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At the European Social Forum
Speak-out, affordable food, videos,
information on grassroots campaigns for justice and
resources
10am-10pm, Thursday 14th October 2004
Kings Cross Methodist Church, 57a Birkenhead St, WC1
Opposite Kings Cross Station, see blue and white signs
Wheelchair access on Crestfield St (toilets nearby)
All women and men who support womens autonomous
organising welcome
Since November 2003, women from all over Europe have
been calling for a womens day. Many signed the
Global Womens Strike call and many men support it.
The UK organising group actively opposed it. They
claimed poor attendance at the Paris ESF womens day
yet over 3,000 women participated as well as men.
With only a couple of weeks to go we decided to
organise a womens day ourselves and in doing so won a
partial victory there will now be a three hour
womens assembly at the main forum! Lets discuss what
to bring to it from our womens day.
Why a womens day!
· Women do 2/3 of the worlds work.
>From breastfeeding, subsistence farming, healthcare,
volunteering, fighting for justice . . . women and
girls are the primary carers everywhere. Yet our
contribution is invisible even at events like the ESF!
· The workers who do most of this
survival work are unwaged or low waged. We refuse to
be invisible!
· A Womens Day is women's insurance
policy that there will be an autonomous space for the
crucial issues that women are addressing. Grassroots
women from different backgrounds and experiences can
make our achievements more widely known drawing out
and strengthening the vital connections among us.
· A Womens Day enables
non-party-political people to have a much needed voice
at the Forum, starting with those who are being
ignored. Like asylum seekers who are denied a
platform while the asylum charities which implement
the governments repressive anti-immigration policies
are seminar speakers.
· The ESF should be an occasion to
build the movement against US-led wars and
militarisation, rape and other torture, prisons,
repression and exploitation starting with
acknowledging how much we in Europe are dependent on
the movement in countries of the South.
Sponsors: All African Women's Group (England), Centro
las Mujeres Cuentan (Spain), Enfield Women's Centre
(England), Femmes Urgences Droits et Logement
(France), Frauenforum (Germany), Global Women's Strike
(Ireland, Spain, England), Hillingdon Women's Centre
(England), MiRA Centre (Black, immigrant and refugee
women, Norway), United Workers Association (domestic
workers, England), Women of Colour in the Global
Women's Strike
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Programme:
12.30-2.30pm:
Open mic and Community Speak-Out
(like the successful Global Womens Strike anti-war
picket Wednesdays 5.30-7pm in Parliament Sqare,
London)
1.30-10pm Videos:
Global Women's Strike 2000
Exclusive footage of the first-ever global strike
against no pay, low pay and overwork from countries
round the world.
Refusing to Kill (30 mins)
Payday mens network interviews refuseniks, women and
men, from Eritrea, Jamaica, Israel, UK, US . . . and
first-hand testimony on rape in the US military.
The Bolivarian Revolution: Enter the Oil Workers (34
mins)
Riveting interviews with oil workers in Venezuela -
women and men -
organising to "put the oil industry at the service of
humanity".
Interviews with sans papiers/es in Paris (20 mins)
Droits Devant and Femmes Urgences Droits et Logement
A Filipina Domestic Worker Speaks Out
(United Workers Association)
Invest in Caring Not Killing
Roughcuts of weekly anti-war pickets in Parliament
Square by the Global Women's Strike
Ballad of the Sans Papiers (90 mins)
Exclusive video footage of the historic church
occupation in St Bernard, Paris
Salt of the Earth (94 mins)
The 50th anniversary of this startling film
immigrant women holding the strike together by
challenging the union, as relevant as ever!
Women of the Rhondda (20 mins)
Wives and daughters of strikers remember the Welsh
Miners' Strikes of 1926.
Venezuela: A 21st Century Revolution (98 mins)
What the revolution is winning for all of us
Drowned Out (1hr 15 mins)
Indigenous women and men at the forefront of
organising against the Narmada Dam in India
All Work and No Pay (20 mins)
Why we deserve economic recognition for all our work
French, German, Italian, Spanish interpretation
available.
If you would like to sponsor this Womens Day with a
donation or help in any other way,
please contact us:
Global Women's Strike, Crossroads Women's Centre,
230a Kentish Town Road, London, NW5 2AB.
+44 (0)20 7482 2496/fax +44(0)20 7209 4761
Womenstrike8m@???,
www.globalwomenstrike.net
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Friday 15th Oct, 6pm: Welcome to Fortress Europe --
Street Theatre
Crossroads Women's Centre & les Treteaux de la Colere
Diorama Arts Centre Theatre, 34 Osnaburgh Street,
London, NW1 3ND. Portland St Tube. Wheelchair
accessible.
Humorous theatre de l'arte highlighting the situation
of women asylum
seekers and sans papierès, and the brutal excuses used
to deny people safety from persecution.
Email: centre@???
Workshops at the ESF forum:
Venues to be confirmed see
www.globalwomenstrike.net
Sat 16th 9-11am: No blood or rape for oil - Invest in
Caring Not Killing
Global Women's Strike (England, Germany, Ireland and
Spain), Women of Colour in the GWS, Payday men's
network (England, Italy), Bolivarian Circles (England,
Netherlands, Spain). Venues to be confirmed see
www.globalwomenstrike.net
Rape and other torture by the army in Afghanistan,
Iraq, North of Ireland,
Kurdistan, Palestine, the US . . .; the movement to
refuse to kill and to reclaim military budgets,
including families and veterans; getting compensation
for illness caused by war; getting armies to work with
the community as in Venezuela.
Speakers include: Black Women's Rape Action Project,
Women Against Rape, Contact:
womenstrike8m@??? or payday@???
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Sat 16th 11-1.30: Without papers, not without rights
All African Women's Group (England), Association
Femmes Urgences Droits et Logement and Droits Devant
(France), Centro Las Mujeres Cuentan (Spain),
International Prostitutes Collective (England, US),
Legal Action for Women (England), Payday men's
network, (England, Italy)
Women seeking asylum: rape survivors, mothers, lesbian
women and sex workers, spearhead a largely hidden
movement of campaigners including church people &
professionals defending human rights, starting with
the right to survival. Anti-trafficking sexed-up
immigration laws.
contact: law@??? or
ecp@???
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Sun 17th Oct 9-12: Venezuela: Creating a caring
economy
Bolivarian Circle of the Global Women's Strike
(England, Ireland, Spain);
Venezuela is the world's 5th largest oil exporter, yet
80% of its population are poor. President Chávez was
elected to get their oil revenue back, defeating two
US-backed coups and the corporate media. Oil workers,
women's co-ops speak about putting the oil industry at
the service of humanity. Speakers include
international observers to the presidential
referendum. Contact E-mail: womenstrike8m@???
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