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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

Workshop: Rape, Trafficking, Prostitution - the Issue is Consent

Thurs June 24 10am Cobo D2-09
US PROStitutes Collective on international movement for decriminalization of sex work, prosecution of rapists not sex workers, safety & resources.

PMA: Justice in Palestine
Thurs Jun 24 1-5pm Cobo Riverview Ballroom (W1-52)

PMA: Prison Justice People's Movement Assembly
Thurs June 24 1-5pm Cobo Hall 03-45

PMA: The Grassroots in Haiti and the US: the struggles for the return of Aristide and against the Child Welfare Industry

Friday June 25 1-5:30pm COBO W1-51

1-3pm: Dialogue with Activists from the Haitian Popular Movement and Support for the Call of Haiti’s Grassroots for Reconstruction and the Return of President Aristide to Haiti GWS/WOC in the GWS, Haiti Action Ctte, Every Mother is a Working Mother Network, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Payday men’s network. Society of Providence United for the Development of Petionville SOPUDEP

3-5pm: Poverty Is Not Neglect & We Are Not Powerless: Mothers reclaim Our Children Back from the Child Welfare Industry Documentary: DHS: Give Us Back Our Children

 

Workshop: The Way Forward: Strategy, Tactics and Seeding BDS in the US Friday June 25 1pm Cobo 03-46

To reach us in Detroit: stop by our table or call us at
215-776-1004 or 415-279-6728 www.globalwomenstrike.net

Our table has books, t-shirts, tote bags, DVDs, action items (see pictures to the right)

Los Angeles 323-276-9833 la@globalwomenstrke.net
Philadelphia 215-848-1120 philly@globalwomenstrike.net
San Francisco 415-626-4114 sf@globalwomenstrike.net

Global Women’s Strike(GWS) and Women of Color in the GWS – International grassroots network whose strategy for change is “Invest in Caring, Not Killing”. www.globalwomenstrike.net

Every Mother is a Working Mother Network (EMWM) – campaigns for recognition that caring work is work, and for the economic value of raising children to be acknowledged in economic and social policy, including welfare. Coordinates DHS and DCFS - Give Us Back Our Children. See www.globalwomenstrike.net

Payday – a network of men which organizes with women and men around the world who refuse the military’s lethal and repressive aggression. www.refusingtokill.net.

US PROStitutes Collective – campaigns for the abolition of the prostitution laws, safety and economic alternatives to prostitution. www.prostitutescollective.net

Wages Due Lesbians – organizes against discrimination and for recognition of our hidden contributions to movements and communities. www.allwomencount.net/EWC LesbianBi/IWDL.htm

WinVisible – self-help organization of women with visible and invisible disabilities. http://www.allwomencount.net/EWC%20WwDisabilities/WVindex.htm

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