November/December North America Speaking Tour

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If you organized or came to an event with Selma James, please send us photos, videos, audio, reports that we can post.

As the US elects the “President of the World”, hear from Selma James who has spent decades building the movement for change, starting with the needs of women & children.

Andaiye from Guyana will not join the tour as originally scheduled – her health is not up to the rigors of a packed tour schedule just now. 

For details on the talks & on interview slots still available or to buy the book:
info@selmajamesbooktour.net or call 215-848-1120.

 Selma at the Brecht Forum

see Guardian Review for profile of Selma James
who is also a Guardian contributor

 

BREAKING: Selma James on RLTV Thurs Dec 13 at 7am

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Thursday December 13 at 7am on RLTV: airing of Selma James’s talk delivered on 11/14 at Busboys and Poets Bookstore in on her book, Sex, Race and Class: The Perspective of Winning. 

You can find out where in your city it airs by going to www.rl.tv 

Selma James is founder of the International Wages for Housework Campaign, coordinator of the Global Women's Strike, Guardian of London commentator and author who has been called, “one of the key political thinkers and activists of our times”.  She just completed a 5-week North American speaking tour that took her to 22 locations.  

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TONIGHT, DEC 6! Selma James speaking in Portland Oregon

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Join activist and author Selma James for a conversation about her newest anthology "Sex, Race and Class: The Perspective of Winning," a selection of writings that span 60 years of struggle, published by PM Press. James, a fierce anti-sexist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist campaigner will be in Portland on Thursday, December 6th, 6:30pm at PCC Cascade, Moriarty Arts Humanitites Bld (MAHB), 750 N Killingsworth in Portland.

Sliding scale donations of $1-10 to support the work of the Global Women's Strike, no one turned away.

Oakland: Urgent Venue Change - Mon Dec 3

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…URGENT....CHANGE OF VENUE....URGENT....

The Open Study Group that was scheduled at the Niebyl Proctor Library for

Monday December 3 at 7pm

will join with the Conversation with Selma James scheduled for The Public School for one exciting event!
The new address is:

“The Public School”, 2355 Broadway, Oakland

(across from the YMCA, near 19th St BART)

The Niebyl Proctor library event will be moved to this location.

Don't miss Selma James speaking in Southern California Nov 28 - Dec 1

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Saturday, December 1 11am-2pm
Sex, Race & Class: the New Terms of Unity
The Last Bookstore, 453 S. Spring Street  (N.W. corner of 5th & Spring St, Red Line to Pershing Square).  KPFK Pacifica Radio 90.7FM is the Media Sponsor for this event

Friday, November 30  6:30pm
Open Study Group & potluck reception
discussing  ‘Striving for Clarity and Influence’  from her anthology Sex, Race and Class, The Perspective of Winning. At the offices of the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, LAANE, 464 S. Lucas St.  LA, CA 90017 (Just west of downtown, btw. 6th and 3rd St., Rapid bus stop nearby, free parking)

Friday, Nov 30, 12:30-1:30
Meeting with anti-poverty and anti-hunger activists following the monthly meeting of Hunger Action LA, at LAANE (see above, follow signs to meeting room)

Thursday, Nov 29  UC Santa Barbara 

Wednesday, Nov 28 Claremont McKenna College

UC Santa Barbara Thursday Nov 29: The Global Kitchen

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Center for Research on Women and Social Justice
Department of Feminist Studies Fall Events 2012

SELMA JAMES

THE GLOBAL KITCHEN
International Perspectives on Women’s Unpaid Labor

Thursday, November 29th 4pm
McCune Conference Room
6020 HSSB

Co-sponsored by the Department of Feminist Studies, the Center for Research on Women and Social Justice, the Hull Chair in Feminist Studies, UCHN “Working at Living: The Social Relations of Precarity”, the UC Center for New Racial Studies, the Luis Leal Chair in Chicana and Chicano Studies, the Center for Black Studies Research, the Department of Asian American Studies, the Department of Black Studies, the Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity, and Academic Policy, and the Education Abroad Program.

Selma James speaking at Claremont-McKenna Wednesday Nov 28

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SELMA JAMES

Sex, Race, Class: The Perspective of Winning

Wednesday, November 28, 12:00 p.m.

Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum (CMC)

Join CMC & IWS as we welcome Selma James to campus for a discussion of her recently released anthology, Sex, Race, Class: The Perspective of Winning, A Selection of Writings 1952-2011 (2012).
*Reservations: www.claremontmckenna.edu/mmca
Lunch is served at 11:30, Talk begins at 12:00. For more info: 909-621-8244

*Lunch reservations are open to all Claremont College students, faculty, and staff

This event is co-sponsored by Intercollegiate Women’s Studies of The Claremont College and The Athenaeum at CMC.

Two events in San Francisco Bay Area, Dec 2-3

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Selma James
Speaking in the SF Bay Area

Sunday December 2nd at 5pm, California Institute of Integral Studies
1453 Mission Street (btn 10th & 11th St.), San Francisco
discussing ‘Sex, Race and Class’.

Note change in venue
Open Study Group Monday, December 3 at 7pm, Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library"The Public School"
2355 Broadway, Oakland (across from the YMCA, near 19th St BART)
There will be two people presenting on the chapter ‘Striving for Clarity and Influence’ from her anthology Sex, Race and Class — The Perspective of Winning and discussion with Selma. Copies of the book will be available or contact sf@allwomencount.net.
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