Organize the South

GLOBAL WOMEN'S STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY
A Lecture & Discussion with Selma James & Andaiye

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25th, 11:30am
ATLANTA FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE
701 West Howard Avenue
Decatur, Georgia
Location information contact: 404-377-2474 or afmquakers@hotmail.com

The Onyx Foundation: is excited to announce co-sponsorship, with the Atlanta Friends Meeting House, of a lecture by pathbreaking Feminist Movement theorists and activists Selma James and Andaiye. They are touring the United States to mark the 35th anniversary of the International Wages for Housework Campaign, which Selma James founded, and to speak to anti-sexist, anti-racist and anti-war women and men in North America.

Selma James is an activist, author, strategist, critical thinker, women's rights and anti-racist campaigner, colleague and partner of C.L.R. James. In 1972 she founded the International Wages for Housework Campaign, and has coordinated the Global Women's Strike since 2000. She is the co-author of The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community (1972), and author of Sex, Race and Class (1974), both classics, and also co-author of The Milk of Human Kindness (2002). Ms. James is a dynamic and exciting speaker who impresses audiences with the depth of her understanding and the scope of her interests. She has worked with democratic struggles in Venezuela since 2002.

Andaiye is co-founder and international coordinator of Red Thread (RT) in Guyana. RT began as a self-help income-generating group bringing low-income women together across violent racial divides. It has always given a voice to all grassroots women: Indo- and Afro-Guyanese as well as Indigenous. Andaiye is the author of The Valuing of Unwaged Work, an analysis of the cost to women in the Caribbean of structural adjustment policies. She represented CARICOM at the United Nations World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, leading the negotiations which resulted in the agreement among governments, including the U.S. government, to measure and value unwaged work. In 1979, she was also a founding member and leader of the Working People*s Alliance in Guyana along with activist and historian Walter Rodney, author of How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.