We invite you to join us online for this international and community gathering!  You might be particularly interested in the session on Saturday 10 June ‘9:30am-12.30pm (EDT) 14.30 – 17.30 UK time: Take Away Our Poverty, Not Our Children. Panel followed by workshop.Anne Neale, Support Not Separation; Carolyn Hill, Give Us Back Our Children (GUBOC); Jordan Harmon, Indigenous Environmental Network; Maru Mora Villalpando, La Resistencia; Micheleine Kane, Scottish Kinship Care Alliance; Sidney Ross-Risden, GUBOC; Suranya Aiyar, portrayed in Mrs Chatterjee vs Norway;  All events are on Zoom as well as in person; registration is free and the same link is for all events.   For latest updates and speakers info see the Global Women’s Strike website.

The Global Women’s Strike at the new Crossroads Women’s Center in Philadelphia welcomes you to…

An international and community gathering, June 9 – 11

End Women’s Poverty – A Guaranteed Care Income for All Caregivers of People & Planet

 At the new Crossroads Women’s Center 5011 Wayne Ave, Philadelphia 19144

The gathering was included in a Yahoo Life interview with Selma James, coordinator of the Global Women’s Strike who will be presenting during the weekend, Should parents be paid? Here’s why people say it’s time to see the value in caregiving.

Schedule:

Each of the four panels on Saturday and Sunday will be followed by a longer workshop which will give participants the chance to discuss with each other the organizing we are doing, the obstacles we face, our successes and how we can be a strength for each other across the divides of sectors and movements.

FRIDAY JUNE 9
10am-4pm (EDT): Workshop – How Nature Regulates the Climate & How Natural Farming Can Help with Didi Pershouse, author & soil strategist, & lessons from women’s self-help groups in Andhra Pradesh, India.

5-7pm (EDT): Grand Opening & Half a Century of Archives with Selma James, Margaret Prescod & others.

SATURDAY JUNE 10
9:30am-12.30pm (EDT): Take Away Our Poverty, Not Our Children. Panel followed by workshop.

Anne Neale, Support Not Separation; Carolyn Hill, Give Us Back Our Children (GUBOC); Jordan Harmon, Indigenous Environmental Network; Maru Mora Villalpando, La Resistencia; Micheleine Kane, Scottish Kinship Care Alliance; Sidney Ross-Risden, GUBOC; Suranya Aiyar, portrayed in Mrs Chatterjee vs Norway; 

SATURDAY JUNE 10
1:30pm-4:30pm (EDT): End the Criminalization of Poverty & Protest. Panel followed by workshop.

Keynote speaker: Mildred Trouillot-Aristide, former First Lady of Haiti

Andrea James, Natl. Council for Incarcerated & Formerly Incarcerated Women & Girls; Charles Hector, human rights lawyer; Kempis “Ghani” Songster, Youth Self Empowerment Project; Lisa Longstaff, Women Against Rape; Margaret Robertson, Germantown Participatory Defense Hub; Michael Kalmanovitz, Intl. Jewish Anti-Zionist Network; Niki Adams, English Collective of Prostitutes.

SUNDAY JUNE 11
10am – 12:30pm (EDT): Autonomy: Central to Organizing & Unity.  Panel followed by workshop.

Selma James, Intl. Wages for Housework Campaign & Global Womens Strike (GWS); Margaret Prescod, Black Women for Wages for Housework & Women of Color/GWS; Swati Renduchintala, Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming Program.

SUNDAY JUNE 11
1:30pm-4:30pm (EDT): Care Income – A Movement Whose Time Has Come. Panel followed by workshop:

Rev Annie Chambers, Natl. Welfare Rights Union; Claire Glasman, WinVisible; Rep. Gwen Moore (video message); Leddy Mozombite Linares, Domestic Workers Federation FENTTRAHOP, Melody Webb, Mother’s Outreach Network; Nina López, Global Womens Strike; Peggy O’Mara, former editor, Mothering Magazine; Pranom Somwong, Protection International; Shafeka Hashash, Guaranteed Income at Economic Security Project; Solveig Francis, Crossroads Women London

Please help circulate the event on social media, the latest publicity is on our Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook pages as well as the Global Women’s Strike website.

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