[Badgirlz-list] Feminist Fightback this saturday in london

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for those in and around london,
check out the second Feminist Fightback this saturday:
see http://www.feministfightback.org.uk/


Feminist Fightback II - Saturday 20 October ‘07

Back for a second year, the Feminist Fightback
activist conference is organised by a group of
socialist feminists, including the Education Not for
Sale student network. It aims to bring together
feminists from a wide range of perspectives to debate
ideas and develop practical strategies for fighting
women’s oppression and exploitation.

Fightback 07 will build on the success of last year’s
conference, attended by over 220 people, which gave
rise to several activist initiatives, including the
March 3 2007 Torch-Lit March for Abortion Rights.

Feminist Fightback’s supporters include the National
Union of Students Women’s Campaign, the RMT Women’s
Committee and the International Union of Sex Workers.

The conference will be held at the University of East
London Docklands campus (see here for details and
directions). For more information, or to register,
ring 07890 209 479, or email
feminist.fightback@???.


agenda

Throughout the day: stalls, exhibitions, film showings
(including Love, Honour and Disobey, a film by
Southall Black Sisters; and A Place of Rage: women in
the black civil rights movement)

11.30
Registration starts

12-12.30
Welcome and introduction to the event. Speakers will
include Teodora Todorova from ENS Women/Feminist
Fightback organising committee; and Shirin Abdullah of
the Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq

12.35-1.45 Workshops
a) Is sexy always sexist? Speakers include: K Good
(Shark Infested Waters); Sofie Buckland (ENS Women);
anti-lads mags campaigners
b) Race, sex, class Speakers include Priya Gopal,
writer and activist
c) Women’s struggles in Latin America Speakers
include: Central American Women’s Network; No Sweat;
Alejandra Crosta (Argentina Solidarity)

1.45-2.15 Lunch
Lunchtime workshop: Women in Darfur. Speaker: Jo Read
(Day for Darfur)

2.15-3.30 Workshops
a) Ecofeminism? Socialism, feminism and ecology.
Speakers include Women’s Environment Network and Laura
Sterry (Feminist Fightback)
b) Sexual liberation vs capitalism? Fighting
homophobia. Speakers include Maria Exall
(Communication Workers’ Union executive; LGBT
representative on TUC General Council)
c) Introduction to socialist feminism. Speaker: Laura
Schwartz (Workers’ Liberty)

3.35-4.50 Workshops
a) Islamic feminism. Speakers include: Haleh Afshar,
author of Islamic feminisms; Yassamine Mather
(Campaign for the Abolition of All Gender Based
Misogynistic Legislation and Islamic Punitive Laws in
Iran)
b) Debate on women’s representation in politics.
Speakers: Katy Clark (Labour MP for North Ayrshire and
Arran), Janine Booth (socialist council candidate in
Hackney and chair, RMT women’s committee); Sam Lyle
(Warwick University), Ellie Cumbo (Oxford Women in
Politics)
c) The “gender pay gap”, low pay and the class
struggle. Speakers include Marsha Jane Thompson
(London Unison youth activist); Jean Lane (teaching
assistant and Unison activist in Tower Hamlets)

4.55-6 Action workshops
a) The fight for abortion rights. Speakers: RAG Irish
pro-choice campaigners, Oxford Pro-Choice Forum, ENS
Women, Abortion Rights (invited)
b) Feminists against borders. Speakers include:
International Union of Sex Workers and ENS Women

6-7 Closing plenary: what future for socialist
feminism? Speakers include Eva Caradonna (IUSW), Amrit
Wilson (South Asia Solidarity Group and author of
Dreams, Questions, Struggles: South Asian Women in
Britain), Heather Shaw (ENS Women), Janine Booth

Collection for striking Fremantle care workers in
Barnet

Followed from 8pm by a social at the Ivy House, 8-10
Southampton Row, two minutes from Holborn tube, to
raise money for Iranian women’s liberation
organisations


Please considering staying over night (we can arrange
accomodation) to attend this conference too!

“Education for freedom”: Education Not for Sale
gathering, UEL, Sunday 21 October
What would a democratic, egalitarian, sustainable
education system look like?
How do we get it?

This gathering, which will take place at the
University of East London’s Dockland campus from
12-5.30pm on Sunday 21st October and is sponsored by
Education Not for Sale, looks at the challenges facing
radical and socialist activists in the education
sector.


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