[ENS] Final Fightback Agenda

[Laura Schwartz]

  Provisional agenda for Feminist Fightback
 For updates and more details see www.feministfightback.org.uk
 ENS Women: www.socialistfeminist.org.uk
 
 
 Saturday 20 October, University of East London Docklands Campus (Cyprus DLR) 
 
 Throughout the day: stalls, exhibitions, film showings including Love, Honour and Disobey, a film by Southall Black Sisters; and A Place of Rage: women in the black civil rights movement; Salt of the Earth, a story of workers', Mexican-Americans' and women's struggle for liberty and dignity
  Film showings: Room EB.G.11
   
  There will be a crèche in room EB.G.18
 
 11.30
 Registration starts 
  Atrium
 
 12-12.30 
 Welcome and introduction to the event. 
  Speakers: Teodora Todorova (ENS Women); Jean Lane (‘veteran’ socialist feminist); Shonagh and Claire (RAG Irish pro-choice activists)
  Chair: Laura Schwartz
  Room: EB.2.44
 
 12.35-1.45 Workshops
 a) Is sexy always sexist? Speakers: K Good (Shark Infested Waters); Sofie Buckland (ENS Women); Amy Burge (York Women’s officer 2006-7); Alice Evans (Object, p.c.) 
  Chair: Teodora Todorova  Room: EB.2.44
 b) Race, sex, class. Speakers: Priya Gopal (writer and activist); Amrit Wilson (South Asia Solidarity); All African Women’s Group
  Chair: Gwyneth Lonergan Room: EBG.14
  c) Women sweatshop workers fightback. Speaker: Rebeca Zunita-Hamlin (Central American Women’s Network) plus film showing. EB.G.16
  Chair: Rebecca Galbraith
 
 1.45-2.15 Lunch
 Lunchtime discussion: Women in Darfur. Speaker: Jo Read (Day for Darfur) Room: EB.G.14
 
 2.15-3.30 Workshops
 a) Ecofeminism? Socialism, feminism and ecology. Laura Sterry (Feminist Fightback) Room: EB.G.14
 b) Sexual liberation vs capitalism? Fighting homophobia. Speakers include Maria Exall (Communication Workers' Union executive; LGBT representative on TUC General Council); Florence and Michael Must Stay Campaign; Queer Mutiny
  Facilitator: Rachael Ferguson Room:EB.2.44
 c) Introduction to socialist feminism. Facilitator: Laura Schwartz (Workers' Liberty) Room: EB.G.16
 
 3.35-4.50 Workshops
 a) Feminism, imperialism and women in the Muslim-majority world. Yassamine Mather (Campaign for the Abolition of All Gender Based Misogynistic Legislation and Islamic Punitive Laws in Iran); Gwyneth Longergan (Feminist Fightback); Haleh Afshar (author of Islamic Feminisms)
  Chair: Ruth Cashman Room: EB.2.44
 b) Debate on women's representation in politics. Speakers: Katy Clark (Labour MP for North Ayrshire and Arran), Jill Mountford (socialist council candidate in Lewisham); Sam Lyle (Warwick  University), Ellie Crimbo (Oxford Women in Politics, Women’s Officer Oxford University 2006)
  Chair: Mary Partington Room: EB.G. 14
 c) The "gender pay gap", low pay and the class struggle. Speakers include Marsha Jane Thompson (London Unison youth activist); Jean Lane (teaching assistant and Unison activist in Tower Hamlets)
  Chair: Becky Crocker Room: EB.G.16
 
 4.55-6 Action workshops
 a) The fight for abortion rights. Speakers: RAG Irish pro-choice campaigners, Oxford Pro-Choice Forum, ENS Women, Abortion Rights (invited), Rosie Woods (NHS Nurse, Unison)
      Facilitator: Emma Clossick Room: EB.G.14
 b) Feminists against borders. Speakers: Xtalk Project; Women Asylum Seekers Together; Black Woman Against Rape
Facilitator: Becky Crocker Room: EB.G.16
 
 6-7 Closing plenary: what future for socialist feminism?
 Speakers include Eva Caradonna (IUSW), Amrit Wilson (South Asia Solidarity Group and author of Dreams, Questions, Struggles: South Asian Women in Britain), Heather Shaw (ENS Women), Laurie Penny (Red Pepper magazine). Collection for striking Fremantle care workers in Barnet
Chair: Laura Schwartz Room: EB.2.44
 
 
 Followed from 8pm by a social at the Ivy House, 8-10 Southampton Row, two minutes from Holborn tube, to raise money for Iranian women's liberation organisations
  
       
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