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DESCRIPTION:IF YOU ARE A WOMAN, YOUR BODY IS A BATTLEGROUND.\n\nAnywhere you look, 
 women are being slammed backwards.  In Bangkok and Bangalore and Moldova 
 young women are stripped naked and sold across borders as sex slaves.  In 
 Indonesia and Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia women are shrouded in veils, 
 kept as the property, and even killed if they somehow “dishonor” their 
 family.\n\nMeanwhile, in the U.S. we are told women are no longer 
 oppressed.  Yet, how many will learn to starve themselves, cut themselves, 
 hate themselves --- internalizing the images that saturate society of women 
 as objects of sexual conquest, the butt of a joke, or baby-making machines? 
 How many will be taught that their value is reducible to being sexually 
 desired by men, but called “sluts” if they actually have sex?  How many 
 will be beaten, raped, or told that nothing they accomplish is more 
 important than motherhood?  And all women still have to look over their 
 shoulders walking home at night.\n\nTo be born female on any part of this 
 planet is to be born into a lifetime of danger, disrespect, discrimination 
 and denigration.  What happens to a woman --- whether toiling her life away 
 in sweatshops from China to Haiti , being raped by soldiers in the Congo , 
 or being denied an abortion in the U.S. --- is NOT her individual problem.  
 What happens to 3½ billion human beings is not individual, it is systemic 
 and global.  It happens to all of us.\n\nIt doesn't have to be this way!  
 There is no longer the need for women's role in society to be\ndictated by 
 their biological role in childbearing.  There is no longer the need for 
 humanity to be hemmed in by patriarchal traditions and oppressive religious 
 morality.  Today, this is as insane, as it is cruel, as it is utterly 
 unnecessary.\n\nBut, the oppression of women is woven so deeply into the 
 fabric of society here and all over the world, that it will take total 
 revolution – communist revolution – to liberate women.\n\nOn campuses 
 nation-wide, Sunsara Taylor will make the case for why there is no 
 biological, god-given, or man made reason why things have to remain this 
 way  – and how things can change through revolution and through building 
 a movement for revolution – starting now! She'll be recruiting a new 
 generation to put their lives in the service of this most liberating, and 
 meaningful, struggle.\n________________________________\n\nSunsara Taylor 
 is a writer for Revolution Newspaper, a host of WBAI's Equal Time for 
 Free\nThought, and sits on the Advisory Board of World Can't Wait.  She has 
 written on the rise of theocracy, wars and repression in the U.S., led in 
 building resistance to these crimes, and contributed to the movement for 
 revolution to put an end to all this.  She takes as her foundation the new 
 synthesis on revolution and communism developed by Bob Avakian.  You can 
 find her impressive verbal battles with Bill O'Reilly and various political 
 commentary on things from abortion to religion by searching “Sunsara 
 Taylor” on youtube.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/02/21/18638319.php
SUMMARY:"From the Burkha to the Thong: Everything Must, and Can, Change! WE NEED A TOTAL REVOLUT
LOCATION:Pacific Film Archive Theater\n2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, 94704\nTkts: 
 $10-20, free for students with I.D.\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/02/21/18638319.php
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