INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence and South End Press Book Reading and Discussion with Andrea Smith

Book Reading and Discussion with Andrea Smith

Greetings!

INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence and South End Press invite you to join author, editor, and activist Andrea Smith at Encuentro 9 on 9/9 for a book reading & community discussion of the works below! Books will be available for sale at discounted rates.

Author Andrea Smith (Cherokee) is a co-founder of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence ? a grassroots, multiracial feminist organization mobilizing to end all forms of violence against women of color and our communities. She is a Native
American activist, cutting edge scholar ? and author of "Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide."

For more info: inciteboston@yahoo.com or 781-962-1983

Sponsors: INCITE! Boston Women of Color Against Violence and South End Press
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* Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology
* Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
* The Revolution Will Not Be Funded

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Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology edited by Incite! members, including Andrea Smith

What would it take to end violence against women of color?

Where & When
Encuentro 5
33 Harrison Ave., 5th floor (near Downtown Crossing T-stop)
Boston, Massachusetts
September 09, 2006
4:00PM

What would it take to end violence against women of color? How does the mainstream antiviolence movement help? How does it hinder? When will we admit that repositioning women of color at the center of the movement ? women more often harmed by the police, prisons, and border patrols than aided by them ? means that we must address state violence?

In Color of Violence, INCITE! demands that we

? reconsider a reliance on the criminal justice system for solving women's struggles with domestic
violence;

? acknowledge how militarism subjects women to extreme levels of violence perpetrated from within, and without, their communities;

? recognize how the medical establishment inflicts violence?such as involuntary sterilization and inadequate health care?on women of color;

? devise new strategies for cross-cultural dialogue, theorizing, and alliance building;

? and much, much more.




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Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide

Analysis linking sexual violence in various forms to state colonial oppression of people of color and the genocide of native peoples

This revolutionary text lays out the gendered effects of conquest on Native women, drawing the connections between imperialism, population control, environmental racism, and relationship abuse. Smith challenges conventional anti-violence responses ? and outlines radical, innovative strategies for change! Essential reading for scholars and activists, Smith articulates an agenda that is compelling to feminists, Native Americans, other people of color, and all who are committed to
creating viable alternatives to state-based "solutions."



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The Revolution Will Not Be Funded
Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Gathers original essays by radical activists from around the globe who are critically rethinking the long-term consequences of our investment in this $1.3 trillion industry.

Urgent and visionary, "The Revolution Will Not Be Funded" is an unbeholden exposé of the "nonprofit industrial complex" and its quietly devastating role in managing dissent.

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South End Press
7 Brookline Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
617.547.4002
southend@southendpress.org
http://www.southendpress.org

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About INCITE!:

INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence was born in 2000, when more than two thousand dedicated activists from diverse communities came together to end the war being waged on women of color in the US and around the world. Now the largest multiracial, grassroots, feminist organization in the United States, INCITE! boasts chapters in more than 20 cities.


INCITE! Boston meets every other Sunday from 3-6 pm at the Cambridge Women's Center, 46 Pleasant St., in Central Square. For more information visit www.inciteboston.blogspot.com, email inciteboston@yahoo.com or call 781-962-1983.