The International Women’s Alliance and Partners Present: The People’s Commission on the Status of Women!
April 11th, Saturday 5 – 8:30 pm
A hybrid event with both in-person and online options, join us at The People’s Forum (doors at 5pm) or join online at 5:30 pm.
Join us for an evening of fierce feminist insight to build collective power! Last month, the United Nations held its 70th session on the Commission on the Status of Women. Now, this month, which is also sexual assault awareness month, it’s time for the people’s response! The International Women’s Alliance and its member and partner organizations, Adolfina, Ain’t I am Woman?!, Gabriela NY and the Palestinian Feminist Collective, have been gathering in NYC to reflect and support one another since the close of the UN CSW 70. During the Violence Against Women Panel at CSW 70, so much was left out, and this leaves those oppressed under US, Zionist and Western imperialist colonialist policy hanging in the balance. We say reforms are not enough! Let’s address the root causes and hear from the people! Through short panel presentations and guided discussion, we name the imperialist violence against women in Palestine, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico and affirm our anti-colonial, anti-imperialist feminist power—responding to the UN’s CSW70 Violence Against Women Panel and more. A member from Ain’t I a Woman?! will also speak on the campaign to pass No More 24!, legislation to end an inhumane 24-hour work day in New York.
Be a part of co-creating an anti-colonial and life-affirming space for reflection, healing and community. Gathering to raise our consciousness is the first step forward to end gender-based violence, the effects of colonialism and displacement in our diasporas. Together we can envision liberatory ways forward!
In person: Engage in with our Zoom and in-person Q&A, check out each organization’s info and swag table, honor collective grief and remembrance of those lost to gender based violence through our community altar, and connect more to each other and each organization.
Bring something for our community altar/reflection area if you’d like. Can be a photo or a significant object to you that supports healing and commemoration.
Light snacks/refreshments provided
Zoom attendees: Make yourself comfortable at home or gather your friends for a watch party!
About IWA
The International Women’s Alliance (IWA) is an anti-imperialist global alliance of militant grassroots-based women’s organizations, institutions, alliances, networks and individuals committed to advancing national and social liberation and gender equality. We are united in the goal of liberating women from historical oppression and exploitation and in establishing an alternative system founded on genuine democracy, freedom, justice, equality and peace.
Adolfina, Ain’t I a Woman, Gabriela and the Palestinian Feminist Collective are member organizations or community partners of IWA.
About Adolfina NYC
Adolfina seeks to create a multi-chapter alliance and fighting political organization for the Puerto Rican anti-imperialist militant women’s movement that actively struggles for national sovereignty, genuine democracy and liberation for all women and gender-oppressed people with a primary focus on the strength, leadership and unity of women workers.
About Ain’t I a Woman?!
Ain’t I a Woman?! is the coalition leading the movement to end the 24-hr workday, a violent practice in New York City, which is destroying the health and lives of women of color home attendants.
About Gabriela New York
GABRIELA New York (formerly known as Filipinas for Rights and Empowerment [FiRE]) is a mass-based women’s organization serving New York City and its surrounding areas. We connect the Filipino diaspora to the women’s struggle in the Philippines. We are women of Philippine descent, including those who are migrants, immigrants and US-born. We recognize Filipino women of mixed heritage and adoptees. GABRIELA New York is a LGBTQIGNC-(Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning, Intersex and Gender Non-Comforming) friendly organization that is inclusive of transgender people of Philippine descent.
About Palestinian Feminist Collective
The Palestinian Feminist Collective (PFC) is a body of Palestinian/Arab feminists primarily located on Turtle Island (the unceded lands known as North America). We are an intergenerational collective of activists, organizers, practitioners, creators, thinkers, artists, scholars, healers, water and land protectors, life-givers, and life-sustainers. We are committed to achieving Palestinian social and political liberation by confronting systemic gendered, sexual, and colonial violence, oppression, and dispossession.
