Selma James – 35^th Anniversary Tour
Nov 7 – Dec 5, 2007

a 14-city North American speaking tour marking 35 years
of the International Wages for Housework Campaign
with Andaiye from Guyana Nov 14-Dec 5
for info: www.globalwomenstrike.net 215-848-1120 philly@crossroadswomen.net

CARLISLE PA Wed Nov7

PITTSBURGH, PA

Selma James – activist, author, strategist, critical thinker, women’s rights and anti-racist campaigner, colleague & partner of CLR James – in 1972 founded the International Wages for Housework Campaign, and coordinates the Global Women's Strike since 2000. Co-author The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community (‘72), & author Sex, Race and Class (‘74), both classics, and co-author The Milk of Human Kindness (2002). Ms James is a dynamic & exciting speaker who impresses audiences with the depth of her understanding and the scope of her interests. She has worked with the Venezuelan Revolution since 2002.

7pm Dickinson College
Sex, Race and Class
part of the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues

Stern Center, Great Room, between West & College Streets.
717-245-1875 for further info.
Details

Campus map

Thurs Nov 8 2pm

Carlow Univ

Sex, Race & Class Aquinas 407
Info: 412-578-6336

Fri Nov 9 5pm

Univ of Pittsburgh

Mumia Abu-Jamal: Bringing the 60s into the 21st Century
History Dept. l700 Wesley Posvar Hall

PHILADELPHIA, PA

Mon Nov 12 6-9pm

Tabernacle United Church

Community Dialogue and Speak Out: Mothers ROC – Reclaiming Our Children from DHS Other speakers Bernadette Blount, Parent organizer, Child Welfare Organizing Project and Richard Wexler of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform

3701 Chestnut St. Phila

Donations welcome. Childcare available (call ahead if possible). Food.
Info: 215-848-1120 philly@crossroadswomen.net

Tues Nov 13 12-2pm

Temple University

Feminist Theory & Transnational Praxis

Sponsored by Women's Studies

Anderson Hall Lounge 8211
114 W. Berks St. Phila PA

Info: 215-204-4874 or kbrian@temple.edu

NEW YORK
Wed Nov 14 6-8pm

DETROIT, MI
Thurs Nov 15 6pm

Sat Nov 17

New York Univ Post-colonial seminar on Jean Rhys: Jumping to Tia
19 University Place, Rm 222 (corner of 8^th & University Pl) www.nyupoco.com

Univ MI Dearborn Feminism & Patriarchy/ Wages for Housework

1030 Castle Bldg

Jewish Internationalist Tradition vs. Zionism

Details TBA.

Andaiye Co-founder & int’l coordinator of Red Thread in Guyana, which brings grassroots women together across violent racial divides. Author of The Valuing of Unwaged Work, an analysis of the cost to women in the Caribbean of structural adjustment policies. At the UN Women’s Conference in Beijing, 1995, she led negotiations where governments agreed to measure & value unwaged work. A founding member in 1979 & leader of the Working People’s Alliance of Guyana along with historian Walter Rodney.

AMHERST, MA
Mon Nov 19 4pm

U Mass Amherst The Power of Women & the Subversion of the Community
Campus Center room 165-69
Info: geert@econs.umass.edu

ATLANTA, GA

Sun Nov 25 11:45am

MIAMI, FL

Mon Nov 26 6pm

Atlanta Friends Meeting House

Keynote address at forum on Women's Human Rights and International Feminist Movements
701 West Howard Avenue, Decatur

Info: 404-377-2474 or afmquakers@hotmail.com

http://atlanta.quaker.org

Florida International Univ, Green Library

Andaiye speaking on
From the Working People's Alliance of Guyana to the Global Women's Strike: a Caribbean perspective on self-emancipation

FLAGSTAFF, AZ

Tues Nov 27 7-9pm

PHOENIX, AZ

Wed Nov 28 6-8pm

PORTLAND, OR

Thurs Nov 29 1-3pm

Northern Arizona Univ
Gardner Auditorium
Franke College of Business

Info: com24@nau.edu

Arizona State Univ Tempe
Selma and Andaiye speaking on Sex, Race, Class, and Globalization
Details TBA.

Info: 480-965-4399

Portland State Univ

Rediscovering Nyerere’s Tanzania & the Arusha Declaration

Native American Center
710 SW Jackson Street

Info: 971-285-0955

LOS ANGELES, CA

Sun Dec 2 2:30 PM

ARCATA, CA
Mon Dec 3 2:30pm

SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Wed Dec 5

Southern California Library
^{Bringing the
60’s to the 21st Century:

The New Independence Movements}

Info: 323-276-9833 or la@crossroadswomen.net

Humboldt State University

Women, Power and Autonomy: The intersections of Sex, Race and Class

CICD Forum/ BSS 162

Info: Elisa eo8@humboldt.edu
or call: 707-826-4216

Rape, Race and Prostitution: The Cash Connection