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 men's network,
Legal Action for Women
Los Angeles
Crossroads Women's
Center
PO Box 86681, LA,
CA 90086-0681, USA
Tel/Fax: +1-323-292 7405
E-mail:
la@
crossroadswomen
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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
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San Francisco
Crossroads Women's Center
PO Box 14512, SF
CA 94114, USA
Tel/Fax: +1-415-626 4114
E-mail:
sf@
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Support the return of President Aristide Venezuela cancels Haiti debt Emergency Vigils in support of the people of Haiti: Los Angeles
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Vigil for Honduras Wednesday, Jan 27 5pm to 7pm Honduras General Consulate, 3550 Wilshire Blvd, LA
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Urgent legal update from Robert R Bryan, lead counsel for
Mumia Abu-Jamal (on death row 27 years)
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Unsolved Serial Murders of Women in South
LA Every Life is of value! We are entitled to information & safety! Black women's lives count! |
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Town Hall Meeting: Stop Skyrocketing
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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. |
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HAITI and HONDURAS: END MILITARY COUPS & OCCUPATIONS
Vigil Thursday 12-1pm, Downtown Federal Bldg 300 N. Los Angeles St, LA, Metro Union Station
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Unsolved Serial Murders of Women in South LA Did you know that serial murders of Black women and one Black man have been going on in South L.A. for more than 20 years? The last known victim was found on January 1, 2007; the youngest victim was 14 years old. |
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Including photos of Hank Jones, one of the San Francisco 8 who recently had charges dismissed against him, speaking, as well as Hollywood star and activist Danny Glover attending. |
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Yuki from Japan speaks
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Families Demand their Children Back From LA County Control In an unprecedented and hopeful coming together, mothers, some fathers, other family members and supporters are launching a campaign entitled “DCFS-Give Us Back Our Children” to get back children unjustly and often illegally taken by the Department of Children and Family Services and to stop other abuse within the system. | |||
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Margaret Prescod on
Sojourner Truth Pacifica Radio, KPFK, Tuesdays. |
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ACTION ALERT Rev. Pinkney, grassroots leader who spoke out against racism & corruption in Benton Harbor, will have his case heard by Michigan 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals. Call to action and petition More: Benton Harbor’s Rev. Pinkney released from Michigan prison , under house arrest with no civil rights! |
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Women Demand Bailout: Resources for those of us with the least!
May 30. Speakout
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"The
movement that got Barack Obama elected"
Phoebe Jones, GWS, Philadelphia, US, speaking at the International Gathering of the GWS: The struggle against poverty, war & occupation, London, 31st January 2009. |
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Mothers
and supporters protest at DHS: “Children are for loving, not for profit” Philadelphia 6 March DHS: Give Us Back Our Children! A self-help multi-racial support and action group of mothers, other family members & supporters. |
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| Save this land for wildlife and organic farming! Appeal for help in locating people who will invest in caring for this land. Berks County, PA, USA | ||||
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death row 27 years)
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London, 9 December In Prison My Whole Life award-winning film. |
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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:
Leading UK lawyers petition US Appeal
Court re racism in case of death row journalist
(Legal Action for Women website)
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Weekly Vigils for the safe return of Lovinsky
Pierre-Antoine Letter to Evo Morales on occupation of Haiti Ayma (spanish) |
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Fund Caregivers, Women & Communities, Not War & Occupation Women's global work surviving poverty, war and occupation Including panels on: Iraq, Haiti, Palestine: Occupation is the Crime & The global movement for wages and other resources for caregivers Los Angeles 8 March |
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Los Angeles 28 June Speak-out at Social Forum workshop. Global Women’s Strike/LA want to dedicate our participation in the LA Social Forum to Compañero Don White who was found dead in his home the weekend of June 21st. |
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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 & higher education, a daughter taking care of her elderly mother, a young woman active in the urban farms movement & a sex workers' network shared their experience of struggle for resources for basic survival needs for themselves, their children & other loved ones & their communities." |
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Strike Actions Haiti, Iraq, Palestine, Occupation is the crime Thur 15 Jan, LA
LA,14 December Alternative Holiday Sing In, Swing'in, Speak Out Los Angeles Stop the Governor’s Budget Cuts! People with Disabilities, Older People, Single Moms, Homecare Workers, Relative Caregivers, Teachers, Healthcare Under Attack! 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 |
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International Women's Week in Philadelphia: “DHS: Give Us Back Our Children!” | |||
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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.
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Wisconsin to Celebrate International Womens Day: First US Showing of Yellow Gate Women & Wisconsin Plan in Nazareth--from Welfare to Work? |
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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 |
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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 |
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Strike Actions 2006
Come to a Community
Dialogue and Speak Out: 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. |
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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
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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) |
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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) |
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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
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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 blog
RBIG people of color letter to Rainbow grocery
10 May 2008
side 1: Boycotting the fruits of Israeli Apartheid - which side are you on? side 2: Corporations supporting Israeli Apartheid Letter to the Editor, August 1, 2007 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 to RAINBOW Grocery Cooperative 1 August 2006 |
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Venezuela & Haiti Support Work
Los Angeles 13 June Vigil for Haiti: South Central Farmers - Two Years Later (after the eviction) Vigil, Potluck and Fandango. LA Vigil and SF Vigil 28 May as Brazil's President Lula da Silva is set to visit Haiti on Wed. May 28 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 |
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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! |
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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 |
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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) 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.
Delegation to the US Social Forum in Atlanta June 27- July 1 Selma James |
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The Jewish Internationalist Tradition vs. Zionism Part 1 & Part 2 of a talk with Selma James.
Selma James – 35th Anniversary Tour |
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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.) |
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