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Women Speaking Out Against Oppression

Milwaukee Area Labor Council, AFL-CIO
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The United Nations Association of Greater Milwaukee invites you to…
“Women Speaking Out Against Oppression”
A Celebration of International Women’s Day in Milwaukee

Organized by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom

Free & Open to the Public

Saturday – March 14th, 2020
10 AM – 12 Noon

Redeemer Lutheran Church
631 N. 19th St.
(Rear Entrance) – Milwaukee, WI
Since 1977, the United Nations has made International Women's Day a celebration focusing on both women's rights and world peace. The first International Women's Day was celebrated in 1911 when women's suffrage and health advocacy organizations called attention to the social, economic, and cultural achievements of women across the globe.

You are invited to hear presentations by the following women on issues related to oppression:

  • A video interview with Lakota elder Madonna Thunder Hawk about her life of defending Native American rights from Alcatraz to Standing Rock. She is a founding member of Women of All Red Nations, helped set up a tribal Child Protective Services Agency to keep Native children in their community, and works with the Lakota Peoples Law Project. She will also be speaking via Skype at the UWM Lubar Entrepreneurial Center on the UWM Campus at the corner of Kenwood Boulevard & Maryland Avenue on Sunday – March 8th at 2 PM.
  • Martha Collins, Commissioner on the City of Milwaukee Equal Rights Commission and UNA-MKE board member, will speak about progress on the UN Convention for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) for Milwaukeebeing passed as a City Resolution and how to implement the provisions as a binding City Ordinance.
  • Nancy Ezell, a former incarcerated personfor a non-violent felonywith a serious illness, will speak about the problem of women in prison accessing good medical care. She received a compassionate release at the urging of MICAH and WISDOM (groups that advocate for ending mass incarceration and reform of WI prisons).
  • Ashley Jordan, a lawyer and women’s rights activist, will speak on the fierce struggle for women's reproductive rights in Wisconsin.  She is active in the movement for Reproductive Justice and works with POWERS to empower women to make choices in pregnancy.

For more information contact Debbie Metke: dmetke@gmail.com/ 414.881.0904