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<div align="center"><big><b><font face="Arial">The Women's Fightback
Network<br>
invites you to join us for an:</font></b></big></div>
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<div align="center"><big><big><font color="#cc33cc"><b><font
face="Arial">International Women's Day Rally</font></b></font></big></big></div>
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<div align="center"><big><b><font face="Arial"><big><i>Women Still
Rising:</i></big><br>
An Evening in Solidarity with the Struggles of Women from<br>
New Orleans to Iraq to New Bedford</font></b></big></div>
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<div align="center"><b><font color="#cc33cc"><big><big><font
face="Arial">Women and their families are under attack!<br>
How do we organize and fight back?</font></big></big></font></b></div>
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<div align="center"><big><font face="Arial">Come share your experience
and bring your ideas on building <br>
a stronger </font><font face="Arial">fightback movement!</font></big><br>
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<div align="center"><big><b><big><font face="Arial">Saturday, March 31,
2007</font><br>
<font face="Arial">6:30 pm</font></big></b></big><br>
<font face="Arial">Boston School Bus Drivers Union Hall</font><br>
<font face="Arial">25 Colgate Road, 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></div>
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<div align="center"><font face="Arial">For more info: <b>Women's
Fightback Network (WFN) 617-522-6626 /</b></font><b><font face="Arial"><a
title="blocked::mailto:wfn@iacboston.org"
href="mailto:wfn@iacboston.org">wfn@iacboston.org</a></font></b> </div>
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<div align="center"><font face="Arial">Refreshments and childcare
provided</font><br>
<font face="Arial">Wheelchair accessible/Donation requested</font><br>
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<div><small><i><b><font face="Arial">Speakers and Cultural
Presentations to
include:</font></b></i></small></div>
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<div><small><font face="Arial"><b>Georgia Scott</b>, USW L. 8751,
Boston
School Bus Drivers Union<br>
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<div><small><font face="Arial"><b>Dorotea Manuela</b>, Co-Chair, Rosa
Parks
Human Rights Day Committee; Boston May Day Coalition</font></small></div>
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<div><small><font face="Arial"><b>Kaveri Rajaraman</b>, Alliance for a
Democratic and Secular South Asia; Global Women's Strike</font></small></div>
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<div><small><font face="Arial"><b>Khitam Edelbi</b>, Palestinian
educator,
actress and student</font></small></div>
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<div><small><font face="Arial"><b>Mahtowin Munro</b>, United American
Indians
of New England</font></small></div>
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<div><small><font face="Arial"><b>Jessica Tang</b>, INCITE--Women of
Color
Against Violence</font></small></div>
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<div><small><font face="Arial"><b>Mia Campbell</b>, Politicin' with the
Sisters; Women's Fightback Network</font></small></div>
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<div><small><font face="Arial"><b>Sonja Chery</b>, Boston Workers
Alliance</font></small></div>
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<div><small><font face="Arial"><b>Celenia Toledo</b>, Healthcare
activist in
Lowell & Lawrence, MA communities</font></small></div>
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<div><small><font face="Arial"><b>Isshoni</b>, Voices of Liberation</font></small></div>
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<div><small><font face="Arial"><b>Sara Mokuria</b>, Student Activist;
Committee for Justice for Hector Rivas; Happy Birthday Assata Campaign</font></small></div>
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<div><small><font face="Arial"><b>Susan Mortimer</b>, Statewide Harm
Reduction
Coalition (SHARC)</font></small></div>
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<hr size="2" width="100%"><small><font face="Arial">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>
</font></small></div>
<div><small><font face="Arial">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.</font></small></div>
<div><small><font face="Arial"> </font></small></div>
<div><small><font face="Arial">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.</font></small></div>
<div><small><font face="Arial"> </font></small></div>
<div><small><font face="Arial">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!</font></small></div>
<div><small><font face="Arial"> </font></small></div>
<div><small><font face="Arial">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.</font></small></div>
<div><small><font face="Arial"> </font></small></div>
<div><small><font face="Arial">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.</font></small></div>
<div><small><font face="Arial"> </font></small></div>
<div><small><font face="Arial">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.</font></small></div>
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<div><small><font face="Arial">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.</font></small></div>
<div><small><font face="Arial"> </font></small></div>
<div><small><font face="Arial">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 360
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.</font></small></div>
<div><small><font face="Arial"> </font></small></div>
<div><small><font face="Arial">This latest raid in New Bedford is by no
means
an isolated incident. Throughout the country there has been a dramatic
increase in repression against immigrant workers, including raids,
detentions, deportations
and forced separation of families.</font></small></div>
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<div><small><font face="Arial">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.</font></small></div>
<div><small><font face="Arial"> </font></small></div>
<div><small><font face="Arial">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.</font></small></div>
<div><small><font face="Arial"> </font></small></div>
<div><small><i><font face="Arial">Globalize the workers struggle!<br>
Long Live International Solidarity!<br>
The Women United Will Never Be Defeated!</font></i></small></div>
<div><small><font face="Arial"> </font></small></div>
<div><small><font face="Arial">Women's Fightback Network demands: </font></small></div>
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<ul>
<small> </small><li><small><font face="Arial">Bring the troops home
now! Fund human needs
not war!</font></small></li>
<small> </small><li><small><font face="Arial">Full legalization for
all immigrants!</font></small></li>
<small> </small><li><small><font face="Arial">Stop the ICE raids and
deportations!</font></small></li>
<small> </small><li><small><font face="Arial">The Right to Return
and Reparations for all
Katrina survivors!</font></small></li>
<small> </small><li><small><font face="Arial">Our youth need jobs
and education not jails!</font></small></li>
<small> </small><li><small><font face="Arial">Military recruiters
out of our schools!</font></small></li>
<small> </small><li><small><font face="Arial">Full reproductive
rights and healthcare for
all women!</font></small></li>
<small> </small><li><small><font face="Arial">Stop the war on
immigrants, women, LGBT
people, youth of color, workers and the poor!</font></small></li>
<small> </small><li><small><font face="Arial">No racial profiling
and police brutality!</font></small></li>
</ul>
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<div><small><font face="Arial">Immigrant Rights & International
Women's
Rights: Two Struggles Intertwined - <br>
<a
title="blocked::http://www.workers.org/2007/world/women-0301/index.html"
href="http://www.workers.org/2007/world/women-0301/index.html">http://www.workers.org/2007/world/women-0301/index.html</a></font>
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<b>Women's Fightback Network</b></font></small></div>
<div><small><font face="Arial"> </font></small></div>
<div><small><font face="Arial">617-522-6626<br>
<a title="blocked::mailto:wfn@iacboston.org"
href="mailto:wfn@iacboston.org">wfn@iacboston.org</a> <br>
<a title="blocked::http://www.iacboston.org/"
href="http://www.iacboston.org">http://www.iacboston.org</a></font> </small></div>
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<div><small><font face="Arial">Troops Out Now Coalition<br>
<a title="blocked::http://troopsoutnow.org/"
href="http://troopsoutnow.org">http://troopsoutnow.org</a></font> </small></div>
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