Video Panel: Socialist Feminists Respond to COVID-19, Unfinished Global Revolts, Me Too Movement
Video recording of online panel organized by Alliance of MENA Socialists on March 29, 2020 https://www.facebook.com/2196931800604746/videos/3121336057890977/ Speakers: Julia Wallace: Black socialist activist, member of SEIU Local 721 and writer for Leftvoice.org...
Dialogue Between Socialist Feminists from China, Russia, Turkey
Sunday March 1, 2020, 7 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Geneva time Two hours of Q and A with a moderator to be followed by 30 minutes of Q & A with the facebook audience. Videolink: https://www.facebook.com/2196931800604746/videos/508724249785465/ Speakers: Zoe...
Free Mays Abou Ghosh and Khalida Jarrar from Israel’s prisons !
We publish the the following article as part of an ongoing series calling attention to the state of political prisoners and the importance of the MeToo movement in the MENA region. By Lara al-Kateb The "banana" position is a method used in interrogation which involves...
Report on Socialist Feminist Dialogue Between Iranian, Iraqi, Palestinian-Lebanese, Chilean women
The speakers identified a universal challenge in their movements: too often gender justice is viewed as a secondary struggle, less important than economic or political fights. A key task for socialist feminists is to meld economic, political, and social issues....
Livestream Socialist Feminist Dialogue Between Iranian, Iraqi, Palestinian-Lebanese, Chilean women
Sunday January 26, 2020 7 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Geneva Time Sponsored by Alliance of MENA Socialists. Socialist feminists from Iran, Iraq, Lebanon and Chile will discuss the unique features of the uprisings in each country, the role of women, the state of women’s...
Statement by MENA Socialist Feminists and Allies on the Popular Uprisings in the Region
In all the ongoing struggles in the region, the most progressive demands have been raised by women participants who oppose patriarchy and do not separate social justice from women’s emancipation. In order for the 2019 uprisings to move forward, the struggle for...
Palestine: “No Liberation Without Free Women”
The TALIAAT movement mobilized for the first time in Ramallah on September 26, 2019, bringing together more than one hundred women against violence committed against a woman by her husband. Other demonstrations were organized at the same time throughout all of...
Video of San Francisco Event in Solidarity with Iranian Women Political Prisoners
As part of a monthlong series of events for women, human rights activists and political prisoners in Iran, an art mural opening took place in San Francisco last week. Some of the artists participating were born in Iranian prisons because their mothers were political...
Palestinian Women Protest Against Femicide, For Free Homeland & Women’s Emancipation
On September 26, 2019, hundreds of Palestinians took to the streets to protest femicide. The demonstrations which took place in Haifa, Jerusalem, Ramallah, the West Bank and the Gaza strip, were organized via Facebook under the event “Free Homeland, Free Women”. The...