Global Women’s Strike
PHOTO EXHIBITION
Invest in Caring, Not Killing

Every 8 March since 2000 grassroots women in over 60 countries have been taking action in the Global Women's Strike to demand together that the money squandered on war be spent instead on what our communities need, that society Invest in Caring Not Killing.

This year the Strike offers an exhibition of over 50 beautiful colour photos with captions by and about the lives of women participating in the Strike in nearly 20 countries.  The photos range from shots of individual women’s day-to-day work to demonstrations of thousands.  The exhibition uniquely portrays the often ignored but exciting struggles and successes of grassroots women.  The demands that women are taking Strike actions to support include payment for all caring work, accessible clean water, food security and the right to breastfeed, land rights for wives especially, pay equity, non-polluting technology, protection and asylum from all violence, freedom of movement.

For us opposing war and ending poverty are inseparable. This year we are demanding: Invest in Caring Not Killing!  End Poverty and War Now! A Living Wage for All our Work and Pay Equity in the Global Market

The exhibit includes:

GHANA - rural women and girls take to the streets of Anum to demand “Women in developing countries need HELP not war”;
GUYANA  - four decades ago, during nationwide conflict, Indo-Guyanese fled Linden after many rapes of women and girls.  The Strike's march across race symbolically reclaimed Linden for all women.

INDIA  - mass rallies and workshops of Tribal and Dalit women who demand an end to the wage discrimination of the caste system, and an end to rape by individual men, employers and the police; 
PERU - planning meetings and craftwork in the mountains near Lake Titicaca among Indigenous Aymara and Quechua women.  In the city of Lima, a domestic workers organisation uses community radio to press the government to implement a unique new law providing benefits and rights to domestic workers; 
UGANDA - rural women win free healthcare, the right to clean water close to their homes, and, the respect of their husbands – based on what they have won! 
VENEZUELA - the Strike has been working with the revolution there, especially with the Women's Development Bank which uses micro credit to empower women and create "an economy at the service of the people, rather than people at the service of the economy".

USA, ENGLAND & IRELAND – against Bush’s wars. In the US, events bring together military women raped by male colleagues with men refuseniks who won’t go to Iraq; London (England) community anti-war picket and open microphone outside Parliament; Galway (Ireland) picket of the Garda (police) station against the government’s unconstitutional support for the Iraq war.

The exhibition is available for hire from February for a donation for unfunded groups (colleges, libraries and local councils etc. £50 a week).  It will help if you have display stands but if not card or a wall will do.  We’ll supply laminated photos and headings with velcro and punch-holes and a simple guide showing how to display it.

By making visible women’s enormous but hidden contribution to life on this planet, the exhibition is perfect for display before and during International Women's Week (IWDay is 8 March).  We invite you to let this innovative exhibition bring to your local area the power of this international Strike movement.  Use it to advertise your own event, or just help inform and inspire everyone, women and men.  You may want to collect viewers’ comments, (favourable or not) which we'd love to publish on the Strike’s website www.globalwomenstrike.net

If you would like to hire the photo exhibit please contact Jenny or Anna on 020 7482 2496 or email womenstrike8m@server101.com 

We’re circulating this exhibition in the UK.  If anyone outside the UK is interested, please get in touch.

 

Also available: Strike 2000 compilation video of clips, for just £5.

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