Next Event: Sistas Liberated Ground, Sunday July 8

This event is geared towards youth and youth workers. Click here for a flyer.

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INCITE! Boston presents

SISTAS LIBERATED GROUND

Sista ii Sista did it in New York…
Can we build a MOVEMENT against VIOLENCE against WOMEN OF COLOR here in BOSTON?

4:00 PM * JULY 8, SUNDAY
@ SPONTANEOUS CELEBRATIONS

45 Danforth St, JP (Stonybrook T-stop, Orange line)

Films by Sista ii Sista
And discussion with the NYC sistas and involving youth from

* Boston Youth Organizing Project * Reflect and Strengthen
* Hyde Square Task Force * Project Hip Hop
* The City School * Casa Myrna Vasquez
* Teen Empowerment * Teen Dating Violence *

Questions? inciteboston at yahoo dot com

Upcoming events...

We are planning an event with Sista II Sista, to screen films they produced and hold a discussion with youth and youth workers on gendered violence...

contact us if you're interested or want to get involved!

additionally, to raise money, we are selling books like the new INCITE anthology, "The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex." contact us about getting a copy!

INCITE chapters will be meeting at the US Social Forum in Atlanta June 27-July 1. for information, see this.

NEXT MEETING: Sun., June 10, 12-2 pm. for location email inciteboston at yahoo dot com.

Position on Palestine

INCITE! Boston does not support the politics of Ijtihad or Irshad Manji. For INCITE's positions on Palestine, please see http://www.incite-national.org/issues/warinfo/palestinepoints.html

Next Event: FIGHT WITHOUT FEAR - Filipinas Resist U.S. Imperialism - Sunday, March 11

***** CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY *****
with INCITE! Boston Women of Color Against Violence

Presenting,
as part of our film series on Global South Women's Movements,
A Fundraiser Film Screening & Discussion:

'FIGHT WITHOUT FEAR!'
Filipinas Resist U.S. Imperialism
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WHEN: 4 pm - Sunday, March 11
WHERE: Encuentro 5, 33 Harrison Ave., 5th floor (Downtown Crossing T-stop)

Suggested donation: $7, based on ability (All proceeds will go to support GABRIELA's work)

GABRIELA is a mass women's organization in the Philippines working to free women from all forms of oppression, whether intimate violence, landlessness and economic exploitation, lack of reproductive healthcare – or foreign domination by the U.S.

* After 9/11, U.S. bases in the Philippines re-opened...
* Women were over half of the 800 people disappeared in recent political violence under the U.S.-backed Arroyo dictatorship...
* Decades of economic and military domination by the U.S. have resulted in the massive exportation of Filipinas as domestic workers and mail-order brides...

Come hear about this amazing movement's work organizing peasant women, squatters, students, and the urban poor!

JOIN US for a discussion, and celebration of International Women's Day -- and women's resistance!

With:
* Darlene Lombos, organizer/film-maker
* Dorotea Mendoza, Secretary General of GABRIELA Network
* Olivia J. Qunto, lead organizer of GABRIELA Network
* Aparna Sindhoor, song
* Angela Makabali, spoken word
* Voices of Liberation
* members of INCITE! Boston Women of Color Against Violence

** We will have delicious home-cooked Philippine food! **

** Books & crafts for sale, including the new INCITE! Anthology: **
"The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex"
fresh from South End Press!

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About the Film Series:
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Too often the roles of Global South women in struggles for economic
and social justice are ignored. Or they are mentioned in passing,
without a full look at the richness of their experiences, and lessons
they offer us all.

* What can we learn from women's contributions?
* Why does colonization depend on sexism?
* What can Global South women teach us about how racism, patriarchy, & imperialism work, that we might otherwise miss?

For more info, please contact inciteboston@yahoo.com or 617-947-0759
INCITE! Boston Women of Color Against Violence inciteboston.blogspot.com

Download flyer: b&w color

Next Event - Oaxacan Women Rising! - Dec 16th - 4pm

INCITE! Boston Presents...

