[Badgirlz-list] Feminist Fight Back on the 21th (London)

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hope to see many of you at Feminist Fight Back on the
21th: it looks
really good.

I am going to speak on sex work (at 12.45 session a))
and Rutvica on
migration (at 2.25 session c))
ciaociao
giulia

register at:
www.fightback.org.uk


PROVISIONAL AGENDA
Registration starts 11.30pm

All day: stalls, exhibition on Grunwick strike, creche

12-12.40pm Opening plenary: International solidarity
for women's
liberation
Organisation of Women's Freedom in Iraq; Azar
Sheibani, Iranian
women's rights activist; ENS Women.

12.45-1.45pm Session 1
a) Sex workers organising for their rights
Speaker: International Union of Sexworkers
b) Trans liberation
Speaker: Joanna Stuart; Beaumont Society
c) Asian women's struggles
Speaker: Amrit Wilson, South Asia Solidarity Group;
Faz Velmi, TGWU
activist

1.45-2.25pm Lunch
Showing of Stand Together, film about Grunwick
struggle, 1976-8

2.25-3.25pm Session 2
a) Building campaigning women's groups.
Speakers: Sussex Uni women's group; Kat Stark, NUS
Women's Officer
b) Challenging sexism on the left, building a
socialist feminist labour
movement
Scottish Socialist Party women; Jean Lane, author of
"Women in a
'man's job': experiences of a woman building worker
and trade
unionist"
c) Feminism without borders: trafficking, asylum and
immigration rights
Speakers: No Borders network; refugee speaker; Carys
Ofoko, Close
Campsfield campaign

3.35-4.35pm Session 3
a) Low pay, equal pay and women workers' struggle
Amrit Wilson; Marsha Jane-Thompson, Unison London
young members'
convenor; Maria Exall, CWU; Lorna Campbell, PCS
Equalities Officer
b) Feminism and sexual _expression
Speakers: Feminists Against Censorship, Backlash,
Sofie Buckland
c) Queer liberation
Emma Persky, NUS LGBT committee, 2005-6

4.35-4.50pm Break

4.50-5.50pm Session 4
a) Abortion rights campaigning (Women only session)
Speaker: Kate Ahrens, Keep Our NHS Public and Unison;
others TBC
b) Men's role in the fight against sexism
c) Film: Bread & Roses, the women's movement in
Argentina

5.55-7pm Plenary
What way forward for the women's liberation movement?
Speakers: Gate Gourmet worker; Cathy Nugent, editor,
Solidarity; ENS
Women; other speakers
Collection for Gate Gourmet workers

Closing remarks from Sofie Buckland

Close 7.10pm followed by social

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