Event: End Women’s Poverty – A Guaranteed Care Income for All Caregivers of People & Planet, 9-11 June
Dear friends, Please register for this international and community gathering! ECP’s Niki Adams will be speaking at the session on Saturday 10 June 1:30-4:30pm (EDT) ‘End the Criminalization of Poverty and Protest’
All events are on Zoom as well as in person
For latest updates and speakers see the Global Women’s Strike website.
The Global Women’s Strike at the new Crossroads Women’s Center in Philadelphia welcomes you to an international and community gathering:
End Women’s Poverty – A Guaranteed Care Income for All Caregivers of People & Planet
FOR payment for those caring for and protecting people and the environment.
AGAINST poverty, child removal, criminalization, rape, domestic & state violence, sexism, racism & discrimination of all kinds, deportation, war…
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WHEN: June 9 – 11
WHERE: At the new Crossroads Women’s Center 5011 Wayne Ave, Philadelphia 19144 and online (register to get Zoom link)
PROGRAM:
Each of the four panels on Saturday and Sunday will be followed by a longer workshop which will give participants the chance to discuss with each other the organizing we are doing, the obstacles we face, our successes and how we can be a strength for each other across the divides of sectors and movements.
FRIDAY JUNE 9
10am – 4pm (EDT)
How Nature Regulates the Climate & How Natural Farming Can Help. Workshop with author and soil strategist Didi Pershouse & lessons from women’s self-help groups in Andhra Pradesh, India.
FRIDAY JUNE 9
5pm – 7pm (EDT)
Grand Opening & Half a Century of Archives with Selma James, Margaret Prescod and others.
SATURDAY JUNE 10
9:30am – 12.30pm (EDT)
Take Away Our Poverty, Not Our Children. Panel followed by workshop.
Carolyn Hill, Give Us Back Our Children (GUBOC); Jordan Harmon, Indigenous Environmental Network; Maru Mora Villalpando, La Resistencia; Micheleine Kane, Scottish Kinship Carers; Sidney Ross-Risden, GUBOC; Suranya Aiyar — portrayed in Mrs Chatterjee vs Norway; Anne Neale, Support Not Separation.
SATURDAY JUNE 10
1:30pm – 4:30pm (EDT)
End the Criminalization of Poverty & Protest. Panel followed by workshop.
Keynote speaker: former First Lady of Haiti; Mildred Trouillot-Aristide.
Andrea James, Natl. Council for Incarcerated & Formerly Incarcerated Women & Girls; Charles Hector, human rights lawyer; Kempis “Ghani” Songster, Youth Self Empowerment Project; Lisa Longstaff, Women Against Rape; Margaret Robertson, Germantown Participatory Defense Hub; Michael Kalmanovitz, Intl. Jewish Anti-Zionist Network; Niki Adams, English Collective of Prostitutes.
SUNDAY JUNE 11
10am – 12:30pm (EDT)
Autonomy: Central to Organizing & Unity. Panel followed by workshop.
Selma James, Intl. Wages for Housework Campaign & Global Womens Strike (GWS); Margaret Prescod, Black Women for Wages for Housework & Women of Color/GWS; Swati Renduchintala, Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming Program.
SUNDAY JUNE 11
1:30pm – 4:30pm (EDT)
Care Income – A Movement Whose Time Has Come. Panel followed by workshop.
Rev Annie Chambers, Natl. Welfare Rights Union; Claire Glasman, WinVisible; Rep. Gwen Moore (video message); Leddy Mozombite Linares, Domestic Workers Union FENTTRAHOP; Melody Webb, Mother’s Outreach Network; Nina Lopez, Global Women’s Strike (GWS); Peggy O’Mara, former editor of Mothering Magazine; Pranom Somwong, Protection International; Shafeka Hashash, Guaranteed Income at Economic Security Project; Solveig Francis, GWS.
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