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DESCRIPTION:Marxist Editor, LeiLani Dowell, speaks on Uniting Women, LGBTQ, & Workers' 
 Struggles as part of a California statewide speaking tour. After Oakland, 
 she will speak in San Diego and LA.\n\nLeiLani Dowell began her activism 
 while studying Labor Studies at San Francisco State University shortly 
 after 9/11, when she became actively engaged in the struggle to prevent the 
 war against Iraq. As a queer woman, Dowell has done organizing for lesbian, 
 gay, bi, trans and queer rights in both San Francisco and New York, where 
 she currently resides.\n\nDowell has participated in solidarity and 
 fact-finding delegations to Colombia, Lebanon, El Salvador and Haiti, 
 reporting on her experiences in the pages of Workers World Newspaper. She 
 represented the U.S. delegation at a deliberative session of the World 
 Festival of Youth and Students in 2005, and was a lead organizer of a youth 
 delegation to Cuba in 2007. In 2009, Dowell traveled on an International 
 Action Center-sponsored delegation to Honduras as a right-wing coup was 
 taking place in the country, reporting on the incredible people's 
 resistance that awakened in response. She was the sole U.S. representative 
 at the 3rd All India Women's Conference in Kerala, India, in January 2013, 
 and returned to Honduras to monitor the national elections in 
 November.\n.\nDowell's writings have been published in the books Feminism 
 and War; Marxism, Reparations & the Black Freedom Struggle 
 http://www.workers.org/reparations/reparations-marxism_bk.pdf; Gaza: Symbol 
 of Resistance http://gazaresistancebook.com/; and What is Marxism All About 
 http://www.amazon.com/What-Marxism-All-About-Revolutionaries/dp/0895671530.\nCurrently 
 she is a Managing Editor of Workers World Newspaper.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/05/26/18756390.php
SUMMARY:LeiLani Dowell: Uniting Women, LGBTQ, & Workers' Struggles
LOCATION:1305 Franklin St. #411\nOakland, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/05/26/18756390.php
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