[BRC-ANN] Southern International Working Women�s Conference

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Southern International Working Women�s Conference

 

October 16 � 19, 2003

Crowne Plaza Hotel

1325 Virginia Ave., Atlanta, GA 30344

For Hotel reservations call: (866) 896-8937 or (404) 768-6660

For More Information call: BWFJ at 770-477-2760

 

Conference Highlights:

 

Registration:   Thursday, October 16  5:00 � 7:00 pm

• Conference begins on Thursday, October 16 at 7:00 pm and will conclude on Sunday, October 19 at 1:30 pm

Costs:         

• $150.00 (registration including materials, lunch and dinner daily, banquet, cultural night)
• $ 75.00   Limited Registrations available for Students (with I.D.) and Senior Citizens (65 and older)

Seminars:

• Understanding Patriarchy  (Conducted by Vanessa Pillay of the South African Development Institute for Training, Support, and Education for Labor (DITSELA))
• Globalization and Women�s Oppression (Conducted by Jung Hee Choi of the Women of Color Resource Center of Berkeley, CA)

 

Conference Working Session:

• Conference �Declaration on Women�s Oppression in the Global Era�

 

Plenary Sessions:

• The U.S. South and Conditions for Women
• Conditions of Women from Africa
• Conditions of Women from Latin America
• Conditions of Women from North America, Europe and Asia

Skill Building Workshops for Women Workers on the job and in the community:

• How To Make My Union Stronger/Union Building
• Negotiations
• Basic Organizing
• Public Speaking

Special Workshops:

• Reparations
• Building the Anti-War Movement

 

Banquet: �Honoring the Women Leaders Who Came Before Us�

 

Cultural Night:  Featuring the �Fruit of Labor Singing Ensemble� of the Black Workers For Justice, guests, cultural from each country, open mike

 

Sponsored by the Black Workers For Justice (BWFJ), the Transnationals Information Exchange (TIE), and the Southern Center for Labor Education and Organizing (SCLEO)

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