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"Don't mourn, Organise!" 8th MARCH 2005 : 6th GLOBAL WOMEN'S STRIKE.
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Monday January 31, 2005 22:19 by Tommy Donnellan - Payday
Organise!
Posted on behalf of Margaretta D'Arcy, Galway section of Global Women's Strike and Selma James, International Co-ordination, GW'sS. Every International Women's day since 2000, women in over 60 countries have taken all kinds of grassroots actions to demand together that society Invest in Caring Not Killing, and that the money squandered on war is spent instead on what our communities need. The Strike has grown stronger in these five years, especially in countries of the global South, and women, and increasingly men, now take action throughout the year. We have seen how working across national boundaries with others in struggles for justice empowers us all.
Opposing war and ending poverty are inseparable. The recent horrendous tsunami killed almost 300,000 people, but every day many thousands die from starvation, disease, global warming and war - all man-made disasters caused by the rule of money and the market. Governments and their beloved multinationals talk a lot of hot air about ending poverty but they never even mention giving us the money we need. the twin terrors of poverty and war are profitable, so it's against their interest to end either. Only we ourselves, beginning with women, the carers who struggle every day to sustain life, working the hardest for least, can make this life-saving change. The Strike is our way of mobilising for this.
We are not asking for charity but demanding what we have earned: A Living Wage for All our Work. And waged workers are entitled to the same pay, women and men, in whatever country: Pay Equity in the Global Market. This is the Strike's programme to end poverty as wall as sexism and racism. The Strike also aims to bring women (and men) together across many divisions. It begins with those of us who are invisible as workers: mothers and other caregivers, grassroots activists; subsistence, migrant and family farmers; those struggling on disability benefits, welfare, social security; child labourers; immigrants with or without papers; bonded labourers; domestic and homecare workers; sex workers; prisoners and ex-prisoners; refuseniks; students; rape survivors & others working for justice; community volunteers and more; whatever our sex, race nationality, religion, age, sexual choice . . . Demanding global pay equity and wages for all the work we do, strenghtens all workers, waged and unwaged, by making visible our contribution and our power to unite.
Men's support and participation internationally is co-ordinated by Payday, a multiracial network of men. They have not only supported women's Strike actions, but they have also organised with women and men refusing the military and its lethal and repressive work, from the US and the UK to Israel and Eritrea. The 'poverty draft' - those driven to join the US army by economic necessity, mainly people of colour and immigrants - enables the US to make 'endless war'. Thus those refusing the military are a vital part of the movement to end not only war but poverty. Payday will be launching its film Refusing to Kill about women and men refusing to be torturers, rapists and murderers for the military.
The Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela and the resistance to the US-French coup in Haiti are important points of reference for the Strike. Both are largely women-led, though that is not often admitted. The Strike will be launching its third film on Venezuela* - the extraordinary experience they are making shows that what the grassroots wants and is demanding everwhere is achievable.
Many of us are shocked that Bush and his genocidal henchmen are in charge of the greatest military machine in the world for four more years. But as Joe Hill, a great working class fighter, said when he was framed for murder by the US police and got the death sentence, "Don't mourn. Organise!". Power to the sisters and brothers to stop the world and change it!. (written by Selma James).
* The first two films (Venezuela - A 21st Century Revolution and The Bolivarian Revolution: Enter the Oil Workers!) are available both in Spanish and in English with subtitles, on VHS and DVD. Please contact the Strike for more information.
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Jump To Comment: 1Organize to set up a womyn's party which will run as a progressive alternative to the neo-con and the cowardcrats.
Enough marching! Enough speeches by middle class "feminist" wo-men who enjoy to be co-opted into the capitalist system.
The right wing is SOOOO organized that it is even doubtful if a womyn's party can make first base.
But we have nothing to loose but our chains!
And we may even surprise ourselves...after all we are the main consumers...we can shut the whole military industrial complex down once in power and divert all this money for the benefit of all!
Step aside Patriarchs of all shades and colors. It's our turn! And we can do it better because you fucked this earth up!