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DCFS - give us back our children
See below for excellent Daily News articles published on the work of DHS Give Us Back Our Children (which Every Mother is a Working Mother Network coordinates and in which the Global Women's Strike is involved) and on the case of one of the mothers in the group! Please forward widely, and write letters to the Daily News thanking them for these breakthrough articles (write to views@phillynews.com). Also there is an online poll here asking whether lack of a permanent home should force a parent to separate from a child.
Watch one minute trailer for "In Prison My Whole Life"
http://www.myspace.com/inprisonmywholelife
A look at the life of imprisoned political journalist and former Black Panther, Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Click on the link above to view the one minute or two minute trailer. Please add your supportive comments to the blog. And circulate this email as widely as possible.
Vigil for Honduras
The following organizations are sponsoring the Vigil for Honduras below: Casa El Salvador, CISPES, Frente en Resistencia Contra el Golpe en Honduras de Los Ángeles, Comités de Bases FMLN, FSLN Los Ángeles, ANSWERLA, Comité Pro-Democracia en México, Partido Socialismo y Liberación, Danzas Azteca Cuauhtémoc, Coalition for Peace and Democracy in Honduras of Los Angeles and many more.
The People of Honduras are calling on us
Donate to Families of Detained & Disappeared who are sheltering those at risk, fighting for life and justice.
Following the military coup in Honduras last June, the repression escalated – reports of as many as 130 people murdered, hundreds arrested, beaten, burned with cigarettes and sodomized with batons, and women gang-raped. The violence by the military coup continued in the lead-up to and during last Sunday’s elections, elections which have been called a fraud by the Honduran people and have entrenched the coup government.
DHS: Give Us Back our Children
Philadelphia-based self-help multi-racial support and action group of mothers, other family members & supporters which grew out of a weekly picket started by a mother outside DHS. We fight individual cases, build public awareness, educate the media, work to change unjust policies and practices, and challenge sexism, racism and prejudices against mothers at every branch of the system.
Selma James
Co-ordinator of Global Women's Strike
Wikipedia
Selma James 80 on 15 August this year
Interview: 60 years after the women's movement's classic A Woman's Place
Letter in the Press:
Only Aristide has the mandate to lead Haiti's recovery
Sojourner Truth Radio
Margaret Prescod on Sojourner Truth Pacifica Radio, KPFK, Tuesdays.
News on US domestic & foreign policy. Cutting-edge interviews with women, people of color & others around the world.
