[mobglob-discuss] March 4: Celebrating Women's Struggles

[Harsha]

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International Women’s Day: Celebrating Women’s Struggles

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Sunday March 4 at 6:30 pm
Rhizome Café
317 E. Broadway- corner Kingsway
All welcome.
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MUSIC, POETRY, PERFORMANCES, AND SPEAKERS


with local female performers and speakers (TBC shortly) and special guest
So Ann ("Sister Ann") Auguste from Haiti. So-Ann is a recently released
political prisoner detained by US Marines in April 2004 and held in prison
without charge for more than two years by the Canada-backed regime that
followed the February 29, 2004 foreign invasion and coup against Haiti.

For more information contact-
*Andrea Pinochet: andrea_pinochet at hotmail.com or 604-773-5079
*Harsha Walia: harsha at resist.ca or 778-885-0040

Organized in conjuction with Haiti Solidarity BC and Canada Haiti Action
Network So-Ann Speaking Tour.


Although there is an assumption that gender equality has been achieved in
Canada, immigrant women, indigenous women, racialized women, single
mothers, poor and low-income women, and women with disabilities continue
to live on the fringes of our society. They struggle daily through the
brutal realities of violence, poverty, child apprehension, deportation,
precarious labour, lack of childcare support, and countless other human
rights violations which are a direct result of a colonial legacy and
neoliberal economic policies in Canada.

Meanwhile Canada’s aggressive and imperialist foreign policy has led to
military occupations and economic interventions that have killed,
displaced, and destroyed the lives of hundreds of thousands of women from
Haiti to Afghanistan. Despite the racist insistence that women in the
Third World need to be protected, the wars that have been justified under
the rhetoric of ‘women’s liberation’ have disempowered women further.

Yet women across the world continue to encapsulate the legacy of struggle
and from Six Nations to Chiapas to Palestine women are defining and
transforming liberation struggles. This IWD come celebrate with us as we
honour women’s struggles for self-determination and genuine equality for
themselves and their communities and pay tribute to those women- including
legendary So-Ann- who are at the forefront of global struggles for justice
and dignity.