| AOTEAROA
/ NEW ZEALAND
Auckland International Women’s Day Committee sent a great statement wishing "our sisters around the world the greatest success for their global strike!" Their theme: "Value Women’s Work." Rally in Freyberg Square, downtown and march to Suffragette Square. Their demands include equal pay, support National Caregivers Day, free childcare, support the nurses, stop rape and violence, stop all wars of aggression and big power domination. They’re campaigning against closure of the National Women’s Hospital and their speakout will be for wages for caring work and against the oppressive conditions of immigrants and refugees. Parents as Partners in Hamilton, put a Strike call in their newsletter and they quote a woman saying how “caring for dependants is at least as important as soldiering, a male’s traditional service to society, yet we lavish huge benefits on soldiers and impose huge penalties on caregivers.” Auckland
International Women’s Day Committee have sent us their
leaflet: “International Working Women’s Day: Te Ra Mahi Wahine, Value
Women’s Work”. Event
endorsed by Women for Peace, Service & Food Workers’s Union,
Anti-Imperialist Coalition, Domestic Violence Centre, Feminist Action,
Workers Party of New Zealand. |