You're Invited to a Public Forum
Sponsored by the Global Women's Strike

What's Really Going On in Haiti?


Saturday, June 12, 2010
3 p.m.
Southern California Library
6120 S. Vermont, LA 90044

$10 donation, no one turned away. Funds raised will go towards travel for a grassroots Haiti/L.A. delegation to the US Social Forum and to the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund.

Find out the latest news from Haiti and what we can do in L.A. Robert Roth of the Haiti Action Committee will talk about the protests that are not being shown on tv and the women in the temporary encampments who are fighting to be included in the reconstruction process of the new Haiti. Also screening: The documentary Lafanmi Selavi (Kreyol for "the family is life"), highlighting some of the history of resistance from young people in Haiti.

Sponsored by the Global Women's Strike. For more information: 323-276-9833, la@crossroadswomen.net, www.globalwomenstrike.net or download a flyer.



And if you're in the Bay Area, be sure to catch:

Before We Were Named:
Queer Origin Stories

Before We Were Named is a marvel of interactive theater and performance interrelating and layering queer origin stories, myths, and fables. Chronicling our spectacular existences via histories of violence, displacement, migration, revolt and spirit.

Dates: From June 15, 2010 8:00 PM
Through June 16, 2010 8:00 PM

Location:
The Lab
2948 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110

For more information

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Get free access to the Foundation Center's online directory of grants--the country's most comprehensive database for searching grant resources, including almost 100,000 U.S. foundations, corporate donors, and grantmaking charities, and over a million recent grants.

The Library is able to offer this free access as a Cooperating Collection of the Foundation Center. Get more info about the Library's Foundation Center resources.

If you have any questions, please contact us at web@socallib.org (323) 759-6063.







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