This Sunday, Feb. 11, the New York City branch of the Party for Socialism and Liberation will be hosting its first Women’s Socialist Conference.
The day-long conference will include presentations by leading activists and women veterans of the labor,
immigrant rights and anti-imperialist struggles. The conference will also include workshops, spoken word performances and lively discussion on the Marxist perspective on the women’s question and the current state of the women’s liberation movement.
The day will begin with a two presentations, the first of which will contextualize the women’s movement in the United States and the advances that have been made. The second presentation will speak more directly on women as workers, directing the focus to women’s leadership within the working class struggle as a means of changing capitalist society.
Other topics of discussion will include young women’s leadership development, women’s leadership within the immigrant rights and anti-war struggles, the feminization of poverty and women as special victim of imperialist wars.
Featured speakers will include longtime activists and union leaders Gloria LaRiva (PSL San Francisco) and Donna Goodman (PSL New Paltz), and Columbia University student and leader of the anti-minutemen campaign Karina Garcia. Workshop leaders will include members of the Young Dominican Women’s Development Center (Da Urban Butterflies), LUCHA at Columbia University, Women’s Anti-Imperialist League and the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism).
The conference will take place on Sunday, Feb. 11, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Culturarte Center, 260 Audobon Avenue at 178th Street, Suite 100-S, 1st Floor. Doors open at 10 a.m. for registration. Food and childcare will be provided.
For more information call 212-694-8720 or email mailto:[email protected]
