| Parents! Please feel free to take this to your child’s art
teacher or have your child do her/his own artwork.
Calling All Art Teachers! Won’t you have your students participate in the "Who Works for Me?" children's art project? This is a project initiated by mothers for the Global Women's Strike as a way for children to participate and note the work being done for them by mothers, grandmothers, and other women in the community. The art work will be displayed at the Global Women’s Strike event being held from 12-2pm at City Hall on March 8, 2001, International Women's Day. For the Strike last year, women and girls in 64 countries took whatever time off they could from waged and unwaged work to take part in activities highlighting women's often unrecognized, unvalued and unpaid contributions to society. Students at C.W. Henry Elementary School in Phila produced some lovely and moving drawings that were exhibited at a Strike event held at the Irish Center in Mt Airy (see back). This year we will have the art work on display at City Hall from 12-2 on March 8 following the presentation of a City Council resolution supporting the Strike and our local call for a two-hour lunch break for women on that day against "no pay and low pay and for pay equity for all". Please write the students name, grade and school on the back. If possible, we would like to keep the art work for future displays. Please contact us for additional information. We also have a flyer for students supporting the Strike produced as a result of interest by the alternative high schools in New York City, along with a sheet aimed at getting teachers involved. If you know of other art teachers in other schools or institutions who might want to participate, please pass the word along, or give us their names to us and we'll send information. We would appreciate your help in spreading this idea around. Thank you! Contact: |