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Public meeting:

Tell us about Obama with Margaret Prescod

Thur 16 July, London

 

LA, 25th June Help Get the Word Out About the South Serial Murders!
Support the Tamil peoples’ march  Let's March To Save our People! London

INTERNATIONAL GATHERING
THE STRUGGLE AGAINST POVERTY, WAR & OCCUPATION
London 31 January – 8 February 2009

Photos from:
Grassroots struggle against racism & sexism - an International Comparison

Iraq, Haiti, Palestine – Occupation is the Crime

Rape and Prostitution – A Question of Consent

Invest In Caring, Not Killing Valuing the Work of Caring for People and the Planet

Rediscovering Tanzania’s Ujamaa: Tribute to the Great Ntimbanjayo Millinga and the Ruvuma Development Assoc'n
Obituary Ntimbanjayo Millinga

Floods Drought Survival Women from the Global South on Climate Change

Indymedia report More reports will follow...

All the events were unfunded. click here

International Speakers Gather Versus Poverty, War and Occupation Interview or invite speakers!

 

Hanaa Ibrahim independent Iraqi women’s activist speaks in London

Sara Kershnar founder of the International Jewish Anti Zionist Network (IJAN) speaks
in London

LA,14 December Alternative Holiday Sing In, Swing'in, Speak Out
London, 9 December
In Prison My Whole Life
award-winning film about Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Hosted by John McDonnell MP;  Q&A with the narrator William Francome and co-creator Katie Green. 
LA, 16 November Video Café: Randall Robinson on Haiti
LA, 16 November vigil for Lovinsky
http://notimetocelebrate.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/sf_intl_resistance_panel1_i.jpg San Francisco, 30 July International resistance to Zionism speakers & discussion. 
Los Angeles,  20 July
screening of 'Matzpen'.
London 11 July IJSN -- International Jewish Solidarity Network first UK event. See photos, videos & report
Los Angeles 28 June Fund Caregivers, Women & Communities, Not War & Occupation A speak-out & hands-on arts and action workshop.
Los Angeles Haiti vigil pays tribute to Don White, who brought his creativity & commitment to justice for all those imprisoned

London 31 March Picket Italian Embassy Protest against Israel as “guest of honour” at the Turin Book Fair. Repor

13 June Los Angeles: Vigil for Haiti: South Central Farmers - Two Years Later (after the eviction) Vigil, Potluck and Fandango.
San Francisco 8 May 20 Jewish activists arrested disrupting 60th anniversary of Israel celebration. 10 May flyer

22 March Philadelphia: Video showing of  BREAKING RANKS & community report back from Winter Soldier

29 March Oakland: Event on resistance by women and men against repression in Haiti and Oaxaca, Mexico. 
6 April Los Angeles South Central Farmers Tianguis Environmental Justice and Workers Rights
3 April Archaeology Society in NUI Galway Ireland: Fundraiser, Film and Eye-witness Report on Oaxaca Community-Teacher Mass Movement in Mexico

 

San Francisco 22 March Speaker from the Strike at the Anarchist Bookfair.
Palestine: Responses to Occupation

12 March Berlin: Film showing Journey with the Revolution and speaker from the Strike.

Deutsch

13-16 March Washington DC - Watch Winter Soldier Testimony

Report of London event @ Crossroads Women's Centre
More on Winter Soldier

8 March, 1:30pm Fund Caregiving Not War & Occupation

Worldwide, war and occupation are prioritized over caring for people & the environment. Women are the first caregivers. Families & communities depend on this work for well-being and even survival. Join us for lunch and a Town Hall meeting! Southern California Library, 6120 S. Vermont, LA 90044

See report

29 Feb Haiti demonstration in Port-au-Prince
Photos of Fondasyon Trant Septanm  with Lovinsky banners and T-shirts
 

8 March, London Grassroots Women’s Contingent on the Million Women Rise March.

8 March 1.30pm Cork, Ireland:Global Women's Strike film Oaxaca: Megamarch for Justice

Welfare Warriors & Peace Action Wisconsin:
First US showing of Yellow Gate Women & Wisconsin Plan Nazareth

CLR James

Saturday 2 Feb 2008, 10am - 4.30pm Seventy years of the Black Jacobins

A one-day conference to mark the 70th anniversary of the publication of CLR James’s classic history of the Haitian Revolution. Selma James is the first speaker.

 


Catherine Healy


Pye Jacobson

24 Jan 2008, Ipswich Say Never Again!

16 Jan 2008, House of Commons The Safety First Coalition invites you to hear about New Zealand’s decriminalisation of prostitution.  See report & photos. Sign the petition to decriminalise sex work, prioritise safety

Nov 2007, Sex, Race & Class Selma James at the Clarke Forum, listen here About the speech.