Genital Integrity Awareness Week 2003
April 1-7, 2003 Washington, D.C.
General Information:
A week of special events in Washington, D.C., is being organized by an internarional
community of individuals and organizations commited to raising public
awareness about the rights of all human beings to genital integrity.
Families and children are invited to participate in all Washington, D.C.
activities, and your participation will help make Genital Integrity Awareness
Week a success.
April 1, 2003 (Tuesday)
10th Annual March for Genital Integrity - Sponsored by SIC (Stop Infant Circumcision)
Society.
10:00am-2:00pm - Gather at Washington Monument.
12:00pm - March to the steps of the Capitol
1:00pm-5:00pm Gather at the Capitol and distribute information.
Contact: David Wilson
Phone:321-783-6383
E-mail: SICSociety@aol.com
April 2, 2003 (Wednesday)
March to the Supreme Court/Educate Legislators
10:00am-12:00pm - Gather at Washington Monument.
12:00pm-March to the Supreme Court.
1:00pm-5:00pm - Gather at the Supreme Court, distribute information.
Also: 8:00am-11am and 1:00pm-5:00pm: Visist your elected representatives
in Congress regarding Medicaid funding of non-therapeutic circumcisions,
lack of informed consent for infant circumcisions, and failure of Congress
to provide equal protection for males in their bill outlawing female genital
mutilation. To contact your elected representative and to schedule an appointment,
please visit the following websites:
April 3, 2003 (Thursday)
NOCIRC Strategy Meeting
8:00am - 5:00pm
Best Western Capitol Skyline Hotel
101 Street SW
Washington, DC
20024
202-488-7500
www.bestwestern.com/prop_09001
Program:
7:30 - Registration
8:15 - Welcome/Opening Remarks - Marilyn Milos
8:30 - Medicaid/Insurance - Amber Craig
9:30 - Students for Genital Integrity - Greg Dervin
10:30 - Break
11:00 - Attorneys for the Rights of the Child - Steven Svoboda
12:00 - Media, PR, and the Fax Network - Dan Bollinger
1:00 - Lunch - On Your Own
2:00 - Doctors Opposing Circumcision - George Denniston
3:00 - Fund Raising - Jeff Borg
4:00 - Jewish Contingency - Len Glick
Contact: Marilyn Milos,
R.N.
415-488-9883
E-mail: nocirc@cris.net
April 4, 2003 (Friday)
Demonstrate at ACOG (American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists)
10:00am - Gather at Washington Monument
12:00pm - 4:00pm - March to ACOG
join us as we take the message of genital integrity for ALL children to
the predominant group of circumsing doctors in Amercia. We will be holding
signs and passing out literature outside of ACOG Headquarters.
Daily April 1-7, 2003
Eduation at the steps of the Capitol
Join David Wilson and the SICSociety every day on the steps of the Capitol
to distribute literature to tourists and interested passersby.
Contact: David Wilson
Phone:321-783-6383
E-mail: SICSociety@aol.com
Suggested Accomodations:
Best Western Capitol Skyline Hotel
101 Street SW
Washington, D.C. 20024
800-458-7500
www.bestwestern.com/prop_09001
For special prices ($69 per room for two, $10 each additional person) at
the Best Western call 800-458-7500 and tell them you are with NOCIRC and
the Stop Infant Circumcision Society.
All photos on this page courtesy of Chip Feise Digital Photography www.cflp.com
