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Final
update, 7 March 2002 AOTEAROA (NEW ZEALAND):
Auckland International Women’s Day Committee sent
statement wishing “our sisters around the world the greatest success for
their global strike!” Their
leaflet says “International Working Women’s Day: Te Ra Mahi Wahine,
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.
Campaigning against closure of the National Women’s Hospital and
speakout will be for wages for caring work and against the oppressive
conditions of immigrants and refugees.
Event endorsed by Women for Peace, Service & Food Workers’s Union,
Anti-Imperialist Coalition, Domestic Violence Centre, Feminist Action,
Workers Party of New Zealand. Parents
as Partners in Hamilton say
“caring for dependants is at least as important as soldiering . . .” ARGENTINA –
Santa Fe - The
Sindicato de Amas de Casa (Housewives Union) is co-ordinating the Strike.
“Paso, paso, paso, Que viene el Escobazo!”
“Make
way, make way, The Sweep-out is here!”
“Noisy women’s demonstration through San Jeronimo ending in the
Plaza de Mayo where there will be a Women’s Speakout and we will make a
list of our demands and proposals to hand in to the governor.
Neighbourhood assemblies, the Cross-Neighbourhood Women’s
Network, which represents the women’s assemblies of the poorest
neighbourhoods, the Mothers of the Disappeared and the Multi-Sector
Coalition of Women for Action and many others, will take part.
Drummers and Bands. Bring
placards with the slogan “To sweep them out . . .” and your own brooms
and dusters to Sweep out the dirt at the bottom and at the top because
autonomy is an essential principle of the Strike. Dress
up with masks and disguises.” ***
Rosario – Sweep-out
& assembly of women in the city. Lots of media publicity.
*** Buenos Aires – Delegates from the Santa Fe
women’s assemblies announced the Strike Sweep-out in the Co-ordinating
Assembly of the Parque Centenario where delegates of all the neighbourhood
assemblies of the capital and suburbs meet.
Lots of applause and it was on the national TV news.
Other women there joined the Strike.
Other women organizing International Women’s Day events are also
joining. AUSTRIA
– woman wanting contact with “Austrian Strike team”. A young woman from Minsk, BELARUS,
has translated the Strike material into Russian and her friends will try
to have an action but “we are not absolutely confident of our social
power.” She
says “Good luck in holding the Strike & no surrender!” BOLIVIA
– PROMUTAR in Tarija are preparing Strike actions once again.
A single mother who supports the Strike wrote that she is planning
to go on the game to support her family. BRAZIL
– A woman in Sao Paulo wants to take part.
Dialogo Mujer in COLOMBIA
and the men who work with them join the Strike. CZECH
REPUBLIC:
The Feminist Group of 8th of March, part of Strike last year,
is organising a public concert and distributing leaflets etc. in Prague,
on the “Namesti Miru” (Square of Peace). “The fact that
International Women’s Day is very important worldwide and is not a
communist event means it is censored in Czech media.” DEMOCRATIC
REPUBLIC OF CONGO: The National Union of Women Nurses of the National Union of Nurses will
keep us informed of actions they’re preparing. And the African Women for Economic and Social Development say
“We will all (women) go on strike that day.” In Kinshasa, a women’s
organization has asked for Strike info : SME/CEPROMIALE (member of AWID). DOMINICAN
REPUBLIC A
woman from Radio Santa Maria, an educational Catholic radio station,
associated to ALER is doing live radio programmes where women can put
their demands. March through
the province, demanding respect for life and our rights.
“We don’t want to be raped and that the rapists are freed the
same day because this is our daily reality.
Laws are not implemented here.”
In the afternoon, discussion with women in a rural area about
gender equity. Evening party,
singing and celebrating our victories and the joy of being alive in spite
of an oppressive system, a macho culture and injustice.
“From here we can make a contribution to women’s rights and
lives.” ECUADOR:
Association of Indigenous women of Chimborazo
“La Minga” are taking part in response to letter to Indigenous
and Rural Women from Aymara sister in Peru (see website). Nisswa & Development: a Gender and Development Network of the Arab region, are
mobilising in EGYPT, JORDan
and YEMEN, translating Strike
info into Arabic & distributing to Arab media. EL
SALVADOR: Movement
of Salvadorean Women are part of the Strike.
On 10 March they are protesting against increasing poverty,
repression by the Government agencies which has worsened in the past year,
domestic violence, against neo-liberal policies, privatisation, TLC and
ALCA which impoverish women, and against exploitation by multinationals.
