Join the GLOBAL WOMEN'S STRIKE 8 March
Global Women's Strike | 06.03.2002 15:21
3rd Global Women’s Strike March 8: Invest in Caring Not Killing!
Women sweep the world clean "for a world which values all women’s work & every life and to end ‘America’s new war’ and all wars"
Women sweep the world clean "for a world which values all women’s work & every life and to end ‘America’s new war’ and all wars"
3rd Global Women’s Strike Friday March 8: Invest in Caring Not Killing!
Women sweep the world clean "for a world which values all women’s work & every life and to end ‘America’s new war’ and all wars"
Central event in London:
Invest in Caring Not Killing: Whistle-Stop Tour and "Cacerolazo" to Sweep Out the Global Killers.
Giant puppet, drummers, dancing and chanting. Music by Rhythms of Resistance. Wheelchair users, kids, cyclists...All welcome.
Assemble: 12noon, Shell Centre, York Rd, Waterloo tube (Exit “St Thomas’ Hospital”)
Starting: 12.30pm; then to Ministry of Defence; Institute of Directors;
Ending: 3pm, World Bank, Haymarket, Piccadilly (2.30pm approx)
Also at 12 noon:
*Women of different faiths bear witness at the Ministry of Defence
*Women survivors of the mental health system protest outside Maudsley Hospital Trust Offices in York Rd, and join the march at Shell Centre.
International Women’s Day, March 8, 2002 marks the third Global Women’s Strike (GWS) with the theme "Invest in Caring Not Killing". Women charge that "never before has there been so much wealth – yet so many of us with so little." With the Strike women the global carers give their collective “No” to globalization and militarization. Prioritizing the production of things over caring for people threatens human life and the life of the planet. The Strike calls for a total change of social and economic priorities for the whole society beginning with women. According to the UN, women do 2/3 of the world’s work, and 2/3 of this work is unwaged.
COUNTRIES SO FAR: Aotearoa (New Zealand); Argentina; Austria; Belarus; Bolivia; Brazil; Canada; Colombia; Czech Republic; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Ecuador; El Salvador; France; Germany; Ghana; Guyana; India; Ireland; Israel; Italy; Korea; Kuwait; Macedonia; Mexico; Nigeria; Pakistan; Peru, Poland; Scotland; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Tanzania; Trinidad & Tobago; Uganda; United States; Uruguay...
The Strike is bringing together Arab women mobilising in EGYPT, JORDAN and YEMEN, with peace women in ISRAEL opposing all fundamentalism; in ARGENTINA the Housewives Union of Santa Fe is co-ordinating The Sweep-up involving Neighbourhood assemblies, the Cross-Neighbourhood Women’s Network, the Mothers of the Disappeared and the Multi-Sector Coalition of Women for Action, among others who will “Sweep out the dirt at the bottom and at the top”.
PERU: Domestic workers’ centre working with soup kitchens, lesbian women, trade unions, Indigenous women. SPAIN Strike opens a week of activities protesting against the Europe of Capital and War prior to EU heads of state meeting in Barcelona (15-16 March). USA hugely popular political rock band Rage Against the Machine running GWS as lead item on their Website. "Democracy Now", the well-known public radio programme hosted by distinguished progressive journalist Amy Goodman on the Pacifica Network, will once again feature the Global Women's Strike on 8 March. The programme broadcasts to 50 cities across the US, and internationally on RFPI (Radio for Peace International), and now is also a television program that reaches 7 million households.
International Strike demands begin with payment for all caring work – in wages, pensions, land and other resources. Based on that entitlement, we also demand: pay equity internationally * paid maternity leave, breastfeeding breaks and other benefits * accessible clean water, healthcare, housing, transport, literacy and information * non-polluting energy and technology to shorten our hours and burden of work * protection and asylum from all violence & persecution * freedom of movement (immigration and asylum rights). Our demand that so-called "Third World debt" not be paid: “We owe nothing, they owe us” is based on acknowledging how hard women work, and for how little reward, around the globe.
