MERRY CHRISTMAS

Happy holidays to Women Together members and friends. . Thanks to everybody who spent time making the ornaments and trimming the tree.

Por sus hechos los reconocereis

to here

from here

groundbreaking

PEACE

desafortunadamente a menos de dos semanas de la inauguracion de nuestro parque de la paz, un hecho de violencia en el cual resulto muerto un estudiante de Becker college, nos obligo a organizar una vigilia para dejar en claro nuestro repudio a todo tipo de violencia.

Oppening

VERY PROUD

Our Neighorhood Peace Park

The park became a reality

"This is a park that comes from the people. It is about turning violence into peace, turning strangers into friends, turning an Earth Day clean-up into year-round beauty. This park is about dreaming big, even when you can't imagine it to be possible. It is about calling out for help in your pain and reaching out people you might not think could care, would pay attention or notice you, and asking for their help anyway. This park is about reclaiming land neglected and abandoned within our city. It is about inspiring other neighborhoods to organize and do the same. It is about creating an extraordinary future for our children. It is about saying we deserve better and that we will get better and that we won't stop until this park is a reality."
Jen Solin
Women Together

Proyectando, intercambiando ideas

we made an inspection "in situ".

El proyecto

Embelleciendo el barrio

Proud to live on Piedmont neighborhood

Embelleciendo el barrio

Proud to live in Piedmont neighborhood

EARTH DAY CLEAN UP

In a rainy day the neighbors gather to work together. We split in teams and clean all long Pleasant St. and surrounds. Trees were mulched and planters received new plants.
All businesses were visited to give an award to the cleanest and more environmental friendly.

Earth Day clean up

Es una fiesta de comunidad. Todos los vecinos salen a la calle con sus escobas y recogedores. Esta todo listo para el dia de manana.

Our Neighborhood Peace Park needs your help

c/o The Pleasant Street Neighborhood Network Center
301 Pleasant Street, Worcester, MA 01609
(508) 754-7793

Dear Friends,

Imagine, an empty corner lot strewn with layers of trash and overgrown brush. Now imagine that empty lot reclaimed by a group of neighborhood women as a memorial in the name of peace, and transfixed with a lush variety of trees, shrubs and flowers, people sitting on benches and walls, reading, sharing news, children running on grass, an artist teaching a class under the maple tree,

Women Together imagined this park three years ago and it will soon be a reality with untold possibilities for the Piedmont/Pleasant Street community. We have raised $91,000 of the $125,000 we committed to, but In order to close the gap of $39,000 by June 1, 2008, we need your help.

Beyond reaching our goal and not included in the budget, is a Wish List of furnishing and plantings to increase the enjoyment of a visit to the park, whether it’s for a run, a rest or a game:

Benches, Chess Tables with Chairs, Picnic Tables,
Storage Shed, Wrought Iron Entryway, Kiosks,
Stage Area, Holiday Tree, Plantings, Memorial Wall,
Water Spray Feature, Landscape Boulders, Site Sign


If you feel strongly that parks are a valuable community asset, please donate today. Show us your support for our neighborhood park by filling in the form below and mail it in with your contribution. No matter how big or how small, every donation makes an impact. Please make your check payable to Women Together.
All donations are tax deductible.




 I am enclosing my donation of $ ________ to help close the gap.
 I am interested in giving a gift from the Wish List and would like
A Women Together representative to call me at ________________.
Name: __________________________________________
Address: ____________________________________¬______
____________________________________¬¬¬¬¬¬¬______
e-mail: ______________________________________


Women Together
Creating a safe, multi-generational, and sustainable place where neighbors can come together, interact and build relationships.

EARTH DAY CLEAN UP

MAY 3 is Earth Day and Women Together has their traditional neighborhood clean up.

We meet each year at the corner of Pleasant St and Winslow St, to share tools, gloves, T-shirts, some exercise, and start cleaning Pleasant St from Park Ave to Main St.
It is not only be proud of our neighborhood, keeping it nice and clean, it is an important opportunity to build community, know neighbors, and strength the fabric of our society.

