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Happy International Women’s Day from Amnesty International Pittsburgh!

Updates

Some Pittsburgh events hosted by some Amnesty International Pittsburgh affiliates on International Women’s Day, March 8:

Road to the US Social Forum III

Spend part of International Women’s Day with New Voices Pittsburgh, the Campus Women’s Organization of the University of Pittsburgh and others in a discussion and webcast from Philadelphia. Planners of the next US Social Forum http://www.ussocialforum.net/road-to-the-next-ussf are inviting you to reflect on how the current context of economic crisis and opportunity to challenge illegitimate and corrupt power structures impacts organizing for the next major gathering of those who believe “another world is possible, and another United States is necessary!

Read more about the evening on the flyer attached here:
http://www.ussocialforum.net/sites/default/files/National%20Plenary%20Flyer.pdf
Join the national event page and share with other activists that you know around the world who would be interested in participating:
https://www.facebook.com/events/333164690128520

Galen Tyler, Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign
Tamara Shapiro, Occupy Sandy
Ethel Long-Scott, Women’s Economic Agenda Project
James Braggs and Taliba Obuya,
Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty and Genocide

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International Women’s Day: Call to Action

Join us in celebration of International Women’s Day on Friday, March 8! This event focuses on how women have been impacted by wars. The free event will feature a screening of “The Invisible War.” The 2012 documentary film exposes sexual assault in the United States military and is nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 85th Academy Awards.

The event also features a dramatic reading, speakers Francine Porter, Joyce Wagner, Edith Bell and Scilla Wahrhaftig and will end with a Q&A after the film.

This event is sponsored by the Thomas Merton Center, Code Pink Pittsburgh, Women’s League for International Peace and Freedom and American Friends Service Committee of PA.

We hope to see you there!

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SUNSTAR Music Festival
@ 6119 Penn Ave

Light Asylum (coldwave/EBM/electro-industrial) ::
Called “warriors sent from the future” – Pitchfork

The Brooklyn-based duo of vocalist Shannon Funchess and producer Bruno Coviello merge their look and sound to produce dark synth pop theatrics that you have to experience live. Co-presented with VIA, Pittsburgh’s cutting-edge music and new media collective.

Afro-punk outfit Vie Boheme (Pgh) and local DJ Lauren G (VIA, www.facebook.com/VIA.Pittsburgh @VIA_PGH) join for this KST/VIA co-presentation at 6119.

Visuals by: Audra Wist (VIA, CMU, Yale)
Audra is Pittsburgh-based artist working in video, performance, sculpture, and photo that deals with arrangement of paradoxes in fetish, trauma, celebrity and the mundane. Exhibitions/collaborations: The Aviary for the third installment for All Visual: Boston, live visuals with local artist and long time friend, Kevin Ramser, for Bomba Estereo, vitaminwater: LIVE, Distal, LE1F and the like. In addition, she studies floral design and provides event styling and art direction for VIA and other local parties and galas. www.audrawist.com, www.vimeo.com/audrawist @ummmmmmt

Kelly Strayhorn Theater’s 3rd biennial SUNSTAR Music Festival in honor of Women’s History Month celebrates the best of women in music with a three-day lineup of concerts, parties, and talks. SUNSTAR showcases the vibrancy and diversity of independent female artists. In addition to concerts and special events, the festival includes a FAMILYtime event for young women and their mothers to engage in contemporary performing arts.