Host Sue Supriano interviews local activist-musicians Yvonne Simmons and Mary Rose about The Clothesline Project, a visual display of shirts with graphic messages and illustrations that have been designed by women survivors of violence or by someone who loves a woman who has been affected by violence. They also discuss Women's Equality Day and other activities of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom or WILPF.
The Portland Branch of WILPF will sponsor a continuation of the Clothesline Project at Terry Shrunk Plaza on Thursday, August the 26th 2010, which is Women's Equality Day. The event will be held at Terry Shrunk Plaza, SW 3rd an SW Madison in downtown Portland, from 9am am unti 4 pm This will be the 19th anniversary of WILPF's participation in the project. The first Clothesline event was held in a backyard and seven shirts were made. Hundreds of shirts have been made here in Portland since then. The mayor has declared "this day is to be memorialized to give every woman her voice for independence and freedom from violence"