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Page 10 • The Battalion
Friday • August 25,
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□ The 6,000-mile journey began in Paris and in
cludes stops in Warsaw and Poland. Travelers
will lobby delegates to the Sept. 4-15 U.N.
Women's Conference in Beijing.
BERLIN (AP) — Ann Stafford is going to China without a visa.
The Irish sociologist is on the Women’s Train, a Beijing-bound work
shop-on-wheels for 160 determined feminists with modest means
and big dreams.
The 6,000-mile journey began in Paris on Friday — next stops are
Warsaw and Moscow — with a head of diplomatic steam nearly
matching the energy and joie de vivre of participants.
On Sunday, after more than a day in Berlin spent networking
— a party in a university courtyard, news conferences, hanging
out at a lesbian-run cafe — the backpack-toting women rolled to
ward Poland.
The travelers — mostly western Europeans, ranging in age from
19 to 75 — sang “We Shall Overcome” before about 50 women blow
ing whistles sent them on their way.
Those on board belong to groups that will lobby delegates to the
Sept. 4-15 U.N. Women’s Conference in Beijing. The meeting they’ll
attend on the sidelines of the conference already has Chinese au
thorities on edge.
China has effectively kept thousands of women from attending
the Non-Governmental Organization Forum by not sending them
the lodging confirmations that they need to get visas, women’s
groups say.
It has also relegated the forum to a provincial town myre than an
hour by bus from Beijing.
Women’s Train riders, dozens of whom got visas only last to
after French and German intervention, have a good idea whattk!
be up against.
“We’re expecting no workspace, no computers. But we’re alsosl
pecting 40,000 women who’ve gone through hell and high wate
get there,” said Isabel Stramwasser, a 24-year-old Canadian:
helped organize the Women’s Train.
The women plan to make a lot of noise.
China’s human rights record — including more than 20 mf
tions over the last month — will be a main target. They’ll also
for an all-female replacement for the U.N. Security Council, wkij
peacemaking efforts they consider a failure.
The past week was an exhausting blur for Maya Salvado Fer
tile 29-year-old Spanish-born sculptor who launched the Wode
Train project. Up to the last minute, she wasn’t sure the moneys
visas would come through.
“But neither France nor China wanted the train to get st®
said Salvado, because it had received so much publicity.
Donations are defraying the $1,500 cost of the round-trip jor
(the return portion is by plane) for those with limited means.
Celebrities including U.S. feminist Germaine Greer and rocks
Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders have lent support. Cartier,i
jewelry company, gave $20,000 and French government ager:;
have provided more than $40,000.
But not all the promised money has come through. The Euro]E
Union has yet to deliver its promised $40,000, Salvado said.
Several special trains have been organized by various group:
converge on Beijing for the conference. But only this one haste
musical groups, a 400-volume library and two workshops to oca;
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