MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26TH

WBEZ91.5

The Global Kitchen: An International Perspective of Women's Unwaged Work

Monday, November 12, 2012 @ 6:00pm

Admission FREE

Venue  Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S. Halsted
Chicago, IL  60607

Presenter
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
312-413-5353

This event will be recorded for WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified.

The Hull-House Museum is honored to host Selma James, a visionary thinker and radical activist. The vastness of Ms. James' work connects contemporary movements like the modern SlutWalk and domestic worker labor legislation to decades-long examinations of unions, prisons, welfare, Marxism, and anti-Zionism. Her scope is international, linking struggles in United States to revolutions and resistance in Venezuela, Haiti, and Tanzania. The depth and breadth of Ms. James' reading and conversation will have wide appeal across communities and campaigns. We encourage you to join us for this inspiring conversation. 

This event launches a series of programs connected to the upcoming exhibit, Unfinished Business: 21st Century Home Economics, opening December 10, 2012 at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum.

This event is co-sponsored by the Social Justice Initiative at UIC. Jane Addams Hull-House Museum is a unit of the College of Architecture and the Arts at UIC.

http://www.wbez.org/global-kitchen-international-perspective-womens-unwaged-work-103559

Hour-long discussion with Selma James on the Sojourner Truth radio program on KPFK radio in Los Angeles

listen here or download

Also, interview on Women's International News Gathering Service (WINGS) radio

Selma James on Unwaged Labor and Decades-Long Struggle to Pay Housewives (video)

From the Democracy Now! website:

A debate over housework shook the presidential race last week after a Democratic strategist accused Mitt Romney’s wife Ann of never having worked a day in her life. Ann responded: "I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work." Today we bring a historic voice into this discussion: the longtime activist, writer and political thinker Selma James, known for her pioneering work on women’s rights and against racism. She is credited with coining the phrase “unwaged” labor to describe the work of housewives — and she has argued women should be paid for housework. Selma James’ new book is "Sex, Race, and Class — The Perspective of Winning: A Selection of Writings, 1952-2011." In a series of arguments that have remained remarkably consistent across six decades, Selma James urges unity across the lines of race, class and gender. I interviewed Selma James recently, and she spoke about the great West Indian scholar C.L.R. James, who was her husband, and the writing of her seminal 1952 essay, "A Woman’s Place."

An interview with Selma James will be aired on Against the Grain program on KPFA (Pacifica) Radio, today Wednesday at 12 noon Pacific Time (3pm Eastern) and running for virtually the entire hour.  Ms. James is the founder of the Global Women's Strike and currently in the US from LondonEngland for a speaking tour on the publication of her new book, Sex, Race and Class - The Perspective of Winning  A Selection of Writings 1952-2011. The interview was conducted by C.S. Soong.

Against the Grain airs on KPFA 94.1 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, and on KFCF 88.1 FM in Fresno and California's Central Valley.  ATG also broadcasts worldwide via kpfa.org (click Listen Online).  The audio will be archived afterward, in on-demand and downloadable forms, at againstthegrain.org.

UPDATE Two other interviews on KPFA radio

• Letters and Politics with Mitch Jeserich (Thursday, March 29)
• The Morning Mix with Project Censored (Friday, March 30) note interview starts at minute 42:35