They are defending women’s rights and demonstrating for a better
world. “Because we have a
right to a life with dignity and every day we need bread, a house, a job
and respect.” ENGLAND:
– London Strike Committee is organising a Whistle Stop Tour and
“Cacerolazo” (pots and pans protest) to Sweep Out the Global Killers:
Shell, Ministry of Defence, Institute of Directors, finishing at the World
Bank. Lesbian/bisexual women
invited to march with Dykes on Strike contingent.
Rhythms of Resistance will drum + dance!
Women mental health system survivors are protesting at noon outside
Maudsley Hospital Trust Offices against money being spent on high office
rents but saying they can’t afford women-only wards, against electric
shock treatment, forced drugging. Women
from the Catholic Worker and Metropolitan Community Church along with
those of other faiths are holding a public prayer in front of Ministry of
Defence at noon. The Tour
will join both and will move on together. Will be joined by a busload of
Kent students. A Striking woman was on the BBC London Live Jo Brand Show
on 24 Feb, and a week later, a Black Londoner and a woman in Guyana (by
phone) were interviewed on the Caribbean programme on 2 March. Strike
stall at E. London University on 7 March.
Jewish Socialist Group publicising Strike in their Bulletin and
will join us on the day. Incapacity
Action is one of co-ordinators of a protest by people with disabilities
outside Hackney Town Hall in defence of the Freedom pass (free travel on
public transport for pensioners and people with disabilities) on 8 March,
the deadline for filling in the new, more restrictive forms. There will be
an open advice session & speakout.
Woman from Labour Against the War distributing information.
Lesbian health care manager says it’s hard to come out as lesbian
at work. Women Living Under
Muslim Laws have linked their website and send best wishes 8th.
At Unite, trade union & grassroots conference, Unison agreed to
its members supporting the demo which is linked to the Strike. The
Firefighters Union supports the Strike and gave £50 donation.
Vicky Knight, the first woman on the Fire
Brigades Union national executive, sends us “support and solidarity from
the FBU. We’ll continue to
support the Global Women’s Strike till the end we’re all fighting
for.” They will be raising
the Strike at their annual women’s weekend.
Strike statement by London childcare worker highly critical
of UK government plans which claim to be providing national childcare.
“Little babies have become the object of an exploitative industry in
which many are typically, distressed, insecure and poorly cared for. Staff
are stressed, leaving in droves and parents are paying through the nose
for this” *** Liverpool
- Women and men from People Not Profit organizing “a celebration of
talks, music, films and general mayhem and fun to celebrate International
Women’s Day, and are linking their event to the Strike.
*** A woman in Norwich, England who is
involved in the alternative health movement writes, “I have a group of
ladies who can't make London, so I've decided to do something up here in
Norwich. I'll let you know how we get on.” *** Woman from Bradford showing Strike video at
Students’ Union and Fair Trade Café. A woman and her friends from Lizac, South West FRANCE,
wrote for information. A woman put Strike info in her art exhibit. GERMANY:
-
Berlin – Women activists from
the FrauenStreikTag 94 (Women’s Strike Day 94) are demonstrating against
the multinational SIEMENS. Demands
include implementation of the rules to call “Global Players” to
account for the ecological and social effects of their businesses which
should be extended to the arms industries and all the global players
making profits by investments in war. The People’s Education Association of GHANA,
which campaigns on the issue of girls dropping out of school because of
poverty, has "earmarked Global Women’s day every year to campaign
for the vision.” GUYANA’s
Red Thread multi-racial women’s group is organising a 3-4-hour pots and
pans strike/demo in
Linden along 3 miles of the main road.
“The demands of the Strike are immediate for the Afro-Guyanese
women and the Indigenous women in and near Linden, where the economy is in
crisis because the bauxite industry is in steep decline. In the Indigenous
community, there is no electricity or running water.
Indo-Guyanese were driven out of Linden during the race violence of
the 1960s. A small contingent
of Indo-Guyanese women will come up for the strike/demo and will be
publicly welcomed back by Afro-Guyanese women.
To apply the global demands, we’ll demand an end to exorbitant
prices for electricity, phones and water as a result of privatisation; and
affordable land and housing materials for single mothers.”
INDIA:
Pithora - Chhattisgarh Women’s Organisation (CWO) are again
organizing a meeting where village women, including Dalit and Tribal
women, will put their demands to the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh.
