Activities Archive

Wed, Thursdays and Saturdays in April
Organizing meetings for the Mother's Day Parade

Pacific NW Alliance to Free Marissa Alexander meetings
Wednesday, April 10 and 24, 6:30pm
LEMS Bookstore, 5023 Rainier Ave. S., Seattle

Radical Women organizing meetings
Thursday, April 4 and 18, 7:30pm – Dinner served at 6:30pm ($8.50 donation)
New Freeway Hall, 5018 Rainier Ave. S., Seattle

Sisters Organize for Survival organizing meetings
Saturday, April 13 and 27, 2pm
New Freeway Hall, 5018 Rainier Ave. S. (unless other location announced)

Bring your creative ideas for making this an amazing community showing! Get involved in helping spread the word about this opportunity for family fun with a message.

Mother's Day Parade Community Organizing Meeting
Saturday, April 27, 2pm
New Freeway Hall, 5018 Rainier Ave. S.

All endorsers and everyone interested in the parade are invited to this meeting to get informed on how the event is shaping up and to add your ideas for making it an amazing community showing! Get involved in helping spread the word about this opportunity for all-ages fun with the message to Act Now for Women and Kids.

Saturday, May 11, gather at 1:30pm, parade begins 2pm
Mother's Day Parade – Act Now for Women and Kids
Stevens Place Park, Beacon Ave. S. & 17th Ave. S., Beacon Hill, Seattle

All-ages fun with a message! Strollers, tricycles, banners, and festive attire encouraged.
Honor moms and highlight the need for:
* Comprehensive state-funded childcare for working and poor families
* End domestic violence – Free Marissa Alexander
* Stop deportations – Keep immigrant families together
* Increase funding for jobs, public schools and social services
* Tax the rich – End U.S. militarism

Gather at 1:30pm at Stevens Place Park, intersection of Beacon Ave S. and 17th Ave. S. March north on Beacon Ave. S., and conclude with speakers, information and children's activities at Roberto Maestes Festival Street. (Distance is approximately 6 blocks.)

Sponsored by Sisters Organize for Survival and the Pacific Northwest Alliance to Free Marissa Alexander Information: (206)722-6057, RWseattle@mindspring.com

Saturday, March 30, 2pm
Stand up for publicly funded childcare NOW!
Help build for a Mothers' Day Parade to demand action for women and kids. Issues include: comprehensive state-funded childcare; justice for Marissa Alexander, an African American mother serving 20 years for self-defense against an abusive spouse; an end to immigration policies that tear families apart; and increasing funds for public schools, jobs and social services by taxing the rich and ending U.S. militarism. Get involved in this action and build a movement for childcare for all who need it!

New Freeway Hall, 5018 Rainier Ave. S., Seattle
(In Seattle's Columbia City neighborhood, one block south of S. Hudson St.)
Childcare provided.

Sponsored by Sisters Organize for Survival, a campaign of Radical Women
For more information, call 206-722-6057 • RWseattle@mindspring.com • FaceBook: Sisters Organize for Survival

Thursday, March 21, 7:30pm • Dinner 6:30pm
Radical Women video showing
"Makers: Women Who Make America"
Experience the thrilling days of the early women's liberation struggle. "Awakening," part 1 of a new PBS documentary, explores women's break from the repressive 1950s. It reveals the unprecedented wave of female rebellion that burst out in the 1960s and intersected with the racial justice, antiwar, and lesbian/gay movements. Discussion will follow viewing. $2.00 door donation.

Hearty dinner (with vegan options) served at 6:30pm for $8.50 donation.

New Freeway Hall, 5018 Rainier Ave. S., Seattle. Four blocks south of S. Alaska St., on the #7 busline. Call in advance to arrange childcare.

Saturday, March 16, 2pm
Sisters Organize for Survival meeting
Build a movement for publicly funded childcare!
Your thoughts and energy are needed in the campaign to win free, quality childcare for working and poor families. The lack of affordable options pushes women out of the workforce and puts a huge strain on families. Help organize a Mothers' Day Parade to demand state-funded childcare, justice for Marissa Alexander serving 20 years for self-defense, support for children with moms in prison, and an end to immigration policies that tear families apart.

New Freeway Hall, 5018 Rainier Ave. S., Seattle. Childcare provided.

Saturday, March 9, 7pm
International Women's Day Celebration
A Toast to Global Sisters in Action

Salute women's leadership in international freedom struggles and cheer local feminist organizing efforts. Kids welcome.

900 Hiawatha Pl. S., Seattle
One World Buffet served for $10 donation.

A benefit for Radical Women. Information: 206-722-6057, RWseattle@mindspring.com.

Saturday, March 2, 3:30 pm
Fight for publicly funded childcare!



Now is the time to get involved in a campaign to demand that care and early learning of children be funded by the government. The lack of affordable options is putting a strain on many families. It pushes women out of the workforce and restricts their earning ability. Childcare workers' pay is way below a living wage, making it difficult for committed individuals to stay in the field. Something has got to give!

Sisters Organize for Survival is seeking the ideas, thoughts and concerns of parents, grandparents, childcare workers and providers to shape a militant movement for this desperately needed service. Everyone welcome. Childcare provided during the meeting.

Delridge Library, West Seattle , 5423 Delridge Way S.W.

