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Los Angeles
*** Los Angeles County Federation of Labor is now supporting the Strike.***
9am Community Breakfast and link with Strikers round the
world. 11.30am Rally at Federal Building downtown with grasssroots speakers, street
theatre, puppets, music, special performance by Medusa. 6.30pm Celebration at Alexandria
House with live music, food. Many endorsers of Strike.
HUELGA MUNDIAL de
MUJERES
* * * Raging Grannies in California in touch with others all over the US and
Canada, planning protests. * * *
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PHILADELPHIA 2-hour lunch break on March 8
called by the Wages for Housework Campaign; Phila Coalition of Labor Union Women and the
Phila and PA National Organization for Women (NOW); many sponsors. Speakout and rally at
City Hall, which has passed resolution in support of Strike and against no pay, low pay
and too much work.
2-hour lunch break on March 8
called by the Wages for Housework Campaign; Phila Coalition of Labor Union Women and the
Phila and PA National Organization for Women (NOW); many sponsors. Speakout and rally at
City Hall, which has passed resolution in support of Strike and against no pay, low pay
and too much work.
Philadelphia PRESS
RELEASE March 1, 2001 |
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* * * MILWAUKEE Milwaukee Welfare Warriors - Open House 12-2 and 4-8pm at
Mothers Organizing Center, 2711 W. Michigan. Lunch and supper, videos, petitions.
Milwaukee Welfare Warriors - Open House 12-2 and 4-8pm at
Mothers Organizing Center, 2711 W. Michigan. Lunch and supper, videos, petitions.
"Open House For Women On Strike" 12 –2pm & 4-8pm at Welfare
Warriors Mother’s Organising Centre – Eat, drink and watch a video,
"Who’s Counting?" petition signing to president Bush demanding that the US
include women’s unwaged labour in the GNP (national accounts). Asking women to put up
signs at their work site during lunch saying "Not Out to Lunch, OUT ON STRIKE!" |
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* * * NEW YORK CITY
Rally/Speakout 12-2 in the
garment district to connect issues of low pay and exploitation of women working in
sweatshops and issues of immigrants and undocumented peoples in the city.
School governors organising Strike events and projects for students. Strike
Committee working with a coalition of women’s groups, most of them
Latina, which will
picket Sen. Hillary Clinton’s office. Street Speakout |
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* * * SOMERVILLE MA
local cable show called Real Mothers (wants them to do
it) |
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* * * SAN FRANCISCO
Wages for Housework Campaign is co-ordinating a vigil
and press conference at City Hall (12-2pm) and an Evening of Celebration and Protest at St
Paulus Lutheran Church (6-10pm) with women’s speakout against no pay, low pay &
too much work, welfare ‘reform’, violence against sex workers, theft of the
election, housing crisis, environmental profiteering, PG&E, the destruction of our
health, AIDS repression. Strike 2000 video. |
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