Join the Global Women's Strike 8 March
Global Women's Strike | 20.02.2002 17:51
Central event in London:
Invest in Caring Not Killing: Whistle-Stop Tour and "Cacerolazo" to Sweep Out the Global Killers (Shell, Ministry of Defence, Institute of Directors, World Bank). Giant puppets, drummers, dancing and chanting. Bring your brooms, pots and pans to bang. Wheelchair users, kids and buggies, cyclists...all welcome (article 1)
Invest in Caring Not Killing: Whistle-Stop Tour and "Cacerolazo" to Sweep Out the Global Killers (Shell, Ministry of Defence, Institute of Directors, World Bank). Giant puppets, drummers, dancing and chanting. Bring your brooms, pots and pans to bang. Wheelchair users, kids and buggies, cyclists...all welcome (article 1)
Join the Global Women's Strike 8 March
JOIN THE 3rd
JOIN THE 3rd
GLOBAL
WOMEN’S STRIKE
Friday
8 March 2002
International Women's Day
Central
event in London:
Invest
in Caring Not Killing: Whistle-Stop Tour and "Cacerolazo" to
Sweep
Out
the Global Killers (Shell, Ministry of Defence, Institute of Directors,
World
Bank).
Giant puppets, drummers, dancing and chanting.
Bring your
brooms,
pots and pans to bang.
Wheelchair users, kids and buggies,
cyclists...all welcome
Assemble:
12noon, Shell Centre, York Rd, Waterloo
Starting:
12.30pm
Ending: 3pm, World Bank, Haymarket, Piccadilly
12noon
-1pm: Women of different faiths will bear witness at the Ministry of
Defence
Women will strike for a world which values all
women’s work & every life – Invest in caring not killing!
We will strike to end “America’s new war” and all
wars, and globalisation – end no pay, low pay and too much work
worldwide.
So far this year we have heard from
women in Argentina, Austria,
Bolivia, Brazil, Britain,
Belarus, Canada, Colombia, Congo, Ireland,
Italy, France, Ghana, Guyana,
Mexico, New Zealand,
Nigeria, Peru, Poland, Scotland,
Spain, Switzerland, Tanzania, Uganda
and the United States.
See our latest
news from around the world for more.
Women (and men who support us) are invited to join
actions wherever you are. See our website for what you can do and to read
more about the Strike and our demands, and to read striking statements
from women of different sectors.
http://womenstrike8m.server101.com This year’s Strike leaflet is available in English,
Spanish, Catalan, French, Shona, Farsi, Portuguese, Japanese, Russian,
Urdu, Croatian, Albanian, Hindi, Greek, Italian, Turkish, German, Dutch and
Swedish. If you can help with any translating, please get in touch!
Click here to download the
printable English version of the leaflet!
Click here read men’s
statements supporting the strike.
Contact us!
Crossroads Women's Centre,
PO Box 287, London NW6 5QU
Tel: 0207 482 2496 minicom/voice
Fax: 0207 209 4761
E-mail:
womenstrike8m@server101.com Women on Strike in London last year
Global Women's Strike
e-mail:
womenstrike8m@server101.com
Homepage:
http://womenstrike8m.server101.com
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20.02.2002 19:04
tc
This is Sexist.
21.02.2002 00:26
Mere Male
You haven't read it all have you mate...
21.02.2002 11:51
Go look at the website you silly boy.
a bloke
Don't be a meat head, mere male
21.02.2002 12:15
If you'd actually read this posting, rather than simply reacted, you would have realised that men are also invited to participate in the activities around the Global Women's Strike.
Denouncing people who organise actions to highlight the gendered nature of economic and social oppression as being sexist is rather akin to denouncing campaigners against apartheid as being racist for drawing your attention to the fact that racialised forms oppression exists in the world.
Capitalism as a system would be impossible without the unpaid or low paid caring work that is predominately, though not solely, provided by the women of this world.
Only by naming and challenging gendered oppression, and the ways that it feeds into and sustains other forms of oppression, can we attempt to free ourselves as human beings.
love and rage
E Male