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                    COUNTERING THE FAR RIGHT

             A Strategy and Networking Conference
                  to Fight Oppressive Forces

                   November 20 - 21, 1993

        University of Wyoming --- Laramie, Wyoming

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During the 1992 election year, the far right succeeded in
electing a large number of religious-right members to
school boards, state legislatures, and U.S. Congressional
seats.  They also succeeded in passing anti-gay
initiatives in Tampa, Florida, and the state of Colorado.

In Wyoming, the religious-right group, Unseen Hands
Prayer Circle, recently succeeded in placing an initiative
on the 1994 ballot that would eradicate a woman's right to
choose an abortion, outlaw some forms of contraception, and
even subject all miscarriages to potential legal scrutiny.
Rumors are circulating that this group also intends to place
an Amendment-2 equivalent on the 1994 or 1996 state ballot.
Another right-wing group called the Family Values Coalition of
Wyoming convened for the first time last month in Casper
and announced to the media that their agenda included
"getting the gays out of Wyoming."  Additional right-wing
groups that are active in our state include the Christian
Coalition of Wyoming and the American Freedom Coalition.

The United Gays and Lesbians of Wyoming (UGLW), the
Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Association (LGBA) of the
University of Wyoming, and the Wyoming chapter of the
National Organization for Women (NOW), in conjunction
with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF),
will be hosting a Countering the Far Right Strategy and
Networking Conference on November 20 - 21, 1993, to
provide activists with a perspective of the radical right
and its attacks on public schools, choice and
multiculturalism, as well as their attempts to curtail
the civil rights of lesbians and gays.

National and local leaders will conduct workshops dealing with
grassroots organizing, campaign strategies, and media training.
The workshop facilitators and panel members include:
Robert Bray, NGLTF; Scot Nakagawa, NGLTF; Marcy Westerling, head of
the Rural Organizing Project of the Oregon Democracy Project against
measure 9; Julie Nice, Faculty member of the D.U. School of Law;
Sue Anderson, former head of the Gay and Lesbian Community Center
of Colorado, and current Coordinator of GLB Student Services at
Metropolitan State College of Denver; the head of Wyoming NOW;
the head of Wyoming ACLU; the head of Wyoming NARAL; and the director
of the American Indian Education Office, University of Wyoming.

If you are interested in attending this conference, please
contact me for further information.

Maria Lasaga
Wyoming NOW Coordinator for Lesbian Rights
Faculty Advisor, LGBA, University of Wyoming
Board Member, UGLW

email address:  Lasaga@Uwyo.edu