Philadelphia 2002
| Women's strike participants |
Mike
Over 75 women, children and men, including two van-loads of students from Bard College in NY, spent the day riding the colourfully decorated Strike Bus to "follow the money trail" through Philadelphia, PA and Camden NJ, one of the poorest cities in the US. Black, Latino/a, Asian, and white, from age 16 to 87, banged pots and pans in the "cacerolazo" calling out Global Killers at corporations, banks, government and the military, specifically Salomon Smith Barney (money launderers and predatory lenders), Philadelphia Workforce Development Corporation (profiteers off of welfare mothers), Glaxo Smith Kline (drug pushers), L3 Communications defense contractors (war profiteers), and Monsanto (poisoners of food and land). National Public Radio covered the event. One highlight was a statement in support of the Strike from Black residents in Anniston Alabama who sued Monsanto for pollution and won.