The demands include equal pay for equal work, land rights, safe
drinking water, health and medical facilities, removing
“untouchability” against Dalit people, a bonus for Tendu leaf (smoke
stick business that Tribal women particularly work in).
“We are also raising our voice against globalisation, the World
Trade Organisation, and the IMF which is affecting our people
adversely.” CWO also
organising a Strike action in the capital, Raipur, supported by seven
women’s organisations – they are expecting 5000 women including Dalit
and Adivasi (Tribal) women. They
are having another action on 10 March in Pithora.
Info now on Indymedia India. *** Andhra
Pradesh- Women have formed an activist group from St Joseph’s Edln.
& Social Services Society who work with Dalit and Adivasi (Tribal)
women who are agricultural labourers and landless and will have Strike
action – against dowry deaths, atrocities on women and girls at
workplaces and to stop upper caste communities taking away their rights.
An environmentalist saw website and has offered to help.
IRELAND:
– Women in Media & Entertainment make a presentation to the
President, pressing “to make St Bridget’s day a public paid holiday in
recognition of women’s unpaid work and its contribution to the wealth
and health of our society”. They
will do “the great Hop, Step ‘n Lep through the Town on our flying
broomsticks, with Rhythms from the Heart/h, and fusion of music from
different countries to celebrate”. They are holding 10-hour vigil
outside a Galway church, to exchange music, poetry, other “creative
contributions”. “The
Vision to Strike for – women‘s independent voice reclaiming military
spending, for caring, feeding, healing, learning.
We must reclaim our land and our planet and stop the theft (via
privatization) of water, seeds and genes.”
All
day, Thursday March 7th, Global Women's Strike stall at NUI.
Women’s Action Group inviting women to bring pots
and pans and make some noise and brooms for the Women’s “Spring
Cleaning”. Men in touch with Payday are doing collective Strike support
statement. ITALY
Two groups of workers
from Ancona have endorsed the Strike.
Rome : Sit-in at Central
Termini Train Station from 16.30-20hrs.
Strike video shown at University on 1 March. ISRAEL:
A peace artist who contacted us last year will go on Strike with a message
for Peace brought by women, who would join together against all
fundamentalism that enchains them for life. She describes “tanks rolling
into the West Bank and Gaza . . . “ KUWAIT:
Women want to add their action and are sending us more info. KOREA:
– A woman member of the Women Farmers Assoc. has made the Strike the
Homepage of their website and sent us translations.
Also sent news of 8 March plans, including marches by other groups. MACEDONIA: –
Feminist Initiative which includes the Association of Roma Women “Esma”,
Peace Action and Women’s Civic Centre “will participate in Intl
Wimin’s Day Global Strike with a program of its own”– films, photo
exhibitions, a women’s fair. They translated Strike leaflet into Macedonian.
“We greet the GWS, we think that it is the only way to show our power,
global solidarity to change the world.
We greet sisters from all over the world.
The demands are our demands too.
We choose this year to fight the stereotypes of women’s role and
are distributing information.” COLEM women’s organization in Chiapas, MEXICO,
will probably have a march, a picket in front of the ministry with their
demands, a meeting with cultural activities, and the compañeros of Puerta
Negra (the men’s group) will do some theatre. Woman radio journalist
will featuring Strike jingles on her programme, Women’s Voices through
the Autonomous University Radio of Guerrero, one of the poorest states in
Mexico. PAKISTAN:
Joint Action Commission for People Rights (JAC) fully supports the Strike
– “IMF and World Bank policies in the Third World are making the poor
poorer…” *** Karachi - Sindh
Journalists Network for Children working against violence against women in
Pakistan have written asking for Strike’s support.
But joining the Strike gives each of us international support.
That’s the point of the Strike. PERU:
- LIMA CCTH
(domestic workers centre) is co-ordinating the Strike among
grassroots women’s organisations & trade unions in Lima and the rest
of the country, working with soup kitchens, lesbian women, trade unions
and federations, MAM and Popular Folk Artists (young people and children)
to circulate news of the Strike. Issued Statement
“We are workers but without a wage.” for May Day.
And held two cacerolazos in front of Argentinian embassy to support
our Argentinian sisters . . 12 noon: Demonstration in front of the Palace
of Justice. Each organisation must bring its placards with demands
related to the Strike. . “Indigenous women in Puno
and domestic workers nationally are Striking.
In your centres: put up your banners related to the Strike and one
concrete demand of your organisation.
