Women Organizing in Frontline Communities
Posted by Rutgers University on February 29, 2016
American Studies, The Institute for Women’s Leadership, The RCHA Black Atlantic Project, Women’s and Gender Studies, and The Institute for Research on Women
welcome all to a talk by
Cheri Honkala
A Song in the Fire: Women Organizing in Frontline Communities
6 p.m., Wed., April 6th
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Bldg.
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Reception Following
Introduced by Belinda Davis, History/WGS
Cheri Honkala, internationally recognized anti-poverty and human rights advocate, is founder of the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign and former U.S. vice presidential candidate for the Green Party. Honkala co-organized the 2015 U.S. Social Forum and the 2013 World Court of Women on Poverty in Philadelphia; in 2011, she ran for sheriff of Philadelphia, on a platform of ending evictions of families from their homes. Honkala has been named Ms. Magazine’s Woman of the Year, and Mother Jones’s Hellraiser of the Month.
For more information, contact Belinda Davis at bedavis@rci.rutgers.edu.
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