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Vol. CLIV, Issue 6
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Homelessness Activists Address Cold Weather

Homelessness Activists Address Cold Weather

Andy Monserud February 20, 2014
During freezing temperatures earlier this winter, volunteers and community leaders converted the First Congregational Church into an emergency warming center for the city’s homeless. The center provided warm cots to those homeless who could not or preferred not to sleep in Walla Walla's existing shelters.
Student Volunteers Aim to Create Community at STEP Shelter

Student Volunteers Aim to Create Community at STEP Shelter

Isabel Mills November 21, 2013
Learn more about Whitman students who volunteer at the STEP women's shelter, an organization that offers local homeless women and children a place to sleep.

Whitman women take action against violence with ‘The Vagina Monologues’

Mallory Martin February 23, 2012
Starting this Friday, Feb. 24, Feminists Advocating Change and Empowerment and the Voices of Planned Parenthood will bring V-Day, an event of global activism, to campus. Started in 1988 by Eve Ensler, author of "The Vagina Monologues," V-Day is a campaign and organization that fights for an end to violence against women and girls.
Illustration: Jung Song

Walla Walla Community College cuts women’s center

Emily Lin-Jones September 22, 2011
Less than a month ago Walla Walla Community College (WWCC) closed its Women's Center and defunded the IMPACT! Life Transitions Program, designed to assist displaced homemakers and women from low-income backgrounds in developing life skills.
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