(Taken from KPFK.org, written by Mumia Abu Jamal)
On March 8th 2004, women around the world in LA, England, Argentina, Uganda,
Peru, Philadelphia, San Francisco, in Guyana, in southern India, in Trinidad
and Tobago, in Spain, women will be staging the 5th Global Women's Strike.
A movement involving women in some sixty countries many involved in
grassroots organizations. Fighting for payment for housework, for clean
safe water resources, for housing, education, gender justice, and peace. In
a world where war is now our norm, the Global Women's Strike is part of the
vast throng against war and occupation. Not only in Iraq, but in Palestine,
in Columbia, in the Congo and in Kashmir. Their organizing slogan, which
unites strikers from a broad array of struggles, is deceptively simple:
'Invest in Caring not Killing.'
Events have been going on this weekend, and the main event is at Immanuel Presbyterian Church on Monday the 8th, International Women's Day. Read the events calendar for details.
Global Women's Strike Website
International Women's Day, the Global Women's Strike