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Women Against Imperialism

Women Against Imperialism was a grassroots, feminist, anti-imperialist solidarity organization formed in San Francisco in 1981. The group’s founders comprised the women’s caucus of the Bay Area chapter of the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee. A small, local organization whose members also worked with a range of other anti-prison, feminist, international solidarity, LGBT, and anti-war organizations, Women Against Imperialism’s work primarily consisted of direct action organizing, political education activities, and internal political study. Primary areas of focus included women political prisoners; sex trade and trafficking; international solidarity (Central America; Palestine; Philippines; Puerto Rico; South Africa); militarism; and reproductive justice. One of the group’s most consistent projects was co-organizing an annual International Women’s Day march in San Francisco (1983-1996).

The Women Against Imperialism collection documents the group’s activities in the 1980s and early 1990s. The collection contains newsletters, event flyers, and other material from a variety of local, regional, and national anti-prison, international solidarity, anti-militarism, feminist, and LGBT groups. Records include flyers, brochures, newsletters, periodicals, press releases, articles, information packets, and photographs.

Complete Finding Aid: http://www.freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC500_WAI_Finding_Aid.pdf

Oral History Project: https://www.womenagainstimperialism.com/
Date Range
1980 - 1995
Keywords
abortion
Act Up!
ACT UP/SF Women
Amazon Sewing Circle Affinity Group
Association of Salvadoran Women
Boomerang Affinity Group
Chicano Moratorium
Chrystos
Deadly Connections Conference
Dorothy Allison
El Salvador
El Salvador Solidarity and Information Office
Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN)
FCI Dublin
Feminism and militarism
Furious Funeral From Hell
GABRIELA
HIV/AIDS
International Indian Treaty Council
International Women's Day
Jewelle Gomez
Jewish Women for a Secular Middle East
Laura Whitehorn
Lesbian and Gay Liberation
lesbians
Lexington Control Unit
Linda Evans
Lucy Rodriguez
Melanie DeMore
Muimbras (Brazilian Immigrant Women)
Mujerio’s International Committee
National Committee to Free Puerto Rican Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War
Nicaragua
Nydia Ester Cuevas
Pablo Marcano-García
Palestine
Palestinian Political Prisoners
Palestinian women prisoners
Persian Gulf War
Philippines
Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC)
Puerto Rican Prisoners of War
Red Lightening Women Affinity Group
reproductive rights
self-defense
Silvia Baraldini
Sistah Boom
Sparks Fly
Stop Rape Week
Susan Rosenberg
Take Back the Night
violence against women
Wall of Women Against the War
Women Against Police Terror
Women Against U.S. Military Intervention
Women’s Action Coalition
Women’s Choice Clinic
Women’s Committee Against Genocide
Women’s Health Action & Mobilization (WHAM)
Zionism

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    Women Against Imperialism
    62
Record Type
    Document
    59
    PDF
    3
Source Format
    Flyer
    15
    Statement
    7
    Pamphlet
    7
    Article
    6
    Program
    4
Year
    1990
    1
    1986
    1
    1987
    1
    1984
    1
    1981
    1
Subject
    Women
    21
    Anti-Imperialism
    17
    LGBTQI
    3
    Zionism
    3
    Puerto Rico
    2
Author
    Jennie McKnight
    1
    Leslie Hassberg
    1
    Linda Evans
    1
    Lisa Rudman
    1
    Chris Hardy
    1
Keyword
    Women Against Imperialism (WAI)
    11
    International Women's Day
    8
    Palestine
    6
    Internationalism
    3
    Judy Clark
    3
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