SAN FRANCISCO

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

Tuesday, March 8, 3pm
Gather at City Hall Polk St(Civic Center BART)
Hear about: efforts to get welfare and other payment for caring work
including the justice work of mothers, daughters, partners; pay equity;
implementation of City resolution prioritizing the protection of sex workers
over prosecution and jail; shutting down Bechtel; refusing the military as
an alternative to prison or destitution. FROM IRAQ TO HAITI TO PALESTINE, NO
US WAR, OCCUPATION, RAPE & OTHER TORTURE!

March to SF City Jail, Rally 4pm, 850 Bryant St (near 7th St) Speak out and
make noise against the criminalization of survival: locking up women for
crimes of poverty where they lose child custody; rape and other torture in
jails and prisons, prison sweat shop labor; unfair trials and uncaring
lawyers; the death penalty; the use of ‘nuisance’ laws to arrest those who
work and survive on the street, sex workers, homeless people, youth;
ticketing and fines with no recourse to justice. NO JAILS! NO GUANTANAMOS!

East Bay video premiere of the
“The Bolivarian Revolution: ENTER THE OIL WORKERS!”
Saturday, March 5, 7pm Eastside Arts Alliance, 2587 International Blvd.
Oakland (near Fruitvale BART)

Venezuela is the world’s 5th largest oil exporter, 80% of its population are
poor. President Hugo Chavez was elected to tackle poverty. Millions on the
street led by grassroots women, defeated the US backed coup against Chavez.
Than the elite and the CIA, tried to shut down Venezuela’s oil company
PDVSA. Oil workers worked round the clock to recover production. In this
video, oil workers tell they are how they are organizing to “put the oil
industry at the service of humanity”.

Global Women’s Strike/San Francisco 415-626-4114 sf@crossroadswomen.net

Co-sponsors: Haiti Action Committee, Justice in Palestine Coalition;
LAGAI-Queer Insurrection; Million Worker March; Prison Radio Project; Prison
Activist Resource Center-Out of Control lesbian committee to support
political prisoners; Purple Berets; Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism
(QUIT); Poor Magazine – Poor News Network;Tri-Valley CAREs; US PROStitutes
Collective; Wages Due Lesbians.

Endorsed by: ANSWER/SF, Bolivarian Circle International- Cyber Solidarity;
California Prison Focus; Presente; Santa Cruz Cuba Study Group; Veterans for
Peace/Chapter 69, Berkeley Unitarian Universalist, Social Justice Committee.

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