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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.' Although the movement had its beginning
years ago in the '[Wages] for Housework' movement in England, it has grown
considerably into a worldwide antiracist and antiwar movement. The movement
recognizes the basic inequality built into the capitalist economic system.
The class, racial and gender based exploitation underlying it all.” For
full statement www.prisonradio.org/mumia.html
<http://www.prisonradio.org/mumia.html>

Other countries so far include: ARGENTINA * BELGIUM * CANADA * CHINA *
FRANCE * GERMANY * GHANA * GUYANA * ITALY * JAPAN * KENYA * KOREA *
MACEDONIA * MEXICO * NEW ZEALAND * PARAGUAY * PERU * TANZANIA * TRINIDAD &
TOBAGO * VENEZUELA

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<p class=3DMsoTitle><b><font size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>GLOBAL =
WOMEN&#8217;S
STRIKE 8 MARCH 2004 </span></font></b><font color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:
black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span=
></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoTitle><b><font size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><![if =
!supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]></span></font></b><font
color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoTitle align=3Dleft style=3D'text-align:left'><b><font =
size=3D3
color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB'>For immediate release: 6 March 2004 </span></font></b><font =
color=3Dblack><span
style=3D'color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o=
:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoTitle align=3Dleft style=3D'text-align:left'><b><i><font =
size=3D3
color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB;font-style:italic'>As women in the UK put Tony Blair and his =
master
George W Bush, on Trial for Crimes at Home &amp; Abroad (3pm today, =
Trafalgar
Square), other Global Women&#8217;s Strike actions take place on 8 March
(International Women&#8217;s Day) in over 60 countries demanding =
governments </span></font></i></b><font
color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Invest =
in Caring
&#8211; Not Killing.<i><span style=3D'font-style:italic'> =
</span></i></span></font><i><font
color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB;font-style:italic'><o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>

<p class=3DMsoTitle align=3Dleft style=3D'text-align:left'><b><font =
size=3D3
color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB'>Details: 0207 482 2496; 07939 609 802; 07956 316 899 or
www.globalwomenstrike.net</span></font></b><font color=3Dblack><span
style=3D'color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o=
:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoTitle align=3Dleft style=3D'text-align:left'><b><font =
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color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span =
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color=3Dblack><span =
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<p class=3DMsoTitle align=3Dleft style=3D'text-align:left'><b><font =
size=3D3
color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB'>Breaking news: </span></font></b><font color=3Dblack><span
style=3D'color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o=
:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><b><font size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'>HAITI:</span></fo=
nt></b><font
color=3Dblack><span style=3D'color:black'> <span =
class=3DEmailStyle20><font
color=3Dblack><span style=3D'mso-ansi-font-size:12.0pt'>In response to =
the US coup
and the kidnap of elected President Jean Bertrand Aristide and his wife
Mildred, grassroots women protest with three days of reflection and in =
the
street on 8 March.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><span class=3DEmailStyle20><b><font size=3D2 =
color=3Dblack
face=3DArial><span =
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bold'><![if =
!supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></span><=
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BOLIVIA: Federation of Women in El Alto are going on =
24-hour hunger
strike. They were key to last year&#8217;s &quot;Gas War&quot; which =
stopped the US
stealing Bolivia&#8217;s gas and forced the right wing president Gonzalo =
Sanchez de
Lozada to resign. They say: =
&#8220;We are against
war which kills many innocent people, and the extreme poverty that kills =
us,
our children and old people of malnutrition. The politics of outside
governments impoverish us with their corruption. We demand: No to arms - =
Invest
in caring not killing. No to the globalization of violence. No to =
invasion
without cause.&#8221; =
<o:p></o:p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal =
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<p class=3DMsoNormal =
style=3D'mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b><font
size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;color:black;
font-weight:bold'>INDIA:</span></font></b><font color=3Dblack><span
style=3D'color:black'> The Women&#8217;s Cell of the Indian National =
Trade Union
Congress, is holding 4-day programme and open forum in Maharashtra with =
the
theme Invest in Caring Not Killing; while in Raipur and<b><span
style=3D'font-weight:bold'> </span></b>Orissa the<b><span =
style=3D'font-weight:
bold'> </span></b>Forum for Fact-finding Documentation &amp; Advocacy =
holds a
Convention demanding an end to child marriage; where 1000 married girls =
aged
3-15 and their mothers are expected to attend.<span =
style=3D"mso-spacerun:
yes">&nbsp; </span>In Tamil Nadu 7000 members of Women&#8217;s Self Help =
groups which
are part of the Organization for Development and Maintenance are joining =
the
Strike, supporting its demands.</span></font><font color=3Dblack><span
style=3D'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'>=
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<h1><b><font size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;
color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><![if =
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color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></font></h1>

