Feminism and the Student Movement event, 13 December

Posted on November 5, 2008
Filed Under ENS Women, Events

A dayschool for student feminist activists sponsored by Feminist Fightback, Education Not for Sale Women and the Riveters (Manchester University women’s group)

11am-5pm, Saturday 13 December
University of Manchester Students’ Union

A big part of the recent revival in feminist discussion and activity is based among students; and hundreds of student women have attended events like the Feminist Fightback conferences. In a period when most remaining women’s officer positions are more and more precarious, when abortion rights are under attack and when the economic crisis is putting question of women’s liberation into sharp relief with cuts in services, pay cuts in the public sector (where women are the majority of the workforce) and a resurgence of reactionary right-wing moralism, NUS Women’s Campaign should be playing a leading role in the fight on these issues - but it is not.

We are organising this one day event to develop links between feminist activists in different universities and colleges; build stronger campaigns on issues from abortion rights to free education; debate the position of women in the economic crisis; and discuss how we can reclaim the NUS Women’s Campaign from its current state of inactivity.

Discussion to include:

* How to build a political, campaigning women’s group
* Defending Women’s Officer positions, and winning new ones
* Abortion rights and reproductive freedoms
* Women and the fight for free education
* Feminism and LGBT liberation
* Women and the economic crisis
* The future of NUS Women’s Campaign

For more information, or if you have suggestions for a session etc, contact Gemma Short, NUS Women’s Committee, at gemstone_88@fastmail.fm

* Feminist Fightback is a socialist feminist campaigning group.
* ENS Women is the women’s wing of Education Not for Sale, the anti-capitalist student network.
* The Riveters are Manchester University’s women’s group.

For the Facebook group for this event, see here.