INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN'S DAY 1979 CELEBRATION

Contents: INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN'S DAY • A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE THIRD WORLD WOMEN'S ALLIANCE • SOUTHERN AFRICAN WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION IN THE LIBERATION STRUGGLE • PROGRAM • SPECIAL THANKS TO • THE JOSINA MACHEL COMMITTEE • ENDORSERS • Program for the 1979 celebration of International Working Women's Day on Sunday, March 11 at Queen Adah Hall in San Francisco. The program says International Working Women's Day commemorates the struggles, aspirations, and victories of women throughout the world; I.W.W.D. has its historical roots in U.S. labor struggles; on March 8, 1908, women in the garment industries of New York's East Side organized marches and strikes protesting sweatshop conditions and demanding a union; these women, who were largely immigrants, were considered too inferior to be unionized; yet, their strike became a turning point in women's labor history. The program says the Third World Women's Alliance (TWWA) grew from a Black women's caucus within the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee in the late 1960's; from its beginnings in the bay area, the TWWA has consisted of Asian, Black, and Raza sisters with a variety of life experiences and backgrounds; we are committed to political activism to transform the society we live in. The program says Southern African women are fighting alongside their brothers on the front line as liberation fighters. They play major roles in providing health care services and are active in the educational campaigns. People listed in the program include Myesha Jenkins, Ruvimbo Mabeza, Michelle Mouton, and Grace Shimizu. The program includes lyrics to a number of songs including A HEAVY LOAD, AIN'T GONNA LET NOBODY TURN US AROUND, and SOLIDARITY SONG. The program includes the poem THIS IS THE TIME. The program gives special thanks to Amador Aguilar, Edward Allan, Bauki Bala, Jackie Bowles, Hakim Braud, Ruby Brunson, Lucas Daumont, Ricky Duncan, Juan Fuentes, Heber, Stanley Himes, Bob Hood, Phil Hutchins, Ron Ishida, Taleb Jenkins, Marsha King, Mona Litrownik, Belvin Louie, Naima Majid, Reggie Mason, Pilar Mejia, Sharyl Minnis, June Morita, Ufehamu Muumba, Margaret Owens, Marty Payne, Ellice Parker, Nolie Price, Ric Ricard, Naima Sadit, Cecillia Shearron, Ellen Shandalove, Terry Sharpe, Sunlite Records, Marilyn Waller, Bob Wing, and Marilyn Wong. The program says endorseres are American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Local 1650; Black Community Task Force; Black Panther Party; Committee To Fight Infant Mortality; Concilio de Mujeres; El Tecolote; Fits Printing Collective; Club Network (formerly Guardian Club); International Indian Treaty Council; Jane Vanini Committee; National Committee To Overturn The Bakke Decision; Native American Defense Committee; Non-Intervention In Nicaragua; Northern California Alliance; Pan African Students Collective (U.C. Berkeley); Puerto Rico Solidarity Committee; Stop Banking On Apartheid; Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP); Western Addition Project Area Committee (WAPAC); What's Your Line Graphics Collective; Women of All Red Nations (WARN); and Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU). Enclosed with the program is the form: INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 1979 Evaluation and Feedback. The program discusses the Zimbabwe African National Union (Z.A.N.U., ZANU), Committee to Fight Infant Mortality, Guinea-Bissau, Namibia, and Zimbabwe.