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DESCRIPTION:[ Editors Note: Location has been updated from Oscar Grant Plaza in Oakland 
 to MLK Civic Center Park in Berkeley. ]\n\n\nWOMEN'S STRIKE RALLY: 
 International Women's Day of Action in Oakland [now East Bay]\n\nSponsors: 
 International Women's Strike Bay Area & Bay Area Reproductive 
 Justice\n\nWHEN: Thursday, March 8 at 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM PST\n\nWHERE: MLK 
 Civic Center Park in Berkeley\n\nAs part of the International Women’s 
 Strike movement, in the East Bay we call for:\n\n* 24 hours of action on 
 March 8th\n*12pm/ lunch-time : Local Speak-Out/ Strike Action @ our local 
 workplaces, schools, and neighborhoods to make our presence visible, 
 wearing red, and being vocal about women and LGBTQI, immigrant and people 
 of color rights, as well as those with disabilities\n* 4.30pm to 6pm: 
 REGIONAL RALLIES--Oscar Grant Plaza in Oakland\n\nLast Year on March 8th, 
 women of every kind, marched, stopped works, and took over the street in 
 fifty different countries across the world.  March 8th, 2018 is coming and 
 things have gotten worse for us a women in this country. \n\nWe will go on 
 strike against gender violence—against the men who commit violence and 
 against the system that protects them.  Racialized gender violence is 
 international, as must be the campaign against it.   US imperialism, 
 militarism and settler colonialism foster misogyny throughout the 
 world.\n\nThe #METOO, #USTOO, #TIMESUP campaigns made visible the gender 
 violence that haunts women’s everyday lives.  We do not willingly keep 
 our mouths shut.  We are forced into a racist, sexist power structure by 
 capitalism.  \n\nThe recently passed “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” guts 
 exemptions that benefit low-wage workers, the vast majority of whom are 
 women.  Corporations got a hefty tax break, from 35% down to 21%, while 
 plans are afoot to savage Medicaid and Medicare—two programs that support 
 the elderly and the poor, the sick and the disabled, family planning and 
 children—and hence women, who do most of the care work. . .\n\nTrump has 
 announced that welfare reform is his next target which is bound to further 
 impoverish single mother families. Already in the US, women and our 
 children are 70% of the poor. The work of mothers producing and reproducing 
 all of society is not valued and we are not counted as workers, but as 
 charity cases.\n\nOn March 8th, we will speak out against violent and 
 abusive systems of power and privilege that deny women and all vulnerable 
 others, the possibility of health, dignity and a safe life.\n\nWe call on 
 local unions, both elected officials and rank and file workers, as well as 
 labor councils to actively engage with this re-emerging independent, 
 non-corporate, and grassroots women’s movement, for we believe our unions 
 and working class women have been and should continue to be at the center 
 of this 
 struggle.\n\nhttps://www.womenstrikeus.org/event/east-bay-international-womens-day-of-action/\nhttps://www.womenstrikeus.org\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/02/17/18806794.php
SUMMARY:East Bay International Women's Day of Action
LOCATION:MLK Civic Center Park in Berkeley
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/02/17/18806794.php
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