A web exhibit from the Redstockings Women’s Liberation Archives for Action
Go to: http://www.redstockings.org
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And for those in the New York City area:
Women’s Struggle for Freedom in Iraq An Evening with Yanar Mohammed Thursday, October 23, 7pm
Internationally renowned Iraqi activist and fighter for women's rights, Yanar Mohammed, will be speaking at Schimmel Auditorium at Pace University in downtown Manhattan. (Pace is located on Park Row across from City Hall. The entrance to Schimmel Auditorium is on Spruce Street off of Park Row. By subway, take 2 or 3 downtown to Park Place or 4, 5 or R to City Hall/Brooklyn Bridge.)
This event is free and open to the public.
Ms. Mohammed's presentation will include never seen before video footage and photographs of the first women's demonstration in Baghdad and the recent sit down protests by the Union of the Unemployed in Iraq. She will provide a first-hand account of:
--post-war conditions in Iraq --how the US war and occupation has led to a violent backlash against women --the grassroots secular movement for real liberation and freedom in Iraq!
This event is organized by the Working Committee in Support of Iraqi Women’s Freedom, for more information, or to co-sponsor the event, contact us at shourash at msn.com or (201) 780-1905. To learn more about Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) or their sister organization Iraqi Women Rights Coalition (IWRC), visit www.equalityiniraq.com/
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About Redstockings
Coined in 1969, the name "Redstockings" combines "bluestockings," the term pinned on educated and otherwise strong-minded women in the 18th and 19th centuries, with "red" for social revolution.
Redstockings was one of the influential but short-lived radical feminist groups of the Sixties that produced many of the expressions and actions that have become household words to people in the United States--Sisterhood is Powerful, Consciousness-Raising, The Personal is Political, The Politics of Housework, The Pro-Woman Line, The Miss America Protest.
In 1973, veterans of the original group reformed Redstockings and incorporated as a non-profit educational and scientific organization for the furtherance of the women’s rights movement and the organized efforts of women to better their situation.
Today, Redstockings is organizing very much in the original spirit, as a different kind of "think tank"--grassroots-oriented and down-to-earth--for defending and advancing the women’s liberation agenda. In 1989, Redstockings established the Women's Liberation Archives for Action to make the formative and radical 1960s experience of the movement more widely available for developing new understandings and improved strategies.
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Jenny Brown