We will deliver all as one demand to Congress . . .”
*** Puno - The Aymara Centre ‘Pacha Aru’ is co-ordinating
Strike actions in the Aymara and Quechua communities in the Andes.
Big mobilization this year. ‘Pacha
Aru’ has written to Indigenous & rural women all over the world (see
website for English and Spanish) inviting them to use the Strike.
They are now in touch with UMALA, an Indigenous Aymara organization
in Puno, whose address was forwarded from London.
Interviews on Pacha Aru’s radio programme, “Wiñay Panqara”
(“Always Flowering”) announcing all Strike actions on 8th and inviting
other organisations to join them to strengthen each other’s demands and
to bring their own demands and statements from individual women saying why
they support the Strike. On 8
March representatives of Pacha Aru will be interviewed live on a programme
about their local demands as well as the international ones.
Gathering at Dante Nava park; Mass in the Cathedral, with
participation by several organisations including ‘vaso de leche’ (free
children’s breakfast programme); march through the main streets with
placards, banners and chants finishing at Plaza de Armas.
Mid-day meeting with representatives of women’s organisations who
will come from different areas of the Department of Puno.
Government bodies which give assistance are having their own
activities on the 8th where two representatives of Pacha Aru
will put their demands.
Rosa Palomino, President of Pacha Aru will be interviewed by an
international Costa Rican radio programme. A women's organisation from POLAND will translate the Strike leaflet into Polish. Zero Tolerance [of sexual violence] in SCOTLAND
supports the aims of the Strike: “Delighted
to pass information/campaign reports to local groups and policy makers.” The
Wages for Housework Campaign in Barcelona again co-ordinating the Strike
in SPAIN.
8 March main Plaza San Jaime in Barcelona will be
"occupied" from midday to midnight.
Press conference in the Plaza Sant Jaume will include immigrant
women, women with disabilities, widows, church women, mothers, lesbian
women, sex workers, domestic workers, housewives, students . . . They have
again won resources from the Council to hold a press conference for
grassroots women to speak out against overwork and poverty, have musical
performances, theatre, food from different countries.
And there will be a crèche! Demands
include: welfare benefits for all women, including
immigrant women, at the (higher) level of other European countries, and
for the government to implement the 2000 law to measure & value
unwaged work in national accounts. In
the mailing they sent out there were statements by men supporting the
Strike, and anti-war articles from a London lesbian magazine.
In the region
Alcoia-Comtat y Muro women dressed up as Mothers of the Disappeared from
Argentina, with placards demanding “Invest in Caring Not Killing” and
pensions for their lifetime’s work. The Strike has been incorporated as
an activity in the anti-globalisation actions against the Europe of
Capital and War (8-16 March) (European Union Heads of State meet in
Barcelona). *** In Bilbao in
the BASQUE COUNTRY the Feminist Collective
LANBROA support Strike demands as in previous years. They’re calling a
one-hour stoppage and demonstration, followed by a women’s meal.
Other organizations supporting their demonstration including Izaera,
Nerea del Servicio Municipal del Ayuntamiento de Gernika, and the CGT of
Bilbao. *** Other Strike activities planned in the Canary Islands, Córdoba,
Jaen, Sant Guim de Freixenet (Catalunya).
Prostitute women have joined the Strike who have been
organising against recent government proposals to legalise prostitution,
making them pay taxes, without doing anything about all the discrimination
sex workers suffer. ***
Ejea de Los Caballeros, Zaragoza
– As in previous years women are gathering for activities and
reading a manifesto. They
have the support of the local council’s women’s committee. This year
they will demonstrate through the main street.
*** Fuerteventura, Canary Islands – Women’s Association ANIAGA is
circulating information and holding a public meeting, with workshops and
talks on 8 March. *** Ubeda, Jaen
– 5 March the trade
union CGT, one of three major trade unions, has organised people to stick
up posters and will do a press release about issues affecting local women. On the evening of 7 March public showing of Strike video and
debate at the Hospital of Santiago de Ubeda.
Gathering at the same hospital on the 8th. SWEDEN:
- HARO parents’ group are raising the issue of payment for caring for
children at home in the press and are connecting their campaign to the
Strike. A woman is leafleting Stockholm Univ. having translated the Strike
leaflet into Portuguese. A woman from Zurich, SWITZERLAND, sent us her version of the Strike leaflet in German.
