Gender / Sexuality

from email, 27 January 2010: "The next London Free School will be held 6-7 March 2010. This free school is organised around issues of gender oppression and emancipation, but in a very particular way. We are open to all manner of workshops, discussions, seminars, etc. which aren't specifically about feminism or gender, however, whatever the workshop (origami, stoic philosophy, language lessons) there would be an engagement with how gender figures into what is being learned. Deadline for workshops proposal is Feb. 11 2010..." more

from infoshop, 15 June 2009: "Chicago Police attempt to re-enact Stonewall by rioting against queers. On Saturday night, May 30th 2009, a group of approximately 100 queers disembarked the red line train at the Belmont stop into Chicago’s Boystown area. Intending to march around a bit, the crowd found themselves too large to fit on the sidewalk... Cops parked and began running into the crowd, grabbing queers seemingly at random and proceeding to beat them with batons and extendable asps..." more

from email, 5 January 2008: "Judi Bari a was a feminist Earth First! activist and dues paying member of the IWW from 1988-94 who even served on it’s General Executive Board in 1991.

On May 24, 1990, a car bomb exploded beneath environmental and labor activist Judi Bari’s car seat as she drove through Oakland, California with fellow activist Darryl Cherney.

Judi and Darryl were prominent organizers for Earth first! Redwood Summer, a campaign of nonviolent logging protests..." more

from email, 29 October 2008: "As with anarchism, there are many ways to think of anarchafeminism. It can be thought of as a way to promote anarchist ideas within the feminist movement or vice versa - to promote feminist ideas within the anarchist movement. But anarchafeminism is not simply spun together by people involved in both. Anarchism and feminism share deep connections..." more

from RAWA, 14 October 2008: Attacks are on the rise and civilians, especially educated women, are increasingly nervous with the jihadists now just 20 minutes from the capital... more

from email, 10 April 2008: You are invited to a lovely party at the new women's social centre in Hackney, East London! 4a Corbridge Crescent, off Mare Street, Hackney E2. We are, like many autonomous spaces in the area, facing eviction very soon so we hope you will join us celebrating this space and bringing energy to our resistance and our next space. more

from Abahlali, 9 April 2008: On December 29 - 31 women from all five Zapatista Caracoles (centers of resistance) gathered in the community of La Garrucha, Chiapas to meet with women who had come from all around the world to hear their stories of struggling, organizing, and participating in the Zapatista litical leaders and members of the autonomous government, health and education promoters. more

from RAWA, 31 March 2008: As Afghanistan battles to check growing poppy production, there thrives a disturbing trend behind the scene, where daughters of poppy producers pay the price for the unpaid loans. Termed as "opium brides", the daughters of poor poppy farmers are often given to drug traffickers if their fathers are unable to pay the loan taken for growing the illicit crop because of the official action. more

from hsc, 25 March 2008: Behind Bars VIII: On Saturday 29th March, HSC will host a queer benefit night of music, DJs and VJs to raise money for the IUSW. Live bands & acts:, Juha, Spiritwo, Skitzopolis, Prolapse, Villain, Roc Roc it, Husbands, Rouge et Noir VJs, Oskur, Monogaze, Filippo DJs, Fake Face, Foll@nes, PJ, Sturamsey, Cheeky Half, Lakuti, Amila, Stay B. 10pm - 8am, with donations on the door. more

from imc-uk, 12 March 2008: We are inviting all womyn for a weekend of workshops and skill-share to learn and to openly discuss ways of taking control of our own health. We are a newly created and organised squatted social centre in which self-identified womyn and trans person can come and take part part in workshops, skill-shares and discussions. more

from email, 7 March 2008: London's new autonomous Womynspace has been open for over two weeks! We have been running a vegan cafe'/kids space and bar, as well as holding health, herbal skill-share, welding and many other workshops – all shaped and defined by the different womyn who come and share the space. more

from uppingtheanti, 26 January 2008: "Just after midnight on January 1st, was the 14th anniversary of the Zapatista uprising, and the caracol of La Garrucha was alive with celebration. From the top of a refurbished school bus we watched a mass of bodies dance to norteños below a vast sky littered with stars, and the occasional covering of fog that characterizes the mountains of the Mexican southeast... This night marked the end of the third Encuentro [Gathering] of the Zapatistas with the People of the World, and the first Encuentro of Zapatista Women and the Women of the world..." more

from ABC Berlin, by email, updated 25 February 2008: Call for antifascist demonstration and women-block at the 8 March demo in Berlin...

On the 1.12 the Berlin´s anti-fascist Andrea was arrested by plain clothes cops of LKA´s political branch. She was in a neighbourhood in south east Berlin where a neo-nazi demonstration was taking place... She will have now to spend her next 14 months behind bars and therefore she absolutely needs all our support from outside the walls.  more