Newsletter: Issue 1 Jan - Feb 2001 CAMPAIGNSGlobal Women's Strike 2001 8 March 2001- International Women’s Day - Women are invited to Stop the World and Change it! by joining the second Global Women's Strike and stopping for the day, or for an hour - at home, at waged jobs, in your community, college and school - with your mothers, daughters, sisters, friends, partners . . . The Global Women’s Strike - against no pay, low pay and overwork - is women’s answer to the global market, where the production of things is prioritised over caring for people. The campaign wants to see a total change of social and economic priorities for women and therefore for men, and an end to the gross discrepancy between the $800bn a year spent on military budgets world-wide and the $80bn a year which would provide the essentials of life for all. Strike 2001 demands include: payment for all caring work; pay equity globally; paid maternity leave and breastfeeding breaks; abolition of ‘Third World’ debt; and protection and asylum from all violence and persecution. Men – don’t feel excluded – contact Payday, the men’s network organising support for the Strike. http://womenstrike8m@server101.com, email womenstrike8m@server101.com; Tel: 020 7482 2496; Fax 020 7209 4761. International Wages for Housework Campaign, Crossroads Women's Centre, 230A Kentish Town Road, London NW5 2AB |
