1959 Highlander Way · New Market, TN 37820 · phone: (865) 933-3443 · fax: (865) 933-3424
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La Mujer Obrera
http://mujerobrera.org

La Mujer Obrera is a grassroots, women-led organization that works with low-income workers of Mexican heritage living in the El Paso area. Their main goal is to improve the standard of living of low-income women workers and their families in the El Paso area, including their access to housing, employment, education, health, nutrition, peace and political participation. Their program combines education, community and economic development, outreach, advocacy and community organizing, and services. They focus on educating, organizing and developing leaders who are workers, focusing principally on the leadership development of women who were the most affected and impacted by economic changes toward a global economy.

Women’s Activism and Globalization – Linking Local Struggles and Transnational Politics
Available at:
Routledge
29 West 29th St.
New York, NY 10001

This book “documents the diverse ways women in different parts of the world creatively and heroically face the challenges posed by the global economic and political changes associated with globalization.” Strategies discussed include “community-based, cross-national, regional, and transnational organizing.” Edited by Nancy A. Naples and Manisha Desa. 2002, 344 pages.

Walking on Fire: Haitian Women’s Stories of Survival and Resistance

This book by Beverly Bell brings together oral histories from a broad group of Haitian women. Together they tell how Haiti’s dispossessed have fought for the survival of their communities and democracy. The book combines theory with case studies of resistance, gender and just economics.

Women of Change
Available at:
Filmakers Library
http://www.filmakers.com

Directed by Joan Prowse, from Cinefocus Canada. This video, directed by Joan Prowse, tells the story of women organizing around welfare and workplace issues in Canada and Mexico and how exchanges helped them to continue and strengthen their work. Josephine Grey of Canada, Berthe Lujan of the Frente Authentico de Trabajadores in Mexico and other women activists share their stories. Produced by Cinefocus, Canada. 55 minutes.

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