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LA
COUNTDOWN TO THE GLOBAL WOMEN’S STRIKE
globalwomenstrike@crossroadswomen.net
The
Southern California event for the 6th Global Women’s Strike is only 7
days
away - on March 10th.
Our next planning meeting is this Saturday, March 5,
10:30AM,
at Alexandria House
(426 S. Alexandria
Ave, LA, two blocks east of
Normandie betw 4th
& 5th St.). All
are welcome – it is a potluck meeting so
bring something to share if you can.
We urgently need help getting the word
out, so please send this notice around, or the strike flyer (attached)
to your email
list and post it on
your website. Other
outreach, logistics, arts and action, security
monitors, chant leaders, translation and more needed.
You can contact us by
hitting the reply button for this email or call the Crossroads Women's
Center
where the Global
Women’s Strike/LA is based at 323-292-7405,
or email us at
la@crossroadswomen.net
to volunteer your help or to let us know that you will be
attending the Strike
action. If you have not
already endorsed this event, please
contact us - all
endorsers will be listed on our website. It takes all of our movements
coming together to end the twin terrors of poverty and war!
Please, please
remember to circulate this email widely!
Every
International Women's Day since 2000, women in 60 countries have
taken part in
the GLOBAL WOMEN'S STRIKE - actions on or around March &
throughout the year demanding that governments
INVEST IN CARING NOT
KILLING
We
are also demanding: A Living Wage for All Our Work, Pay Equity in the
Global Market and
an End to the Twin Terrors of Poverty and War.
Please see below for all the global demands.
*
LA Global Women’s Strike event and other Strike
–supported events in and around LA *
THURSDAY, MARCH 10
Global Women’s Strike
“Gathering Our Forces Against Poverty &
War” March and Rally
Gather
3pm at the Downtown Federal Bldg,
300 N Los Angeles St.
March
to the Twin Towers Jail
Rally 5pm at the corner of Vignes and Bauchet St.
From
Iraq to Haiti to Venezuela to inner-city LA, NO to US war, occupation,
rape and other torture & destabilization anywhere!
Hear about campaigning to:
stop military recruitment in our schools; welfare cuts; save King/Drew
hospital;
defend our health and environment!
Speak
Out & Make Noise against the Criminalization of Survival!
No
Jails.
No
Three Strikes. Money for mothers and communities, not Guantanamos
and war.
Women’s Award to Mumia Abu Jamal.
All
Welcome! Music! Truck for
elders, children & people with disabilities.
Coordinated by the Global Women’s Strike, 323-292-7405, la@crossroadswomen.net
KPFK
Pacifica Radio 90.7FM is the media sponsor for this event.
Co-sponsors include: Action Resource Center, Alexandria House, A New Way
of Life,
ANSWER Coalition, Critical Resistance
L.A., East Side Café, El Sereno Neighbors for
Peace
and Justice, IAC, No New Jails Coalition, Office of the Americas,
Payday,
San
Gabriel Valley Neighbors for Peace and Justice.
Endorsers thus far include: Christ Unity Center African Spirituality,
CISPES, Code Pink,
Brian Concannon Jr., FACTS, LA Coalition Against Hunger and
Homelessness, LA Greens,
LA-US
LAW, Los Angeles Collective Network, Mediair-A Center for Mediation and
Peace
Education, Old Women’s Project – San Diego, Pastors for Peace
Working Group-LA/West
Coast Bus Project, Raging Grannies/So, Cal, Sunset Hall, WILPF-LA
For
more info, check out the GWS website at
globalwomenstrike@crossroadswomen.net.
SAT
MARCH 5, 8pm
Party with a Purpose!
Fundraiser for Pastors for Peace
360
S. Electric Ave., Monterey Park
Help Raise Money for Caravans of Humanitarian Aid for Cuba!
Help
Celebrate International Women's Day!
Food,
Drink, Music, Dancing, Speakers, including:
-Margaret Prescod (Global Women's Strike, KPFK host/producer of
Sojourner Truth)
-Don White (CISPES-LA, KPFK Chair Local Station Board)
DONATION: $15 (No one turned away for lack of funds!) INFORMATION: Call:
Al, 626/289-3573 Email: Lynda Llamas, endtheembargo@hotmail.com
SPONSORS:
Pastors for Peace WEST COAST BUS PROJECT & the
San
Gabriel Valley (Alhambra) Neighbors for Peace & Justice
supporting
the 16th Annual Caravan to Cuba. Endorsed
by many groups
including
the Global Women’s Strike
WEDNESDAY,
MARCH 9
“Gathering Our Forces Against Poverty & War”
Margaret
Prescod will be speaking at Cal Poly Pomona
11:30-1pm, Bronco Student Center, Orion AB
Sponsored by the Re-entry Women’s Center
For more info call 909-869-3206
SATURDAY,
MARCH 19
Global Day of Action on the 2nd
Anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq
Beat
Back the Bush Attack!
US
Troops Out of Iraq!
Gather
12 noon, Hollywood and Vine, Los Angeles
No
to war and occupation! From
Iraq to Palestine, Haiti, Iran, Afghanistan,
Cuba,
Syria, Venezuela, Korea, the Phillipines…bring the troops home now!
Stand
against racism. Money for
welfare, healthcare, schools, education,
jobs, social security, not war and Pentagon greed.
March
and Rally initiated by the ANSWER Coalition-LA and
co-sponsored by the Global Women’s Strike and many other groups.
For
more info, to endorse, or to volunteer to help, call 323-464-1636
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