A man from the same group, FleXibles, “Society for the
investigation of a new economic system,” works with women and will help
co-ordinate the Strike. An education and human rights group in TANZANIA
intend to organize on 8 March. TRINIDAD
National Union of Domestic Employees (NUDE) have put up a lovely Strike
banner at their home/office until 8 March.
They’ll get an article in the press.
They plan an all-day celebration, inviting women to display all the
work they do at home for no pay: knitting, sewing, floral arrangements,
etc. They will hang up brooms and mops and host a speakout.
MPs not invited –
“grassroots women are taking the floor!” UGANDA:
– Kaabong Women’s Group has sent fantastic statements from members
saying how the Strike has changed their lives – husbands have given them
land and animals since last year’s Strike when they won free hospital
services for all! "We
are demanding an end of World Wars, since billions of lives are lost
especially innocent children and women . . . We want affordable and
accessible housing, transport, protection from violence at home and
outside . . . We have visited 100 parishes and more information has
reached all the women’s groups in Karamoja and neighbouring districts. .
. We have agreed to wear traditional dresses and carry a broom as symbolic
sign to sweep the world clean and solve this local and international super
crisis. We shall
demonstrate to the world the achievements and commitments of Kaabong
Women’s Group to the cause of the Global Women’s Strike.”
*** The Federation of Uganda Women Business Organisation Industry
& Agriculture “The
war investment has left widows, orphans, poverty, street family,
homelessness, famine, and politically, socially and economically raped.
Globalisation is another syndrome to kill a worldly woman as it has
no message for the poor woman in favour of the capitalists and giant
multinational companies that women do not own. . . We shall make a
demonstration of the war widows, orphans, disabilities persons of the war
and girls.” *** The Women’s Media Association want “information on
this strike to prepare the ground.” UNITED
STATES – Los
Angeles – welfare mothers, grandmothers, immigrant women, lesbian
women, women with disabilities as well as men supporters will take to the
streets with puppets, street theatre, music, banners highlighting all the
demands of the Strike to “call out the thieves” at the BankAmerica,
welfare office, Housing Authority, Social Security office, Mexican
Consulate, McDonald’s and a notorious police station.
They will also press for a living wage and higher welfare benefits.
A teacher striking on 8 March wants to show the Strike video to
students so they know why she’ll be absent.
Political
rock band Rage Against the Machine are once again making the Strike top
item on their website and linking it; grandmother of 8 children will be
praying at home on 8 March “that we can win over and above the
destructive forces in our world.” *** New
York City Flushing Greens will distribute Strike leaflets in Spanish,
English, Chinese and Korean, “focusing on lack of affordable housing and
need for a living wage – two big issues that affect women in our
predominately immigrant community.” We
invite others to join a vigil with a psychiatric abuse survivor protesting against forced drugging and incarceration
on the 8th, outside Kings County G building where she was
locked up, in solidarity with the women inside.
The
Global Sweatshops Coalition’s march on March 9 is a Strike event! Vamos
a la Pena in the Bronx hosting a Strike event on March 9, from 3-8 pm with
food, speakers and entertainment.
*** Hudson Valley NY State
Bard College Women’s Alliance will bring vanloads to Strike in D.C.
“May have a feminist chorus to lead songs.” ***
Florida Key West women will have Peace in the Park day
on the 8th - “where the message is a positive outlook for reform.”
Bayview Park 4-8pm ***
Philadelphia Penn/Camden New Jersey:
Women will be hopping aboard the Global Women's
Strike Bus “following the money trail. Taking lead from sisters in
Argentina, we will do pots-and-pans protests at bus stops, in front of
banks, government and private welfare offices, defense contractors,
politicians’ offices, etc.” ***
In San Francisco women
will march and have cacerolazos from Welfare Dept to the Federal Building
against war-mongering and corporate thievery.
Mothers cut off welfare will speak out against the resulting
violence and criminalisation. Women
from the Immokalee farm workers, Florida, will also join them. They’ll carry brooms, a large puppet, paper dolls
representing women’s double day, entertainment, songs and chants. Jobs
for Justice are encouraging their members to attend Strike actions
especially to protest the Philadelphia Workforce Development Corporation. ***
In Utah – Jedi for Women
(against welfare “reform”) will be taking action.
A couple will organise a demonstration/press conference
at the State Capitol Building in Salt Lake City. *** A
woman from Washington State, USA says, “Let me know how I can help.
I believe we could do a world wide blockade of products which are
poisons to us through chemical pollution.
Need to stop the collusion of Medicine and Drug manufacturers . .
