The Bella Bulletin
2023 SUMMER RECAP
Highlighting… BALI’s first ever 3-cobort summer training session.
Join Us in Celebrating … Citywide Girl Initiative’s (CGI) 10 –year anniversary and the International Day of the Girl Summit at the UN Headquarters.
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Bali BaliAnnouncements Announcements BALI Summer 2023 Training Sessions Recap BALI's Summer 2022 program was a success with our three cohorts! Our trainees worked on their leadership skills along with intensive debate training. As we are every summer, we are proud of our trainees for all their hard work and determination.
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Bali Announcements Bali Announcements BALI Summer 2023 Training Sessions Recap BALI's Summer 2022 program was a success with our three cohorts! Our trainees worked on their leadership skills along with intensive debate training. As we are every summer, we are proud of our trainees for all their hard work and determination.
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STARS CGI 10-Year Anniversary with BALI
On Tuesday, October 10th, BALI had the pleasure of co-facilitating the 10th Anniversary of Success Citywide Girls Initiative (STARS CGI). We had our very own BALI trainee, Reina Copeland, who was a panelist alongside council members and AmplifyHer. We are proud of her for stepping out and voicing her power as a junior in high school. Congratulations to STARS CGI on completing 10 years and we wish to work with them to continue to the support great work we do.
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International Day of the Girl Summit On Tuesday, October 10th, BALI had the honor to attend the International Day of the Girl Summit at the United Nations Headquarters. Ten of our trainees accompanied our staff members to hear Girl Advocate perspectives and Girl Activists already making a change. The theme was “Invest in Girls’ Rights: Our Leadership & Wellbeing.” We applaud all the young leaders making a change and thank IDG for the crucial work they do giving a platform for the youth.
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Highlights of the Summer nominated Patricia Guerrero as the first Latina Chief Justice of the California State Supreme Court. She will be in charge of leading the state's sprawling court system that includes about 2,175 judges across 58 trial courts and 105 justices on the Courts The long-awaited “2020” Summer Olympics this year For native Lakes on tribes, Greatand Lakesmore are has put aGreat spotlight the the racism, This January, New York City Council will make On Thursday, January 12th,and over 7,000 nurses central to livelihood, culture, belief. For in onethe in specifically, misogynoir that is entrenched Just days after ofkilled Homeland On February 24th, the Russian government Sunday, January 9,the a Department devastating fire 17 and history by inaugurating 31 female city-councilors. concluded a historic strike against poor working After egregiously intense confirmation hearings, ten Americans and one-third of Canadians, theStates Great Scotland became the first country to make sports industry. First, Sha’Carri was Last month, horrific images ofRichardson United Security announced that they cleared the injured 60 residents ofwar Twin Parks North West, an launched a complete on Ukraine in order to Up until now, the council has never had more than conditions and understaffing at Mount Sinai Lakes are a primary source of drinking water. Yet, for Ketanji Brown Jackson was finally voted to be the border patrol brutalizing Haitian migrants banned from the Olympics after a positive cannabis access to free menstrual products a legal camp of 15,000, mostly Haitian immigrants apartment complex the Bronx. Twin Parkscoming North Manhattan andon Montefiore Medical Center in the 18 women sit thein council, but this next “demilitarize” the country, forcing millions to the past 70 years, Canadian energy company, United State’s first Black, female Supreme Court sparked widespread outrage. The atrocities test, even though it is not a performance-enhancing right. O cially launched on August 15, West, lovingly nicknamed Touray Tower after Abdolie seeking asylum in Del Rio, Texas, horrifying Bronx. The strike began Monday, January 9th after year, the council will have a female majority. flee Ukraine. This humanitarian crisis, however, Enbridge, has threatened this irreplaceable resource Justice. Jackson received athat 53-47 bipartisan vote, made by the U.S. government against Hatian drug (and let alone the fact many white Touray moved in in the 1970s, is home to aathletes strong the New York State Nurses Association refused to 2022, the program strives to eliminate images were released of U.S. Border Patrol Furthermore, this year’s election has made history through the construction, overuse, and neglect of is a multifaceted tragedy. In an effort to migrants, however, extend far beyond the making it one of the closest confirmations in have been excused of much worse accusations). This accept Governor Hochul’s initial proposal for Gambian community thatthe is now reeling fromwith the Agents chasing Haitian immigrants period poverty in country and aid Line 5. Line 5 is a pipeline that cleaves the meeting on multiple accounts due to the diverse group of “prioritize Ukrainian citizens,” Officials are events of late September. 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solutions that address health disparities. Netflix. largely apolitical throughout her career.
