STOP THE WORLD AND CHANGE IT!
Join women worldwide in the 4th Global Women’s Strike
on Saturday, March 8, 2003, International Women’s Day

Join women in more than 80 countries on every continent to say
WOMEN EVERYWHERE SAY NO WARS
INVEST IN CARING NOT KILLING

We women are the carers, for people and for the planet. We and our children pay the highest price for wars and weapons. While US$900 billion is spent on military budgets worldwide, only US$80 billion would get rid of the world’s worst poverty. When every economic demand that women as carers make is called “unaffordable”, people from all walks of life are increasingly asking why is this the priority for which we must all do without?

This is why, in addition to our local demands, women from India to Uganda, from Indigenous communities in Peru to the US, the UK and more than 70 other countries have agreed to the following global 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 breastfeeding mothers, paid maternity leave and breastfeeding breaks.  Stop penalising us for being women.

  • Don't pay 'third world debt'.  Women owe nothing, they owe us.

  • 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?

WOMEN IN GUYANA SAY NO WARS.
INVEST IN CARING NOT KILLING.

We are tired. Tired of the work of struggling to pay GPL’s killer prices. Tired of the work of coping with an unending fear of physical violence and threat of violence. Tired of the work of holding our families and communities together or if we can’t, of moving and re-settling them. We are tired of the wars inside Guyana. In these kinds of war as in the war with which the US and UK threaten Iraq:

EVERY PIECE OF WHAT THEY CALL “COLLATERAL DAMAGE” IS SOME MOTHER’S DAUGHTER, SOME MOTHER’S SON.

JOIN IN A MARCH (route to be announced) on MARCH 8, 2003, INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY, FROM 9.30 AM TO 12.30AM, TO SAY – 
WOMEN IN GUYANA SAY NO WARS. INVEST IN CARING NOT KILLING.

Women, strike for 3 hours from your normal housework and family care. Men, support us by doing the housework and childcare in our place.

For more information or to volunteer to participate in or help organize the strike, call Red Thread, local organizers of the Global Women’s Strike, at 227 7010, or email us at thread@sdnp.org.gy, or visit us at 72 Princess and Adelaide Sts., Charlestown from Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.

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