The University of New Mexico’s International Women’s Day Luncheon will honor reproductive rights advocate Cecelia Fire Thunder Thursday, March 8, at 12:30 p.m., in the New Mexico Student Union (SUB).
Tickets are $8 for students, $18 general, and will be sold through Friday, March 2. Tickets will not be sold at the door.
Fire Thunder was the first woman elected president of the Oglala Sioux tribe in South Dakota in December 2004. Fire Thunder gained national attention when she reported that she would establish a women’s health clinic on her land should the state legislature limit women’s reproductive rights. She was impeached in May 2006.
Most recently, she helped to defeat her state’s effort to prohibit virtually all abortions.
The luncheon is sponsored by the UNM Women’s Resource Center, Women Studies Program and Feminist Research Institute. It is held in conjunction with a day-long conference “Women Braving Violence: Global and Local Perspectives.”
For more information, call 277-3716, or visit http://www.unm.edu/~women/.
Media Contact: Laurie Mellas, (505) 277-5915; e-mail: lmellas@unm.edu
Posted by scarr at February 28, 2007 10:35 AM