of Appeal and is the nation’s largest judicial Three months ago, the CDC announced that Tourism in West reopens onStory October 8th, two system. TheMaui daughter of Steven Spielberg’s West Side hasMexican sparked vaccinated people were to enter public indoor This week, thousands offree protestors blocked off the months after devastating wildfires that damaged Crystal Hudson, Central Brooklyn’s newest city immigrants, Guerrero has had extensive worldwide excitement. Saudi Arabia, the United places maskless without of ofsigned contracting or now abandoned village of fear Lüzerath, Germany, to A recent lawsuit in Taiwan has the potential After surviving her own bout postpartum Last month, Kathy Hochul a group thousands ofGovernor homes andher killed 98 individuals. This month, Canadian-backed oil company, council member, declared mission to support prevent coal giant RWE from developing an open-pit Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and Kuwait, spreading COVID-19. This month, however, due to experience in the legal field, previously to makecountering historic change in to Taiwan. This depression, Jade Kearny setnearly out protect and of laws harassment and workplace Leading up to the reopening, 17,000 people Endbridge, was pressured to shut down Line 5 in renters in need inthe aof recent interview with City Watch. coal mine. After last farmer lost hisdue court to several outbreaks Delta variant of the virus however, have banned the tocase strict serving on California’s 4thmovie District Court of month, a Taiwanese court approeved Xiao discrimination at athe Women’s History Month support other Black women suffering from the (including 3,500 residents of West Maui) signed a Michigan for several after water RWE, gave his property tohours climate activists, who She ishe particularly focused onwhich supporting seniors (the most revealing ofher occurred in censorship rules around sexuality. The primary E’s request to change gender on her ID Appeal overseeing cases in San Diego and celebration. The package includes legislation that same mental healththe struggles. This vision took petition urging Governor Josh Green todeveloping postpone the protectors called Enbridge and halted the have been fortifying village and an with rental assistance after the expiration of eviction Provincetown, Massachusetts, where most ofWest the issue that these countries have found with without prove of gender-affirming surgery. provides a toll-free confidential hotline for the Imperial Valley. She graduated from UC influx of tourism, stating that families are still the shape of She Matters, an app designed to operation the pipeline from within the activist camp for the past 2 years. Despite Germany’s protections isonvaccinated) January the 15th.CDC In announced the interview, population that Side Story is the minorsexual character Anybodys. 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Now, many activists have hope that need for coal to close the energy gap caused by the the petition and a unanimous Maui County Council the Michigan community. Despite the fact that Superior Court judge in San when those in that need apply for Diego. rental recommended everyone, regardless of designed to connect Black women to assistance qualified personnel files as will a retaliatory action against war in Ukraine. Climate activists such as Vanessa 2021 adaptation, Anybodys isprecedent portrayed as Xiao E’s case set a and vote to delay reopening, Governor Green decided to the state government and members of the stating that “We need to create systems that work vaccination status use masks indoors. The Delta therapists, allThunberg, of whom haveisreopening trained in a Nakate, Greta and Helena Gualinga have employees. This package oforiginal laws part of Hochul’s move forward with the date. explicitly trans. 