Women’s Press Collective To Host Special Women’s Day Celebration
by 
by In honor of Women’s History Month, the Women’s Press Collective (WPC) presents its annual International Women’s Day Celebration Saturday, March 12th, from 11am to 4pm. This empowering and enriching event is hosted by Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church located at 85 South Oxford Street between Lafayette Avenue and Fulton Street in Ft. Greene.
Each year the WPC selects an important theme for its International Women’s Day Celebration. For 2016, the focus is on “Transforming Our World The 2030 Agenda For Sustainable Development: Empower All Women and Girls.”
What is the “Agenda For Sustainable Development?” This past September at the United Nations headquarters in New York, world leaders attended the UN Sustainable Development Summit. They formally adopted an ambitious agenda with 17 goals to achieve by 2030. Among these goals are: no poverty, zero hunger, good health and well-being, quality education, and gender equality. It also seeks to strengthen universal peace.
A fantastic trailer can only be as good as its owner’s focus on details and the choice of http://www.devensec.com/news/Devens_BOH_mosquito_WNV_update_8_24_18.pdf cheapest viagra trailer parts employed.
WPC’s International Women’s Day Celebration 2016 focuses on goal 5 –gender equality. WPC, a grassroots volunteer-driven organization of women, was founded in Brooklyn in 1982. Its mission is to give marginalized and working class women a voice. It also makes publishing facilities available and offers workshops and training in writing, editing, public speaking, and organizing.
“Our founders saw there needed to be a truly alternative media to advance our causes,” says Lisa Daniell, WPC Operations Manager. It is a completely independent organization and runs seven days a weeks solely on donations and the support of volunteers. WPC is located at 68 12th Street and 2nd Avenue in Gowanus. For move information on the Women’s Press Collective call 718-222-0405 now.
