Kate Raphael talks with Jennifer Beach and Judith Mirkinson, two members of Women Against Imperialism, a Bay Area feminist collective that organized hundreds of actions and actions large and small between 1981 and 1993. For a number of years they organized an annual International Women's Day march in San Francisco that brought hundreds or thousands of women into the street. We're also joined by scholar Brooke Lober, creator of the Women Against Imperialism Oral History Project.
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Women Against Imperialism was a grassroots, feminist, anti-imperialist solidarity organization formed in San Francisco in 1981. The group’s founders comprised the women’s caucus of the Bay Area chapter of the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee. A small, local organization whose members also worked with a range of other anti-prison, feminist, international solidarity, LGBT, and anti-war organizations, Women Against Imperialism’s work primarily consisted of direct action organizing, political education activities, and internal political study. Primary areas of focus included support for women political prisoners; sex trade and trafficking; international solidarity (Central America; Palestine; Philippines; Puerto Rico; South Africa); militarism; and reproductive justice. One of the group’s most consistent projects was co-organizing an annual International Women’s Day march in San Francisco (1983-1996). from Freedom Archives
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