Monthly Archives: January 2015

AAUW State of the Union Bingo

Every year the president uses the State of the Union address to lay out an agenda to Congress and identify the administration’s priorities and proposals. And every year we tune in to hear what the president promises to do to move women’s issues forward. This year, the speech is set for January 20, and we ask you to help us follow along through a friendly (or not-so-friendly!) game of bingo.

We’ve created bingo cards with some of the key words women and girls want to hear from President Barack Obama this year. Simply print out a card, grab your favorite marker, and you’re ready to play.

But because you’re doing such important work to remind the president of our issues and our voices — and because it’s always more fun to play with friends — tweet your progress and a picture of your winning card with #AAUWSOTU. We’ll be watching and even awarding some prizes!

By the end of the night, we’ll not only have some bingo winners but also a sense of whether Obama’s 2015 agenda will help women and girls succeed. Good luck to us all!
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AAUW’s Free Online Learning Module About the Suffrage Movement

“Women, Their Rights, and Nothing Less” How can you use AAUW’s free online learning module about the suffrage movement? Attend our webinar January 22, 2015

Time: 6:30 p.m.–8 p.m. ET

Location: Online (You just need to register.)

Cost: Free
or explore the module to learn how to implement this material into local high school and college and university partner classrooms.

January Book Group Discussion on The Worst Hard Times

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The dust storms that terrorized America’s High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since, and the stories of the people that held on have never been fully told. Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, going from sod homes to new framed houses to huddling in basements with the windows sealed by damp sheets in a futile effort to keep the dust out. He follows their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black blizzards, crop failure, and the deaths of loved ones. Drawing on the voices of those who stayed and survived—those who, now in their eighties and nineties, will soon carry their memories to the grave—Egan tells a story of endurance and heroism against the backdrop of the Great Depression.