A Place for Women's Activism
Gloria Steinem, writer, lecturer, political activist and feminist organizer, Pamela Shifman, executive director of the NoVo Foundation, and Miyhosi Benton, member of the Women's Building advisory circle and an associate at the Women & Justice Project (WJP), a non-profit organization that centers the leadership of women directly impacted by incarceration, talk about the transformation of the former Bayview Correctional Facility in Chelsea into The Women's Building, which they envision as a hub for the girls' and women's rights movement.
"I think this is the most unmitigated good news that I’ve been able to talk about in years, to turn a women’s prison into a women’s building when we hear about mass incarceration every day… it’s pure positive," says @GloriaSteinem on @WomensBuilding.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 18, 2019
"Ten years from now, instead of a beautiful old building that was chopped up into terrible cells, there will be a place where women can work, meet each other and have childcare," says @GloriaSteinem on @WomensBuilding.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 18, 2019
"For the @WomensBuilding, 35 percent of the construction jobs will go to women working on that site… It’s going to have an impact far and wide across this city, creating a pipeline of really excellent jobs for women in NYC," says @PamelaShifman.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 18, 2019
"@womensbldgnyc is going to house all women and girls’ rights movements, that means everyone is welcome to come and collaborate and to build on each other’s expertise and shift the world in the way we want to see it," says Women & Justice Project’s Miyhosi Benton.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 18, 2019
"I feel so heartened and encouraged and moved and touched by younger folks, I really feel as if I just had to wait for some of my friends to be born," says @GloriaSteinem.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 18, 2019
