* * * * * Actions in & around Philadelphia 2005 * * * * *
Every Int'l Women's Day since 2000, women in 60 countries have taken part in the
GLOBAL WOMEN'S STRIKE

actions on or around March 8 & throughout the year demanding that governments
INVEST IN CARING NOT KILLING
A Living Wage for All Our Work, Pay Equity in the Global Market

Gathering Our Forces Against Poverty & War
Sat March 5        1-5pm
Tabernacle United Church
3701 Chestnut St, Phila All are welcome
Childcare. Spanish translation available.
$3-10 donation (No one turned away).
* Video premiere "Refusing to Kill" - women & men refusing militaries
& war around the world. By Payday. www.refusingtokill.net

* Hear from Mothers organizing for the right to welfare & pay equity &
vs. the poverty draft & military recruitment in schools * Chester High
School students & parents taking control of their school * military rape &
abuse survivors demanding justice * voter registration workers speaking out
vs. election fraud * activists vs. US intervention in Haiti, Venezuela &
Iraq. And you!!

* Get info on the racist history of Phila & how people are holding
responsible politicians, advocates, & others who do nothing & stand in the
way.

Our children don't want their mothers in jail!
Strike against racist criminal 'injustice' system
Tues March 8           11:30am - 1:30pm
11:30 Speakout at Roundhouse (Police HQ) 7th & Race
March w/ stop at Fed Detention Center, to
12:30 Rally at Federal Bldg 6th & Market
Van available
* Women's Award to Mumia Abu Jamal:
a loving brother in the "City of Brotherly Love"

* Speak out & make noise against the criminalization of survival:
locking women up for crimes of poverty, where they lose child custody *
rape, abuse, other torture * prison sweatshops * unfair trials & uncaring
lawyers * the death penalty and 'life without parole.' Value the justice
work mothers, daughters, sisters, partners must do. Money for mothers &
communities, not Guantánamos & war!

For info on these & other events (including in Lancaster PA):
Global Women's Strike/Phila 215-848-1120 philly@crossroadswomen.net

Co-sponsors: Every Mother is a Working Mother Network, Payday, Radio Haiti,
STAAAMP (Survivors Taking Action Against Abuse By Military Personnel), Wages
Due Lesbians, WinVisible (women w/ visible & invisible disabilities)
Endorsers: Brandywine Peace Community, Fight for Lifers, Komite Pou Retou
Demokrasi Ann Ayiti, Northwest Peace & Justice Mvmt, PA Lesbian & Gay Task
Force, War Resisters League

Support the GWS International demands:

* Payment for all caring work * Pay equity for all * Food security for
all * Paid maternity leave, breastfeeding breaks & other benefits * Don't
pay 'Third World debt' * Accessible clean water, healthcare, housing,
transport, literacy * Non-polluting energy & technology * Protection &
asylum from all violence & persecution * Freedom of movement.
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