8th Annual Global Women’s Strike

Actions on or around International Women’s Day

* * * * Los Angeles Strike event * * * *

An Evening of Resistance & Song

with Sò Anne

popular Haitian activist and folk singer

► NEWS FLASH: Annette Auguste, known as Sò Anne, was arrested by US marines in May 2004 at home in Port au Prince along with her friends and family including two children.  She was held in prison for over two years by the UN occupation, and only released in  August 2006 after international pressure to free her led by the grassroots in Haiti.

"I send you all my blessings as a free Haitian woman fighting for the rights of the impoverished majority in my homeland. They may imprison my body but they will never imprison the truth I know in my soul. I will continue to fight for justice and truth in Haiti until I draw my last breath."
- Sò Anne, Petionville Penitentiary, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, May 23, 2004

Thurs. March 15, 7PM

GOLDEN STATE Mutual Bldg.

1999 West Adams (at Western), LA

► Hear Sò Anne’s Story and hear her sing at her LA Premiere Performance! Her visit to LA is an opportunity to learn firsthand what is happening in Haiti! 

►The event will also mark the 50^th anniversary of the independence of Ghana, and call for support of the women of Oaxaca organizing against electoral fraud, rape and other repression.

tRANSLATION OF kREyol to English

and Spanish available

Wheelchair accessible

Donation $10-$25, no one turned away

Fundraiser for grassroots women activists in Haiti

►Margaret Prescod, host of Sojourner Truth on KPFK, will chair

►Coordinated by the Global Women’s Strike and Women of Color in the Global Women’s Strike as part of GWS events and actions held in over 60 countries on and around March 8,

►Event Sponsors: Danny Glover; Ginette Apollon, Centre de Réintégration Ėconomique et Sociale des Femmes Haitiennes; Haiti Action Committee; Eastside Café.

International Women’s Day, with Payday men’s network (www.refusingtokill.net), under the theme “Invest in Caring Not Killing!” 

www.globalwomenstrike.net

Contact 323-292-7405  la@crossroadswomen.net

►Co-Sponsors to date: ANSWER Coalition, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Congresswoman Diane Watson,

KPFK 90.7 FM is the Media Sponsor

HaitiAnalysis.com, Pan African Activist Coalition. Endorsers: Alexandria House, Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid-SC, Committee in Solidarity with Haiti, CISPES, Every Mother is a Working Mother Network, Ben Guillory, International Action Center, LA Greens, Puerto Rican Alliance of LA, Raging Grannies, South Central Farmers. 

Support GWS International Demands *  Payment for all caring work * Pay equity for all * Food security for all * Paid maternity leave, breastfeeding breaks & other benefits *  Don’t pay ‘Third World debt’ * Accessible clean water, healthcare, housing, transport, literacy * Non-polluting energy & technology * Protection & asylum from all violence & persecution * Freedom of movement