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Ldsnh2 who took the initiative to develop this New York Radical Feminists article from a stub by a those unknown to her in November 2007 is Lynne Shapiro now in New Haven, CT. Her November 19, 2007-January 6, 2008 New York Radical Feminist article is designed to provide a broader view of the organization than was provided by interviews with its earliest founding members in Alice Echol's Daring To Be Bad (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989) that has NYRF ending its conferences in 1974 (page 194) and switching to liberal feminism wherein members were more interested in self-improvement than political work (pages 198 and 199).
The article also was written to provide a snapshot of the New York grassroots feminist movement during that period. It is based upon a documents in a copy of NYRF introductions, newsletters, conference flyers and programs, and newsletters and other literature for related organizations--archived her home, the Alternate Press Collection Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut, Storrs Homer Babbidge Library and the Helen Upton Women's History Center at Russell Sage College, Troy, NY--and the 1975 NYRF Sixth Anniversary Calendar.
Ms. Shapiro began her involvement in the 1970's feminist movement as a leafletter/fundraiser and poster brigade member for the 1970 Women's Equality Day Strike, 5th Avenue March and Bryant Park Rally that attracted 50-100,000 She then was a member of the Women's Liberation Center Loft steering committee and press contact for the group that took over the 5th Street New York City Women's Shelter on January 1, 1971.
Ms. Shapiro joined New York Radical Feminists in February 1971 as a member of the Manhattan Upper East Side Lucy Stone Brigade consciousness-raising group and in July of that year organized the mailing list for the newly formatted newsletter. She organized consciousness-raising groups in later 1971 and 1972, was part of the group that updated the consciousness-raising topic list, was a newsletter contributor, editor and subscriptions coordinator from 1971-1977, a workshop leader for the 1973 Marriage Conference, an organizer for the Motherhood and Work Conferences and production of the play, "Focus on Me" and initiator of the later versions of "Introduction to New York Radical Feminists".
Ms. Shapiro also wrote articles about the new women's rock and roll groups for the NYRF newsletter and other feminist newspapers, Rock and Changes alternative magazines and provided the first drafts and research for a MS Magazine February 1974 article "Fanny: Into Rock First" about the first all women's rock band to achieve commercial success at that time.
After NYRF's formal organization disbanded, Ms. Shapiro organized a spring 1978 Women and Fashion speakout at the Women's Coffeehouse, two speakouts for Women Against Pornography, the first at WAP's September 1979 Conference, compiled two editions of an artists and writer's guide to women's alternate press periodicals Write On, Woman, and was a co-founder of Women 80 that staged the August 26 1980 Women's Equality Day March on 5th Avenue and Bryant Park Rally which featured the late Congresswoman Bella Abzug as Grand Marshall. In April 1984 she coordinated a memorial c-r for NYRF member, Marta Vivas, and in 2002 spearheaded a June 14 Westbeth reunion of thirty NYRF members at which key discussion topics were aging and elder caretaking issues and the George W. Bush administration's undermining of civil liberties.
After moving back to her hometown of New Haven, CT in the early 1990's, Ms. Shapiro has worked to improve public transit service delivery and pedestrian safety as a researcher, public hearing speaker and author of four op-ed articles in the New Haven Register and Hartford Courant. She supports these efforts from studies for her 2002 M.S. in Urban Studies/Planning from Southern Connecticut State University. She started this advocacy as a co-founder of the 1994-1996 Vision for a Greater New Haven Transportation Citizens' Action Group (TRANSCAG).
Ms. Shapiro also has an Expert Professional Research Certification from the Marketing Research Association for her career as a Senior Analytical Manager supported by her 1968 B.A. Psychology from Russell Sage College, and 1983 Management Practices Certificate from NYU's School of Continuing Education. In the 1980's she authored six articles for American Marketing Association periodicals.
