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Join us at Pollyanna 圖書館 Library on Tuesday, June 12, for the first of four sessions in the Bread and Roses Study Group, Strike While the Iron is Hot.

Hannah Dempsey will lead a discussion on the Wages for Housework Campaign, formed in Padua, Italy in 1972. The Bread and Roses Study Group will discuss and read together excerpts from “Wages Against Housework”, a manifesto written by Silvia Federici in 1975. The group will then have time to discuss Federici’s more recent article, “Putting Feminism Back On Its Feet” (1984).

For access to study materials please email collections@polly-anna.ca.

Hosted by 221A Collections Librarian Hannah Dempsey, the Bread and Roses Study Group will read documents of revolutionary women’s organizing with histories of the labour movement in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland.

Between June and July 2018, 221A will host two study groups: Bread and Rose and Autonomous Education. For access to the full calendar of events, visit polly-anna.ca/activities.

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Hannah Dempsey

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221A acknowledges that the area called Vancouver is within the unceded Indigenous territories belonging to the Musqueam, Skxwú7mesh-ulh Úxwumixw (Squamish) and Tsleil-Watututh peoples. 221A recognizes that the colony of British Columbia was created through organized dispossession and colonial violence. 221A seeks to shift its organizational practices to work together with Indigenous people to end ongoing violence, disposession and displacement.

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