[Fdu] SELMA JAMES PUBLIC LECTURE, NOVEMBER 26, GLOBAL STRIKE CO-ORDINATOR

[Cynthia Wright]

BOOK LAUNCH  AND PUBLIC LECTURE

 'SEX, RACE AND CLASS: THE NEW TERMS OF UNITY'

 BY SELMA JAMES, GLOBAL WOMEN'S STRIKE CO-ORDINATOR

 DATE: MONDAY NOVEMBER 26TH
 TIME: 7:00 P.M.
 LOCATION: George Ignatieff Theatre, Trinity College, 15 Devonshire Place

 (closest subway is St. George. Devonshire Place is located between Bedford 
and St. George, half a block South of Bloor)

 For a map to Ignatieff Theatre, visit:
 https://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=George+Ignatieff+Theatre&sll=49.891235,-97.15369&sspn=29.669644,53.964844&ie=UTF8&hq=George+Ignatieff+Theatre&hnear=&ll=43.663836,-79.38695&spn=0.01248,0.019913&z=15&iwloc=A SPONSORED BY: Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of TorontoCentre for Feminist Research, York UniversityCUPE 3902, University of TorontoEquity Studies, New College, University of TorontoDepartment of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, OISE/University ofTorontoCAW Sam Gindin Chair in Social Justice and Democracy, Ryerson UniversityFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE. For more information on Selma James' Toronto Lecture, contact:cynthia.wright at utoronto.ca; da.trotz at utoronto.ca ******************************************************************************************Selma James is an anti-sexist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist campaigner andauthor. Raised in a movement household, she joined CLR James’sJohnson-Forest T!
 endency at age 15, and from 1958 to 1962 she worked with himin the movement for Caribbean federation and independence.  In 1972, shefounded the International Wages for Housework Campaign, and in 2000 shehelped launch the Global Women's Strike which she coordinates.  She coinedthe word "unwaged" to describe most of the caring work women do, and it hassince entered the English language to describe all the work without wages ofwomen, children and men, in the home, on the land, in the community. In 1975 she became the first spokeswoman of the English Collective ofProstitutes.  She is a founding member of the International JewishAnti-Zionist Network (2008).  She has addressed the power relations withinthe working class movement, and organizing across sectors despite divisionsof sex, race, age, etc., South and North. She spoke to packed audiences atOccupy in London, England, as well as Los Angeles, Oakland, Philadelphia,and SF.http://www.selmajamesbooktour.net/> For a profile you!
  can visit:http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jun/08/life-in-writing
-selma-james> Selma James is also a Guardian Contributorhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/selma-james> http://www.democracynow.org/2012/4/16/housework_as_work_selma_james_on