** Global South Women's Movements -- A Film Series **
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OAXACAN WOMEN RISING: The Revolution Will Be Televised

WHEN: Saturday, Dec. 16 - 4 pm
WHERE: Spontaneous Celebrations, 45 Danforth St., Jamaica Plain (Stony Brook T-stop)

For the past seven months, over 70,000 teachers in Oaxaca, Mexico have been on strike -- not only for better pay and education, but an end to the dictatorship of governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz. They were joined by townspeople, famers, students, housewives, and indigenous groups who took over the city, occupying streets and government offices, to demand drastic changes in government priorities to serve the people's needs.

In July, a march of 2,000 women marked a turning point in the struggle -- the women seized the state's TV and radio station, Channel 9, and began broadcasting...

JOIN US -- to see films about the Channel 9 takeover, and women's participation in the struggle in Oaxaca!

Followed by discussion, with:
* Rosalba Solis, Latin American Cultural Family Network
* Diana Iranzo, Boston for CIPO-RFM (Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca-Ricardo Flores Magon)

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And while you're at Spontaneous Celebrations, stop by...
"Shopping with a Social Conscience"
An international crafts fair featuring fair trade products from fifteen vendors around the globe
(Sat., Dec. 16 from 9 am - 9 pm; Sun. 10 am - 6 pm)
Refreshments & holiday card-making!
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About the Film Series:
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Too often the roles of Global South women in struggles for economic and social justice are ignored. Or they are mentioned in passing, without a full look at the richness of their experiences, and lessons they offer us all.

* What can we learn from women's contributions?
* Why does colonization depend on sexism?
* What can Global South women teach us about how racism, patriarchy, & imperialism work, that we might otherwise miss?

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For more info, please contact inciteboston@yahoo.com or 781-962-1983
INCITE! Boston Women of Color Against Violence -- inciteboston.blogspot.com

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Next Meeting! Sunday Dec 3rd, at 4:00pm

Hello INCITE! Boston sisters,

Our next meeting will be this Sunday December 3rd at 4:00pm at Encuentro5.
Join us and bring your project ideas!

33 Harrison Ave, 5th Floor, Boston, MA 02111
Directions: http://www.encuentro5.org/contact.htm

Proposed agenda:

1) Intros / Announcements
2) Recap / report from INCITE retreat (changes to mission -now 'statement of purpose'-, vision, guidelines for how to treat each other, guidelines for membership)
3) Revisit and assess the work we have done in the past year
- what worked, what didn't, what we liked & want to invest more energy in
4) Where are we now, where to go from here?
- project ideas ( i.e. Women of Color Film / discussion series)
5) Solidifying organizational processes:
- decision-making (explain & fine-tune process discussed at retreat)
- communication (report from retreat, assign tasks)
- decide on procedures for addressing political differences & interpersonal grievances between active members

INCITE meetings are intended to be a safe space for women of color. Allies are warmly invited to work with us, and attend meetings on a pre-arranged basis.
Bring fellow political women of color!
Questions? inciteboston@yahoo.com or call 781-962-1983.

Notes from the November 4th meeting

Agenda topics

1) Purpose and vision (reviewing)

Purpose statement- defines what your work is about Incite Boston is a group of radical womanist /feminist of color committed to building a movement to end violence against women of color in our communities through education, creative expression, critical dialog, grassroots organizing, mobilizing, and direct action. Through this work we are actively engaged in re-imagining a fair and just world and effecting the change towards it.

Vision statement- projects a general work plan

INCITE! is a national, activist organization of radical feminists of color that is mobilizing to end all forms of violence against women of color and our communities. By supporting grassroots organizing, we intend to advance a national movement to nurture the health and well-being of communities of color. Through the efforts of Incite!, women of color and our communities will move closer towards global peace, justice, equality, and liberation. (to be revised)

Womanist/ feminist/ feminist

*Womanist

Coined by Alice Walker

Community, love, motherhood is important. Womanist has a lot of religious connotations.

*Ifeminist- new movement from the right that says that you can be religious and pro-life and a feminist

2) Scheduling meetings

3) Resolving conflict

a. who should be there

b. facilitated by

c. goals

4) Process for conflict resolution

5) Task

6) Email moderators

7) Policy for repeat offenders

8) Phone tree

9) Voting consensus process

10) Formal orientation on consensus process

11)Definition of membership

a.Who is an active member?