The Welfare Warriors will celebrate the 4th annual Global Women's Strike Against No Pay, Low Pay And Overwork on March 8, 2003 with a Moms on Strike Bus Tour. The theme of the tour is Invest in Caring Not Killing. The tour will begin with a Press Conference at the Welfare Warriors Mother Organizing Center, 2711 W. Michigan, at 11 AM. The Moms on Strike Bus Tour will leave from the Mother Organizing Center at 11:30 AM and return at 3 PM. The tour is free.

After the Press Conference, the Moms on Strike Tour will make stops at sites around Milwaukee where moms are forced into unwaged work and low wage work (itinerary available at Press Conference). The tour will also stop at a military weapons manufacturer, and one stop at the federal building followed by a march to Centenial Hall. There the tourists will join the International Women¹s Day celebration organized by the Peace Action Center.

Theme of the Global Strike 2003 is: Say "no" to funds for warfare and "yes" to funds for welfare, women¹s low waged work and women¹s no waged work , especially caregiving work. They demand that the hundreds of billions spent on military be invested instead in the care and welfare of all people and the planet. The bus tour participants will perform a skit at each bus stop, with moms on strike saying no to children, partners, bosses, welfare workers, schools, etc. The striking moms and supporters will also sing antiwar songs and youth will perform "step" routines. 

Local organizers of the event are Welfare Warriors, Casa Maria, IWW, Voces de la Frontera, and LAMM's Raging Grannies. 

The Global Women's Strike is co-ordinated worldwide by International Network for Caring Work in England, Ireland, LA, Philadelphia and San Francisco, Mujeres por un Salario para el Trabajo sin  Sueldo in Spain, National Union of Domestic Employees in Trinidad and Tobago, Sindicato de Amas de Casa in Argentina, Red Thread in Guyana, Chhattisgarh Women¹s Organisation in India, Centro de Capacitacion para Trabajadoras del Hogar in Peru, and Kaabong Women¹s Group in Uganda. 

Global Women's Strike International Demands 

1. Payment for all caring work - in wages, pensions, land & other resources. What is more valuable than raising children & caring for others? Invest in life and welfare, not military budgets or prisons. Strike to end 'America's New War' .
2. Pay equity for all, women & men in the global market. Strike to end Globalization - end no pay, low pay and overwork worldwide. 
3. Paid maternity leave, breastfeeding breaks & other benefits - stop penalizing us for being women. Strike for a world which values all women's work. 
4. Abolition of 'Third World debt' which falls heaviest on women & girls. We owe nothing, they owe us.
5. Accessible clean water, healthcare, housing, transport, literacy.
6. Non-polluting energy & technology which shortens the hours we work. We all need cookers, fridges, washing machines, computers, & time off.
7. Protection & asylum from all violence & persecution, including by family members & people in positions of authority.
8. Freedom of movement. Big Business travels freely, why not people?

Strike website http://womenstrike8m.server101.com 
Contact Persons: Marisol Morales or Pat Gowens 414-342-6662