Women say no war - invest in caring not killing
Women's Strike | 12.02.2003 17:28
Saturday 15 February 2003 at the global Stop The War March
Women of colour lead the WOMEN'S CONTINGENT, called together by the Global Women's Strike. Assembling by the Global women's Strike orange banner at 12 noon opposite Victoria Embankment Gardens (turn left out of Embankment tube).
Women of colour lead the WOMEN'S CONTINGENT, called together by the Global Women's Strike. Assembling by the Global women's Strike orange banner at 12 noon opposite Victoria Embankment Gardens (turn left out of Embankment tube).
As anti-war protests take place around the world, women from across the UK and from many countries, including Iraqi refugees in the UK, will come together across the divisions of race, nation, religion and language, to voice our total opposition to war. Men's support welcome: contact Payday, 
payday@paydaynet.org
Every Wednesday 6-7pm
Women's Weekly Anti-war Picket outside Downing Street in Whitehall begins again. All women are invited to come and have their say against the war. Men also welcome.
Both the women's picket and the women's contingent are leading up to:
Saturday 8 March 2003, International Women's Day
4th GLOBAL WOMEN'S STRIKE: WOMEN SAY NO WAR, INVEST IN CARING NOT KILLING women's anti-war March, will assemble from 10.30 Parliament Square and March up Whitehall, followed by women's speak out 12-2pm Call nearer the time for further details.
Organizers of all three events say: 'A women's Contingent makes visible women's widespread opposition to war in Iraq, and all wars. We women are the carers, for people and for the planet. We and our children pay the highest price for war and weapons. We are the majority of victims of armed conflict, we are 80% of refugees and displaced people. Everywhere women struggle to make up for the suffering and devastation as well as for the benefits, healthcare and other services that are cut or privatised to pay for war.
The UK government is already spending £4 million a week bombing Iraq and now plans on spending over £3.5 billion on this new war. But they have no money for single mothers, disability benefits, pensioners, fire service workers, teachers‚ and nurses‚ pay, asylum seekers from war torn countries fleeing rape and other torture imposed by Western-supported dictators... Whilst £900+ billion is spent on military budgets worldwide, only $80 billion would get rid of the world's worst poverty. When every economic demand we make is ruled 'unaffordable', people from all walks of life ask: Why is killing women, children and men the priority for which we must all do without?
NOTE: The Global women's Strike takes place in over 60 countries on International women's Day every 8 March. The Call to Action for GWS 2003 is Women Say No to War - Invest in caring not killing. The Strike‚s key demand is Payment for all caring work - in wages, pensions, land and other resources. What is more valuable than raising children and caring for others? Invest in life and welfare, not military budgets and prisons. Stop the world & change it!
payday@paydaynet.org Every Wednesday 6-7pm
Women's Weekly Anti-war Picket outside Downing Street in Whitehall begins again. All women are invited to come and have their say against the war. Men also welcome.
Both the women's picket and the women's contingent are leading up to:
Saturday 8 March 2003, International Women's Day
4th GLOBAL WOMEN'S STRIKE: WOMEN SAY NO WAR, INVEST IN CARING NOT KILLING women's anti-war March, will assemble from 10.30 Parliament Square and March up Whitehall, followed by women's speak out 12-2pm Call nearer the time for further details.
Organizers of all three events say: 'A women's Contingent makes visible women's widespread opposition to war in Iraq, and all wars. We women are the carers, for people and for the planet. We and our children pay the highest price for war and weapons. We are the majority of victims of armed conflict, we are 80% of refugees and displaced people. Everywhere women struggle to make up for the suffering and devastation as well as for the benefits, healthcare and other services that are cut or privatised to pay for war.
The UK government is already spending £4 million a week bombing Iraq and now plans on spending over £3.5 billion on this new war. But they have no money for single mothers, disability benefits, pensioners, fire service workers, teachers‚ and nurses‚ pay, asylum seekers from war torn countries fleeing rape and other torture imposed by Western-supported dictators... Whilst £900+ billion is spent on military budgets worldwide, only $80 billion would get rid of the world's worst poverty. When every economic demand we make is ruled 'unaffordable', people from all walks of life ask: Why is killing women, children and men the priority for which we must all do without?
NOTE: The Global women's Strike takes place in over 60 countries on International women's Day every 8 March. The Call to Action for GWS 2003 is Women Say No to War - Invest in caring not killing. The Strike‚s key demand is Payment for all caring work - in wages, pensions, land and other resources. What is more valuable than raising children and caring for others? Invest in life and welfare, not military budgets and prisons. Stop the world & change it!
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