AWAKE LADIES!!!!!

Spring is here. GO OUT.
It is time to have a Potluck and an Earth Day Clean Up!!

Let plan it together.

SATURDAY 22 at 10 am at Pleasant Street Neighborhood Network Center.
Put on your thinking head and come to dream with us

RECAST


We've played our separate roles
Too long.
Let us now recast our parts.
And I be you and you be me,
Exchange our lives------our griefs and joys;
Give me your wants and take my deep desires,
Wear my smiles and let me show your frowns.
Recast, restage, and restore our world
To harmony
And call
The new production
Peace.

by Jane Caldwell Hamburger/Shaker Heights, Ohio

Thank you for reading this,
Susan Lozoraitis

International Women's Day

In a rainy morning women of all ages and diverse ethnic groups, gather in the Network Center to celebrate our gender identity. We share food, friendship and poems, as well as some stories of women, honoring our mothers, grandmothers and great grandmothers in a very emotional ceremony

Women Together


Celebrates International Women’s Day 2008

Saturday, M arch 8th at 10:00 am

Pleasant Street Neighborhood Network Center- 301 Pleasant St

Come share stories of unity, that honor other woman, and join

us together in celebration of who we are.

bring some food to share a brunch

COFFEE MEETING

February 23 at 10 a.m. we meet at the Network Center.
See you there.

Women Together Receive T & G Visions Award

Each year the Worcester Telegram and Gazette Visions Awards recognize achievements by individuals or groups who
promote change and encourage community involvement. This year, Women Together has the honor of being awarded the
Visions Award for Public Service because of their efforts to build an inner-city park.
The ceremony was held on Tuesday, February 5, at Mechanics Hall. Nanette Davis, Susan Lazoraitis, and Luz Gonzalez
received the award on behalf of the group. Janet Robinson, President and CEO of The New York Times, was the keynote
speaker and was very impressed with group. From the red seats of Mechanics Hall, Women Together and their supporters
proudly stood and cheered for the three women upon their announcent

Became the point of gathering for ours Earth Day clean up.

Was a school for long time. Many neighbors went to Winslow school. In the 70Th got fire and became an abandoned lot, although was sold by the city.

Come on ladies!!!
Our coffee meeting is this Saturday 12 at 10 AM at Plesant Street Network Center.

On duties

brooming Pleasant St

Our first Earth Day clean up on 2004

Women Together logo 2004

We use this logo in our T-shirts on the Earth day clean up

Our roots

Women Together/Mujeres Unidas is rooted in the 2003 murder of a young man outside his house in view of his family in the Piedmont/ Pleasant Street Neighborhood. At a street vigil two days after his death the young man’s mother passionately called to all women in the neighborhood to get together and organize to help each other raise their children and to prevent this type of youth violence. Eight women leaders answered this call and “The Woman’s Group” was formed which later was named Women Together/ Mujeres Unidas.

These first few years our organization has been focusing on getting to know each other as neighbors in order to build a base of trust from which to create change. We have done this by organizing street clean ups, holding potluck dinners every three months, hosting morning coffee meetings to discuss various topics, and doing one to one interrelation meetings with each other. WT/ MU has also worked to build the leadership skills of its members by attending and hosting leadership trainings and working to emphasis strong membership participation.

One of the first big projects organized by WT/MU undertook was the “100 Women Sweep” in April of 2004. This was part of the Earth Day Clean Up organized with The Regional Environmental Council, but it acted as more than a litter removal project. A core team of WT/MU organizers created the goal to have 100 women clean the streets to act as a metaphor for women creating change in the neighborhood. Working together on Earth Day has helped to solidify relationships between members and has made WT/MU a strong visual presents in the neighborhood as well as help members take leadership roles in planning the event and the lunch gathering that follows. Every year now the women were in pink shirts with brooms and tools in hand are an expected sight in the neighborhood. Over the past three years this project it has grown significantly in participation and energy.