| Your address Date: 2001 MODEL LETTER FOR LOCAL PRESS -- letters page editor
Dear Editor, I would like to let women in [the area] know about the second Global Women’s Strike we’re planning for 8 March 2001. Women in 64 countries took part in the very successful first Strike, which called for a millennium which values all women’s work, not only waged work but also housework and childcare for which we don’t get any wages. In fact, employers know how desperate we are for money and pay us much less than men. In many countries, for example in Africa, women and girls produce 90% of the food but this doesn’t count as work because they get no wages for it. The Global Women’s Strike is women’s answer to the global market, where the production of things is prioritised over caring for people. Our main demand is payment for all caring work – in wages, pensions, land and other resources – we’ve earned it, but we don’t have it. The second demand is pay equity for all, women and men; paid maternity leave, breastfeeding breaks and other benefits. We are also demanding abolition of ‘Third World’ debt; accessible healthcare, housing, transport, literacy, and non-polluting energy and technology to cut down on our work; protection and asylum from all violence and persecution, and freedom of movement. Please get in touch with me for more information. Payday, a network of men organising support for the Strike, would like to hear from men who want to support the strike. Let’s stop the world and change it! Name [and maybe local telephone no.]
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