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Bread and Roses Festival
8 September 2017 - 9 September 2017
Join ROSA’s Bread and Roses festival – we want bread but we fight for roses too!
Discussion groups, workshops, art & performances all focused on the fight for equality, particularly #repealthe8th will all be part of ROSA’s 4th Bread & Roses Festival.
FRIDAY 8th SEPT
Opening of Festival:
Women in Revolt around the World 6.30pm-7.00 pm open film footage of global struggles on loop as people take their seats
7.00pm-9.30 pm
ABORTION RIGHTS – THE TIME IS NOW
Speakers:
Dr. Rebecca Gomperts of Women on Web & Women on Waves
Ruth Coppinger TD Pro-Choice TD on the Oireachtas Committee on the 8th Amendment
Megan Brady from School Students For Choice
Laura Fitzgerald from ROSA
Diana Teles Portuguese abortion plebiscite activist
Donna Vuma – migrants rights activist
SATURDAY 9th SEPT
11am-12.30pm
Plenary
Sexism, Racism & LGBTQ oppression – a socialist feminist view
– what’s capitalism got to do with it? A socialist-feminist perspective
Speakers:
Anna Garcia – Secretary of School Students Union, Spanish State & activist with Spanish socialist-feminist collective
12.30pm-1.40pm
Choose one of three
1. Hitting like a girl – Gender Inequality in Sport
2. Not one less movement – resisting Femicide with mass struggle
3. Eerily apt 2017 – The Handmaid’s Tale
LUNCH
2.30-3.30
Choose one of three
1. Getting referendum ready – workshop on making the case for abortion rights
2. School Students for Choice Workshop – getting organised for repeal, LGBTQ equality & right to sex education in schools
Workshop led by School Students For Choice
3. Revolutionary Women -100th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution
3.35pm-4.45pm
Choose one of three
1. The life & work of Tina Modotti (1846-1942)
2. LGBTQ – beyond representation to liberation
3. The Working Poor – The Precarious Recovery – Young & Women Workers bear the brunt
5:00-6:00
Separate Church & State Rally
Speakers:
Rita Harrold – ROSA
Marion O’Sullivan – Mother and Baby Home Survivor