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15th November 2012, 01:25
Apologies for slightly weird formatting. Tried to fix as much as I could...
It should be a very engaging talk from a great anti-capitalist activist intellectual.
BOOK LAUNCH AND PUBLIC LECTURE
'SEX, RACE AND CLASS: THE NEW TERMS OF UNITY'
BY SELMA JAMES, GLOBAL WOMEN'S STRIKE CO-ORDINATOR
DATE: MONDAY NOVEMBER 26TH
TIME: 7:00 P.M.
> LOCATION: George Ignatieff Theatre, Trinity College, 15 Devonshire Place
(closest subway is St. George. Devonshire Place is located between Bedford
and St. George, half a block South of Bloor)
SPONSORED BY: Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of
Toronto Centre for Feminist Research, York UniversityCUPE 3902, University
of Toronto Equity Studies, New College, University of TorontoDepartment of
Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, OISE/University ofTorontoCAW Sam
Gindin Chair in Social Justice and Democracy, Ryerson UniversityFREE AND
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE. For more information on Selma
> James' Toronto Lecture, contact:[email protected];
> [email protected]
> ************************************************** ****************************************Selma
> James is an anti-sexist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist campaigner
> andauthor. Raised in a movement household, she joined CLR James’s Johnson-Forest-Tendency at age 15, and from 1958 to 1962 she worked with him in the movement for Caribbean federation and independence.
In 1972, she founded the International Wages for Housework Campaign, and in 2000 she helped launch the Global Women's Strike which she coordinates. She coined the word "unwaged" to describe most of the caring work women do, and it has since entered the English language to describe all the work without wages of women, children and men, in the home, on the land, in the
community. In 1975 she became the first spokeswoman of the English
Collective of Prostitutes. She is a founding member of the International
JewishAnti-Zionist Network (2008). She has addressed the power relations
withinthe working class movement, and organizing across sectors despite
divisions of sex, race, age, etc., South and North. She spoke to packed
audiences atOccupy in London, England, as well as Los Angeles, Oakland,
Philadelphia,and SF.
http://www.selmajamesbooktour.net/> For a profile you
can visit:http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jun/08/life-in-writing
-selma-james> Selma James is also a Guardian
Contributor http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/selma-james>
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/4/16/housework_as_work_selma_james_on
It should be a very engaging talk from a great anti-capitalist activist intellectual.
BOOK LAUNCH AND PUBLIC LECTURE
'SEX, RACE AND CLASS: THE NEW TERMS OF UNITY'
BY SELMA JAMES, GLOBAL WOMEN'S STRIKE CO-ORDINATOR
DATE: MONDAY NOVEMBER 26TH
TIME: 7:00 P.M.
> LOCATION: George Ignatieff Theatre, Trinity College, 15 Devonshire Place
(closest subway is St. George. Devonshire Place is located between Bedford
and St. George, half a block South of Bloor)
SPONSORED BY: Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of
Toronto Centre for Feminist Research, York UniversityCUPE 3902, University
of Toronto Equity Studies, New College, University of TorontoDepartment of
Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, OISE/University ofTorontoCAW Sam
Gindin Chair in Social Justice and Democracy, Ryerson UniversityFREE AND
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE. For more information on Selma
> James' Toronto Lecture, contact:[email protected];
> [email protected]
> ************************************************** ****************************************Selma
> James is an anti-sexist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist campaigner
> andauthor. Raised in a movement household, she joined CLR James’s Johnson-Forest-Tendency at age 15, and from 1958 to 1962 she worked with him in the movement for Caribbean federation and independence.
In 1972, she founded the International Wages for Housework Campaign, and in 2000 she helped launch the Global Women's Strike which she coordinates. She coined the word "unwaged" to describe most of the caring work women do, and it has since entered the English language to describe all the work without wages of women, children and men, in the home, on the land, in the
community. In 1975 she became the first spokeswoman of the English
Collective of Prostitutes. She is a founding member of the International
JewishAnti-Zionist Network (2008). She has addressed the power relations
withinthe working class movement, and organizing across sectors despite
divisions of sex, race, age, etc., South and North. She spoke to packed
audiences atOccupy in London, England, as well as Los Angeles, Oakland,
Philadelphia,and SF.
http://www.selmajamesbooktour.net/> For a profile you
can visit:http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jun/08/life-in-writing
-selma-james> Selma James is also a Guardian
Contributor http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/selma-james>
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/4/16/housework_as_work_selma_james_on