Peoples’ Assembly Women’s Dinner Wednesdays

The New Orleans Peoples Assembly Organizing Committee meets every Wednesday. The first Wednesday of every month is dedicated to our monthly Women’s Dinner Wednesday. On Women’s Dinner Wednesday, we gather as working class women to connect, build in strength, and become informed about the specific systems that affect our lives most, and how to overcome oppression that hinders and harms our abilities to be healthy and whole. We are bold in the fact that we center working class women, which includes those impacted by homelessness.

During our first two meetings, we focused on the history of International Working Women’s day and what it means to us now, and also the “Work Week Ordinance” that the New Orleans Hospitality Workers Committee is advancing on behalf of the 88,000 hospitality workers and all other workers in the city. This is important because women make up such a large force of the working class, and the impact on our lives, children and families is straining and oppressive.

Audre Lorde said, “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” This is why we call out to all working class women to join forces to organize on behalf of our collective liberation.

Workers Voice Socialist Movement

We are workers, employed and unemployed, youth, students, and seniors. We are multi-racial and multi-national and organize for the unity of the working class. We are funded by and for workers, for the liberation of all workers and oppressed people.

We organize for jobs and higher wages, against racism, women’s, and LGBTQ oppression, and for solidarity with immigrants. We organize for community schools, lower rents, and food on our tables. We organize for workers’ power so that everything will one day be removed from the capitalists’ private ownership.

We oppose the Pentagon, which is looting our tax dollars and handing them over to war-profiteering private companies, while social programs are gutted. We oppose war for empire which is pursued only to lower our wages and plunder the world’s resources while destroying the environment. We reject the monopoly media who feed us lie after lie.

The labor of workers produces enormous wealth here in Louisiana, the U.S. and the world– so much wealth that everyone could have housing, meaningful jobs, education, healthcare, and genuine equality. But this wealth is stolen and privately owned by the capitalist class for their greed and profit. We believe that we, the workers of the world, can unite in revolution to overcome capitalism and build a better world.

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