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Reclaim The Night - East Midlands

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Reclaim The Night - East Midlands

When : Saturday 24th October 2009
Time : 6:00pm onwards.

Reclaim The Night marches give women a voice and a chance to reclaim the streets at night on a safe and empowering event. We aim to put the issue of our safety on the agenda for this night and every day.

This is going to be a hugely inspirational event being held in Nottingham but we want it to represent the entire of the East Midlands. This will be a rally through the centre of Nottingham and then there will be speakers and acts (TBC) afterwards.

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Demonstration
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Activism
Representation of women
Self-defense
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Microcredit: an alternative for women´s empowerment? (WIDE event in Brussels)

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WIDE, in the current context of its work on the neoliberal agenda, will
address the issue of microcredit as an alternative for women´s
empowerment during a one-day conference organized on the 15th of May in
Brussels.
The conference will aim at providing a comprehensive approach to microcredit: its specificities and impacts in the South, its implementation in the EU and its challenges especially in the context of the current financial and economic crisis. It will be an opportunity to gather different views and share experiences around microcredit practices.

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Event
Topic: 
Entrepreneurship
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Race, Privilege & Identity Gathering, 24-26th April 2009 in Bristol, UK

Race, privilege and identity is a gathering taking place in Bristol, UK, 24-26th April 2009.

To contact us to get involved please email: raceprivilegeidentityatriseup [dot] net

Its aim is to engage with issues of race, privilege and identity in radical queer-feminist communities through building dialogue, coalitions and resources.

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Event
Topic: 
Activism
Anti-Imperialism
Networking & community building
Race & ethnicity
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Sistren Book Release in Rome, Italy

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Saturday 18th April 2009

Sistren is a DIY book collection about the intersection of race, class, gender and sexuality by feminists, lesbians, queers and trans coming from forced migration, slavery and the diaspora discourse.

Readings by

Humaira Saeed (Manchester,UK)
Sachi Nehra (London, UK),
Grada Kilomba (Berlin, Germany)

Gig by Kerieva McCormick (Edimburg, Scotland)
"Kerieva is a mystery; she is a performing musician and singer and simultaneously
an international advocate of Roma(Gypsy) issues. Although based in Scotland, she

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Event
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LGBT and queer issues
Race & ethnicity
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Gender Justice Uncovered Awards / Premios Género y Justicia al Descubierto

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(En español al final)

Women's Link Worldwide is looking for the BEST and WORST recent decisions or statements on gender equality in Spain, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Send us your submissions of written statements, decisions or judgments made during the resolution of a legal case which has had an effect on gender equality.

The submissions may have been made in any court, tribunal, committee or administrative body for example by judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, ombudsman, UN committees, regional and international courts, or asylum boards.

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Event
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Global affairs & transnationalism
Human rights
Political participation
Representation of women
Reproductive rights
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All-European Autonomous Feminist Womyn's Gathering

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April 9 - 14, 2009
Vienna, Austria

What we want from this gathering

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Event
Topic: 
Activism
LGBT and queer issues
Networking & community building
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