Please note: start time revised to 6.30 pm to be followed by a dinner
and reception for Irene Xavier and Mabel Au
Freedom Socialist Party May Day Celebration, dinner & reception
Monday 29 April, 6.30 pm, Solidarity Salon, 580 Sydney Road, Brunswick
A salute to the irrepressible working women of Asia
Join us from 6.30 - 8.30 pm for a lively panel discussion about how to
strengthen local solidarity with the fighting women workers of Asia.
Panelists:
Karen Moran: internationalist and unionist - Australia Asia Worker Links
Esperanza Acosta: feminist and refugee from El Salvador - Radical Women
Peter Murray: activist Rail, Tram and Bus Union - Freedom Socialist Party
The program will also feature excerpts from Dolls and Dust, a powerful
film about women workers in Sri Lanka, Thailand and South Korea who face
the brunt of capitalist globalisation. The personal testimonies and
struggles of women who labour in toy and doll factories highlight the
life and death battles to survive in the age of industrial
restructuring, privatisation, sexual harassment and discrimination.
Followed at 8.30 pm by a dinner and reception for visiting Asian
organisers, Irene Xavier and Mabel Au.
Irene Xavier is a labour activist who has been working with women
workers since 1978. She was involved in various struggles to organise
women workers in theelectronics sector and develop health & safety
campaigns. In 1987 she was detained under the Internal Security Act for
355 days. She is currently involved in the women workers movement as
well as in the stuggle for civil and political rights in Malaysia.
Mabel Au is an activist who has fought for the rights of migrant workers
and sex workers in Hong Kong. She was Vice Chairperson of the Industrial
Relations Institute in Hong Kong. Mabel is currently Program Coordinator
of the Committee for Asian Women.
An Asian buffet will be served at 8.30 pm for a $6.50 donation. No
charge for the program which will commence at 6.30 pm.
Solidarity Salon, 580 Sydney Road, Brunswick 3056
Phone: 9388-0062.
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