INVEST IN CARING, NOT KILLING!
  • $800+ billion a year is spent on military budgets worldwide
  • $40+ billion more for "America’s new war"
  • $80 billion would provide the essentials of life – water, sanitation, basic health, nutrition, literacy & a minimum income for all

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3rd GLOBAL WOMEN’S STRIKE
8 MARCH 2002
International Women’s Day

Never before has there been so much wealth,
yet so many of us have so little.

Strike for:
  • A world which values all women’s work and every life – invest in caring not killing.
 		Strike to end:
  • ‘America’s new war’ and all wars – women and children are most of those killed & wounded, and 80% of refugees.
  • Globalisation – end no pay, low pay and too much work worldwide

On 8 March 2000 & 2001, women and girls in over 60 countries,
in villages and cities, went on strike to
STOP THE WORLD & CHANGE IT. 
Payday Men's Network co-ordinated men's support.


WOMEN & GIRLS DO 2/3 OF THE WORLD’S WORK FOR 5% OF THE INCOME.
MOST OF THIS WORK IS UNWAGED.

Women do the work of giving birth to, feeding and caring for the whole world. Those in whom we have invested our lives are slaughtered as ‘collateral damage’ or turned into killing machines. And so we have been central to every anti-war movement. It is a disaster that only half the human race is trained to care and the other half told it has ‘more important things to do’.

As corporate power and its wars threaten every corner of all our lives, people everywhere have formed massive movements – to reclaim our land and our planet, and to stop the theft (via privatisation) of water, seeds, genes . . . The Global Women’s Strike, women’s independent voice in this great movement, reclaims military spending for caring, feeding, healing, learning.

DEMANDS

STRIKE CALL FROM SELMA JAMES

HOW YOU CAN TAKE ACTION

International Strike Update 25 February 2002

Send us your news - February 2002 letter to Strike network

The Global Women's Strike is co-ordinated by the
International Wages for Housework Campaign

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