Women in Struggle Film Series - Fireworks Graphics Collective

Primary Artist: Terry Forman

Created: San Francisco Collective, 1982

Medium: Offset printed

Dimensions: 10.5″ x 16.25″

Implicit in Women Against Imperialism’s (WAI) mission was to build support and solidarity for women freedom fighters and human rights defenders throughout the world. The 1970s was a period of national liberation and decolonization and women played an essential role in all of these movements. WAI built solidarity through events, protests, campaigns and political education. This series was one example. These films listed on the poster are still available today and still speak to the colonial structure that remains in place in much of the world.

Image: Photograph of a Central American women freedom fighter.

Words: “now you have struck the women, you have struck a rock, you have dislodged a boulder, you will be crushed.” Women In Struggle Film Series. Films: Women and Revolution in Eritrea, Blood of the Condor, South African Belongs to Us, You’ve Struck a Rock, Bush Mama, Message to My People, Women Against the Pentagon, Women in the Puerto Rican Struggle, women in Arms.

Color: black and brown ink on white paper

Event: Fridays and Saturdays, August 8, 28, 29, September 11, 12, October 9, 10, November 6,7, November 27, 28. Fridays at Women’s Place Bookstore, Saturdays at Women’s Building San Francisco, CA

Sponsor: Women Against Imperialism.