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 |
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
"A multi-racial panel of women
including a formerly incarcerated woman, a survivor of domestic
violence fighting for both welfare & higher education, a
daughter taking care of her elderly mother, a young woman active
in the urban farms movement & a sex workers' network shared
their experience of struggle for resources for basic survival
needs for themselves, their children & other loved ones & their communities." |
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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:
Open Letter to
the Court
May 17 Key hearing for Mumia
Abu-Jamal - Come out in support! |
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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
Oakland
29 March
Event
focusing on
resistance by women and men against repression in
Haiti and Oaxaca
San
Fransisco 22 March
Speaker from the Strike at the Bay
Area Anarchist Bookfair
Palestine: Responses
to Occupation |
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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.
Join us for lunch and a Town Hall meeting!
Southern California Library, 6120 S. Vermont, LA 90044 |
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Join Welfare Warriors and Peace Action
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:
side 1:
Boycotting the fruits of Israeli Apartheid -
which side are you on? side 2:
Corporations supporting Israeli Apartheid
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
as
Brazil's
President Lula da Silva is set to visit Haiti on Wed. May 28
Oakland 29 March
Event focusing on
resistance by women and men against repression in
Haiti and Oaxaca,
Mexico.
Third International Day
of Solidarity with the People of Haiti & for the safe return of
disappeared human rights activist
Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine
Film Premiere
“What’s going on in Haiti”
Sat 1 March |
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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
Feb 8, Los Angeles
LA Premier of new film on Venezuela:
Journey with the Revolution.
Also:
*Report back on US Social Forum *Know Your Rights on Immigration
*News from the El Sereno Garden*
Criminalization of anti-racism, Benton Harbor, Michigan
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
May 1, "A day without an
immigrant". Women say "Capital Travel's Freely - Why Not People!"
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