Public Service Alliance of Canada BC

Please join Grassroots Women for an evening of film and discussion on the theme of Women Assert Our Basic Human Rights. A discussion will follow a screening of two films portraying women who show us that rights will not be “granted” but rather must be asserted and defended when under attack.

• Thursday March 1st, 2007
• 7:00 pm Rhizome Café, 317 East Broadway

Films:

My Name is Kahentiiosta profiles a Kahnawake Mohawk woman who participated in the armed standoff at Kanehsatake, detailing her experience of and perspective on the 1990 Oka Crisis, including her subsequent arrest and detention (which was prolonged by four days because she would give only her Mohawk name). Directed by Alanis Obomsawin, 1995.

Women in Struggle is about Palestinian women who are ex-political detainees demonstrating their struggle during their years of imprisonment in Israeli jails, exploring the effects on their present life and their future outlook. The focus is on the lives of four women who came out of their regular roles as sisters, mothers, wives, and took on a different role being involved in the Palestinian national struggle for independence. Directed by Buthina Canaan Khoury, 2004.

This film showing is part of a series of events organized by Grassroots Women under the theme “International Women’s Day: Strengthen Women’s Resistance” leading up to a March & Rally on Thursday, March 8th. The march will start at 5:30 pm at the Chinatown Memorial Square (NE corner of Keefer and Columbia streets).

Also, please join us on March 3rd 5:00 – 6:00 for a International Women’s Day broadcast of Tinig ng Masa Radio Show hosted by Grassroots Women on Co-op Radio 102.7 FM. 5:00 pm

International Women’s Day 2007

Since its inception, International Women’s Day (IWD), March 8th, has been a day of revolutionary struggle for the rights and freedom of oppressed and exploited women in the context of world-wide struggle against imperialism and war. Every year since our founding in 1995, Grassroots Women has mobilized on March 8th. By doing so, we connect with the tradition of working class women who have mobilized on this day for nearly 100 years, from the garment workers of New York City at the turn of the century, to the wives, daughters, and mothers of soldiers and armament workers in Russia who helped spark the Russian Revolution, to the women of movements for national and social liberation in the Third World.

For more information or to get involved, please contact Grassroots Women at 604-682-4451 or  grassrootswomen@telus.net.