On February 19, 2010 John and Emily met with Uyen Campbell, Rachel Hable, Karin Holt and Deb Pexa, all members of Minnesota Women Lawyers. Uyen, Rachel and Karin are part of the Diversity Committee of MWL. We discussed the current status of the project and showed two edited excerpts from the film along with our trailer about the documentary.
During the meeting we planned two activities intended to promote "She Who Would Giants Fight."
We will write an article for MWL's April newsletter which describes the documentary and contains information about how to support the project, as well as information about a CLE that MWL will hold in the spring.
The CLE will be a panel of women judges/lawyers addressing issues of gender bias in our legal system. The program will include a discussion of the discriminatory practices that existed in the application of our laws when women were not represented in the legal or judicial systems in our country. The panel will discuss past cases which held that disparate treatment of women was permissible, and the panel will also discuss whether there continues to exist disparate treatment in the legal system today. This discussion will take place in the context of the story of Rosalie Wahl and the Minnesota women's movement of the 1970's.
We have two house parties now in the works and will update our blog when we have further details.
Emily and John
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