Friday, March 8, 2019: International Women's Day Event

Tired of not having anything meaningful to do on International’s women’s Day? Come to this fabulous event celebrating International women’s day on March 8th at 5pm to 7:30 at Oscar Grant Plaza. The powerful group Emma’s Revolution will be playing along with the fabulous Drag King Group Mamma’s Boyz. And lots of great speakers as well.

International Women’s Strike 2019- Bay Area Action
March 8th, 5:00 - 7:30PM
Oscar Grant Plaza
Oakland, CA

We invite the public to reclaim International Women's Day and honor its radical legacy. We are speaking out against sexism, racism, colonialism, capitalism and exploitation. We are coming together to listen to each other, heal, celebrate our resistance and invigorate our movement. In the spirit of the International Women's Strike, we join women and non binary people worldwide in the fight for an end to gender violence, freedom from borders, reproductive justice for all, labor rights, environmental justice, and an antiracist and anti-imperialist feminism.

Come ready to speak and listen as we affirm our collective power! Please note that this will be a family friendly event and childcare will be provided.

SPEAKERS:
Chaz Garcia, OEA Organizer
Rabab Abdulhadi, Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas/Race and Resistance Studies, SFSU
Huma Dar, South and South East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley
Sthefany Bautista, El/La Para TransLatinas
Genuine Security
SF WAR & BA WAR
Maria Moore
Rachel West, US Prostitutes Collective
Margy Wilkinson, labor activist, South Berkeley
Jane Welford, Global Women's Strike

PERFORMERS:
Momma’s Boyz
Emma’s Revolution

This is the third year the national network International Women's Strike - US has called for March 8th actions in conjunction and solidarity with other actions and strikes all over the world (especially Argentina, Mexico, Spain, Poland and many other countries).

Weare seeking to develop a democratic and grassroots space that is geared towards education and collective action, and is independent of establishment parties and institutions.

Some of the most pressing problems specific to women identified and gender non-binary people - gender violence, reproductive rights, forced sterilization- connect to other larger struggles (labor, prison abolition, immigration, police violence, housing crisis, unemployment, etc) and to the contestation of capitalist society. In this speak-out we want to present these as FEMINIST issues. Join us in speaking out on March 8th and beyond!

We encourage the Bay Area to join us in taking action as part of a feminism for the 99 percent that brings together black and brown women, older women and youth; that encompasses cis-,trans- and gender non-binary workers; stands for the poor and the low-waged, for unpaid caregivers, and for sex workers and immigrants.

Organized by:
Colectiva Feminista Sur
East Bay Democratic Socialists of America Socialist Feminist Caucus
Berkeley High Women's Student Union
Global Women's Strike
Poor People's Campaign
US Prostitutes Collective
Priority African Network
Transnational Decolonial QTPOC

Endorsed by:
AFCSME 3299, AFT 2121, Berkeley Schools Labor Caucus, Berkeley Federation of Teachers, CFA-San Francisco State, Diablo for Peace, Global Women’s Strike, International Socialist Organization Northern California, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Socialist Action, SF Code Pink, Women's March San Francisco, UAW 2865 Berkeley, UC-AFT 1474, World Can't Wait