Women of Color Leading the Struggle for Social Justice
The Women of Color Caucus organized this event before NWL was created.
Women of Color Leading the Struggle for Social Justice
July 15, 2006
Join us to learn about the role of women of color in past and present movements for social justice. Our panel of leaders from feminist and anti-racist organizations will discuss their involvement in various social justice organizations. The panel will be followed by a consciousness-raising session for women of color to discuss and analyze what draws us or would draw us to activism and what we want to see happen in social justice movements.
Panelists:
Nellie Hester Bailey, Co-founder and Executive Director, Harlem Tenants Council
Francie Hunt, Chair, Women of Color Caucus of Redstockings and Gainesville (Florida) Women's Liberation
Maretta Short, President, Women of Color and Allies, Essex County (NJ) NOW
Muriel Tillinghast, SNCC Veteran; Housing, Prison and Medical Rights Activist
When: Saturday, July 15, 2006
Panel: 3:00-4:30 p.m.
Consciousness-Raising: 4:45-6:00 p.m.
Where: NYU Law School, Furman Hall, 245 Sullivan Street between West 3rd and Washington Square South, Room 210
Train: A, C, E, B, D, F, V to West 4th St. or N, R, W to 8th St. or Path to 9th St. & 6th Ave.
No one will be turned away for inability to pay • Free child care always
available on site
Contact us at 646-285-1723 or woccnyc@yahoo.com
The Women of Color Caucus (WOCC) is an organizing think tank composed of women of color associated with Redstockings of the Women’s Liberation Movement and Gainesville Women’s Liberation. We believe that women of color must meet separately to address problems specifically affecting women of color. We do consciousness-raising on topics affecting our lives (like unfair beauty standards; abortion and reproductive justice; equality in sex and relationships with men; parenting and childcare; equality for women of color in the anti-racist movement) and draw conclusions about who benefits from our oppression and how best to fight it.