Wednesday, February 11, 2004
GLOBAL WOMEN'S STRIKE - March 8th 2004 - Invest in Caring not Killing
March 8th 2004 -- Calling all women
5th GLOBAL WOMEN'S STRIKE
Calling all men to join with women to
STOP THE WORLD AND CHANGE IT!
INVEST IN CARING NOT KILLING!
A long grassroots history
The GLOBAL WOMEN'S STRIKE was born in 1999, when women in Ireland decided to welcome the new millennium with a national general strike. They asked the International Wages for Housework Campaign to support their call, and we called on women all over the world to make the Strike global on 8 March 2000.
The Strike came out of a long grassroots history, starting in 1952 with a little pamphlet called A Woman's Place and continuing with Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community, now a classic, in 1972, and Sex, Race and Class in 1973. All three made the case that the work women do for wages is a second job, that the work we do in the home and in the community without wages, producing all the workers of the world, and our struggle to change the world, were invisible but central.
The Global Women's Strike has extended from taking joint action every 8 March. It is now a global network that strengthens the ongoing daily struggle of grassroots women (and men).
Selma James and Nina López, 17 January 2004
womenstrike8m@server101.com www.globalwomenstrike.net
Strike demands
* Payment for all caring work - in wages, pensions, land & other resources. What is more valuable than raising children & caring for others? Invest in life & welfare, not military budgets & prisons.
* Pay equity for all, women & men, in the global market.
* Food security for all, starting with breastfeeding mothers. Paid maternity leave, breastfeeding breaks & other benefits - stop penalising us for being women.
* Accessible clean water, healthcare, housing, transport, literacy.
* Non-polluting energy & technology which shortens the hours we work. We all need cookers, fridges, washing machines, computers, & time off!
* Protection & asylum from all violence & persecution, including by family members & people in positions of authority.
* Freedom of movement. Capital travels freely, why not people
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Global Women's Strike Co-ordination
ENGLAND
International co-ordination
Crossroads Women's Centre
230a Kentish Town Road, London NW5 2AB
Tel: 00-44-20-7482 2496 Fax: 00-44-20-7209 4761
womenstrike8m@server101.com
Website: www.globalwomenstrike.net
Co-ordination of men's actions and support:
Address above payday@paydaynet.org
Website: www.refusingtokill.net
ARGENTINA
SAC, Francia 3036, 3000 Santa Fe
Tel: 00-54-342-453 0216 & 496 0868
izanutig@gigared.com; amadecasa@gigared.com
GUYANA
Red Thread, 72 Princess & Adelaide Streets, Charlestown, Georgetown
Tel/Fax: 00-592-227 7010
thread@sdnp.org.gy
INDIA
Chhattisgarh Women's Organisation
Pithora, Mahasamund, Chhattisgarh 493551
Tel: 00-91-7707 71107
sharmanand@yahoo.com
IRELAND
10 Galway Bay Apartments, Salthill, Galway
Tel: 00-353-91 520269
maggie.ronayne@nuigalway.ie
PERU
132 Wakulski, Cercado, Lima
Tel: 00-51-1-423 1958
ccth@terra.com.pe
Jr. 20 de Julio No 159, Urbanización Fernando Belaunde Terry, Chanuchanu,
Puno
Tel: 00-51-51-356 808
pacha_aru@hotmail.com
SPAIN
Centro 'Las Mujeres Cuentan', Radas 27 Local,
08004 Barcelona
Tel/Fax: 00-34-93-442 2304
huelgademujeres8m@teleline.es
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
NUDE, Mount Pleasant Rd, Arima
Tel: 001-868-667 5247
domestic@tstt.net.tt
UGANDA
KWO, PO Box 9344, Kampala, Uganda
Tel: 00-256-41 271012, Fax: 00-256-41 346456
akulum@hotmail.com
USA
Los Angeles Crossroads Women's Center
PO Box 86681, LA, CA 90086-0681
Tel/Fax: 001-323-292 7405
la@crossroadswomen.net
Philadelphia Crossroads Women's Center
PO Box 11795, Philadelphia, PA 19101
Tel: 001-215-848 1120 Fax: 001-215-848 1130
philly@crossroadswomen.net
San Francisco Crossroads Women's Center
PO Box 14512, SF, CA 94114
Tel/Fax: 001-415-626 4114
sf@crossroadswomen.net
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