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Grassroots group challenges discriminatory Crime Against Nature law
Grassroots group challenges discriminatory Crime Against Nature law by Rosana Cruz, VOTE Originally posted at Bridge the Gulf, reposted with permission This week the local organization Women With a Vision (WWAV) is celebrating a huge step forward in their fight on...
Violence against Women and Immigrant/Refugee services oppose new directive from Canada Border Services Agency
Violence against Women and Immigrant/Refugee services oppose new directive from Canada Border Services Agency FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - February 14, 2011 Toronto, February 14, 2011: Women’s rights experienced a serious set-back when the Canada Border Services Agency...
Work It Out!/A Chambear! Workshop Series for Community Organizers of Color
Spearheaded by Partnership for Immigrant Leadership and Action in collaboration with INCITE!, Critical Resistance, Data Center and Creative Interventions: * free lunch, free interpretaion, free workshops* *almuerzo, interpretación, talleres gratuitos* Work It Out!/A...
Survival, Strength, Sisterhood: Power of Women in the Downtown Eastside
Yesterday, hundreds of marchers took part in the 20th Annual Women's Memorial March around the Downtown Eastside to remember Vancouver's missing and murdered women. From the Annual Women's Memorial March blog: Increasing deaths of many vulnerable women from the DTES...
Imperial Feminism, Islamophobia, and the Egyptian Revolution
Imperial Feminism, Islamophobia, and the Egyptian Revolution by Nadine Naber Originally published at www.jadaliyya.com, republished with permission. ". . . I’m making this video to give you one simply message: We want to go down to Tahrir Square on January 25. If we...
Revolution in Egypt: Learn More!
Are you excited about the grassroots revolution happening in Egypt? Do you want to learn more about the background of what's happening and what the movement is organizing for? Here are some resources: First, a recent video of a protester in Tahir Square in Cairo. ...
Support Kelly Williams-Bolar, Jailed For Sending Kids to Wrong School District
Kelly Williams-Bolar, a black mother of two in a low-income district in Akron, Ohio, registered her children to a neighboring school district where her father lives, but the children were not based. Because of this effort to gain access to a better education safer...
Palestinian Queer Activists Talk Politics – National Tour Comes To Bay Area
Palestinian Queer Activists Talk Politics National Tour Comes to the Bay Area - February 15 & 16! Palestinian queer activists will be touring six US cities for a series of open conversations hosted by locally and nationally known US activists. What does the...
Women’s Movement Building and Creating Community in Haiti
Women’s Movement Building and Creating Community in Haiti by Sokari Ekine originally published at Pambazuka News and Black Looks; republished with permission Thousands of words have been written about Haiti in the past 12 months, covering everything from the...
Dispatches from Haitian Women’s Organizing & Survival
[tweetmeme source= 'yourtwittername' only_single=false]In an article entitled "One Year and One Day," Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on the first anniversary of the devastating January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti, By this interpretation of death,...
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