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. You can also read statements from men who support the Strike and download leaflets.
http://womenstrike8m.server101.com
This year the Strike leaflet is available in Albanian, Amharic, Basque, Bengali, Catalan, Croatian, Dutch, English, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Gujerati, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Macedonian, Magyar (Hungarian), Portuguese, Russian, Shona, Spanish, Swedish, Tigrinya, Turkish and Urdu, and the translations are on our website. If you can help with any translating, please get in touch!
The Global Women's Strike is coordinated by the International Wages for Housework Campaign.
Contact us!
Crossroads Womens Centre,
PO Box 287, London NW6 5QU
Tel: 020 7482 2496 minicom/voice
Fax: 020 7209 4761
E-mail:
womenstrike8m@server101.com
Payday, a global network of men, is coordinating men's increasingly widespread support. payday@paydaynet.org 020 7209 4751
Women sweep the world clean "for a world which values all women’s work & every life and to end ‘America’s new war’ and all wars"
Central event in London:
Invest in Caring Not Killing: Whistle-Stop Tour and "Cacerolazo" to Sweep Out the Global Killers.
Giant puppet, drummers, dancing and chanting. Music by Rhythms of Resistance. Wheelchair users, kids, cyclists...All welcome.
Assemble: 12noon, Shell Centre, York Rd, Waterloo tube (Exit “St Thomas’ Hospital”)
Starting: 12.30pm; then to Ministry of Defence; Institute of Directors;
Ending: 3pm, World Bank, Haymarket, Piccadilly (2.30pm approx)
Also at 12 noon:
*Women of different faiths bear witness at the Ministry of Defence
*Women survivors of the mental health system protest outside Maudsley Hospital Trust Offices in York Rd, and join the march at Shell Centre.
International Women’s Day, March 8, 2002 marks the third Global Women’s Strike (GWS) with the theme "Invest in Caring Not Killing". Women charge that "never before has there been so much wealth – yet so many of us with so little." With the Strike women the global carers give their collective “No” to globalization and militarization. Prioritizing the production of things over caring for people threatens human life and the life of the planet. The Strike calls for a total change of social and economic priorities for the whole society beginning with women. According to the UN, women do 2/3 of the world’s work, and 2/3 of this work is unwaged.
COUNTRIES SO FAR: Aotearoa (New Zealand); Argentina; Austria; Belarus; Bolivia; Brazil; Canada; Colombia; Czech Republic; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Ecuador; El Salvador; France; Germany; Ghana; Guyana; India; Ireland; Israel; Italy; Korea; Kuwait; Macedonia; Mexico; Nigeria; Pakistan; Peru, Poland; Scotland; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Tanzania; Trinidad & Tobago; Uganda; United States; Uruguay...
The Strike is bringing together Arab women mobilising in EGYPT, JORDAN and YEMEN, with peace women in ISRAEL opposing all fundamentalism; in ARGENTINA the Housewives Union of Santa Fe is co-ordinating The Sweep-up involving Neighbourhood assemblies, the Cross-Neighbourhood Women’s Network, the Mothers of the Disappeared and the Multi-Sector Coalition of Women for Action, among others who will “Sweep out the dirt at the bottom and at the top”.
PERU: Domestic workers’ centre working with soup kitchens, lesbian women, trade unions, Indigenous women. SPAIN Strike opens a week of activities protesting against the Europe of Capital and War prior to EU heads of state meeting in Barcelona (15-16 March). USA hugely popular political rock band Rage Against the Machine running GWS as lead item on their Website. "Democracy Now", the well-known public radio programme hosted by distinguished progressive journalist Amy Goodman on the Pacifica Network, will once again feature the Global Women's Strike on 8 March. The programme broadcasts to 50 cities across the US, and internationally on RFPI (Radio for Peace International), and now is also a television program that reaches 7 million households.
International Strike demands begin with payment for all caring work – in wages, pensions, land and other resources. Based on that entitlement, we also demand: pay equity internationally * paid maternity leave, breastfeeding breaks and other benefits * accessible clean water, healthcare, housing, transport, literacy and information * non-polluting energy and technology to shorten our hours and burden of work * protection and asylum from all violence & persecution * freedom of movement (immigration and asylum rights). Our demand that so-called "Third World debt" not be paid: “We owe nothing, they owe us” is based on acknowledging how hard women work, and for how little reward, around the globe.
