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USA
Los Angeles         Philadelphia      San Francisco

International Wages for Housework Campaign and its autonomous organizations:

Black Women for Wages for Housework
US PROStitutes Collective
Wages Due Lesbians
WinVisible (women with visible & invisible disabilities)

also:
Every Mother is a Working Mother Network
Payday – a network of men
Legal Action for Women

Philadelphia
Crossroads Women's Center
PO Box 11795, Philadelphia
PA 19101, USA
Tel: +1-215-848 1120
Fax: +1-215-848 1130 
E-mail:
philly@crossroadswomen.net 

Los Angeles
Crossroads Women's Center
PO Box 86681, LA,
CA 90086-0681, USA
Tel/Fax: +1-323-292 7405
E-mail:
la@crossroadswomen.net 

San Francisco
Crossroads Women's Center
PO Box 14512, SF
CA 94114, USA
Tel/Fax: +1-415-626 4114
E-mail:
sf@crossroadswomen.net 

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Women Say Fund Caregiving Not War & Occupation
"A multi-racial panel of women including a formerly incarcerated woman, a survivor of domestic violence fighting for both welfare and higher education, a daughter taking care of her elderly mother, a young woman active in the urban farms movement, and a sex workers network, shared their experience of struggle for resources for basic survival needs for themselves, their children and other loved ones and their communities." 

News about Mumia Abu-Jamal

Watch  one minute trailer for "In Prison My Whole Life" showing at the Sundance Film Festival, about Mumia, a  journalist who has been on death row for over 25 years and who the Global Women’s Strike has been working with. Interview with Mumia : 'I spend my days preparing for life, not for death'

Journalists in support of a new trial for MUMIA ABU-JAMAL:
Open Letter to the Court
May 17 Key hearing for Mumia Abu-Jamal - Come out in support!

Also: Leading UK lawyers petition US Appeal Court re racism in case of death row journalist (Legal Action for Women website)
French      German      Italian      Polish     SpanishMumia action Statement
from Global Women's Strike & Women of Color in the Global Women’s Strike

Mumia Abu Jamal: Doing the movement's work from inside
women from the UK visit Mumia in prison
Mumia Abu-Jamal, Ona Move! Greetings to the Global Women's Strike 2005 
Download this mp3 here

Strike Actions 2008

South Central Farmers Tianguis Environmental Justice and Workers Rights, Los Angeles, California
Oakland 29 March
Event focusing on resistance by women and men against repression in Haiti and Oaxaca

San Fransisco
22 March
Speaker from the Strike at the Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair
Palestine: Responses to Occupation

International Women's Week in Philadelphia: “DHS: Give Us Back Our Children!”

Fund Caregiving Not War & Occupation

Sat, 8 March, 1:30pm

Worldwide, war and occupation are prioritized over caring for people & the environment. Women are the first caregivers. Families and communities depend on this work for well-being and even survival.
Join us for lunch and a Town Hall meeting!
Southern California Library, 6120 S. Vermont, LA 90044

Join Welfare Warriors and Peace Action Wisconsin to Celebrate International Womens Day:
First US Showing of Yellow Gate Women & Wisconsin Plan in Nazareth--from Welfare to Work?

Strike Actions 2007

SF Bay Area
Speakout on International Women’s Day: Justice is Appealing Speakout for home health care services
Photos from Stand-in Against the Arrest of Sex Workers
Video Café: clips from
‘Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land’
Michigan Welfare Warriors: virtual protest faxathon &  two welfare rights movies

Los Angeles
Sò Anne- Prominent Haitian Activist and Folk Singer Spanish

Philadelphia

*Protest supporting women’s child custody claims.
*Demo for army medic Agustin Aguayo refusing to serve in Iraq facing court martial
(Payday)
Note from Friends of the Lakota who will distribute Strike information to women on American Indian reservations
Boston area

Gathering of radical women to plan for a GWS event

Sò Anne

Support Lt. Ehren Watada, first commissioned Army officer to refuse to go to Iraq

Ehren Watada's court martial may never happen! (Refusing To Kill website)

Fantastic victory! Refusenik Lt Watada's Court-Martial ends in mistrial
International Day of Action Feb 5 - Lt Watada Court Martial
& Photos from International Actions ( Refusing To Kill website)

Carolyn Ho, mother of Lt. Ehren Watada,
A Mother’s Voice vs War Report of mini-tour of the US
A Mother Fights for a Soldier Who Said No to War
Washington Post

More from Refusing to Kill

Open Letter to Rainbow Grocery Cooperative (San Francisco)

"It’s time for all of us who support justice to oppose the Israeli government and join the international call for a boycott of Israeli goods..." more
Print & copy this pdf leaflet:
side 1:
Boycotting the fruits of Israeli Apartheid - which side are you on?
side 2:
Corporations supporting Israeli Apartheid
San Francisco Weekly, Letter to the Editor August 1, 2007
Open letter to the Jewish workers at Rainbow Grocery from some Jewish Customers, published in the San Francisco Bay View, 21 March 2007
Women support the boycott of Israeli products in Rainbow Grocery as an anti-war action, October 2006
Shoppers’ Petition to RAINBOW Grocery Cooperative 1 August 2006

Venezuela & Haiti Support Work

Oakland 29 March
Event focusing on resistance by women and men against repression in Haiti and Oaxaca, Mexico.

