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US Social Forum resolution on child welfare

Poverty is Not Neglect and We are Not Powerless:
Mothers reclaim our children back from the child welfare industry.

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Joan Armatrading – Protest at her concerts July-Aug

Just days after Israeli commandos murdered at least nine unarmed people on the Free Gaza Flotilla and wounded many others, Joan Armatrading played in Tel Aviv, lining her pockets with blood money, and ignoring calls from the Palestinian people and supporters around the world to respect the boycott.

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US Social forum: Support the call of Haiti’s grassroots

GIVEN our debt to Haiti whose 1804 revolution led the way for the abolition of slavery in the Americas, defeating Napoleon’s Army, the most powerful of its day, and establishing the first Black republic; and

GIVEN that after the revolution Haiti gave refuge to Simon Bolivar, the liberator of Latin America, and gave him ships and fighters, and that Haiti intercepted slave ships and freed their human cargo; and

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DHS/DCFS Give us back our children

Self-help, multi-racial action and support groups of mothers, other family members, former social workers, foster parents & supporters in Los Angeles and Philadelphia working together against the unjust removal of children from their families by the Department of Human Services (DHS) and the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS). Children are often snatched, not because of abuse or neglect, but because of poverty, sexism and racism.

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Some Detroit events recommended by Global Women’s Strike (GWS) and Women of Color in the GWS

Date: Saturday, 19 June 2010 - 12:00am - Friday, 25 June 2010 - 5:00pm

Location: US Social Forum, Detroit

Pre-conference: Assembly of Jews: Confronting Racism and Israeli Apartheid June 19-22 see website for details. Selma James international coordinator of the GWS from London on opening panel. http://www.jewsconfrontapartheid.org

PMA: Building a Movement to Combat Increased US Militarism
Wed June 23 1 - 5:30pm Cobo Hall D3-19

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