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<div align="center"><b><font face="Arial">The Women's Fightback Network</font></b><br>
<b><font face="Arial">invites you to join us for an:</font></b><br>
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<div align="center"><font color="#cc33cc"><big><big><b><font
face="Arial">International
Women's Day Rally</font></b></big></big></font><br>
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<br>
<div align="center"><big><font face="Arial"><b><i>Women Still Rising: </i><br>
An
Evening in Solidarity with the Struggles of Women from <br>
New Orleans to Iraq to New Bedford</b></font></big><br>
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<div align="center"><font color="#cc33cc" face="Arial"><b>Women and
their families are under attack!</b></font><font color="#cc33cc"><br>
</font><font color="#cc33cc" face="Arial"><b>How do we organize and
fight back?</b></font><br>
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<font face="Arial">Come share your experience and bring your ideas on
building a stronger fightback movement!</font><br>
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<font face="Arial">Speakers and Cultural Presentations</font><br>
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<div align="center"><font face="Arial"><big><b>Saturday, March 31, 2006</b></big></font><br>
<font face="Arial"><big><b>6:30 pm</b></big></font><br>
<font face="Arial">Boston School Bus Drivers Union Hall</font><br>
<font face="Arial">25 Colgate Road, </font><font face="Arial">Roslindale,
MA</font><br>
<font face="Arial">(Directions: from Forest Hills T stop, take #30,</font><br>
<font face="Arial">34-37 or 50 bus to Archdale Rd. stop</font><br>
<font face="Arial">(less than 1 mile), walk back one block to Colgate
Rd.</font><br>
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<div align="center"><font face="Arial">For more info: <b>Women's
Fightback Network (WFN) 617-522-6626 / <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:wfn@iacboston.org">wfn@iacboston.org</a></b></font><br>
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<font face="Arial">Refreshments and childcare provided</font><br>
<font face="Arial">Wheelchair accessible/Donation requested</font><br>
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On International Women's Day, March 8, 2007 we salute the heroic and
determined resistance of our sisters in the forefront of the worldwide
struggle against imperialist war-- from Iraq, Palestine and Afghanistan
to Haiti, Colombia and the Philippines.<br>
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It is our sisters and brothers in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, the
Caribbean and Latin America who are showing us the way forward thru
their revolutionary sacrifice, vision and perseverance.<br>
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International solidarity, working class unity and militant fightback
are at the heart of International Women's Day. These ingredients are
as vital today as they were in the early 1900's when immigrant women
factory workers marched out on strike to demand an end to the extreme
and degrading work conditions they toiled under. Their actions helped
to change history and continue to inspire us to work harder in
advancing the struggle against imperialist war, economic exploitation,
racism, sexism, LGBT oppression and all the social ills created by an
economic system that puts profits before people's needs.<br>
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Currently, the US congress is preparing to vote on an additional $245
billion dollars for the criminal and genocidal US-led wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan. It is time to cut off the funds that feed the war and
occupation and bring the troops home now!<br>
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Any additional money for these wars of occupation will bring even
greater death and suffering for Iraqi and Afghani women and their
families. In the past 4 years over 700,000 Iraqi women, men and
children have been killed and many millions more have been maimed,
traumatized and displaced from their homes, jobs and schools. Women's
rights have been rolled back and there are severe shortages of food,
electricity, medicines and drinkable water. Mothers have been shot and
killed at checkpoints with their children watching and teenage girls
have been murdered and raped by US soldiers.<br>
<br>
In Afghanistan Bush and his gang cry crocodile tears over women's
rights while occupying troops continue to bomb, displace and terrorize
women and their families, ravaging the country with high tech,
poisonous weapons.<br>
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Each day the war continues the cost hits home even harder in our
communities. Women and children suffer the most from deepening budget
cuts that siphon off urgent funding for Section 8 housing, Medicaid and
Medicare, public education, early intervention programs, daycare,
HIV/AIDS funding, drug and alcohol treatment, and many other vital
services for poor and working people.<br>
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The survivors of Katrina know first hand how the war budget has
impacted their lives. Vital resources that could have strengthened
levees and protected the peoples of the Gulf Coast from this deadly
hurricane, were instead diverted to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
18 months later, the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are still
waiting for the US government to fulfill its broken promises to rebuild
their neighborhoods and allow them to return home.<br>
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Another aspect of the war at home, is the repression and terror
directed against immigrant workers and their families. Just this past
week, in New Bedford MA, approximately 350 immigrant workers, mostly
women from Guatemala and El Salvador, were terrorized, arrested and
detained by armed federal agents. As a result of these criminal raids
children have been separated from their parents and face the terror of
not knowing when they will be reunited.<br>
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This latest raid in New Bedford is by no means an isolated incident. <br>
Throughout the country there has been a dramatic increase in repression
against immigrant workers, including raids, detentions, deportations
and forced separation of families.<br>
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The severe economic devastation of globalization has forced millions of
workers and their families to migrate to the US in hopes of a better
future for their children. In many instances they risk extreme danger,
imprisonment and death getting here, only to encounter the bitter
realities of racist repression, super exploitation and a full scale
assault on immigrant workers.<br>
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All who support peace and justice must unite and stand in solidarity
with our immigrant sisters and brothers who are under attack. We demand
full legalization for all immigrant workers, an immediate stop to all
raids and deportations and the reunification of all families. It is
time to build the broadest support and participation we can for the
nationwide Great American Boycott II demonstrations planned for May 1,
2007.<br>
Globalize the workers struggle!<br>
The People United Will Never Be Defeated!<br>
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Women's Fightback Network demands:<br>
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<li><font face="Arial">Bring the troops home now! Fund human needs
not war!</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial">Full legalization for all immigrants!</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial">Stop the ICE raids and deportations!</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial">The Right to Return and Reparations for all
Katrina survivors!</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial">Our youth need jobs and education not jails!</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial">Military recruiters out of our schools!</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial">Full reproductive rights and healthcare for
all women!</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial">Stop the war on immigrants, women, LGBT
people, youth of color, workers and the poor!</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial">No racial profiling and police brutality!</font></li>
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<hr size="2" width="100%"><font face="Arial"><b>Help build the March
12-17 Encampment to Stop the War.</b><br>
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<b>On the 4th anniversary of the illegal invasion of Iraq, join the
March 17th March on the Pentagon in Washington, DC<br>
</b><br>
Call the Troops Out Now Coalition (TONC) at:<br>
617-522-6626 for more info, to reserve a bus seat or make a donation to
the bus subsidy fund at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.iacboston.org/031707/m17.html">http://www.iacboston.org/031707/m17.html</a><br>
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Click here for details about the Encampment to Stop the War:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://encampmenttostopthewar.blogspot.com">http://encampmenttostopthewar.blogspot.com</a><br>
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<hr size="2" width="100%"><big><big><big><font face="Arial"><small><small>Immigrant
rights & international women's rights: Two struggles intertwined</small></small></font></big></big></big><br>
<font face="Arial"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.workers.org/2007/world/women-0301/index.html">http://www.workers.org/2007/world/women-0301/index.html</a><br>
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Women's Fightback Network
Boston:
617-522-6626
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:wfn@iacboston.org">wfn@iacboston.org</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.iacboston.org">http://www.iacboston.org</a>
Troops Out Now Coalition
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://troopsoutnow.org">http://troopsoutnow.org</a> </pre>
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