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Anybodys. New York City has moved ahead with enacting its new congestion pricing scheme In late September, Primecommuters Minister Narendra which will chargeIndian regular up to Next month, the Supreme Court will take up Modi announced the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam $23 to enter Manhattan during peak hours. two lawsuits against Senate Bill 8, a Texas (Women’s Reservation Bill). The bill legally holds the Larger vehicles such as transport In response to financial difficulties brought ontrucks by the abortion lawresponsible that can ban abortions at aswomen early government for electing more COVID-19 CDC$100 established can end pandemic, up payingtheover in tolls.a This month, Governor Gavin as 6 weeks into pregnancy, well before many representatives inCalifornia the next decade, providing an moratorium that protected Americans from After a 20 -year career in the to high court of Lahore, This month Sonia Sanchez, poet, activist, and Although the city’s goal tamp down on individuals find out that they are pregnant. If Newsom established three-year Prominent opera singer Peter Braithwaite iswomen about incentive for political parties toa support Over 50 years ago in Selma, Alabama, thousands of evictions. 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Martin Luther King Jr. in a historic and professor, bell died at age 69. hooks over, the Supreme moratorium leaving many Pakistan’s Court.was Maliklifted, has spent her career pro-slavery propaganda songs, Braithwaite’s piece against the bill were made by the federal renowned awardees including Toni Morrison, delimitation. While Modi extolled historic also has unseen consequences for demonstration that brought forth Voting Rights Act. deaths. While the pilot-program is the limited to published 30 books herhas lifetime, and was best Americans in the lurch for affordable housing. With defending the rights ofin women inresistance Pakistan. 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YA novelHarvard BITTER isand will beappointed published in 2022 by Knopf Books. was to aFebruary tenured position at Tufts University. Harvard in 2011and believes she ismemorial. one of first undocumented immigrants to do so. AsJam of September 2020 recognized In afrom past life, shethe was ayoung featured poet on HBO’s Def Poetry PQhj]gs GId<gjZI[j <[G <j jPI 1[QpIghQjs ]N 1j<P first chairman thepoet. US Holocaust novel. of Moving away writing about adults, Torres is now working on aand novel she is a toured PhD candidate the American studies atand Yale. She was an Collective fellow. with itsinTony Award-winning Broadway show. about the relationship between two program mothers a murder in aEmerson New England town.
TRANS ACTIVIST, TRAILBLAZER
Happy Birthday to...
SYLVIA RIVERA
BORN ON JULY 2, 1951 ACHIEVEMENTS WITH CLOSE FRIEND MARSHA P. JOHNSON, CO-FOUNDED STAR (STREET TRANSVESTITE ACTION REVOLUTIONARIES), A
LIFE BORN AND RAISED IN NEW YORK CITY AND LIVED MOST OF HER LIFE IN OR NEAR THE CITY; SHE WAS BORN TO A PUERTO RICAN FATHER AND A VENEZUELAN MOTHER. S H E W A S T A K E N I N B Y T H E L O C A L D R ºA G QUEENS, INCLUDING MARSHA P. JOHNSON,
GROUP DEDICATED TO
WHO BECAME RIVERA'S BEST FRIEND AND
HELPING HOMELESS YOUNG
PROTECTOR.
DRAG QUEENS, GAY YOUTH, AND TRANS WOMEN. PARTICIPATED IN DEMONSTRATIONS WITH THE GAY LIBERATION FRONT.
RIVERA'S ACTIVISM BEGAN IN 1970 AFTER SHE PARTICIPATED IN ACTIONS WITH THE GAY LIBERATION FRONT'S DRAG QUEEN CAUCUS AND LATER JOINED THE GAY ACTIVISTS ALLIANCE AT 18 YEARS OLD, WHERE SHE FOUGHT FOR NOT ONLY THE R I G H T S O F G A Y P E O P L E B U T A L S O F O R T H11 E INCLUSION OF DRAG QUEENS LIKE HERSELF IN THE MOVEMENT.
