Los Angeles, California 2170 W. Washington Blvd. 323–732–6416
Public Hours at Solidarity Hall
Fridays 1- 5pm Sundays 12- 5pm
Study Groups Events Thursday, May 22, 7:30 pm
Commemorate Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month at a
special film showing of “Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women”
During World War II, the Japanese Imperial Army forced up to 200,000 Korean women into sexual enslavement; they were called "comfort women." The Japanese government still officially denies this atrocity and destroyed nearly all documentation pertaining to it. But, after a half-century, elderly “comfort women” broke their silence and told their stories. Since 1991, these brave fighters have been demanding recognition of rape as a war crime as well as demanding redress from Japan.This film by Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, co-produced by African American filmmaker Charles Burnett, features interviews with former comfort women. Discussion after the screening will address war’s particular impact on women and what can be done today to win justice for the survivors before it is too late.
Spring supper, with vegetarian option, will be served at 6:30 p.m. for a $7.00 donation. Solidarity Hall, 2170 West Washington Blvd., Los Angeles. Off the 10 Freeway at Western Ave., on bus lines #30, 31 & 35. Solidarity Hall is air conditioned.
For more information contact: 323-732-6416, RadicalWomenLA@aol.com or visit www.RadicalWomen.org.
Freedom Socialist Party
Sunday, April 27, 6:00pm
Celebrate May Day at a book launch for “Viva la Raza”
Los Angeles feminist and archivist Yolanda Alaniz will talk about her new book, Viva la Raza: A History of Chicano Identity and Resistance, which describes monumental labor battles, surveys the vibrant movement of the 1960s and ’70s, and focuses unique attention on women and Latina/o lesbians and gays. The volume is co-authored with Megan Cornish and has a foreword by the esteemed Chicana/o Studies Professor and historian Rodolfo Acuña.A festive posole supper will be served at 5:00pm for a $9.00 donation. (Low income and work exchanges available.) The event is hosted by the Freedom Socialist Party and the National Comrades of Color Caucus and will take place at Solidarity Hall, 2170 W. Washington Blvd., L.A. (Off the 10 freeway, bus lines #30, 31, and 35.) Everyone is welcome. For information, call 323-732-6416 or email lafsprw6@aol.com.
Radical Women
Thursday, April 17, 7:30 pm
The Feminist Stake in the L.A. Social Forum
How to revitalize radical movements will top the agenda at the L.A. Social Forum, scheduled in June at the University of Southern California. This Radical Women meeting will feature a discussion on how to promote feminist influence at the conference. Bring your thoughts on the role female leaders play in propelling revolutionary change.A delicious dinner, with vegetarian option, will be served at 6:30 pm for a $7 donation. The meeting will be held at Solidarity Hall, 2170 West Washington Blvd., Los Angeles. (Off the 10 Freeway at Western Ave., on bus lines #30, 31 & 35.)
For more information, contact: 323-732-6416, RadicalWomenLA@aol.com or visit www.RadicalWomen.org
Thursday, April 3, 7:30 pm
Can NGO’s and nonprofits right the world’s wrongs?
This Radical Women meeting will discuss the more than 800 nongovernmental organizations that operate in the U.S., funded by corporate-sponsored foundations with assets of $500 billion. Yet, working people still face starvation wages, cuts in education and social services, and attacks on abortion. Come share your thoughts on the role of NGOs and whether or not big business is interested in hiring people to win human, labor and civil rights.A spring supper, with vegetarian option, will be served at 6:30 p.m. for a $7 donation. The meeting will be held at Solidarity Hall, 2170 West Washington Blvd., Los Angeles. (Off the 10 Freeway at Western Ave., on bus lines #30, 31 & 35.)
For more information contact: 323-732-6416, RadicalWomenLA@aol.com or visit www.RadicalWomen.org
Sunday, March 9, 2:00 pm
International Women’s Day Celebration:
Art, Media & Revolution – Three Feminist Visionaries Speak Out
Feminist artists and journalists have fought against war, censorship and bigotry and for equality and freedom of expression throughout history. Artist Susana De Leon, poet Ashley Love, and journalist Amanda Rossi will discuss the contributions of women artists to radical movements. These talented women exemplify the creative minds who counter corporate controlled media and degrading images of women with a global vision of beauty and hope.A rebel-girl supper with vegetarian option will be served at 4:30 p.m. for $8.00 donation. Door donation is $2.
