Celebrating Women's Struggles

Monday, March 7, 2022 - 1:00pm
CST
Silvia Federici

The Center for Global Justice will be marking Women’s History Month with several webinars featuring some outstanding female speakers. We start off the month hearing from Silvia Federici. She is an Italian and American scholar, teacher, and activist from the radical autonomist feminist Marxist tradition. Author of many books, her best known is the 2004 Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation.< She has also written advocating wages for housework and has helped start Wages for Housework groups in the US.She taught Political Philosophy and International Studies for many years and is now a professor emerita and Teaching Fellow at Hofstra University in New York state.

International Women’s Day originated in the early 20th century and was associated mainly with far-left movements and governments until its adoption by the global feminist movement in the late 1960s. It became a mainstream global holiday following its adoption by the United Nations in 1977. The UN has declared the 2022 theme to be Gender Equality Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow. It is a public holiday in some countries. In some parts of the world, it still reflects its political origins, being marked by protests and calls for radical change; in other areas, particularly in the West, it is largely socio-cultural and centered on a celebration of women's long struggle against patriarchal domination and for a more just world.

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Upcoming Events

Saturday, October 11, 2025 - 3:00pm
CST
Location:
1º de Mayo #58, Colonia Aurora, San Miguel de Allende

In October 2024, we had our first artistic and cultural project to continue speaking about Palestine and to raise our voices in favor of the liberation of the Palestinian people and against the genocide being committed in Palestine.

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Monday, October 13, 2025 - 1:30pm
CST
Film Screening
Followed by discussion with Brad Rockwell
Location:
La Biblioteca, Teatro Santa Ana, Insurgentes 25, Centro, San Miguel de Allende

2025 Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary

Remarkable largely unknown footage of a dramatic turning point in world history covering events over three continents concerning a tragic coup in the Congo. Featuring: Maya Angelou, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy... Read more

Wednesday, October 22, 2025 - 12:00pm
CST
Organized by The Reentry Resource Program

You are invited to join a discussion with filmmaker Santiago Esteinou and Cesar Fierro about the new documentaryThe Freedom of Fierro.

César Fierro has just become a free man, and he needs to rebuild his life after being wrongly sentenced to death in Texas. César spent 40 years in prison before being released... Read more

Monday, November 3, 2025 - 1:30pm
CST
Joe Belden
Location:
La Biblioteca, Sala Quezal, Insurgentes 25, Centro, San Miguel de Allende
This mostly forgotten war led to Mexico losing over half its territory and the United States expanding to the Pacific. The lecture examines the political and economic background of the conflict, what led to it, and the roles of such factors as Texas annexation in 1845, slavery, racism, the Democratic and Whig parties, and Manifest... Read more