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Global Women's Strike Planning Meeting

Date:
Sunday, February 20, 2005
Time:
11:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Event Type:
Meeting
Organizer/Author:
Lori
Location Details:
Between 14th and 15th


Dear Friends,

We are writing to invite you to the next planning meeting for the 6th
GLOBAL WOMEN'S STRIKE for the San Francisco Bay Area during the
week of International Women's Day (March 8, 2005).

Planning meeting: 333 Valencia #350. Signs will be posted.

This year the Strike will focus on demanding:
A Living Wage for All our Work &
Pay Equity in the Global Market
End Poverty and War! Invest in Caring Not Killing!
(See below for the demands of the Strike. Letter to follow soon.)

As many will know, the Strike started in 2000 with women taking action
together on or around the 8 March. It has grown every year since,
especially in countries of the Global South. Grassroots women in over
60 countries have demanded that society Invest in Caring Not Killing,
that the money squandered on war be spent instead on what our
communities need - beginning with payment for all caring work. For
us opposing war and ending poverty are inseparable, and that begins
with paying those who care.

Men's support and participation internationally has been coordinated
by Payday, a multiracial network of men, which is organizing with
women and men who are Refusing to Kill: refusing the military and its
lethal and repressive work, from the US and UK to Israel and Eritrea
. . . The Strike has also spread the word about the armed forces in the
Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela which are working with the
community to grow and distribute food, build housing, and in other
ways caring for, not shooting at, the community.

Everyone is welcome at the meeting. This is a chance to strengthen all
the organizing people have been involved in, and to make the
independent voice of the grassroots, women and men, heard over the
warmongering and witch-hunting of the Bushes, the Blairs and their
babes. Let's make it a Happy New Year!

We hope to see you on February 20. Bring a snack to share, and please
let us know if you will need childcare or can provide rides.

Lori Nairne
Global Women's Strike
Crossroads Women's Center, PO Box 14512, San Francisco;
Tel/fax: 415-626-4114 Email: sf@crossroadswomen.net

* * * * *
Demands of the Strike:

* Payment for all caring work - in wages, pensions, land & other
resources. What is more valuable than raising children & caring for
others? Invest in life & welfare, not military budgets or prisons
* Pay equity for all, women & men, in the global market.
* Food security for breastfeeding mothers, paid maternity leave and
maternity breaks. Stop penalizing us for being women.
* Don't pay 'Third World debt'. We owe nothing, they owe us.
* Accessible clean water, healthcare, housing, transport, literacy.
* Non-polluting energy & technology which shortens the hours we work.
We all need stoves, fridges, washing machines, computers, & time
off!
* Protection & asylum from all violence & persecution, including by
family members & people in positions of authority.
* Freedom of movement. Capital travels freely, why not people?


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