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USSF: People’s Movement Assembly Video!
Get ready for the 2010 US Social Forum (USSF) in Detroit by holding a People’s Movement Assembly (PMA) with your organization, community, region, or sector! PMA’s are community meetings that are happening across the country from August 2009 until June...
Activists respond to anti-choice groups targeting black communities
Reproductive justice activists are responding to the recent targeting of black communities by anti-choice organizations. Georgia Right To Life purchased 80 billboards in Atlanta with the face of a black child and the words, "Black children are an endangered species." ...
Proudly African & Transgender: Portraits
The Proudly African & Transgender: Portraits exhibition by Gabrielle Le Roux in partnership with IGLHRC has premiered in Amsterdam. Amnesty International - Amsterdam opened the exhibition on Feb 25th. Le Roux explains, The exhibition honours brave...
Call for applicants: Alston Bannerman Fellowship
The Alston Bannerman Fellowship Program, as part of the Center for Social Inclusion, is supporting long-time activists of color by giving them the resources to take time out for reflection and renewal. Fellows receive a $25,000 award to take sabbaticals of three...
Call for Submissions – Other Tongues: Mixed Race Women Speak Out
Co-editors Adebe D.A. and Andrea Thompson are seeking submissions for an anthology of writing by and about mixed-race women, intended for publication in Fall 2010. They write: The purpose of this anthology is to explore the question of how mixed-race women in North...
March 30 in NYC: Sex Work & Human Rights: Feminist Advocacy Strategies
Paradigm Shift NYC invites you to "Sex Work & Human Rights: Feminist Advocacy Strategies", a panel discussion and featuring a screening of “Sangram: Sex Worker Organizing In India”, a collaboration between the International Women’s Health Coalition and...
Update from OTD Chile on the earthquake and request for donations
Justus Eisfeld, co-director of Global Advocates for Trans Equality (GATE), has been contacted by Andres Rivera of Organización de Transexuales por la Dignidad de la Diversidad (OTD) in Chile with an update on the situation there, following the recent earthquake.
Disparities in wealth and women of color
A study from the Insight Center for Community Economic Development, entitled “Lifting as We Climb: Women of Color, Wealth, and America’s Future,” asserts that: Young women ages 18-35, whether white or non-white, are beginning their adult years with a median wealth of...
Jennifer Denetdale on Indigenous Feminisms
First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies invited Prof. Jennifer Denetdale, author of Reclaiming Dine History, First Peoples Advisory Board member, and INCITE! member, to deliver an address on the role of feminism in Indigenous Studies. They write: First,...
March 18: Act Queer! Movement Building in Queer Organizing
Queers for Economic Justice invites you to a March 18th teleconference to discuss movement building in queer organizing. They write: Many of the mainstream LGBTQ organizations focus on single issue, electoral and policy based organizing/advocacy. Whereas the work...
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