Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Solidarity Salon
580 Sydney Road
Brunswick, VIC 3056
Tel: 03-9388-0062
Email: radicalwomen@optusnet.com.au
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27 April, 7:00pm
In-person Radical Women meeting
To end violence against women, pinpoint its source and destroy it!
First Nations women locked up and killed; trans women murdered; queer women demonised; birthing women abused; immigrant women assaulted; women stalked and raped; no woman considered a person in her own right. This Radical Women gathering will explore the cause of such thoroughly misogynist violence. When we know the source, we can organise a movement to eradicate it. All genders are welcome!
The meeting starts at 7.00 pm with dinner available at 6.30 pm for a $10 donation.
Solidarity Salon, 580 Sydney Road, Brunswick
Upfield line to Anstey Station, #19 tram to Stewart St, or plenty of free parking available.
Join the facebook event here.
For more info, contact Radical Women: radicalwomen@optusnet.com.au or 03-9388-0062.
POSTPONED: PLEASE STAY TUNED!
Why feminists of all genders must unite to defeat transphobia!
RW has been planning this discussion to align in solidarity with the Trans Pride March. Because the march is postponed until further notice, due to COVID-19, so is this meeting. Please watch out for an update from RW on the new date and arrangements.
Radical Women is a socialist feminist organisation, which stands firmly against both transphobia and a rigid gender binary. This meeting will discuss how transphobia, along with homophobia and sexism, has its roots in the rise of private property and the overthrow of ancient matriarchy.
We’ll learn how to answer the biological determinist views of Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists. We will also celebrate the leadership of the multiracial modern-day transgender warriors who are increasingly visible and fighting back. Our focus will be on trans, CIS and non-binary feminist unity — together, we have a world to win!
Dinner served at 6.30pm for a $10 donation - Discussion kicking off at 7.00 pm.
ALL GENDERS WELCOME!
Solidarity Salon, 580 Sydney Road Brunswick
For more information, contact Radical Women at radicalwomen@optusnet.com.au or 03-9388-0062. You can join the facebook event here.
Tuesday, 30 March, 7.00 pm (AEST)
Workers Organising to Win! (WOW!) online meeting
It’s time for a grassroots fightback
First it was childcare, then JobSeeker and now aged care. COVID has exposed how this economy serves only the corporate rich — the rest of us be damned.
Coming out of brainstorms by working women on what to do, WOW! anticipated these “revelations” with demands for organising in our diverse workplaces and communities.
This WOW! meeting will discuss how to apply the demands to these unfolding crises and direct them toward unifying, grassroots action. Bring your thoughts and experience to this discussion, and let’s start building a fightback.
Register here.
WOW! is a campaign initiated by Radical Women. For more info about WOW! or this meeting, go to www.facebook.com/workersorganisingtowin or email womenworkers.wow@gmail.com
Sunday, 28 March 28, 2:00 pm
Rally for Justice and a Fair Go for Refugees
Radical Women and Freedom Socialist Party are among many community endorsers of the annual Palm Sunday refugee rights rally. If you’d like to march with us, please get in touch.
This year, the Rally for Justice and a Fair Go for Refugees is demanding:
• Permanent visas and family reunion for all refugees
• Fair and timely assessment of all claims for refugee status
• Safety net income for all those who are waiting for a permanent visa, if they cannot find enough work to support themselves
• Releasing ALL refugees from detention
• Bringing 260 people still held on Nauru and in PNG here, or allowing New Zealand to resettle them.
We support these demands and also advocate that the movement address the issues that lead people to flee their homes — imperialist rivalry, national oppression, climate change, war and global inequality. All are exacerbated by sexism, racism and homophobia. We call for open borders: Capital can move freely round the globe. People must have this right, too!
Location: State Library, corner of Swanston Street and Latrobe Street, Melbourne.
Email radicalwomen@optusnet.com.au to join the contingent.
(Photo is from the 2014 Palm Sunday Walk for Justice for Refugees, Freedom Socialist Organiser archives)
Sunday, March 14, 11am
Online International Women's Day Celebration
Women Rise Up Globally Against Femicide
This international celebration of the socialist-inspired day to honour working women will bring together feminists of different nations and regions to discuss the massive cross-border upsurge in defence of women’s lives and address how to stop the epidemic of violence against women.
Speakers:
Amelia Kirk-Harkin, Australia, union activist, tradeswoman and artist, Melbourne Radical Women
Eréndira Munguía, Mexico, college mathematics professor, Partido Obrero Socialista (Socialist Workers Party)
Earth-Feather Sovereign, Confederated Colville Tribes, founder of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Washington
Charlotte Strauss Swanson, U.S. Radical Women, doctoral researcher in psychology, gender, social justice at University of Tennessee
Register in advance at http://bit.ly/IWD-RW
Sponsored by: Radical Women Australia and U.S.
For more information:
Radical Women Melbourne 03-9388-0062 mailto:radicalwomen@optusnet.com.au
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1238776999856840
Tuesday, 19 January, 7.00 – 8.00 pm AEST
Inaugural Meeting
Workers Organising to Win! (WOW!)
During Victoria's lockdown, women working in hard-hit industries came together to brainstorm what to do. These informal zoom gatherings resulted in a statement — “Women workers’ answer to COVID: Capitalism caused the crisis, workers can solve it!” — with winning demands that put control into workers’ hands.
Now, as COVID red zones proliferate, more infectious strains appear and governments put profit's health above people's lives, it’s time to organise!
Come to WOW!’s first meeting, and let’s start strategising for taking these demands into our unions, workplaces and communities. Bring your ideas, skills and know-how. All genders are welcome!
Register for the online inaugural meeting here. WOW! Meeting
Check out the statement with demands
For more info, contact womenworkers.wow@gmail.com
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