Saturday 26 January

Pots and Pans outside the World Bank!

2-3pm, the World Bank, New Zealand House, Haymarket SW1.

17 January 2002

Dear Sisters and Friends,

We want to show international support for our Argentinian sisters who are raising the voice of grassroots women.

In response to the collapse of the economy, millions of people have taken to the streets to demonstrate their total rejection of all political parties and politically-aligned trade unions and NGOs.  In addition to the well-established cacerolazos, a pots and pans protest, self-mobilised assemblies are being held in neighbourhoods all over the country.

The Sindicato de Amas de Casa de Santa Fe (Housewives Trade Union), an autonomous grassroots organisation, is holding women’s assemblies in the poorest neighbourhoods and is circulating the attached Women’s Manifesto.

SAC co-ordinates the Global Women’s Strike in Argentina and is part of our international network, WinWages,* which includes organisations of domestic workers, Indigenous and other workers, sex workers and other grassroots women, in Guyana, Peru, India and Uganda, as well as other women’s organisations in Ireland, Spain and the US.  The Strike network extends to women in over 60 countries.

We are calling a ‘cacerolazo’ in London and asking women in these networks to have cacerolazos on the same day.  We focus on women because we carry the greatest yet the least recognised burden of policies of genocide and theft imposed by the IMF/World Bank and implemented by corrupt politicians, trade unions and NGOs.

The ‘cacerolazo’ we propose in London welcomes all women, children and men but particularly Argentinian women and all Latin American, Indigenous and other women from countries of the South.

Join us next week.  We invite people to speak out about how women and girls are fighting against globalization in our home countries and here. Following the wisdom of the Argentinian movement, speeches on behalf of politically-aligned organisations are not welcome.

And of course, don’t forget to bring pots and pans!

Please circulate this invitation to your networks.

We look forward to your reply as soon as possible.

Called by:
WinWages (Women’s International Network for Wages for Caring Work)
Red Internacional de Mujeres por un Salario para el Trabajo de Cuidado
Crossroads Women’s Centre
230A Kentish Town Road
London NW5 2AB
Tel: 020-7482 2496   Fax: 020-7209 4761
Email: crossroadswomencentre@compuserve.com
Website: womenstrike8m.server101.com  

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