Reproductive justice advocates and community leaders -- including Senator Barbara Boxer -- will celebrate the 37th anniversary of Roe v. Wade on Feb. 6 in Newport Beach.
The Planned Parenthood-sponsored 6:30 p.m. event -- set for The Fairmont Newport Beach, 4500 MacArthur Blvd., near the John Wayne Airrport -- will celebrate the landmark decision and provide a forum on the challenges for 2010's election seasons.
This year's event will feature a message from Boxer and keynote speech by Sheryl WuDunn, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (co-authored with Nicholas Kristof), who will discuss how the fight for women's equality and justice has evolved across the globe.
The 37th Anniversary Roe v. Wade Celebration is hosted by the Community Action Fund of Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties, and supported by Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez; The Honorable Sheila Sonenshine; John Palacio, Santa Ana Unified School District Board; Rose Espinoza, La Habra City Council; Pam Keller, Fullerton City Council; Susan Henry, Huntington Beach Union High School District Board; and Beth Krom, Irvine City Council.
ABOUT SHERYL WuDUNN
Journalist and author Sheryl WuDunn has reported from inside some of the toughest regimes in the world, from Myanmar to North Korea. As a foreign correspondent for the New York Times, WuDunn and her husband, Nicholas Kristof, won a Pulitzer for their coverage of the Tiananmen Square democracy movement in Beijing and the military crackdown that ended it. They were the first married couple to win a Pulitzer for journalism, and WuDunn was the first Asian-American to receive the prize. For more information about the speaker, visit www.apbspeakers.com.
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