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Actions 2002
Strike call
Take action
Men's support
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Why we strike:
Women of Colour
Indigenous & rural women
Mothers
Women in waged work
Women with disabilities
Lesbian & bisexual women
Older women
Young women
Sex workers
Religious activists
Students
Teachers
Women in trade unions
Alternative health care supporters
Trade Union support
Media coverage
Watch our video
Songs,
jingles & animation
T-shirts & badges
Archives:
2002
2001
2000
Links
Other
websites of interest:
All Women Count
Mujeres
Red (en Español)
Black
Women's Website against Racist Sexual Violence
Pay
Equity Website
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A
petition to all governments
Invest in caring not killing!
We, the people of the world, demand that:
The
‘war with no end’ and the arms trade and genocide it imposes, be
brought to an end.
The
over $900 billion now spent on military budgets worldwide be
invested instead in the care and welfare of all the people and our
planet.
All
caring work, now done mainly by women, be valued and paid for, and a
pension paid to all those whose decades of work have never been
recognised.
Caring,
and therefore the survival and enrichment of every life and of the
planet’s, becomes the aim of every society and every economy.
Full
petition
A Pakistani woman living in Britain:
I'm
an immigrant and a mother, exhausted trying to care for and raise a child
in an unfamiliar, unhelpful society; to hold down a job and other
responsibilities, but the Strike lifts me up....In my country 65% of the
budget goes to military expenditure, very little is left for women,
children, health, education. Women's health is always at risk, literacy is
very low for women and girls, and access to clean water, housing and other
resources, very difficult. Most resources go to the military, which
is very deeply established so other institutions do not grow. Whichever
party comes to power fails and falls into corruption, because the military
is always in power...
A
lesbian mother ex-sex worker
I worked as a prostitute for many
years to support my children, while living with a woman. Some may wonder how you can sleep
with men for money and be a lesbian. I’ve met many other lesbian women so do sex work
because it pays better than other jobs available to women. We do live under constant fear
that we’ll have our children taken away if we get arrested because we are illegal
workers and are also lesbian women.
Crossroads Women's Centre,
PO Box 287, London NW6 5QU
Tel: +44 (0)20 7482 2496 minicom/voice
Fax: +44 (0)20 7209 4761womenstrike8m@server101.com
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Why go
on Strike?
Women & girls do 2/3 of the world's
work, most of it unwaged.
$900+
billion a year is spent on the military worldwide, more than half by
the US.
10% of this would provide the essentials of life for
all: water, sanitation,
basic health, nutrition, literacy, and a minimum income.
more
Strike demands:
Invest in life & welfare, not
military budgets & prisons. Payment for all
caring work - in wages, pensions, land & other resources. What
is more valuable than raising children & caring for others?
Pay equity for all, women & men, in the global market.
All
demands
Some actions 2002:
Argentina
England
Ghana
Guyana
India
Ireland
Peru
Spain
Trinidad & Tobago
Uganda
USA:
LA
Philadelphia
Utah
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