USA
International Wages for Housework Campaign and
its autonomous organizations:
Black Women for Wages for Housework,
US PROStitutes Collective,
Wages Due Lesbians,
WinVisible (women with visible & invisible disabilities), also:
Every Mother is a Working, Mother Network, Payday men's network,
Legal Action for Women
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Philadelphia Crossroads Women's Center PO Box 11795, Philadelphia PA 19101, USA Tel: +1-215-848 1120 Fax: +1-215-848 1130 E-mail: philly@crossroadswomen.net |
Los Angeles Crossroads Women's Center PO Box 86681, LA, CA 90086-0681, USA Tel/Fax: +1-323-292 7405 E-mail: la@crossroadswomen.net |
San Francisco Crossroads Women's Center PO Box 14512, SF CA 94114, USA Tel/Fax: +1-415-626 4114 E-mail: sf@crossroadswomen.net |
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Los Angeles Stop the Governor’s
Budget Cuts! People with Disabilities, Older People, Single Moms, Homecare Workers, Relative Caregivers, Teachers, Healthcare Under Attack! |
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Fund Caregivers, Women & Communities, Not War & Occupation: Los Angeles 28 June Speak-out at Social Forum workshop. Global Women’s Strike/LA want to dedicate our participation in the LA Social Forum to Compañero Don White who was found dead in his home the weekend of June 21st. |
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Haiti vigil Los Angeles Thursdays, 12 noon –1pm, Brazilian Consulate (Wilshire at la Cienega), pays tribute to Don White, who brought his creativity, his commitment to justice for the Haitian people and his deep compassion for Lovinsky and all those who are imprisoned or have been disappeared. |
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Women Say
Fund Caregiving Not War & Occupation |
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News about
Mumia Abu-Jamal Watch one minute trailer for "In Prison My Whole Life" showing at the Sundance Film Festival, about Mumia, a journalist who has been on death row for over 25 years and who the Global Women’s Strike has been working with. Interview with Mumia : 'I spend my days preparing for life, not for death'
Journalists in support of a new trial for MUMIA
ABU-JAMAL:
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Leading UK lawyers petition US Appeal
Court re racism in case of death row journalist
(Legal Action for Women website)
French German Italian Polish SpanishMumia action Statement from Global Women's Strike & Women of Color in the Global Women’s Strike Mumia Abu Jamal: Doing the movement's work from inside women from the UK visit Mumia in prison Mumia Abu-Jamal, Ona Move! Greetings to the Global Women's Strike 2005 Download this mp3 here |
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Strike Actions 2008
South Central Farmers Tianguis Environmental Justice and
Workers Rights, Los Angeles, California |
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International Women's Week in Philadelphia: “DHS: Give Us Back Our Children!” | |
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Fund Caregiving Not War & Occupation Sat, 8 March, 1:30pm
Worldwide, war and occupation are prioritized over caring for people
& the environment. Women are the first caregivers. Families and
communities depend on this work for well-being and even survival.
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Wisconsin to Celebrate International Womens Day: First US Showing of Yellow Gate Women & Wisconsin Plan in Nazareth--from Welfare to Work? |
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Strike Actions 2007 SF Bay Area Speakout on International Women’s Day: Justice is Appealing Speakout for home health care services Photos from Stand-in Against the Arrest of Sex Workers Video Café: clips from ‘Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land’ Michigan Welfare Warriors: virtual protest faxathon & two welfare rights movies |
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Los Angeles
Sò Anne- Prominent Haitian Activist and Folk Singer Spanish Philadelphia *Protest supporting women’s child custody claims. *Demo for army medic Agustin Aguayo refusing to serve in Iraq facing court martial (Payday) Note from Friends of the Lakota who will distribute Strike information to women on American Indian reservations Boston area Gathering of radical women to plan for a GWS event |
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Support Lt. Ehren Watada, first commissioned Army officer to refuse to go to Iraq Ehren Watada's court martial may never happen! (Refusing To Kill website) |
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Fantastic victory!
