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Mark your calendar now for
Radical Women's 41st Anniversary Conference
October 3-6, 2008, San Francisco
Theme: The Persistent Power of Socialist Feminism
Speakers:Civil rights attorney Lynne Stewart and activists and scholars
from Central America, China, Australia and the U.S.
Key topics:Multi-racial organizing; the dynamic leadership of
youth and queers; women of color and immigrant women spark a labor
revival; declaring independence from the twin parties of war.
Workshops:Skills building for women organizers; political theory;
movement strategy and much, much more.
For more information or to register, go to www.RadicalWomen.org
or contact the Conference Organizing Center at
radicalwomenus@gmail.com or 206-722-6057 or 206-722-2453.Radical Women and Freedom Socialist Party
Saturday, June 21, 4:00pm
Come rain, shine or snow to a Summer Solstice BBQ Benefit
Help send two antiwar firebrands to Cleveland!
Socialist feminists Gina Petry and Jonathon Hurd are flying to the National Assembly to End the Iraq War and Occupation, June 28-29 in Cleveland, Ohio.
The BBQ is at 900 Hiawatha Pl. S., Seattle, at the home of Christina Lopez, Linda Averill, Kathleen Merrigan, Andrea Bauer and Adrienne Weller. (From the #7 bus get off at Rainier Ave. S. & S. Charles St.).
Enjoy camaraderie and conversation while feasting on grilled chicken, spicy hot links, and tofu kebabs with all the fixin's! Buffet donation $9.
If you can't come to the BBQ, but would like to donate towards Gina's and Jonathon's travel expenses, write a check to Radical Women - Cleveland Fund and mail to RW, 5018 Rainier Ave. S., Seattle, WA 98118. Thanks.
For more information or rides, call 206-722-2453 or 206-919-7629 or email FSPseattle@mindspring.com. For directions go to http://www.mapquest.com/directions and type in both starting and ending addresses.
Radical Women
Thursday, June 19, 7:30pm
Special Video Showing for Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Transgender Month
Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives
In this film, ten lesbians talk about their experiences in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s: their first affairs, discovery of the queer fiction of the day, gay bars, police raids, race and class divisions, men’s responses, and the etiquette of butch femme roles. The film paints a vivid portrait of the clandestine homosexual culture in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal and New York during those years. Interspersed among interviews and archival footage are four dramatized chapters from a steamy pulp novel, Forbidden Love. The film also includes Ann Bannon, an early writer of lesbian paperbacks, talking about the genre.A dinner, with vegetarian option, will be available at 6:30pm for a $7.50 donation. The meeting will be held a New Freeway Hall, 5018 Rainier Ave. S., Seattle, and is hosted by Radical Women. The building is wheelchair accessible.
For more information, rides or childcare, call 206-722-6057 or 722-2453. Everyone is welcome.
Freedom Socialist Party
Monday, June 9, 2008
California wedding bells ring making Gay Pride history
Civil rights attorney Val Carlson explains the historic impact of the California Supreme Court ruling that paves the way for same-sex marriage. Find out how this decision will affect Washington State and learn what gender-bending, queer, socialist feminists have to say on the subject of free love, marriage, and civil rights--under a patriarchal, capitalist system. Oh, and not to mention the fact that neither Hillary Clinton nor Barack Obama supports the right to gay wedded bliss (or suffering, as the case may be).It will be a juicy discussion! Don't miss it!
The meeting is free and begins at 7:00pm at New Freeway Hall, 5018 Rainier Ave. S., Seattle (on the #7 bus line at the Hudson Street stop). A summer supper will be served at 6:30pm for a $7.00 donation.
For information call 206-722-2453 or email FSPseattle@mindspring.com.
Friday, June 6, Doors open 5:00pm
Art Show at New Freeway Hall
Check out the beautiful work of Ryan Grant at Colombia City's
Friday night Beat Walk. Everyone welcome. Come as you are!Wednesday, May 21, 11:00am-2:00pm
Help mail out the Freedom Socialist newspaper around the world
We're having a mailing party at New Freeway Hall. Drop by and join the crew that puts the June/July issue of the Freedom Socialist newspaper in the mail. It's fun, it's social and no experience is needed!New Freeway Hall, 5018 Rainier Ave. S., Seattle. (four blocks south of S. Alaska St. on the #7 bus line.) The building is wheelchair accessible.
For information call 206-722-2453 or email FSPseattle@mindspring.com.Radical Women
Thursday, May 15, 7:30pm
The Motherhood Manifesto: The book that hit a nerve for mothers across the nation and renewed a movement for essential rights.
Celebrate Mother's Day by joining a critical discussion of the conditions of working mothers in the US today and the radical shifts needed to make parenting and the jobsite compatible. Shannon Waits, an advocate for young, low-income mothers, shares her views on this ground breaking book by authors Joan Blades and Kristin Rowe Finkbeiner.Begin the evening with a delicious dinner at 6:30pm for a $7.50 donation. The meeting is at New Freeway Hall, 5018 Rainier Ave. S., Seattle (4 blocks south of S. Alaska St. at the Hudson stop of the #7 bus line). The hall is wheelchair accessible. Everyone is welcome. For information, rides or childcare, call in advance 206-722-6057 or email: rwseattle@mindspring.com
Freedom Socialist Party meeting
Monday, May 12, 7:00pm
What's behind recent global food shortages?
Hunger riots are spreading around the world as the so-called "free" market creates shortages and climate catastrophes. What are the economic and political forces that create shortages of tortillas in Mexico and rice in Haiti while farmers in both countries are forced off their land? How does the production of corn for ethanol jack up oil industry profits and hurt not the poor? Take part in an examination and discussion of what the problem and take a look at what's missing from single issue green solutions to capitalist generated problems. Bring your thoughts and questions and jump into a stimulating discussion.
