Spain 2002
BARCELONA
ALCOI
& COCENTAINA
Public
meeting and video premier:
Argentina &
Venezuela
Organizing for
survival and revolution –
The truth behind the headlines
Barcelona,
Spain
The Wages for Housework Campaign co-ordinated actions all over Spain. In Barcelona there was an all-day occupation of the main Plaza, St Jaume. There were 300-400 people in the Plaza all afternoon. A two-hour Speakout gave a platform to mothers including a single mother, widows organising against pension cuts, two lesbian women - one of them a wheelchair user; the woman co-ordinator of the Sans Papiers church occupations, two sex workers (one of whom used to work as a cleaner), a student, a woman caring for her mother. There was a belly-dancing workshop involving half the Plaza, plus a hair-cutting salon done by a woman with a broomstick on her back, which produced wild colours and hair cuts showing women’s work! When the International Women’s Day march joined them in the Plaza there were about 4000 people. The WFH spokeswoman who opened the evening Strike events spoke about military budgets and against warmongering, she got rapturous applause and cheering. Evening entertainment included music, theatre, women rappers, a rock band and a circus. Live radio interviews reporting from Peru, Argentina and London broadcast in Plaza.
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Letter
to the Assembly of the
Campaign Against the Europe of Capital and War: 5 March 2002