illinois, where the ERA is pending in the state legislature, and Missouri, which defeated the ERA this year by only four votes in the State Senate following House passage...
...order to raise funds for its massive ERA campaign drive, the caucus resolved to organize a national telethon slated for the first quarter of 1976. Nancy Deale Greene, who proposed the resolution, plans to approach 60 corporations to raise $2.5 million. The idea is to cover the costs of the telethon so that all money it brings in will be cleared for the national campaign. The telethon would coincide with the end of International Women's Year and with the Bicentennial...
...NWPC seems pretty will organized for the next few years and most members are optimistic about the neat future. But will the caucus long withstand the problems of its broad-based policy? Will it shatter under the conflicting demands of its diverse members? Some delegates are asking those questions, although most like to keep the whole thing pretty hushed. Most seem to prefer looking towards the future through Audrey Colom's eyes; "I would like to see ten years from now the need for the NWPC to dissolve. I would like to see women entrenched in the political parties...