Third International Day of Solidarity with the People of Haiti & for the safe return of disappeared human rights activist Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine
Film Premiere “What’s going on in Haiti” Sat 1 March

Join Danny Glover, Ron Kovic* and others in a 24 Hour Fast for the safe return of Haitian human rights activist Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine
Tuesday, Nov. 13 gather at 10:30am outside the Brazilian Consulate
Sign the petition!

Sò Anne- Prominent Haitian Activist and Folk Singer Los Angeles
International Day in Solidarity with the People of Haiti
A Call to Action
Coordinated International Protests on February 7, 2007
Multi-city protests on 4 Continents
including Emergency Protest, Los Angeles 8 Feb

Talking of Power’ is featured in the reelVENEZUELA Film Festival Berkeley, CA
Women, Autonomy & Creating a Caring Economy in Venezuela
Saturday, June 24, 4-7pm, Los Angeles
Sex, Race, and Class - Venezuela, Women & Grassroots Self Mobilization Saturday, June 17 at 7pm, San Francisco 
Los Angeles - a historic coming together of grassroots movements
(journal 2006)

Miscellaneous

Open Letter to the Philly Planning Committee: This is not what International Women’s Day is about

Selma James – 35th Anniversary Tour
Nov 7 – Dec 5
a 14-city North American speaking tour marking 35 years of the International Wages for Housework Campaign! With Andaiye from Guyana.
Program & Cities
Florida: From the Working People's Alliance of Guyana to the Global Women's Strike- Caribbean Perspectives on Self-Emancipation
A lecture from Andaiye
Los Angeles 2 Dec: Bringing the 60’s to the 21st Century: The New Independence Movements

Come to a Community Dialogue and Speak Out:
Mothers ROC! Reclaiming Our Children from DHS

Monday November 12
, Philadelphia.
Across the US, families are losing custody of children – that is, children are losing their families – at an alarming rate – Philly’s rate among the highest.

US premier of OAXACA: Megamarch for Justice  at the Pan African Film Festival
Feb 8, Los Angeles

LA Premier of new film on Venezuela: Journey with the Revolution.
Also: *Report back on US Social Forum *Know Your Rights on Immigration *News from the El Sereno Garden*
Criminalization of anti-racism, Benton Harbor, Michigan

All-White Jury Convicts Black Grassroots Leader Rev Pinkney Action Alert

Delegation to the US Social Forum in Atlanta June 27- July 1

Selma James in the US October 2006
Activist, author, strategist, critical thinker and international coordinator of the Global Women’s Strike. Selma’s many publications include Sex, Race and Class and The Power of Women and Subversion of the Community. She introduced Creating a Caring Economy: Nora Castañeda and the Women's Development Bank of Venezuela, a recent publication. She is the widow, and was for many years the closest colleague, of CLR James (The Black Jacobins, etc.)

Los Angeles, 25 March 2006:
Between Half-million to One Million People Protest against Anti-Immigrant Law!

Report of GWS at the Los Angeles Immigrants Rights March – May 1
May 1, "A day without an immigrant".  Women say "Capital Travel's Freely - Why Not People!"

 

Hurricane Evacuees Council/Bay Area:
FEMA puts Evacuees out on the Street: Stop all Evictions Now!

Meeting and Reception for Katrina/Rita survivors
Bay Area Action Alert: Hurricane Evacuees Council/Bay Area
Silent vigil November 25, 2005
Hurricane evacuees to protest at tree-lighting ceremony San Francisco

Strike Actions 2006:
Global Women’s Strike Action in LA Highlights Katrina
& other Global Warming Survivors

Philadelphia and East coast events

PRESS RELEASE from Welfare Warriors, Wisconsin

Anti-War
ACTION ALERT - Congress set to re-fund the NED! 
No New Funding for the National Endowment For Democracy!!
Close the NED that funds coups and dictatorships!!

Petition to End Funding for the National Endowment for Democracy
US Opt Out: Schools are for learning not for war (Journal 2006)

Statement on Social Security from Ruth Todasco, mother and grandmother

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