Sponsored by Sisters Organize for Survival (SOS),
a campaign of Radical Women

For more info: 206-722-6057, 722-2453, RWseattle@mindspring.com. http://www.sistersorganizeforsurvival.org/

  Saturday, February 9, 2:00pm
Public meeting
Let's build a movement for affordable childcare!
Learn about previous campaigns for childcare and explore mobilizing for additional state-funded programs in Washington. To build this movement, Sisters Organize for Survival is seeking the ideas, thoughts and concerns of parents, childcare workers and providers, and anyone interested in early childhood education and care. Everyone welcome.

Delridge Library, West Seattle, 5423 Delridge Way S.W.
Sponsored by Sisters Organize for Survival (SOS), a campaign of Radical Women.

For more info: 206-722-6057, 722-2453, RWseattle@mindspring.com. www.sistersorganizeforsurvival.org.

Thursday, February 7, 6:30pm
Black History Month film
Every Mother's Son
This gripping documentary follows three mothers in New York City who became unintentional activists against police brutality. Iris Baez, Kadiatou Diallo, and Doris Busch Boskey each grieved the murder of an unarmed son by NY police. The 60-minute film showcases the mothers – Puerto Rican, West African, and Jewish – as they come together to seek justice. During their quest, cover-ups and lies are discovered and courts prove unhelpful. But this does not stop the women's courageous fight. Open discussion will follow the film. Come share your thoughts. At Seattle Public Library, West Seattle Branch, 2306 42nd Ave. S.W. Doors open 6pm. Film-showing 6:30pm.

New Date and location
Every Monday, 7:00pm, beginning Feb. 4
Radical Women book group
Women's Liberation & Socialism
Take part in discussions of Women and the Family by Russian revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky. This collection of essays shows how the Soviet transformation was a monumental victory for the second sex, though women's gains were largely rolled back under the bureaucratic Stalinist regime. The book demonstrates how the development of a worker-controlled, cooperative economy is essential to achieving true gender equality. Sessions held at 9525 Wallingford Ave. N., Seattle. (one block from North Seattle Community College.) Books can be purchased at each session.

Thursday, January 24, 7pm
Sisters Organize for Survival Meeting
Let's build a movement for affordable childcare!
The new session of the Washington state legislature has begun. Governor Inslee is officially sworn in. How will elected officials solve the nearly $1 billion dollar budget shortfall? Inslee vows to do it without any new taxes. What can this mean for poor and working folks, but more slashing of services? Sisters Organize for Survival says enough!

In addition to protesting budget cuts, we also plan to do something a little bit different this year. In Washington state, the average cost of childcare is more expensive than the cost of college at a public university! Consequently many families are struggling to make ends meet. And women are particularly impacted. Many are forced out of the work force because it makes more economic sense to stay home with their children. And many more sacrifice over half their income to pay the cost of childcare. This is unacceptable!

It is time that we treat childcare as a social responsibility that should be publicly funded! So if you have children, plan to have children, work with children, or are just concerned about this important issue - join the fight for state funded childcare in Washington. We need your ideas!

Come to this planning meeting to get involved in SOS's campaign for affordable childcare for all and defense of human services, education and jobs! At New Freeway Hall, 5018 Rainier Ave S, Seattle.

Monday, January 21, 9:30am workshop, 12:30pm march
"Let Freedom Ring!"
2013 Martin Luther King Day Celebration
Speak out against domestic violence and racist mandatory minimum sentencing by joining Radical Women and others in a march contingent led by the Pacific Northwest Alliance to Free Marissa Alexander. Alexander, an African American mother, is serving a 20-year sentence in Florida for defending herself against her abusive husband.

March begins at 12:30pm at Garfield High School, 400 23rd Ave. Come early for the 9:30am workshop coordinated by the PNW Alliance to Free Marissa Alexander: "Enough is Enough: Fighting Bias in the Criminal Justice System and the SPD."

Thursday, January 17, 7:30 pm
Special Roe v. Wade film screening
"The Coat Hanger Project"
Radical Women meeting features a 2008 documentary that explores the pro-choice movement in the U.S. before and since the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion across the land. The one-hour film shows why this fundamental right must be guaranteed and accessible. From a feminist underground abortion service in 1960s Chicago to the 2006 fight against an abortion ban in South Dakota, the point is clear that winning legalization was only the first round of a battle that still rages. Viewers will learn about dynamic warriors for reproductive justice – of all races, genders and sexualities – who connect abortion rights to every facet of choice and self-determination.

$2.00 door donation. Hearty dinner (with vegan options) served at 6:30pm for $8.50 donation.

New Freeway Hall, 5018 Rainier Ave S., Seattle
(Four blocks south of S. Alaska St. at the #7 Hudson St. stop. Six blocks from Columbia City light rail station.) Everyone welcome. Wheelchair accessible. Information: (206) 722-6057, RWseattle@mindspring.com. Please call in advance to request childcare.

Thursday, January 10, 7pm
Sisters Organize for Survival meeting
Build a movement for affordable childcare
SOS continues to defend the most vulnerable from service cuts. Affordable childcare is a problem of great magnitude, but is rarely addressed. This legislative session, Sisters Organize for Survival wants that to change by mobilizing to urge state funding of childcare. Your help is needed! If you have children, plan to have children, work with children, or are just concerned about this important issue -- attend this planning meeting and get involved with the fight for quality affordable childcare for all!

This meeting will also feature a report on highlights of the upcoming legislative session and budget. All are invited to attend!

New Freeway Hall, 5018 Rainier Ave. S., Seattle
4 blocks south of S. Alaska St. at the Hudson stop of the #7 bus line
Information: 206-722-6056, RWseattle@mindspring.com

2012 Activities