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Nominate Paradigm Shift as Top-Rated Women’s Empowerment Nonprofits!  How has Paradigm Shift impacted you?  Click here to nominate and support our efforts.  Deadline May 31, 2010 (we need at least 10 nominations- let’s hear from you!).

This month, Women’s Media Center is excited to be counted as a partner with the Women’s Empowerment Campaign! Run byGreatNonProfits.org, the Campaign also includes Kiva, the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, Women’s News Network, andWomen’s Philanthropy – Women’s Issues. Throughout May, the campaign aims to identify top-rated nonprofits focusing on women’s issues, working like the Yelp or Tripadvisor of nonprofits. Any group getting ten positive reviews will be recognized on our Top-Rated Women’s Empowerment Nonprofits List published at the end of the campaign.

So what can you do? Visit the campaign and tell us about YOUR experience — how are these organizations having an impact? Your participation in this campaign helps identify the nonprofits that are making a difference for women. Nonprofits and community members will be able to interact and engage directly, helping organizations learn more about becoming more effective and useful resources.

Make sure you take a quick moment to rate the Women’s Media Center and write a review.  Share your experiences and let us know why you support the WMC!

This month, tell your story, and help bring out the best in women’s nonprofits!

The REVEAL conference was founded for women of all ages to come together and hear the wisdom of a fiery, new generation of emerging female spiritual leaders.

Join us May 8th at Union Theological Seminary in NYC for REVEAL

To realize your soul’s strength and beauty…
To hear your spiritual voice, to take it seriously, and put it in service to the world…
To be part of a cutting edge movement that demands complete justice for women in the world especially in the realm of the sacred

Through sizzling, keynote speakers and experiential, interactive workshops, you will be given practical spiritual tools that will empower & inspire you to do what your soul longs most for you to do in the world!

Some of the trail-blazing, soul-voices you will experience at REVEAL 2010:
SERA BEAK, GABRIELLE BERNSTEIN, RHA GODDESS, JOANNA LINDENBAUM & DAWN COPELAND, NICOLE OHEBSHALOM, ALISA VITTI

To learn more about REVEAL: www.revealconference.org
To register for the REVEAL: http://www.revealconference.org/ConfDetails.html

There is nothing more powerful than a spiritually
empowered woman to create justice in her life and in our world.

There is currently an early-bird special of only $79 if you sign up before May 1^st. To see a full list of presenters and to find out more about this amazing opportunity please visit our website.

Wine tasting event to benefit Choices in Childbirth

Thursday, May 20th
6:30-8:30 pm

Moore Brothers Wine Company
33 East 20th Street, Manhattan

Sample delicious wines hand selected and generously donated by the Moore Brothers, enjoy live jazz music, and win great prizes from our silent auction.

Tickets $75 each. RSVP Required
Click here to RSVP.

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The Ecstatic Journey of Birth & Sex – this Friday!
A Sex-Positive Midwife’s Insights into the Original Mystery

Friday, April 30: 7:00-9:30 PM

Reflections Yoga: 250 West 49th Street

Women have one interconnected system for babies, bliss and bonding! Discover the integral relationship between the processes of birth, sexual arousal and orgasm.
Includes a discussion of fertility/infertility.

Pre-Register On-line Only $25 | $30-$50 sliding scale at the door

To pre-register: www.intimateartscenter.com

Sheri Winston is the evening’s presenter. Her book, Women’s Anatomy of Arousal: Secret Maps to Buried Pleasure, just won the 2010 Book of the Year award from AASECT (the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists)!

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May’s FREE Meetings for New & Expectant Parents
Hosted Monthly by Choices in Childbirth

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Inspiring Birth Stories

Thursday, May 6th
6:15 – 8:30 pm
Still Hip*: 283 Grand Ave (Clinton Hill)
*Come early for exclusive shopping discounts!

RSVP here

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Healthy Birth Choices : Choosing your Care Provider & Setting

Monday, May 17th
6:15 – 8:30 pm
Realbirth: 715 9th Ave, Manhattan

RSVP here

By Eric Alva
Retired Marine Staff Sergeant
Veterans Lobby Day Volunteer

I’ve spent three years telling my story to audiences across the country and working with the Human Rights Campaign to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” and I’ve never seen so much momentum to end this discriminatory policy.

In two weeks, we’re going to capture that momentum and bring it to Capitol Hill.

On May 11, I’ll be joining hundreds of other current and former members of the military at the Veterans Lobby Day to deliver one clear message to Congress – “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” must end this year.

HRC and Servicemembers United are working to make this event as high-profile and effective as possible, and the head count matters. A lot. We need all hands on deck.

If you have friends or family who are veterans, please spread the word about our Veterans Lobby Day – and encourage them to join us. Send them here:

www.VeteransLobbyDay.org

I signed up for the Marines when I was just 19 years old. I served for 13 years, from Somalia to California to Japan, and then shipped out to Iraq. Three hours into the start of the ground war, I stepped on a landmine and almost lost my life.

I was the first American soldier wounded in Iraq; I received a Purple Heart, and President Bush visited me in the hospital. As I slowly recovered, the shame of this policy that forced me and thousands of other soldiers to hide began to enrage me.

I traveled to Washington and came out with my story, which was all over the national news. The response blew me away. Almost every single Marine I’d served with – gay and straight – called me with support. And I’ve been fighting this fight ever since.

Watching this campaign build over the past three years, I know how important this Lobby Day is in our battle for repeal. It’s our last chance to speak out before Congress takes action on the National Defense Authorization Act – the bill that should contain the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal language.

So it’s crunch time. And whether you’re a veteran, a friend or relative of a service member, or simply someone who believes in equality, I hope you’ll support this Lobby Day and help us end “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”

Learn how you – and any veterans you know – can be a part of this important day.

P.S. To learn more about HRC’s national campaign to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” or to take action right now, go to www.hrc.org/repealdadt.

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Wings & Dreams:4 Elements of a New Feminism publisher, Maria-Anna Foohs, of Bavaria, Germany, will be at Bluestockings bookstore, at 7 pm on May 23, 2010, to discuss, read, and open the conversation on a New Feminism. This book, reviewed by Paradigm Shift’s Shawnta Smith, is in German and English, and invites women and men to harmonize to solve some major women’s rights issues.

For more information on “Wings and Dreams: 4 Elements of a New Feminism”