[van-announce] IWD films Mar. 1st: Women Assert Our Basic Human Rights

[Grassroots Women]

Please join Grassroots Women for an evening of film and discussion on the
theme of:

 

Women Assert Our Basic Human Rights

A discussion will follow a screening of two films portraying women who show
us that rights will not be “granted” but rather must be asserted and
defended when under attack.

 

Thursday March 1st, 2007

7:00 pm Rhizome Café, 317 East Broadway

 

Films:

My Name is Kahentiiosta profiles a Kahnawake Mohawk woman who participated
in the armed standoff at Kanehsatake, detailing her experience of and
perspective on the 1990 Oka Crisis, including her subsequent arrest and
detention (which was prolonged by four days because she would give only her
Mohawk name). Directed by Alanis Obomsawin, 1995. 

 

Women in Struggle is about Palestinian women who are ex-political detainees
demonstrating their struggle during their years of imprisonment in Israeli
jails, exploring the effects on their present life and their future outlook.
The focus is on the lives of four women who came out of their regular roles
as sisters, mothers, wives, and took on a different role being involved in
the Palestinian national struggle for independence. Directed by Buthina
Canaan Khoury, 2004. 

 

This film showing is part of a series of events organized by Grassroots
Women under the theme “International Women’s Day: Strengthen Women’s
Resistance” leading up to a March & Rally on Thursday, March 8th. The march
will start at 5:30 pm at the Chinatown Memorial Square (NE corner of Keefer
and Columbia streets). 

 

Also, please join us on March 3rd 5:00 - 6:00 for a International Women’s
Day broadcast of Tinig ng Masa Radio Show hosted by Grassroots Women on
Co-op Radio 102.7 FM. 5:00 pm

 

International Women’s Day 2007

Since its inception, International Women's Day (IWD), March 8th, has been a
day of revolutionary struggle for the rights and freedom of oppressed and
exploited women in the context of world-wide struggle against imperialism
and war. Every year since our founding in 1995, Grassroots Women has
mobilized on March 8th. By doing so, we connect with the tradition of
working class women who have mobilized on this day for nearly 100 years,
from the garment workers of New York City at the turn of the century, to the
wives, daughters, and mothers of soldiers and armament workers in Russia who
helped spark the Russian Revolution, to the women of movements for national
and social liberation in the Third World.

 

In 2007, Grassroots Women will mark IWD by holding events under the
following theme:

 

Strengthen Women’s Resistance

Oppose Imperialism’s Intensifying Attacks!

Assert Women’s Basic Human Rights!

 

For more information or to get involved, please contact Grassroots Women at
604-682-4451 or grassrootswomen at telus.net.

 

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Grassroots Women

1115B E. Hastings (entrance on Glen)

Vancouver, BC V6A 1S3

web: www3.telus.net/grassrootswomen

email: HYPERLINK "mailto:grassrootswomen at telus.net"grassrootswomen at telus.net

phone: 604-682-4451 (fax same #, please call first)

 


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