Mothers Day at Bechtel: Invest in Caring Not Killing

A call from the Global Women's Strike to grassroots women, young people and men. Women Say No War -- Invest in Caring, Not Killing Come to our regular weekly Picket & Speakout at Bechtel Corporation to protest their profiteering off water & war. Women, the first carers and the poorest of the poor everywhere, struggle to make up for the devastation, the loss of benefits, healthcare, education -- cut or privatized to pay for war. We are thehidden backbone of anti-war activism. However governments justify war, women point to the suffering and the tragic loss of lives, in whatever country, of whtever race or religion. women chant: Every casualty, every collateral damage, some mother's daughter, some mother's son. No wonder more women than men oppose war. Our survival, in Iraq or in the US is not their economic priority, so women's survival work is invisible. Women do 2/3 of the world's work, mostly unwaged caring and agricultural work. We are 70% of victims of armed conflict, 80% of refugees and displaced people. 500,00 children died in Iraq as a result of sanctions. 1.5 million infants die from malnutrition each year. $900 billion is spent on military budgets, over half by the US alone. Yet $80 bilion would rid us all of the world's worst poverty.