The meeting is free and will take place at Seattle Central Community College, room 3196, 1701 Broadway. (Corner of Broadway and E. Pine St., on the #9, 10, 43, 49 & 60 bus lines.) The building is wheelchair accessible.
For information call 206-722-2453 or email FSPseattle@mindspring.com.Saturday, May 3, 7:30pm
Celebrate May Day at a book launch for "Viva la Raza"
Seattle feminist and labor activist Megan Cornish will talk about her new book, Viva la Raza: A History of Chicano Identity and Resistance, which describes monumental labor battles, surveys the vibrant movement of the 1960s and '70s, and focuses unique attention on women and Latina/o lesbians and gays. The volume is co-authored with Yolanda Alaniz and has a foreword by the esteemed Chicana/o Studies Professor and historian Rodolfo Acuña.A festive chicken mole supper will be served at 6:00pm for a $9.00 donation. The event is hosted by the Freedom Socialist Party and the National Comrades of Color Caucus and will take place at New Freeway Hall, 5018 Rainier Ave. S., Seattle (4 blocks south of S. Alaska St., on the #7 bus line). Everyone is welcome. For information, call 206-722-2453 or email FSPseattle@mindspring.com.
Radical Women and Freedom Socialist Party
Thursday, May 1, noon
Oppose the War at a May Day Protest
No peace, no work! Show your solidarity with port workers up and down the West Coast, as they make their voices heard and muscles felt in order to stop work and shut down the docks in a symbolic action against the war.Meet at Jack Perry Memorial Park, 1729 Alaskan Way S. then march along the waterfront to Pier 66, 2201 Alaskan Way at Bell Street in Seattle. Look for our picket signs and banners and march with the Radical Women and Freedom Socialist Party contingent.
The majority of the American public opposes this brutal, draining war that's taking hundreds of thousands of lives and costing $270 million a day! As disability rights pioneer and socialist Helen Keller said, "Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much. Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!"
For more information call 206-722-2453 or email FSPseattle@mindspring.com.
Thursday, May 1, 4:00pm
Come to an Immigrant Rights May Day March & Rally
"We are not undocumented. We are not illegal. We are workers!"is the slogan for this year's immigrant rights demonstration.Meet at Judkins Park, 2150 S. Norman Street (two blocks south of S. Jackson Street). March west down Jackson then north through downtown to the Seattle Center. Look for our picket signs and banners and march with the Radical Women and Freedom Socialist Party contingent.
For more information on the FSP and RW contingent ,call 206-722-2453 or email FSPseattle@mindspring.com.
The event is sponsored by El Comité Pro-Reforma Migratoria y Justicia Social.
Freedom Socialist Party
Join a bi-weekly Rebel Reading Circle this summer on
Learn about the proud, but too often hidden, history of Chicanos in the U.S. Discover a wealth of little-known information about organizing by farmworkers, students and Chicana feminists in the Yakima Valley and in Seattle. Relearn the hard-won lessons of historic labor strikes and boycotts by the United Farm Workers. Discuss the still debated question of Chicano identity.
Books may be purchased at the reading circle or drop by New Freeway Hall, 5018 Rainier Ave. S., Seattle. The hall is open 10am-8:30pm, Monday-Friday. Or order online at www.RedLetterPress.org.
The reading circles are free. Come to a few or all sessions. Choose the time and location that best fits your schedule.
1st and 3rd Sundays, 11:00am-12:00pm
Hiawatha House, 900 Hiawatha Pl. S., Seattle (on the #7 busline) (206)328-25091st and 3rd Mondays, 7:00-8:30pm
New Freeway Hall, 5018 Rainier Ave. S., Seattle (on the #7 busline) (206)722-24532nd and 4th Wednesdays, 7:00-8:30pm
Jefferson Community Center, 3801 Beacon Ave. S. (on the #36 busline) (206)953-5601For more information, email FSPseattle@mindspring.com
Radical Women
Thursday, July 20, 7:30 pm
Queer & Immigrant Activists Unite!
This meeting features a roundtable discussion on how to build alliances that can defeat the escalating attacks by homophobes, xenophobes and bigots of every stripe. Let’s organize to stop rightwing fundamentalists, the racist "Minutemen" and Bush administration who want to police everything from the border to the bedroom. Enough already! ¡Basta!Panelists include:The panel discussion is Seattle Radical Women’s bi-monthly gathering. Enjoy a summer dinner, with a vegetarian option, served at 6:30 pm for a $7.50 donation. The meeting will be held at New Freeway Hall, 5018 Rainier Avenue S., Seattle. The hall is wheelchair accessible. Everyone is welcome. For information, rides or childcare, please call in advance (206) 722-6057 or email: RWseattle@mindspring.com.Florentino M López: Acting Executive Director of Entre Hermanos, an organization of, by, and for LGBT Latinos
Anne Slater: National Radical Women Organizer and lesbian activist who participated in the spring immigrant rallies
Jorge González Casanova: Gay immigrant from Mexico who educates on HIV issues in the Latino community
Dipika Nath: member of Trikone-Northwest, an organization that works with the queer South Asian community
Discussion Group
Thursdays, July 8 & 22, 7-8:30pm
An Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism
Learn the essentials of the Marxist worldview and how it sheds light on the US economy, war, poverty, racism and the gender wage-gap. The group is currently reading Marx and Engels' classic work, The Communist Manifesto. Sessions are free and everyone is welcome.The discussion circle meets at the Wilsonian Building, 4710 University Way NE, #100, Seattle.
For more information call 206-722-6057 or email RWseattle@mindspring.com.