DATE: Sunday, September10, 2000
TIME: 6.45 PM for 7.00 PM
VENUE: Albert Park on the Lake
Aughtie Drive, South Melbourne 3205

The Global Sisterhood Network cordially invites women seeking social and environmental justice at both local and global levels to join them for an evening with Dr. Vandana Shiva, the founder and director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology in New Delhi, India.

On the eve of the September 11 World Economic Forum in Melbourne, it is appropriate to acclaim Dr. Shiva's courageous leadership within the international effort to halt the economic fundamentalism which, in the process of recolonizing the Third World and plundering the global environment, has shaped today's unprecedented levels of feminized poverty, and is largely responsible for the expanding violences against the world's indigenous peoples, women, and children.

We are privileged that Dr. Shiva is joining us on the eve of September 11 to profile the violation and abuse of women by the processes of globalization, and to assist us in our fundraising on behalf of underfunded, women-centred projects in Australia ***, South Asia and beyond.

DATE: Sunday, September10, 2000
TIME: 6.45 PM for 7.00 PM
VENUE: Albert Park on the Lake
Aughtie Drive, South Melbourne 3205

MISTRESS OF CEREMONIES:
Dr. Jocelynne Scutt
Anti-discrimination Commissioner for Tasmania
SPEAKERS: Dr. Vandana Shiva

Ecofeminist Extraordinaire, Recipient of the 1993 Right Livelihood Award
[also known as the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize]

Jacqui Katona
Gundjehmi Aboriginal Corporation, Recipient of the 1999 Goldman
Environmental Award

Romawaty Sinaga
The National Front for Labour Struggles in Indonesia
ADMISSION: $95/$75 concession [subsidy available for activists]
BOOKINGS: 9822 8858 [Onnie] or 0417 519 460 [Lynette]

*** Fifty per cent of the money raised at the GSN Dinner for Dr. Vandana Shiva on September 10 will go directly to the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology in New Delhi, with the remainder to be divided between the Gramya Women's Resource Centre in Secunderabad, India, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) in Quetta, Pakistan, the Gundjehmi Aboriginal Corporation in Jabaluka, the AGHS Women's Legal Aid Cell and Shelter in Lahore, Pakistan, Piglas Kababaihan (Women Breaking the Chains) in the rural Philippines, and the Anti-discrimination Commission in Hobart, Tasmania, to supplement the available legal aid for indigenous women.