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WOMENS LIBERATION MOVEMENT

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THE PURPLE COW

Columbus, Ohio

October, 1974

DEAR SISTERS

The movement goes on because the women who struggle together breathe a breath of life and energy into each other. They reach out and support oneanother creating a bond of togetherness which can only be found among women who have felt the reality of oppression and isolation.

We have been supported and want to let you know how fantastic it feels, but more than tell you about it, we want you to participate in it. Many of you wrote us letters, sent suggestions, told us of other women who needed to be reached, or let us know we had reached you and that you wanted to hear more. We have tried to include you in this newsletter and will keep trying in January, April, July, and October. We welcome your comments, criticisms, suggestions, news, articles, graphics, poems... We want the Purple Cow to be a means of personal expression for all the women in Ohio and not just for the women in Columbus. To do that we need your continued help and support.

We heard from several women in small towns who are isolated and starved for the togetherness many of us have available. They need to know what is happening around the state on a regular and special event

basis. Subsequently, we have enlarged our staff. We are asking for people in locations where groups have organized to join the PC and share what their groups are doing. If you would like to help in this way, please let us hear from you

soon.

Another way you can help is to let us know of women who have not seen or heard about the PC. There are forms at the back you can send. If each of you reading this issue would send the name and address of just one other women, we would reach 600 persons in January if not sooner.

We hope you enjoy this issue and those to come, but especially that you will want to take part in the effort soon. We would like to extend special thanks to people who have helped us with the newsletter; past and present. Back in July, two very green newspaperwomen went to David Treadwell with an idea and a need to learn some skills on very short notice. Our thanks, David, for your willingness to share those skills and you support of the venture. Do you know how hard it is to find a graphic of a cow that is warm but "cool"? Our gratitude to New Women's Survival Catalogue for letting us borrow a graphic without notice until after publication. The new banner is an original, designed for the PC by