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3/20 Code Pink Contingent
Meet at 11am near 18th and Church Streets in Dolores Park. Look for the UFPJ and
CodePink banners and all the folks in pink!...
Posted: Sun, Mar 14, 2004 6:25pm PST
Caribbean women support Aristide
Following are excerpts from a letter being circulated on the internet:...
Posted: Sun, Mar 14, 2004 6:19pm PST
Ex Mayor Willie Brown
The San Francisco Redevelopment Commissions gave Catellus Mission Bay, Forest City Bloomingdale, and Lennar the Hunters Point Shipyard in no bid contracts. KPMG consulant friends of CalPERS' made $100,000 on this deal....
Posted: Sun, Mar 14, 2004 7:44am PST
Globalization and the Sex Trade:Trafficking and the Commodification of Women and Children
In this important article, Richard Poulin, professor of sociology at the University of Ottawa (Canada), argues that the sex industry, previously considered marginal, has come to occupy a strategic and central position in the development of international capitalism....
Posted: Fri, Mar 12, 2004 3:56pm PST
3/14: International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian Women Political Prisoners
An Evening of
Revolutionary Arts & Politics Honoring Palestinian Women Political Prisoners
Sunday, March 14th 2004
7PM - 9PM
The Women's Building...
Posted: Thu, Mar 11, 2004 9:59am PST
3/13 Women's Day Event
The Bay Area Socialist Party Local and the California Peace and Freedom Party invite
you to a celebration of International Women's Day this Saturday March 13 from 7-9pm...
Posted: Wed, Mar 10, 2004 11:38pm PST
Womens Struggle for Freedom in Iraq
Below is a brilliant article by Houzan Mahmoud, UK representative of the Organisation of Womens Freedom in Iraq....
Posted: Wed, Mar 10, 2004 11:01am PST
International Women's Day interview with Claire Robillard
Every year, women around the world gather to celebrate International Women's Day on March 8. The occasion provides an opportunity to reflect on the progress made towards equality and justice for women, and to demand change in the struggle against sexism and patriarchy. Claire Robillard has helped organise International Women's Day events since she moved to Vancouver in 1994. Last week, Seven Oaks spoke to Robillard about the role of IWD and the women's movement in the context of severe cutbac...
Posted: Mon, Mar 8, 2004 10:18am PST
RECENT STATS ON U.S. MILITARY SEXUAL ASSAULTS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG
Human Rights Organization Launches Two-Year Campaign to Fight Violence
Against Women, Calling Such Abuse the 'Greatest Human Rights Scandal Today'...
Posted: Mon, Mar 8, 2004 9:40am PST
3/8 SF: Int'l Women's Day Protest and Film about Venezuela
Calling all women to the
5th GLOBAL WOMEN'S STRIKE
"Invest in Caring Not Killing"
Calling all men to join with women as
we
STOP THE WORLD AND CHANGE IT!...
Posted: Sat, Mar 6, 2004 10:07pm PST
Thurs. 3/11 Film Screening: "The Cucumber Incident"
Save the date!!! Thursday, March 11th SF Bay Area IMC video screening for International Women's Day!!...
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 1:54am PST
Mumia Abu-Jamal -- "What Women Want"
On March 8th 2004, women around the world in LA, England, Argentina, Uganda, Peru, Philadelphia, San Francisco, in Guyana, in southern India, in Trinidad and Tobago, in Spain, women will be staging the 5th Global Women's Strike. A movement involving women in some sixty countries many involved in grassroots organizations....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 6:41pm PST
3/4 International Women's Day Film Celebration
Double Feature Film Showing: "With Babies and Banners" and "You Have Struck a Rock!" — San Francisco...
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 12:59am PST
Berkeley Copwatch: In Song and Struggle
COPWATCH is having an event to celebrate women and the political struggle women continue to fight against....
Posted: Wed, Mar 3, 2004 6:25pm PST
Narika Performance Event
Narika is an organization dedicated to helping women in immigrant and Southeast Asian communities recover from sexual abuse and violence....
Posted: Wed, Mar 3, 2004 6:06pm PST
One World, Many Faiths: A Collection of Altars by Women Artists
The rich diversity of cultural and spiritual influences on women in the Bay Area can be seen in One World, Many Faiths, an exhibition of multi-cultural altars by 20 diverse female artists at SomArts Bay Gallery March 4 – 24, 2004. Coinciding with National Women’s History Month, this exhibition offers a range of current artistic perspectives exploring a feminine view of personal, spiritual and cultural identity....
Posted: Wed, Mar 3, 2004 10:22am PST
Trespasses: A Celebration of Women Filmmakers
In celebration of International Women's Day the Activism & Social Change department at New College of California is hosting Trespasses a four-day film festival highlighting the work of women filmmakers...
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 5:49pm PST
3/7: International Women's Day Fair: Women as Peacekeepers
Spend an afternoon of renewal, revolution and celebration with Bay Area women as we
celebrate the legacy of the early women's peace movement; a movement that began over
100 years ago when courageous women in countries worldwide began actively voicing
their need for equal rights, peace and universal suffrage...
Posted: Sun, Feb 29, 2004 3:15pm PST
Tonight in SF: Sparks Fly!
An evening of culture and politics dedicated to woman political prisoners
and battered women serving time for fighting back...
Posted: Sat, Feb 28, 2004 4:44pm PST
Int'l Women's Day Forum at USF
International Women's Day Forum at USF, covering Juarez, Criminal Injustice, Women in Prison, LGBTQI immigrant situations and more!...
Posted: Thu, Feb 26, 2004 4:17pm PST