The first Feminist Fightback activist conference will take place at the School of Oriental and African Studies, in London, on Saturday 21 October.
Registration starts 11.30pm
All day: stalls, exhibition on Grunwick strike, creche
12-12.40pm Opening plenary: International solidarity for women's liberation
Organisation of Women's Freedom in Iraq; Azar Sheibani, Iranian women's rights activist; Lois Davies speaking about Women of Zimbabwe Arise!; ENS Women.
12.45-1.45pm Session 1
a) Sex workers organising for their rights
Speaker: International Union of Sexworkers
b) Trans liberation
Speaker: Joanna Stuart; Beaumont Society
c) Asian women's struggles
Speaker: Amrit Wilson, South Asia Solidarity Group; Faz Velmi, TGWU activist
1.45-2.25pm Lunch
Showing of Stand Together, film about Grunwick struggle, 1976-8
2.25-3.25pm Session 2
a) Building campaigning women's groups.
Speakers: Sussex Uni women's group; Kat Stark, NUS Women's Officer
b) Challenging sexism on the left, building a socialist feminist labour movement
Carolyn Leckie, Scottish Socialist MSP; Jean Lane, author of "Women in a 'man's job': experiences of a woman building worker and trade unionist"
c) Feminism without borders: trafficking, asylum and immigration rights
Speakers: No Borders network; refugee speaker; Carys Ofoko, Close Campsfield campaign
3.35-4.35pm Session 3
a) Low pay, equal pay and women workers' struggle
Amrit Wilson; Marsha Jane-Thompson, Unison London young members' convenor; Maria Exall, CWU; Lorna Campbell, PCS Equalities Officer
b) Feminism and sexual expression
Speakers: Abi Lee, author of "Girl With A One Track Mind"; Feminists Against Censorship; Backlash; Sofie Buckland
c) Queer liberation
Emma Persky, NUS LGBT committee, 2005-6
4.35-4.50pm Break
4.50-5.50pm Session 4
a) Abortion rights campaigning (Women only session)
Speaker: Kate Ahrens, Keep Our NHS Public and Unison; others TBC
b) Men's role in the fight against sexism
c) Film: Bread & Roses, the women's movement in Argentina
5.55-7pm Plenary
What way forward for the women's liberation movement?
Speakers: Gate Gourmet worker; Cathy Nugent, editor, Solidarity; ENS Women; other speakers
Collection for Gate Gourmet workers
Closing remarks from Sofie Buckland
- Followed by fundraising social at the Ivy House, 8-10 Southampton Row, London WC1B 4AE (10-15 minutes walk from SOAS, 5 minutes from Holborn tube).
- ENS Women is also supporting a Women Against Fundamentalisms meeting on "Women, the 'War on Terror' and Fundamentalism, 2pm - 5pm, 21 October, Upper Hall, University of London Union, Malet Street.
For more information or to register, email us or visit our website.
All day: stalls, exhibition on Grunwick strike, creche
12-12.40pm Opening plenary: International solidarity for women's liberation
Organisation of Women's Freedom in Iraq; Azar Sheibani, Iranian women's rights activist; Lois Davies speaking about Women of Zimbabwe Arise!; ENS Women.
12.45-1.45pm Session 1
a) Sex workers organising for their rights
Speaker: International Union of Sexworkers
b) Trans liberation
Speaker: Joanna Stuart; Beaumont Society
c) Asian women's struggles
Speaker: Amrit Wilson, South Asia Solidarity Group; Faz Velmi, TGWU activist
1.45-2.25pm Lunch
Showing of Stand Together, film about Grunwick struggle, 1976-8
2.25-3.25pm Session 2
a) Building campaigning women's groups.
Speakers: Sussex Uni women's group; Kat Stark, NUS Women's Officer
b) Challenging sexism on the left, building a socialist feminist labour movement
Carolyn Leckie, Scottish Socialist MSP; Jean Lane, author of "Women in a 'man's job': experiences of a woman building worker and trade unionist"
c) Feminism without borders: trafficking, asylum and immigration rights
Speakers: No Borders network; refugee speaker; Carys Ofoko, Close Campsfield campaign
3.35-4.35pm Session 3
a) Low pay, equal pay and women workers' struggle
Amrit Wilson; Marsha Jane-Thompson, Unison London young members' convenor; Maria Exall, CWU; Lorna Campbell, PCS Equalities Officer
b) Feminism and sexual expression
Speakers: Abi Lee, author of "Girl With A One Track Mind"; Feminists Against Censorship; Backlash; Sofie Buckland
c) Queer liberation
Emma Persky, NUS LGBT committee, 2005-6
4.35-4.50pm Break
4.50-5.50pm Session 4
a) Abortion rights campaigning (Women only session)
Speaker: Kate Ahrens, Keep Our NHS Public and Unison; others TBC
b) Men's role in the fight against sexism
c) Film: Bread & Roses, the women's movement in Argentina
5.55-7pm Plenary
What way forward for the women's liberation movement?
Speakers: Gate Gourmet worker; Cathy Nugent, editor, Solidarity; ENS Women; other speakers
Collection for Gate Gourmet workers
Closing remarks from Sofie Buckland
- Followed by fundraising social at the Ivy House, 8-10 Southampton Row, London WC1B 4AE (10-15 minutes walk from SOAS, 5 minutes from Holborn tube).
- ENS Women is also supporting a Women Against Fundamentalisms meeting on "Women, the 'War on Terror' and Fundamentalism, 2pm - 5pm, 21 October, Upper Hall, University of London Union, Malet Street.
For more information or to register, email us or visit our website.
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