Past events

7 Sisters Campaign: A Political Quilting Project

Ella’s Daughters (ED) is a network of women activists, artists and scholars working in Ella Baker’s radical democratic, grassroots tradition. The Seven Sisters Campaign is A Political Quilting Project of ED. It is our effort to hold up 7 vitally important organizations and areas of social justice work and to highlight the ways in which they mirror, intersect and overlap with one another. We also think the women, particularly young women and women of color, who are actively giving leadership, energy and vision to these struggles are the kind of leaders we need.

The 7 issues/ principles we are focused on in this campaign & will discuss on 10/16 are:

Ø Community-based restorative justice approaches to street & youth violence

Ø Support, services and self-determination for the Black LGBTQ youth.

Ø Solidarity with the long-suffering and hard-struggling people of Ayiti (Haiti)

Ø End all forms of torture, by governments, police, or domestic partners.

Ø Rights, fair pay and recognition for domestic workers

Ø Full human rights and recognition for undocumented workers and youth

Ø A just peace in Palestine and Israel, and solidarity with the Palestinian people,

Join Us on October 16^th

^{2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. – reception to follow}

^{University of Illinois at Chicago, Student Center East Building}

^{750 S. Halsted, Room 613}

followed by reception

Calling all sister activists, organizers, artists, aspiring activists….Find out how to connect and get involved

Hear why 7 Chicago women in very different communities and struggles are doing the work they are doing & what they have in common.

Meet progressive creative committed women doing social justice work

www.ellasdaughters.org

Black August Event: Saturday, August 14th

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Join Us at the USSF - Register for Ella's Daughters Meeting on June 22nd Through Our Membership Form Under Get Involved

Ella's Daughter's Annual Gathering at the USSF

Tuesday, June 22, 2010.

11:00 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The event will be in Crystal Ballroom of the Doubletree Guest Suites/ Fort Shelby Hotel at 525 W. Lafayette (near Cobo Hall).*

Its more than talk, its an experience...

Ella's Daughters Workshop

Wednesday June 23, 3:30 - 5:30 pm at Wayne County Community College (one of the satellite meeting sites nearby) in room 131.

Gender Justice PMA (Peoples Movement Assembly). ED is one of the four groups invited to do this. This 4-hour session is on Friday, June 25, 1:00 to 5:30 at Cobo Hall

*End of the day wind downs at Doubletree Guest Suites Hotel Lobby Bar

Book Discussion

Book Discussion of To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City

August 29th 11am

Private Residence

For more information and to RSVP, e-mail Alice Kim at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Join in for an ARC/Ella's Daughters discussion of To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City by our very own Martha Biondi, who writes about this time in history with insight and brilliance. So, let's read her book and draw lessons from it that we can apply to movement-building in this political moment. Following the book discussion, we hope you can stay for a brief discussion about an upcoming ARC event on September 19 tentatively entitled "The Fierce Urgency of Now: Healthcare and Human Rights for All" with Vijay Prashad and others locally who are involved in the fight for single payer and human rights.

Ella's Daughters First Coffee House Series

Please join Ella's Daughters this Wednesday, June 17th, 6pm at Cafe Efebos (1640 S. Blue Island Avenue) for our very first Coffee House Series discussion Here Comes the Judge: Race, Gender and the Politics of the Sotomayor Controversy. The Ella's Daughters Coffee House Series will consist of substantive and informal conversations about a range of current events happening nationally and internationally. Our goal is to connect with and engage Ella's Daughters and individuals and organizations from the broader community about political and social issues of critical importance. This Wednesday's conversation will focus on President Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor as Supreme Court Justice. We are thrilled to announce that we are partnering on this conversation with The Public Square at the Illinois Humanities Council. Please see below for the event description, produced by Charlotte King from The Public Square.