>Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 16:48:05 -0400 >Reply-To: Progressive News & Views List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sender: Progressive News & Views List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: PNEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Radical Women: Beijing Greetings > >From: Marian Larkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Greetings to the Fourth World Conference on Women and the NGO Forum '95 > >From: National Radical Women > 523-A Valencia St. > San Francisco, CA 94110 > USA > >Revolutionary greetings to all participants attending the U.N. Fourth >World Conference on Women and the NGO Forum '95. It is extremely >exciting to know that thousands of women from every country are >meeting to discuss the state of the world and women's place on this >earth. Our thoughts will be with you as you embark on discussions >about the universal issues impacting us such as our right to safe and >legal abortions, forced sterilization, quality childcare and education, >homelessness, domestic and sexual abuse and exploitation, genital >mutilation, equal employment, and bringing an end to war, poverty, >hunger, sexism, racism and homophobia. We applaud you for your >dedication and tenacity and wish you total success in your mission. > >Radical Women, founded in 1967 in Seattle, Washington, USA, is a >socialist feminist international, autonomous women's group located >throughout the United States, Canada and Australia. We are dedicated >to achieving the full equality of women in all levels of society and >work with men who also support this feminist idea. As socialist >feminists, we believe our total liberation can only be realized by >making radical changes in the economic, social and political structures >of the system we live under: capitalism. We must replace capitalism >with socialism. Feminism -- women's rights -- is inseparable from >socialism. Feminism is a reason for socialism because socialism is >the economic prerequisite for women's emancipation. Those of us who >live under capitalism know it can never give us our full and equal >rights without killing itself. Capitalism is what creates the very >things we are fighting against. > >All of our countries face challenging times with the expansion of >yankee imperialism, the rising Nazi movement and the rightwing juntas. >And it is women and their children who bear the brunt of these systems. >But it is women, who suffer most from the old, who will fight most >energetically and persistently for the new. It is up to women, the >majority of the world's population, constituting one half of every >ethnic group and every class, to unite and lead an international >revolutionary movement that can win our total freedom, equality and >human liberation. We call on you to rise to these challenges and >we salute you in taking on the struggle. > >Nancy Reiko Kato, National Radical Women Organizer >(415) 864-1278 (tel); (415) 864-0778 (fax) > >Email to Marian Larkin, New York Radical Women Organizer >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================ >_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ >_/ Sent via CDI * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * NEW YORK CITY _/ >_/ HELP PRESERVE THE FORESTS, USE ELECTRONIC MAIL _/ >_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ >================================================================ > > >-- > >Michael Golden > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Department of Biology >Grossmont College >8800 Grossmont College Drive >El Cajon, CA 92020 >619-465-1700 x332 >
