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DESCRIPTION:   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?    \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/02/15/58073.php
SUMMARY:Global Women's Strike Planning Meeting
LOCATION:Between 14th and 15th
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/02/15/58073.php
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