The event will be held at Solidarity Hall, 2170 West Washington Blvd., Los Angeles (off the 10 Freeway at Western Ave., on bus lines #30, 31, & 35).
For more information contact: 323-732-6416, RadicalWomenLA@aol.com or visit www.RadicalWomen.org Everyone is welcome.
Freedom Socialist Party
Monday, February 25, 2008, 7:30 p.m.
Black History Month Film Showing: At the River I Stand
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike. The determination of low-paid Black workers transformed a local labor dispute into a pivotal point in the civil rights and union movements. It brought Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis where he was assassinated defending the right to union representation and an end to racist treatment on the job.This film’s riveting portrait of the strength and resolve of ordinary people inspires viewers to re-dedicate themselves to fighting for full racial and economic justice.
Door donation $2. Southern-style supper, with vegetarian option, served at 6:30 p.m. for a $8.00 donation. (Low income and work exchanges available.) The meeting is at Solidarity Hall, 2170 W. Washington Blvd., L.A. (Off the 10 freeway, bus line #30, 31.)
For more information call 323-732-6416 or email lafsprw6@aol.com.
Radical Women
Wednesday, February 13, 7:30pm
Black History Month Celebration
The Long Shadow of Little Rock
Participate in a community discussion of a key struggle of the civil rights movement. NAACP leader and newspaper publisher Daisy Bates led the pivotal fight to integrate public schools in Little Rock, Arkansas. In her memoir, The Long Shadow of Little Rock, she recounts this battle. Three years after Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, a Supreme Court decision mandating school integration, few Southern schools had complied. Bates depicts the inspiring community-wide courage that led nine students to integrate Little Rock Central High School in 1957 despite clashes with violent racist mobs and white supremacist politicians and police.Fifty-one years after this historic battle, public schools are becoming more segregated with each passing year. Share your ideas about how to defend integrated public education and secure civil rights for all children and working women and men.
A Southern-style dinner will be served at 6:30pm for a $7 donation. The event begins at 7:30 p.m., Solidarity Hall, 2170 W. Washington Blvd., Los Angeles. Off the 10 Freeway at Western Ave., bus lines #30,3,35.
For more information contact 323-732-6416 or RadicalWomenLA@aol.com.
Thursday, January 24, 7:00 pm
Roe v. Wade 35th Anniversary Commemoration
Throughout most of the Western Hemisphere abortion rights for working-class women hang by a thread or are still illegal. Only in revolutionary Cuba is it constitutionally guaranteed and free. Come hear how women in the U.S. and Latin America are mobilizing to demand and defend this basic human and civil right, bring your ideas and join the discussion.A Rebel Girl Supper with vegetarian option will be served at 6:30 p.m. for $7.00 donation. Everyone is welcome.
Solidarity Hall, 2170 West Washington Blvd., Los Angeles (off the 10 Freeway at Western Ave., on bus line #68).
For more information contact: 323-732-6416, RadicalWomenLA@aol.com or visit www.RadicalWomen.org Everyone is welcome.
Radical Women
Mondays, January 14 thru February 18, 7:00- 9:00 p.m.
Women As a Global Force for Revolution
This eye-opening 6-week study group will focus on “Women’s Emancipation & Permanent Revolution” and other writings by Marxist feminist theorist Murry Weiss. Explore how working women kicked off the 1917 Russian Revolution, led and radicalized the Black Civil Rights Movement and continue today to fight for union wages, nationalized healthcare and an end to sex discrimination all over the world!Donation is $2.00 per session. Hearty after-work snacks available at 6:30 p.m. for a donation. Solidarity Hall, 2170 W. Washington Blvd., Los Angeles (off the 10 Freeway at Western, on bus line #68).
For information or to acquire the text call 323-732-6416 or email RadicalWomenLA@aol.com.
