According to the organizers, the purpose of the two-day event in Palos Verdes, California is to "gather prominent leaders and innovators from corporations, not-for-profits, and government organizations committed to women's and working family issues for a 48-hour action plan to help defined the agenda for women in the 21st century".
And developing such connections are part of Speak-Up's purpose, organizers say.
The purpose, organizers said, was to pose problems that were hard to solve, to expose areas that needed improvement.
(For midwinter scheduling purposes, organizers can be reasonably assured that the Jets will not be playing host to any late-January games).
Everard Findlay, also a parent and organizer, describes the purpose of the greenhouse: "The community is changing pretty fast, and there's this balance between all these different cultures, but also the socio-economic stratosphere of people, and this school is a melting pot for that whole conversation with the neighborhood.
For that purpose, the organizers wrote an "anchor article" [14] that the magazine Futura published in spring 2015.
Incoming mayor Albert Boutwell called King and the SCLC organizers "strangers" whose only purpose in Birmingham was "to stir inter-racial discord".
To Muhammad Abassi, another organizer, the rally's purpose was clear.
Backed by national religious and civic organizations, including the National Council of Churches, the N.A.A.C.P., the National Organization for Women and the Sierra Club, organizers said the group's purpose was to emphasize what they called a mainstreaming of the antiwar movement.
Though the museum project has been under way for more than a year -- and will not be completed for several years -- the sense of purpose among its organizers has been elevated since Sept. 11.