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. You can also read statements from men who support the Strike and download leaflets.
http://womenstrike8m.server101.com This year the Strike leaflet is available in Albanian, Amharic, Basque, Bengali, Catalan, Croatian, Dutch, English, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Gujerati, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Macedonian, Magyar (Hungarian), Portuguese, Russian, Shona, Spanish, Swedish, Tigrinya, Turkish and Urdu, and the translations are on our website. If you can help with any translating, please get in touch!
The Global Women's Strike is coordinated by the International Wages for Housework Campaign.
Contact us!
Crossroads Womens Centre,
PO Box 287, London NW6 5QU
Tel: 020 7482 2496 minicom/voice
Fax: 020 7209 4761
E-mail:
womenstrike8m@server101.com Payday, a global network of men, is coordinating men's increasingly widespread support.
payday@paydaynet.org 020 7209 4751
Global Women's Strike
e-mail:
womenstrike8m@server101.com
Homepage:
http://womenstrike8m.server101.com
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Noise Demo in Solidarity With Women Prisoners
06.03.2002 19:05
Noise Demo in Solidarity With Women Prisoners
When: International Women's Day, March 8th
Where: Main Gate of Holloway Prison, Holloway, North London, 2pm(nearest
tube Holloway Road).Please look this up in an A to Z if poss
What time: 2pm
International Women's Day sees both women and some men, how their solidarity with one another the world over. The female prison population is climbing higher and higher by the week - just recently a judge sent down a 19-year-old woman for 10 years for smuggling cocaine from Jamaica to the UK.
She had a child aged 1. Drugs mules and women convicted of drug related offences make up the larget proportion of imprisoned women in this country. Many are forced into risking their liberty for the sake of a better life, money to buy food to feed their children, money to survive.
Another woman from Bradford was also jailed last week for a total of 4 years - one for every one of her children, now all taken into care. Her crime? Throwing bricks at coppers attacking demonstrators during the Bradford riot (uprising) last summer.
All crime is political and the entire history of the prison system is the story of the growth of an institution designed to repress, coerce and intimidate the skint and struggling - the working class - and to protect the stolen land, property and power of the ruling classes. Who are the ruling class? The Ruling class means the deciding class - they who make crucial life or death decisions over people's lives - who gets to chose whether they want to get pregnant or not, have sex or not, a family or not, who is a good
mother or not, loses their job, what children should learn in school, who is too stupid to work, who goes to jail, who is a criminal, who eats what, who should live where, who should be exposed to which GM experiment, radioactive cesspit, radiation crackling phone mast, who goes to war and why - the list goes on and on.
Holloway is the biggest all-women prison in the UK - soon to be challenged by a new female only prison in Ashford, Middx, which opens its doors in July 2003. Women's prisons are set to be a growing trend with the UK's entire prison population now reaching beyond 70,000 and the HomeOffice ordering the erection of at least 4 more 'Super Prisons' capable of holding over a 1000 inmates. Prison for women, especially mothers, is hell on earth. All prison and separation from children and loved-ones is hell, be it a weekend prison, 'open' prison, or secure unit.
Freedom and Justice for the fitted up - Samar Alami we remember you! Assata Shakur, Pamela Afrika, all the MOVE sisters, all our UK animal rights, anti-nuke, anti-capitalist prisoners of the class War, all those seized by
the state for struggling against oppression - we stand by you.
Come out and join us in our demo at Holloway - we want to show the sisters inside, and let them hear, loud and clear, that they are not alone.
Called by: WomenSpeakOut -radical DIY anarcho-feminists and anti-capitalist women collective
For further details call: 07985 365 992
email:
This action kicks off a weekend of workshops, discussions, film showings and constructive larking for the International Women's Day WomenSpeakOut at The Radical Dairy (autonomous social centre, Stoke Newington, Hackney) Creche facilities available - please call and tell us if you'll be bringing children and their ages. Sleeping space available at local women's houses.
WSO 2002
e-mail:
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Homepage:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wso-london