This didn't make it through the ether initiaily. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Forwarded message: > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Sep 23 13:54:21 1995 > 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 _/ > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > ================================================================