<div dir="ltr"><div>Please contribute if you can to help Global Women's Strike send another Freedom Train to Sacramento for Poor People's Campaign Week 5 next Monday!</div><div>Next week's theme is on living wages. This crew is 100% awe-inspiring humans doing incredibly important work.<br></div><div><3<br></div><div><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Jenny<br><br></div><div>Help open a professional kitchen at the Omni Commons in Oakland!<br></div><div><a href="https://omnicommons.org/kitchen" target="_blank">https://omnicommons.org/kitchen</a><br>
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"Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories."<br>
-Laurie Anderson<br>
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"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."<br>
 -Hannah Arendt<br>
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"To define is to kill. To suggest is to create."<br>
-Stéphane Mallarmé</div><div><br></div>"Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon."<br>--Dave Sim, "Cerebus the Aardvark"<div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Global Women's Strike/Bay Area</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sf@allwomencount.net">sf@allwomencount.net</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 8:36 AM<br>Subject: URGENT: Help grassroots women return to Sacramento for Poor People's Campaign week 5<br>To: <a href="mailto:jenny@omnicommons.org">jenny@omnicommons.org</a><br><br><br>




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</span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#cc00cc">URGENT
FUNDRAISING APPEAL!<br>
SUPPORT GLOBAL WOMEN’S STRIKE NETWORK DELEGATION TO SACRAMENTO <br>
TO TAKE PART IN WEEK 5 OF THE POOR PEOPLE’S CAMPAIGN</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><i><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#cc00cc">Everybody’s Got the
Right To Live: Living Wages, Jobs, Income, Housing, Education!</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">On June 11^th, multi-racial
grassroots campaigners with the Global Women’s Strike Northern and SoCal and
International Women’s Strike/LA networks will again travel to Sacramento,
joining thousands of others across the U.S for the Week 5 action called by
The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for a Moral Revival.<b>  </b>On
June 11^th, in over 30 state capitols people will rise up around
the theme <i><span style="color:black">Everybody’s Got the Right To Live:
Living Wages, Jobs, Income, Housing, Education</span></i>.  In
California a rally and press conference at the State Capitol in Sacramento
will begin at 12:30, followed by a civil disobedience direct action.</span></p>
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</span><b><span style="color:black">Our deep appreciation to those who
donated to help get our grassroots delegation to the May 14</span></b><b>^{<span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:black">th</span>}<span style="color:black">
action </span></b><span style="color:black">– our 40 member multiracial
delegation of women, men and 2 children (above) joined hundreds of other
Californians taking action, along with people in other state capitols, to end
the poverty of women, children and people with disabilities. We were also
part of the powerful PPC Week 3 action on May 29</span>^{<span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:black">th</span>}<span style="color:black">
protesting<i> The War Economy, Militarism and the Proliferation of Gun Violence.
</i><br><br>
We urgently need your help to raise an additional $1000 to cover our costs to
return to Sacramento for the June 11</span><b>^{<span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:black">th</span>}<span style="color:black">
action, </span></b><span style="color:black">including transportation;
housing; food and water; child and elder care; first aid and rally materials
(i.e. flyers, poster board, markers). We’re committed to making it possible
for all who want to take part in our delegation to again come to Sacramento
no matter their financial situation.  </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><br>
</span><span style="color:black"><br>
The Poor People’s Campaign carries forward the work of Dr. Martin Luther
King, please support our effort to take part in this historic national
movement bringing people together to end poverty, racism, the war economy and
ecological devastation. If any funds raised are left over, they will help
delegation members participate in the last weeks of the 40 days of action,
including the final rally in Washington DC. <br><br>
Thank you for your support and solidarity! </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><a href="http://bit.ly/womenindialogue" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><img id="m_6455520307045769316Picture 2" src="https://ymlpsend5.com/imgz/gwssf_image002--72.jpg" width="222" height="60" border="0"></span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><br>
</span></b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">(add “GWS/IWS PPC” in the
designation)</span></i></p>
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</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Checks can also be made out to
our fiscal sponsor Women In Dialogue and mailed to <br>
Women in Dialogue, PO Box 86681, LA CA 90086</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">To find out more about The Poor People’s Campaign
including info on the Week 5 action in Sacramento, see  </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/californiappc" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://www.facebook.com/<wbr>californiappc</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> or </span><a href="https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://www.<wbr>poorpeoplescampaign.org</span></a></p>
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</span></span><span class="m_6455520307045769316MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Contact the Global Women’s Strike at </span></span><a href="mailto:la@allwomencount.net" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">la@allwomencount.net</span></a></p>
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