GLOBAL WOMEN’S STRIKE
March 8, 2001
International Women’s Day

HUELGA MUNDIAL de MUJERES

9:00 a.m.--Global News & Views
Community breakfast. Link up with striking women’s groups around the WORLD. Homecare Workers Union, SEIU Local 434B, 2515 Beverly Blvd. (between Alvarado & Rampart).
Caravan to Strike Action at the Federal Bldg.

11:30 a.m.--Rally at the Federal Building

Downtown LA on Los Angeles Street at Temple

• Women do 2/3 of the world’s work for 5% of the income. Two-thirds of "women’s work" is unwaged.
• Welfare ‘Reform’ denies that caring for children is work.
• Homecare workers in LA County make only &6.75/hr. and receive no health benefits.
• People with disabilities, especially women, do hard work to survive, yet this is not considered work.
• Older women don’t retire, they just tire.
• 85% of garment workers in California are women whose average wages are $7,200/year.
• Unwaged caregiving in the family, is valued at $200 billion/year.

Join women around the world, demand that society invests in the enrichment of every life rather than enriching a few.

Strike Demands:

• Payment for all caring work - in wages, pensions, land &other resources.  Pay equity for all, women & men, in the global market.
• Paid maternity leave, breastfeeding breaks & other benefits–stop penalizing us for being women.
• Abolish 'Third World debt' which falls heaviest on women & girls.
• Accessible clean water, healthcare, housing, transport, literacy.  Non-polluting energy & technology which shortens the hours we work. Freedom of movement
• Protection & asylum from all violence & persecution, including by family members & people in positions of authority.

Endorsed by (partial list):Action Resource Center, Alexandria House, Antelope Valley Greens, Artists’ Network/Refuse and Resist, Alzheimer’s Assoc. of LA, Benefit Assistance Clients’ Urban Project, Billionaires for Bush, CA Green Party Women’s Caucus, Ca. Foundation for Independent Living Centers(CFILC), CAST, Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice(CLUE), Community Rehabilitation Services, East LA Information and Resource Center, Every Mother is a Working Mother Network, Health Access, Inc., IHSS Recipients & Providers Sharing(IRAPS),Inner City Struggle, , Korean Disability Assoc. of SoCal, LA Greens, Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, Mazer Lesbian Archives,Quality Homecare Coalition, Radical Women, SEIU Local 434/B-The Homecare Workers Union, SEIU Local 1877-Justice for Janitors, San Fernando Valley Greens, SoCal Raging Grannies, South Bay Greens, Sunset Hall, Sweatshop Watch, Teens on Target, United Cerebral Palsy, Unification of Disabled Latin America(UDLA), Watts Labor Community Action Comm., West Side Center for Independent Living, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom

Men’s support welcome.

Contact Crossroads Women’s Center
LA:Global Women’s Strike Planning Group,:
tel/fax 323-292-7405
Global Women’s Strike Coordinated by the
International Wages for Housework Campaign

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