International Women's Day Statement of the Victoria Status of Women Action Group
Canada, 8 March 2006

 

(Victoria-BC, Coast Salish Territory) The Status of Women Action Group are addressing this letter to everyone who benefits in a monetary way from violence against women. This includes those who are living off grants to study violence against women. This includes those who draw a salary or who are reimbursed in any form as a result of violence against women. This includes movie makers, artists, social workers, case managers, bureaucrats, researchers, doctors, those in the psychiatric field, women who have adopted children apprehended by the state, shelter workers and so on. If you are indeed committed to ending violence against women, please put your money where your mouth is and support Guaranteed Livable Income.

 

No more services, no more welfare, no more poverty no more violence, no more spiritual abuse. No more MANagement of women. No more sick and enslaved women peering at us from every imaginable media, naked and humiliated and being sexually abused in a way staged to suggest that sexual violence has no victim. Women do not need any more victim survivor camps. There must be a recognition that transition houses and shelters are a make work project for social service providers. BC's nasty little cottage industry: The battered women business.

 

Women want freedom from sexual slavery and exploitation made possible by their poverty. A poverty created by every man in this country who benefits from it! Address the problem at the source. And don't worry, if you lose your job on account of there being no victims to be found, you will be guaranteed  an income. Support G.L.I., support the Global Women’s Strike, Invest in Caring not Killing, (www.globalwomenstrike.net) and end slavery! Disregard this at the peril of all.

 

Stephanie Lovatt, stephlovatt@telus.net
President, Victoria Status of Women Action Group, (SWAG)
Phone: 250-383-7322  --  Mail: Box 8484 Victoria BC V8W 3S1

email: swag@pacificcoast.net  web page: www.pacificcoast.net/~swag

 

BACKGROUND FACTS

 

  • Women & girls do 2/3 of the world's work, most of it unwaged. * $1 trillion 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.  http://www.globalwomenstrike.net/
     
  • According to 2004 data obtained by the Women's Economic Justice Project from Revenue Canada there are 2.7 million more women (67% more) than men in the lowest income groups (reported income of $0-30,000) while there are 460,000 more men (30% more) than women in the highest income groups (over $100,000).  http://pacificcoast.net/~swag/womenfactsChart.htm

Victoria Status of Women Action Group (SWAG)
swag@pacificcoast.net
www.pacificcoast.net/~swag
250-383-7322 (ph) (no fax)
Box 8484, Victoria BC, V8W 3S1
Coast Salish Territory

Grève mondiale des femmes