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GLOBAL WOMEN'S STRIKE DAY!

Global Women's Strike | 08.03.2002 09:04

3rd Global Women’s Strike, Today Firday 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”) to protest against piped poison. Women survivors of the mental health system will protest outside Maudsley Hospital Trust Offices in York Rd at 12noon, and join the march at Shell Centre.
Starting: 12.30pm; then to Ministry of Defence (protest professional killers); Institute of Directors (protest pushers of arms, poisoned food & drugs); Women of different faiths bear witness at the Ministry of Defence from 12noon.
Ending: 3pm, World Bank, Haymarket, Piccadilly (2.30pm approx) to protest against the global loan sharks.

Contact numbers for the day: 07946 541 469 and 07956 316 899

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 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
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