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Making Contact for August 04, 2009
9:30 PM - 10:00 PM
[Program Website]
Today's Highlight: "Guard Us All? Immigrant Women and the HPV Vaccine"
Gardasil is the first cervical cancer vaccine ever developed. After it was approved in 2006, controversy has surrounded this vaccine. Its safety and effectiveness have been questioned, and the requirement that immigrant women take the vaccine has come to the forefront of both immigrant rights and reproductive justice organizing. Advocates argue that this vaccine is a new chapter in a history of reproductive oppression that targets women of color and immigrant women. On this edition, we hear from activists, doctors, attorneys and women most affected by the new vaccination.
Featuring:
Fatima Quraishi, Pakistani immigrant; Priscilla Huang, National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum policy and programs director; Dr. Deblina Datta, CDC division of STD Prevention; Jessica Gonzales, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health director of policy and advocacy; Loretta Ross, SisterSong founding member; Beth Stickney, Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project executive director and attorney; Woman client (name withheld for confidentiality and safety), immigrant from Chile; Nial Cox Ramirez, and Elaine Riddick Jessie, residents of North Carolina and subjects of sterilization.
This program is made possible in part by The Reproductive Justice Fund at the Tides Foundation. Special thanks to The Winston Salem Journal for use of their audio from "Against Their Will" multi-media project. Thanks to Sarah Olson for her editorial guidance.
For More Information:
American Social Health Association
PO Box 13827
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
919-361-8400
www.ashastd.org
California Latinas for Reproductive Justice (CLRJ)
PO Box 412225
Los Angeles, CA 90041
213-270-5258
info@clrj.org
www.californialatinas.org
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
1600 Clifton Road
Atlanta, GA 30333
800-232-4636
cdcinfo@cdc.gov
www.cdc.gov
Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project
309 Cumberland Avenue, Suite 201
PO Box 17917
Portland, ME 04112
207-780-1593
info@ilapmaine.org
www.ilapmaine.org
Judicial Watch
501 School Street, SW, Suite 500
Washington, DC 20024
888-593-8442
www.judicialwatch.org
National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum (NAPAWF)
6930 Carroll Avenue, Suite 506
Takoma Park, MD 20912
301-270-4440
www.napawf.org
National Coalition for Immigrant Women's Rights
Contact through NAPAWF and NLIRH
www.napawf.org
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH)
50 Broad Street, Suite 1825
New York, NY 10004
212-422-2553
www.latinainstitute.org
The Winston Salem Journal
'Against Their Will'
againsttheirwill.journalnow.com
www.journalnow.com/
For Additional Information:
Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice (ACRJ)
310 8th Street, Suite 102
Oakland, CA 94607
510-434-7900
www.reproductivejustice.org
California Black Women's Health Project
101 North La Brea, Suite 610
Inglewood, CA 90301
310-412-1828
wellwoman@cabwhp.org
www.cabwhp.org
Center for American Progress
1333 H Street, NW, 10th Floor
Washington, DC 20005
202-682-1611
progress@americanprogress.org
www.americanprogress.org
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA)
2533 West 3rd Street, Suite 101
Los Angeles, CA 90057
213-353 1333
www.chirla.org
Center for Individual Freedom
113 South Columbus Street, Suite 310
Alexandria, VA 22314
www.cfif.org/htdocs/decision.htm
Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunities and Reproductive Rights (COLOR)
PO Box 201061
Denver, CO 80220
303-393-0382
www.colorlatina.org
Expanding the Movement for Empowerment and Reproductive Justice (EMERJ)
emerj@reproductivejustice.org
www.emerj.org
INCITE!
PO Box 226
Redmond, WA 98073
484-932-3166
incite_national-at-yahoo.com
www.incite-national.org
Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF)
National Headquarters
634 South Spring Street
Los Angeles, CA 90014
213-629-2512
www.maldef.org
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR)
510-465-1984
www.nnirr.org
Pro-Choice Public Education Project
PO Box 3952
New York, NY 10163
212-977-4266
pep@ protectchoice.org
www.protectchoice.org
SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective
1237 Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard, SW
Atlanta, GA 30310
404-756-2680
info@sistersong.net
www.sistersong.net/
SPARK Reproductive Rights Now
PO Box 8551
Atlanta, GA 31106
404-532-0022
www.sparkrj.org
Resources:
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
www.cdc.gov/vaccines/recs/acip/default.htm
Center for Immigration Studies
Immigrants in the United States, 2007
A Profile of America's Foreign-Born Population
www.cis.org/articles/2007/back1007.html
Department of Homeland Security's Yearbook of Immigration Statistics 2007
Pro-Choice Public Education Project
Reproductive Justice Briefing Book: A Primer on Reproductive Justice and Social Change
Third Wave Foundation
Winning Reproductive Justice: Contributions to Policy Change from the
Reproductive Justice Movement
www.reproductivejustice.org/ACRJ_Winning_RJ.pdf
Other Articles and Books:
"Call and express your concern about the new HPV vaccine mandate for
immigrant women" by Think Girl
http://thinkgirl.net/?p=4495
"Global Feminisms Comparative Case Studies of Women's Activism and
Scholarship" Transcript of Loretta Ross
http://www.umich.edu/~glblfem/ch/transcripts/us/Ross_U_E_102806.pdf
"How Effective is the HPV Vaccine?" by Lucinda Marshall
www.alternet.org/bloggers/marshall/96475/how_effective_is_the_hpv_vac cine/
"In Genes We Trust: When Science Bows to Racism" by Barry Mehler
www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45/303.html
"The Roots of the I.Q. Debate: Eugenics and Social Control" by Margaret
Quigley
www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45/034.html
"The Sterilization of America" by Center for Individual Freedom
http://www.cfif.org/htdocs/freedomline/current/in_our_opinion/un_sterile_pas t.html
"Sterilized in the Name of Public Health: Race, Immigration, and
Reproductive Control in Modern California" by Alexandra Minna Stern, PhD
www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1449330
Utilizing voices and perspectives rarely heard in media, Making Contact focuses on the human realities of politics, the connections between local and global events, and creative possibilities for people to engage in hopeful democratic change. Supported by independent funding sources, Making Contact is free to explore corporate connections to national and international policies.
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