.” *** On 9 March
Welfare Warriors is organising a Photo Bus Tour through Wisconsin to expose the relationship between poor moms forced by
welfare “reform” to take any job, anywhere, at any wage, and the
corporations which benefit. Endorsers
in the USA: Agenda, Alexandria House, American Friends Service Committee, San Francisco Arab Women’s Voice,
Association of Iranian Women USA, Bay Area Support Network for the
Immokolee Farm Workers, California Coalition for Women Prisoners,
California Food Policy Advocates, LA Office, C.A.T.A. Comite de Apoyo a
los Trabajadores Agricolas, Christ Unity Center of African Spirituality,
Clergy & Laity United for Economic Justice, Coalition for Humane
Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), Coalition Against Police Abuse (CAPA),
Coalition of Labor Union Women, LA Chapter (CLUW), Coastal Convergence
Society, Huntington Beach, Committee in Solidarity with the People of El
Salvador (CISPES), Committees
of Correspondence, Philadelphia, Communities Actively Living Independent
& Free (CALIF), Day Labor Program, SF, Decondition/Recondition,
EarthWise, Every
Mother is a Working Mother Network, First Unitarian Universalist
Church/LA, Food
Not Bombs, SF, Germantown
Meeting Peace and Social Concerns Committee, Glendale Greens, Global
Sweatshops Coalition (NY), Greater Camden Unity Coalition (NJ), Greater
Philadelphia DSA, Green Party of Philadelphia, Grey Panthers, SF, Health
Access-Los Angeles Human Services Alliance, IHSS
Recipients & Providers Sharing (IRAPS), International Concerned Family & Friends of Mumia Abu Jamal, JEDI for
Women (Utah), Korean Immigrant Workers Association (KIWA), LA
Childcare Providers for Action (ACORN), LA Coalition to End Hunger &
Homelessness, Legal
Services for Prisoners with Children, San Francisco, Lesbian Avengers
Philly Style, Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE), June L.
Mazer Lesbian Archives, Middle East Children’s Alliance, Mothers &
Daughters Against Drug Abuse, Mothers on the Move, National Center for
Lesbian Rights, Old Women’s Project, San Diego, Payday, Penn Women’s Center, Philadelphia CLUW,
Philadelphia Area Jobs with Justice, Philadelphia NOW, Poor Magazine, Quality Homecare Coalition,
Riotgrrls Metro Philly, Sabatoge, Safeplace, San Fernando Valley Alliance
for Democracy, San Francisco
Women in Black, Service Employees International Union SEIU Local 535, SoCal
Raging Grannies, Students for Social Justice, Pasadena Community College,
Sunset Hall Retirement Residence, Sweatshop
Watch, Utility Workers Union
of America Local 132, Women for Peace, Women of Color Resource Center, Oakland, Women’s
International League for Peace and Freedom (National and Los Angeles and
Philadelphia). URUGUAY
– Viva La Revolucion translators working with the Strike again. COUNTRY UNKNOWN –
“I
run the campaign which asks that military resources be converted to human
needs. I will advertise your
Strike.”
Struggling single mother: Translating declarations
of the strike into Haitian-Creole: “My reason for striking is to
end child labor, domestic violence both at home and in the workforce,
women exploitation by men, or by other women at all levels . . . to secure
a regular pay check for those mothers who constantly work at home with
their children without . . . breaks of any kind.” Feminist Peace Network email newsgroup listed Strike website in their
International Women’s Day update “We are global . . . a lot of
hard-working women . . . in every part of the world.
I am so happy to see how the Strike has grown. FPN also endorses your work.
Seems to me that peace/ending violence and economic sustainability
issues are totally connected . . .” Payday network of men is co-ordinating men’s support globally including
from men who are immigrant, gay, with disabilities . . .
Men invited to add support statements to those from 18 countries so
far. Some men helping with computers/ technical work, translation,
videoing, transport, food preparation, childcare. . . Information on
organising collective childcare and on men refusing to work for the
military is on the web site: http://womenstrike8m.server101.com/English/menjoinwomen.htm. Translations of the Strike 2002 leaflet so far:
Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Basque, Bengali, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian,
Dutch, Farsi, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japanese,
Korean, Macedonian, Magyar (Hungarian), Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian,
Shona, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tigrinya, Turkish, Urdu.
. ***Haitian Creole, Sinhala, Tamil on their way. *** The 27
minute Strike video now has sub-titles in Spanish! *** |