International Women's Strike: Chicago

Thompson Center
100 W Randolph St
Chicago, IL 60601
United States
March 8, 2017,
6:00 pm to 9:00 pm

This March 8th marks the 108th annual International Working Women's Day. Join us for a rally to demand the right to healthcare, childcare, eldercare and housing as foundation stones in building a genuinely just and safe society for all.

In 1909 our parent organization, the Socialist Party of America, started International Working Women's Day in honor of the International Ladies Garment Worker's Union strike. It became an internationally recognized holiday that is still celebrated today, and has also become known as International Women's Day.

Wednesday, March 8th at 6pm at the Thompson Center, come rain or shine.

Speakers:

- Zerlina Smith - 29th ward organizer and Action Now activist: A powerful voice for a third way in politics, Ms. Smith is a leader in local efforts for a living wage, affordable housing, and fully funded public education for all. 

- Red Schulte- Grassroots organizer, founding editor of Red Wedge magazine, an activist involved with the SlutWalk Chicago organizing collective and with a radical sex workers support collective, Support Ho(s)e

- Tobita Chow - The Chair of The People's Lobby, organizing a campaign for a global minimum wage in order to end the reliance on sweatshop labor and stop the global race to the bottom

- Erica Nanton - A leader with The People's Lobby organizing for racial and economic justice on the South Side of Chicago, and the daughter of immigrants from the Caribbean