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Carter G. Farmer’s Woodson son of Abigail Adams writes to her husband Fanny Wyoming is the(1875-1950), first territory cookbook toisformerly give John published in which she standardized school for African-American students in enslaved parents attends the University of Chicago who is helping toto frame the Declaration of published women theinright which she vote.standardized cooking measurements.. Daytona Florida. and HarvardBeach, University, where he is the second December 10, 1869 Independence and cautions, “Remember cooking measurements.. known Black October 3,7,person 1904 January 1896to earn a Ph.D. During his the ladies…” January 7, 1896 studies, Woodson discovers the erasure of Black Mary McLeod Bethune creates the National peopleTayloe in academic texts and lessons about Nellie Ross is inaugurated as the first Blanche Stuart Scott the first American March 31, 1776 Council of Negro Women. Nellie Tayloe Ross is is inaugurated as the first American History.
Margaret Sanger opensthe theNobel firstblack birth Pearl S. Buck receives Prize for Violette Neatly Anderson isU.S.’s the first Carter G. Woodson Jesse E. Moorland Violette Neatlyand Anderson is the found first the black control clinic in Brooklyn, New York. Literature The Good Earth. Association forfor the Study of Negro Life and History, now The Martha Washington Hotel opens New woman to practice law before the U.S.in woman to practice law before the U.S. known the Association the first Study hotel of African American October 16,Court. 1916 December 10, 1938 forthe York as City, becoming Supreme Supreme Court. Life and History (ASALH), an organization dedicated to January 29, 1926 exclusively women. encouraging thefor study and celebration of Black history. January 29, 1926 March 2, 1903 1915
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her Amelia Earhart Earhart makes makes the the first first solo solo Amelia seat on a bus to a white person; her flight from from Hawaii toenslaved North civil America. flight Hawaii to North America. Richard R. Wright, formerly rights Jeannette Rankin (R-MT) took her Reverend Margaret Towner is the first arrest sparks the modern civil rights January 11, 1935 advocate, and author, begins lobbying for the January 11, 1935 seat asofthe first female member of movement in the US. woman ordained a minister in the creation National Freedom Day, a national Congress. holiday celebrating the day the 13th amendment December 1, 1955 Presbyterian Church.
womanpilot Governor in U.S. history (Governor woman make a public flight. woman Governor in U.S. history (Governor December 5, to 1935 The National Council of Women of the U.S. is 1910s of Wyoming). of Wyoming). October 23,by 1910 organized Susan B. Anthony, Clara January 5, 1925 January 1925 Barton,5, Julia Ward Howe, and Sojourner Truth, among others, the oldest non-sectarian women’s organization in the U.S. March 31, 1888 Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History introduce “Negro HattieAnnie Wyatt Caraway (D-Arkansas) is the the Capt. Fox receives the first18Purple Hattie Wyatt Caraway (D-Arkansas) is Juliette Gordon Low assembled girls History Week” as a campaign for schools to highlight Black Dr. Frances Willoughby the first woman first woman elected toWoodson theisU.S. U.S. Senate, Heart awarded to a woman for her service first woman elected to the Senate, together in L. Savannah, Georgia, for the history in their curriculums. chose the second doctor in the regular U.S. Navy. becomes first woman to chair a Senate week of February because it included Abraham Lincoln’s while under at Pearl becomes the first woman toHarbor. chair a Senate first-ever Girlattack Scout meeting. birthday, February 12th, and Frederick Douglass’ birthday, Committee and the first first to to serve serve as the the December 7, 1941 October 15,1912 1948 Committee and the as March 12, February 14th.
Senate’s presiding officer.
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was officially approved on February 1st, 1865. March 4, 1917 October 24, 1956 MarianSiebert Anderson is the the first firstfirst African Marian Muriel Anderson becomes is the African 1942
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October 4, 1976 Several mayors across the country declare the March 4, 1933 month a municipal holiday as well.
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