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The Global Women Strike, Women of Color in the GWS, and Payday men’s network are independent grassroots un-funded networks based in many countries including the US. We initiate actions together to demand that every society “Invest in Caring Not Killing”, & prioritize the caring for people & the environment, not wars, the market, occupation & intervention. Our network, reflected in our delegation, includes Every Mother is a Working Mother Network, US PROStitutes Collective, Wages Due Lesbians, and WinVisible (Women with Visible & Invisible Disabilities). Also represented will be RBIG – Rainbow Boycott of Israeli Goods. |
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Guernica by Pablo Picasso, 1937 Refusing to kill is not a Crime |
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Our events and activities at the USSF |
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How to reach us at the USSF, and beyond! Cell phones in Atlanta: 215-776-1004; 610-505-4944 Phila 215-848-1120 philly@crossroadswomen.net; LA 323-276-9833 la@crossroadswomen.net, SF 415-626-4114 sf@crossroadswomen.net GWS www.globalwomenstrike.net Payday www.refusingtokill.net |
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About our groups:
Global Women’s Strike (GWS) is an international network of grassroots women who come together to demand that every society “Invest in Caring, Not Killing”, for people and the environment, starting with women who do most of the caring work. Website: www.globalwomenstrike.net.
Women of Color in the Global Women’s Strike (WOC in the GWS) is an independent network of women of color – African, Asian, Caribbean, Indigenous, Native American, Kurdish, and others – within the GWS. WOC in the GWS focuses on the impact of sexism & racism in the distribution of resources, in military recruiting, in war and occupation, in policing and imprisoning, and we make visible how Women of Color everywhere actively struggle for justice. www.globalwomenstrike.net
Payday: a multi-racial network of men which organizes with women and men around the world. We are building a global network of refuseniks & supporters – conscientious objectors, “deserters”, draft evaders and whistleblowers – from Israel to Turkey, from the US to Italy; and highlight the key support that women give. For news from this growing movement see: www.refusingtokill.net.
Other groups attending as part of the delegation:
Every Mother is a Working Mother Network (EMWM) campaigns to establish that caring is work, and for the economic value of raising children to be reflected in welfare payments and other policies. We support mothers struggling to regain children from social services – their “crime”? They are poor/ people of color. We defend benefits for women who care for elderly or disabled relatives.
US PROStitutes Collective – USPROS campaigns for the abolition of prostitution laws which criminalize sex workers and their families, and for economic alternatives to prostitution. No woman, child or man must be forced by poverty or violence into sex with anyone. www.prostitutescollective.net
Wages Due Lesbians - organizes against discrimination, loss of child custody, police arrests, anti-lesbian violence, & criminalization, as well as having to live underground, and for recognition of our hidden work for movements & communities. http://allwomencount.net/EWC%20LesbianBi/IWDL.htm
WinVisible - a grassroots multi-racial self-help organization of women with visible and invisible disabilities http://allwomencount.net/EWC%20WwDiss/WwDndex.htm
Members of Rainbow Boycott Israeli Goods – RBIG is a group of Jewish and other workers and shoppers urging Rainbow Grocery Cooperative, a worker-led health food coop in SF, to join the growing boycott movement against Israeli apartheid and slaughter of Palestinians.
Publications, videos and t-shirts for sale at our table at the Peace & Justice tent, including the new:
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The Arusha Declaration: Rediscovering Nyerere's Tanzania The re-publication in English & first publication in Spanish of the Arusha Declaration $7.50 In 1967, newly independent Tanzania led by President Julius Nyerere confronted the problem of how to develop but become independent of international capital. Beginning with the working life of the people, especially of women in the countryside who ‘work harder than anyone else’, it sets out an alternative strategy of Ujamaa or 'African socialism': self-reliance, co-operation and preventing the corruption of government and ruling party.
Death Row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal - The case for a new trial by Robert R Bryan, lead counsel, Edited by Legal Action for Women $5 Mumia's lawyer spells out what the basic issues of the case are, outlining the injustices of the trial and subsequent hearings, and the grounds for the new appeal. Leading UK lawyers have now asked the appeal court to enable Mumia, for the first time, to put his case to a jury free of racism. |
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