Special Radical Women Meeting for International Women's Day:
Wednesday, 15 March, 7.00 pm
FEMINISTS SAY SI TO CUBA, NO TO CAPITALISM'S WAR ON WOMEN!
A Guest Panel Reports on Women's Struggles Around the World
Join us in an Interntional Women's Day salute to revolutionary Cuba. For 41
years, women have played a vital role in their country's transformation from
a playground for Yanqui businessmen into a society that guarantees everyone
the inalienable right to a stable and safe life. Despite severe material
hardship caused by the U.S.-imposed blockade, women have access to
childcare, abortion and equal wages; Cubans aren't homeless; children aren't
malnourished; and everyone enjoys free healthcare and education.
An international panel will also pay tribute to women's resistance against
systemic global violence, including East Timor, Asia, Africa, Latin America,
the Middle East, Eastern Europe, the United States and Australia. We will
discuss the dynamism of the grassroots women's movement and what we can
learn from Cuba.
Guest speakers are:
* Angela Acosta, Salvadoran feminist, nurse & anti-discrimination fighter
* Sonia Acosta, Salvadoran women's rights activist & student at Monash
University
* Carla Chung, East Timorese fighter for a free Timor Lorosae
* Linda Hadley, Year 12 student at Kurunjang Secondary College & solidarity
activist
* Jocelyn Hunter, Cuba solidarity campaigner & student at LaTrobe University
* Sorma Maoloud, Melbourne representative for the Committee in Defence of
Iraqi Women's Rights
* Shaza Nur, women's health worker & advocate against female genital
mutilation
A Cuban dinner will be served at 6.15pm for a $6 donation.
EVERYONE WELCOME!
Where: Solidarity Salon, 1 Appleby Crescent, West Brunswick
For more information, contact Radical Women at:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or phone (03) 9386 3230
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