IRELAND: Women&#8217;s picket to reclaim Shannon
Airport from US military with support from residents and =
airport
workers. Coordinated by Wages for Housework Campaign<o:p></o:p>

<h1><b><font size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;
color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><![if =
!supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]></span></font></b><font
color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></font></h1>

<p class=3DMsoNormal =
style=3D'mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b><font
size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;color:black;
font-weight:bold'>NEPAL: </span></font></b><font color=3Dblack><span
style=3D'color:black'>Prisoners Assistance Nepal &quot;celebrate in the =
women's
centre prisons by holding a day of talks about caring and helping =
people.&quot;
</span></font><font color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span =
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12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><![if =
!supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]></span></font><font
color=3Dblack><span =
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windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

SPAIN:=
 Benimasot,
Alicante brooms will be =
hung upside down from the =
lampposts at the entrance of the town showing =
women on
strike and in BARCELONA =
a public rally in main square; =
Video
evening featuring Nora Casta=F1eda, =
President
of the Women&#8217;s Development Bank, speaking about =
creating a caring
economy in Venezuela.&nbsp; =
Supported by
Venezuelan consul. <o:p></o:p>=

<p class=3DMsoNormal =
style=3D'mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b><font
size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'><![if =
!supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]></span></font></b><b><font
color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:
windowtext;font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>

UGANDA:&nbsp; =
Kaabong
Women&#8217;s Organisation on Strike because: &#8220;We
need accessible clean water. It&#8217;s all our suffering. No war, no =
guns, and the
government should stop the war which has been affecting especially =
children,
women and all the communities in the whole of northern and eastern =
Uganda. Many
people have died, or been raped and abducted; thousands are internally
displaced without essentials.&#8221;=
<o:p></o:p>

<h1><b><font size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;
color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><![if =
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color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></font></h1>

<p class=3DMsoNormal =
style=3D'mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b><font
size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;color:black;
font-weight:bold'>USA: In Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco and
Washington DC events includes speakouts </span></font></b><font =
color=3Dblack><span
style=3D'color:black'>with S/11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, =
Military
Families Speak Out, Veterans and protests against US intervention in =
Haiti and
Venezuela. </span></font><font color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p=
>

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style=3D'mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b><font
size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;color:black;
font-weight:bold'><![if =
!supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]></span></font><font
color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font><=
/b></p>

From Death Row, Mumia Abu =
Jamal
sent a moving statement of support for the Strike. &quot;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.' Although the movement had its beginning years ago in the =
'[Wages] for
Housework' movement in England, it has grown considerably into a =
worldwide
antiracist and antiwar movement. The movement recognizes the basic =
inequality
built into the capitalist economic system. The class, racial and gender =
based
exploitation underlying it all.&#8221;&nbsp; For full statement <a
href=3D"http://www.prisonradio.org/mumia.html">www.prisonradio.org/mumia.=
html</a>&nbsp; =
<o:p></o:p>

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10.0pt;color:black'><![if =
!supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]></span></font><font
color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:
windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal =
style=3D'mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=3D3 color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Other
countries so far include: ARGENTINA * BELGIUM * CANADA * CHINA * FRANCE =
*
GERMANY * GHANA * GUYANA * ITALY * JAPAN * KENYA * KOREA * MACEDONIA * =
MEXICO *
NEW ZEALAND * PARAGUAY * PERU * TANZANIA * TRINIDAD &amp; TOBAGO *
VENEZUELA<span style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; =
</span></span></font><font
color=3Dblack><span =
style=3D'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:
windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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