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To Get from END | Plaza del Zacate (Milam) to START | Dignowity Park, see VIA Bus 22 - Hays Frequent, schedule below

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One Block from
Plaza del Zacate
(end rally) 
Bus Stop: 88719 @ Commerce and Laredo

travels to
Dignowity Park
(march start)
Bus Stop: 86229 @ Olive and Nolan

Ticket Fare - $1.20 









Carpooling: Available from 9:00am-10:15am Saturday

Blessing offered by Kalpulli Ameyaltonal Tejaztlan

Angela Anthony, Eastside resident and single mother of two serving as Community Health Worker/LVN at Martinez Street Womens Center

Maria Soto, house keeper at the Grand Hyatt & organizer with Unite Here 

Perla Terrazas, organizer with Unite Here & daughter of hotel house keeper & union organizer

Rally @ Plaza del Zacate
(milam park at the corner of Commerce & Santa Rosa)

Maricela Barrera teatrista working with story-sharing, public experiments and mixed media

Patricia Castillo, domestic violence survivor & activist and Director of P.E.A.C.E. Initiative

Alberta Harris, is a leader in the parent room at her children’s school & Parent Engagement Manager for United Way’s Eastside Promise Neighborhood.

Liz Arevalo, youth program leader and environmental activist with Eastside Promise Neighborhood

Deborah Kuetzpal Vasquez,  multi-media Chicana artist, arts educator at OLLU & Arts Education Director at Bihl Haus Arts

Laura “4Rios”, founder of S.O.U.L. Sessions Hip Hop Program in Austin & member of Calmeca Skwad

Rosalynn Warren, works for progressive social change as a queer Chicana artist, writer, & craftivista

Las Panzantes, bailarinas chingonas who fight injustice with their belly rolls and their shimies fuertes

Fandango Tejas, collection of jaraner@s de Tejas who create community through fandango experience

Nina Diaz, lead singer of internationally known san anto, all grrrl band, Girl in a Coma. 

Zombie Bazaar Belly Dance, tribal fusion dance troupe luchando por la causa through movement.

Look for the Kids Space with fun activities for our future leaders! 

taking pictures or video saturday?

share them with the int’ l woman’s day planning committee
EMAIL pics to sawomenwillmarch2012@gmail.com or TAG US on Facebook: SaWomenWillMarch

 also on saturday, march 9th...
 click for 2nd FemFest facebook page

Information on the 2012 Rally, including speakers & performers, will be posted after the IWD Planning Committee finalizes the line up.

Tammy Gomez / Emcee

Denise McVea, a noted journalist and writer from San Antonio, has worked with the Huichol Indians in Real de Catorce, San Luis Potosi, Mexico as part of her work as executive director of the Auris Project. Challenging notions of Texas womanhood and the role women of color played in Texas history, as well as Texas history, itself, she wrote, Making Myth of Emily published by the Auris Project.

Nadine Saliba was born and raised in Lebanon, and attended the University of Beirut. She immigrated to San Antonio, Texas in 1993. Nadine was politicized from an early age being part of the war generation of Lebanon that left an  indelible imprint that is reflected in her writing and analysis of current events in the Middle East. A frequent contributor to La Voz de Esperanza, she has recently begun her own column, Daughter of Scherazade.

Kiawitl Xochitl, is an MC/vocalist who has been instrumental in Houston's underground music foundation for the past decade. She represents Texas native roots in conscious hip hop across the Southwest United States as a dynamic vocalist bringing her unique Chicana/Native Soul sound. She focuses on maintaining the ancient traditions of the Olmeca, Azteca and Mayan indigenous cultures and in raising her children within those traditions.

Rosa Alicia Clemente, a black Puerto Rican grassroots community organizer, is a journalist and Hip Hop activist who was the 2008 Vice-Presidential candidate with the GREEN PARTY. A featured speaker, panelist, and political commentator all over the U. S., Rosa is also founder of Know Thy Self Productions, a speaker's bureau for young people of color that consults on issues such as Hip Hop activism, media justice, voter education, third party politics, intercultural relations and immigrant rights. She is currently working on her first book, When A Puerto Rican Woman Ran For Vice-President and Nobody Knew Her Name. She resides in the South Bronx, with her husband and daughter.

Lucina Martinez & My Le – My Le, a Vietnamese immigrant, and Lucy Martinez, a Mexican immigrant, are young UTSA students who participated as hunger strikers and organizers around the DREAM ACT throughout 2010. Both, also, identify as queer women. Lucy, a Women’s Studies major, traveled to DC to present her case when the DREAM ACT was being heard in the legislature. My Le, a double major in Women’s Studies and Psychology, was among those arrested last year at the DREAM ACT sit-in at Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s office.


Las Jaraneras de Tejas are a colectivo of musicians, artists, singers, creative artists, and dancers who also play Son Jarocho, atraditional music form from Veracruz, Mexico, melded from African, Spanish, and Indigenous cultures as a form of survival & a resistance to colonial control. The jaraneras are from various places in Tejas ( RGV, San Antonio, Austin, Waco, Denton) and came together to collectively fandangear for comunidad y consciencia.


Azul, a popular vocalist/guitarist/jaranera and songwriter from Mexico City grew up listening to traditional Latin American folk music and stories handed down from her parents and grandparents. In addition to the traditional influences of Mexican and Latin American music her music incorporates jazz, blues and music of the Caribbean. She is an artist in residence at the Esperanza Center in San Antonio with her monthly Noche Azul concert series.