Events listing

Report on ILO by Peru's domestic workers union

Date: Thursday, 24 June 2010 - 6:30pm - 8:00pm

Location: Crossoads Women’s Centre, 230ª Kentish Town Road, London NW5 2AB
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A report by Ms LEDDY MOZOMBITE on the recent ILO* Conference she attended in Geneva
*International Labour Organisation

Meeting in Spanish with English translation

Ms Mozombite is General Secretary of the domestic workers union SINTTRAHOL, Lima region, Peru and founder of grassroots women’s organisation Kutikuy

SINTTRAHOL campaigns for labour and human rights, and the implementation of Peru’s Domestic Workers Labour Law Nº 27986

· Fair wages

Some Detroit events recommended by Global Women’s Strike (GWS) and Women of Color in the GWS

Date: Saturday, 19 June 2010 - 12:00am - Friday, 25 June 2010 - 5:00pm

Location: US Social Forum, Detroit

Pre-conference: Assembly of Jews: Confronting Racism and Israeli Apartheid June 19-22 see website for details. Selma James international coordinator of the GWS from London on opening panel. http://www.jewsconfrontapartheid.org

PMA: Building a Movement to Combat Increased US Militarism
Wed June 23 1 - 5:30pm Cobo Hall D3-19

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What’s Really Going On in Haiti?

Date: Saturday, 12 June 2010 - 3:00pm - 7:00pm

Location: Southern California Library 6120 S. Vermont, LA 90044

You’re invited to a Public Forum

What’s happening on the ground in Haiti now?

Robert Roth of the Haiti Action Committee and member of the board of the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund, has just returned from Haiti and brings us the latest news:

Mothers March – London Leaflet

Date: Saturday, 13 March 2010 - 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Location: London, Trafalgar Square to Parliament Square

An International Women’s Day and Mother’s Day Event Saturday 13 March 2010 – Mothers March & Speak Out – For recognition and support for all the workwe contribute to society – Come with your children, relatives and friends.Bring your banners, placards and demands – Assemble 2pm Trafalgar Sq – March to Parliament Sq – Wes

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Rediscovering Tanzania’s Ujamaa – Tribute to the Great Ntimbanjayo Millinga and the Ruvuma Development Association

Date: Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 1:30pm - 5:30pm

Location: Bolivar Hall Venezuelan Embassy

In the 1960s, a great anti-imperialist movement for independence swept the world.  President Julius Nyerere urged Tanzanians to reject capitalist exploitation, and build a society based on African communalism.  Ntimbanjayo Millinga with a few others and hardly any funding put these views into practice and built an extraordinary rural society based on equity between women and men, young and old.  By 1969, 17 ujamaa villages had formed the Ruvuma Development Association (RDA).  But the governing party was so hostile that, against Nyerere&rsquo

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