{"id":2443,"date":"2007-10-29T16:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T22:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/10\/womens-equality-activist-to-speak-at-nmsu\/"},"modified":"2007-10-29T16:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T22:46:00","slug":"womens-equality-activist-to-speak-at-nmsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/10\/womens-equality-activist-to-speak-at-nmsu\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s equality activist to speak at NMSU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RyZjIh_paXI\/AAAAAAAAD00\/viP6N7kE6TY\/s1600-h\/NMSU.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RyZjIh_paXI\/AAAAAAAAD00\/viP6N7kE6TY\/s200\/NMSU.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126894224023316850\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>An activist in the woman\u2019s equality movement who is an adviser to the presidential campaign of Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardsonforpresident.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Richardson<\/a> will speak on Tuesday at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmsu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Mexico State University<\/a> about being in the media spotlight.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">As the woman who led a protest at the 2003 Masters Tournament in <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Augusta<\/st1:city>, <st1:state st=\"on\">Ga.<\/st1:state><\/st1:place>, Martha Burk knows all about being in the media spotlight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Her talk is part of a speaker series accompanying a course on women and the media being co-taught by Lt. Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ltgovernor.state.nm.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Diane Denish<\/a>. The talk will begin at 7 p.m. in the Creative Media Institute\u2019s Digital Media Theatre in Milton Hall. It is open to the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cI have known and worked with Martha Burk on issues that affect women at all levels,\u201d Denish said in a news release. \u201cMartha is an international leader and change agent who has worked for many years to improve the lives of women all over the world and end discrimination. I am proud that she will be a speaker at our symposium.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Burk led a protest of the male-only membership rules of the Augusta National Golf Club, the tournament\u2019s host. Even though Burk was not successful in getting the club to change its policy, her actions catapulted her into the national spotlight. The protest spawned 100 articles in the New York Times and a few thousand articles in other major <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">U.S.<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> newspapers and magazines. She appeared on almost 20 national news programs, including Today, ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Crossfire, the News Hour with Jim Lehrer and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">She is a co-chair of the <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> campaign\u2019s outreach to women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An activist in the woman\u2019s equality movement who is an adviser to the presidential campaign of Gov. Bill Richardson will speak on Tuesday at New Mexico State University about being in the media spotlight. As the woman who led a protest at the 2003 Masters Tournament in Augusta, Ga., Martha Burk knows all about being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}