Refusenik Lt Watada's
Court-Martial ends in mistrial International Day of Action Feb 5 - Lt Watada Court Martial & Photos from International Actions ( Refusing To Kill website) |
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Carolyn Ho,
mother of Lt. Ehren Watada, A Mother’s Voice vs War Report of mini-tour of the US A Mother Fights for a Soldier Who Said No to War Washington Post More from Refusing to Kill
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Open Letter to Rainbow Grocery Cooperative
(San Francisco) "It’s time for all of us who support justice to oppose the Israeli government and join the international call for a boycott of Israeli goods..." more Rainbow Boycott Israeli Goods blog RBIG people of color letter to Rainbow grocery 10 May 2008
Print & copy this pdf leaflet:
San Francisco Weekly, Letter to the Editor, August 1, 2007 Open letter to the Jewish workers at Rainbow Grocery from some Jewish Customers, published in the San Francisco Bay View, 21 March 2007 Women support the boycott of Israeli products in Rainbow Grocery as an anti-war action, October 2006 Shoppers’ Petition to RAINBOW Grocery Cooperative 1 August 2006 |
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Venezuela & Haiti Support Work Los Angeles Weekly Vigil on Thursdays 12 Noon - 1pm Brazilian Consulate (Wilshire at la Cienega) Take action for Haiti: Call for the safe return of Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine, Haitian human rights activist missing since August '07 Los Angeles 13 June Vigil for Haiti: South Central Farmers - Two Years Later (after the eviction) Vigil, Potluck and Fandango.
LA Vigil and
SF Vigil 28 May
Oakland 29 March
Third International Day
of Solidarity with the People of Haiti & for the safe return of
disappeared human rights activist
Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine |
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Join Danny Glover, Ron Kovic* and others in a
24 Hour Fast
for
the safe return of Haitian human rights activist Lovinsky
Pierre-Antoine Tuesday, Nov. 13 gather at 10:30am outside the Brazilian Consulate Sign the petition! |
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Sò Anne- Prominent
Haitian Activist and Folk Singer
Los Angeles International Day in Solidarity with the People of Haiti A Call to Action Coordinated International Protests on February 7, 2007 Multi-city protests on 4 Continents including Emergency Protest, Los Angeles 8 Feb |
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Talking of Power’ is
featured in the reelVENEZUELA Film Festival Berkeley,
CA Women, Autonomy & Creating a Caring Economy in Venezuela Saturday, June 24, 4-7pm, Los Angeles Sex, Race, and Class - Venezuela, Women & Grassroots Self Mobilization Saturday, June 17 at 7pm, San Francisco Los Angeles - a historic coming together of grassroots movements (journal 2006) |
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Selma James – 35th Anniversary Tour Nov 7 – Dec 5 a 14-city North American speaking tour marking 35 years of the International Wages for Housework Campaign! With Andaiye from Guyana. Program & Cities Florida: From the Working People's Alliance of Guyana to the Global Women's Strike- Caribbean Perspectives on Self-Emancipation A lecture from Andaiye Los Angeles 2 Dec: Bringing the 60’s to the 21st Century: The New Independence Movements |
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Come to a Community
Dialogue and Speak Out: Mothers ROC! Reclaiming Our Children from DHS Monday November 12, Philadelphia. Across the US, families are losing custody of children – that is, children are losing their families – at an alarming rate – Philly’s rate among the highest. |
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US premier of
OAXACA: Megamarch for Justice
at
the
Pan African Film
Festival
LA Premier of new film on Venezuela:
Journey with the Revolution.
All-White Jury Convicts Black Grassroots Leader Rev Pinkney Action Alert Delegation to the US Social Forum in Atlanta June 27- July 1
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Selma James in the
US October 2006 Activist, author, strategist, critical thinker and international coordinator of the Global Women’s Strike. Selma’s many publications include Sex, Race and Class and The Power of Women and Subversion of the Community. She introduced Creating a Caring Economy: Nora Castañeda and the Women's Development Bank of Venezuela, a recent publication. She is the widow, and was for many years the closest colleague, of CLR James (The Black Jacobins, etc.) |
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Los
Angeles, 25 March 2006:
Between Half-million to One Million People Protest against Anti-Immigrant Law!
Report of GWS at the Los Angeles Immigrants
Rights March – May 1 |
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