Mothers March Los Angeles Leaflet

Make our voices heard on * anti-mother, anti-caregiver policies * criminalizing poverty * racism *war and occupation * housing * welfare * valuing and payment for caring work* pay equity * children unjustly taken from mothers by LA County *justice for victims of South LA serial murders * California budget cuts *UC & Cal State fee increases* immigration policies that break up families *prostitution & other struggles for survival * the right to home care by those of us who are older &/or have a disability * healthcare *rape & violence * breastfeeding * childcare * lesbian/gay/bi/trans families . . . The voices of women must be heard
 

International Women’s Day Event! SAVE THE DATE!
Saturday March 13, 2010

Mothers March Globally!
Marking the 11th Global Women’s Strike!

 11AM Gather at the park on 4th St near Shatto Place, LA 90020

March down Wilshire to

Rally in MacArthur Park w/ music, food and children’s activities
All women, youth, men, children welcome. A women-led march.

WE ARE MOTHERS OF DIFFERENT RACES, ages, passports, incomes, sexual preferences and occupations. Many of us work a double and triple day of waged work on top of our unwaged work as mothers. Those of us who are not biological mothers do a lot of mothering too, sometimes for children and also for friends, colleagues, family, neighbors and others in the community. The March will make this work visible also.

MOTHERS MAKE THE WORLD GO ROUND, but we get neither recognition nor resources, only blame when things go wrong. The work that mothers contribute to society entitles us to every support, including financial

OUR CHILDREN COUNT! The relationship between mothers and children is not viewed by policy makers as vital, making it easier for children to be taken from mothers and placed with strangers. And, caring for children is not valued as work by those who govern, but any job outside the home is. Our children deserve loving care, we will not tolerate them being treated as obstacles that get in the way of something more important!

THE SURVIVAL OF THE HUMAN RACE DEPENDS ON MOTHERS. Fathers and other male caregivers who support mothers will join the march.

Planning Group thus far and growing: Alexandria House, Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders, California Partnership, DCFS Give Us Back Our Children, Every Mother Is a Working Mother Network, Haiti Vigil, Mujeres de Maiz, South Central Farm, Global Women’s Strike/LA, Women of Color in the GWS. Contact us to join the planning group and/or to lend your support!

For more info go to www.globalwomenstrike.net or contact us        at 323-276-9833 la@crossroadswomen.net