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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
.net
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
San Francisco
Crossroads Women's Center
PO Box 14512, SF
CA 94114, USA
Tel/Fax: +1-415-626 4114
E-mail:
sf@
crossroadswomen
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HAITI EARTHQUAKE |
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Donate
to grassroots women in
Haiti
Support the return of President Aristide
Appeal
In support of
the people of Haiti
Two events for Haiti
London
Important letter &
Lancet report
Venezuela cancels Haiti debt
Emergency Vigils
in support of the people of Haiti:
Los Angeles
Report from vigil in London, England
Only
Aristide has the mandate to lead Haiti's recovery
Selma James
Español
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Vigil for Honduras
Wednesday, Jan 27 5pm to 7pm
Honduras General Consulate, 3550 Wilshire Blvd, LA
Come out and support the people’s movement.
Constituent Assembly Now! |
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Other News |
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Urgent legal update from Robert R Bryan, lead counsel for
Mumia Abu-Jamal (on death row 27 years)
Sign
the petition |
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Unsolved Serial Murders of Women in South
LA
Community Forum photos
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
Gas Bills and Save 1000 Jobs!
Join clergy, community and labor to save 1000 entry-level jobs at
Southern California Gas Co. and keep natural gas bills affordable.
The Gas Co. Wants to get rid of all its meter readers (the majority of
whom are people of color) and raise our bills to pay for it!!! |
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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
Community Forum
21 Nov
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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Vigil for Haiti & Honduras
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
about
rape by US Military
in Japan
"...the real terrorist has been US military. Many
women have been raped, injured, and killed by US soldiers."
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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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Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders
Press Conference |
WEEKLY RADIO  |
Margaret Prescod on
Sojourner Truth Pacifica Radio, KPFK, Tuesdays.
Listen to the latest edition:
Thu 3 Dec:
How $18 million anti-poverty
dollars spent by City of LA - series on environment: Global Justice
Ecology Project - discussion
on Afghanistan
with former UN weapons inspector |

News on US domestic &
foreign policy. Cutting-edge interviews with women, people of color &
others around the world. |
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Older News |
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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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LA:
Community Dialogue
Women Demand Bailout: Resources for those of us with the least!
May 30. Speakout
● Music
Women who are paying
the highest price for the economic crisis will tell our stories, raise
questions and make action proposals. |
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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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Other News |
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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 Penalty |
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News about
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Urgent legal update
from
Robert R Bryan, lead counsel for Mumia Abu-Jamal (on
death row 27 years)
Sign
the petition
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:
Open Letter to
the Court
May 17 Key hearing for Mumia
Abu-Jamal - Come out in support!
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
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Bring
Lovinsky
Home! |
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Weekly Vigils for the safe return of Lovinsky
Pierre-Antoine
Letter to
Evo Morales
on occupation of Haiti Ayma
(spanish)
More Haiti and
Venezuela support work |
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." |
Strike Actions
Haiti, Iraq, Palestine, Occupation is the crime
Thur 15 Jan, LA
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Haiti vigil
Los Angeles
Thursdays,
12 noon –1pm, Brazilian
Consulate (Wilshire at la Cienega),
pays
tribute to Don White, who brought his creativity, his commitment
to justice for the Haitian people and his deep compassion for
Lovinsky and all those who are imprisoned or have been
disappeared. |
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.
Join us for lunch and a Town Hall meeting!
Southern California Library, 6120 S. Vermont, LA 90044 |
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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? |
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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:
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.
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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
Rights March – May 1
May 1, "A day without an
immigrant". Women say "Capital Travel's Freely - Why Not People!"
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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
Rainbow Boycott Israeli Goods
blog
RBIG people of color letter to Rainbow grocery
10 May 2008
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
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LA, USA,
16 November
Video Café: Randall Robinson on Haiti
See the new
documentary film “An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the
Kidnapping of a President, ” featuring author Randall Robinson.
LA vigil 16 November
for the
safe return of
Lovinsky
Pierre-Antoine, Haitian human rights activist missing since August '07
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Los Angeles
Weekly Vigil
on Thursdays 12 Noon - 1pm Brazilian Consulate (Wilshire at la
Cienega) Take action for Haiti: Call for the safe return of
Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine, Haitian human rights activist missing since
August '07
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
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! |
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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 |
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.
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
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
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 |
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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