An International Women?s Day and Mother?s Day Event
Saturday 13 March 2010
Mothers March & Speak Out
For recognition and support for all the work
we contribute to society
Come with your children, relatives and friends.
Bring your banners, placards and demands.
Assemble 2pm Trafalgar Sq
March to Parliament Sq
Westminster, London SW1 ALL WELCOME
mothering is hard work.
The survival of the human race depends on the caring work of mothers. But we get no recognition or support. Only blame when things go wrong. And we?re even expected to do more work to feed the family,
often on the lowest pay.
every mother is a working mother
MEN: Join the contingent of fathers & other male carers
who support mothers.
mothers, this march is for you who are raising children in cities, towns or villages l Who are separated from your children or have lost children l Who are surviving war and environmental disaster l Who are seeking asylum l For you who are grandmothers, non-biological mothers and other women doing caring work l For you who have disabilities or have a child with disabilities l Who are fighting for justice for loved ones l Who have been raped l Who are sex workers supporting families l Who have been criminalised by poverty l For you mothers of every race, age, passport, income, sexuality and occupation l For all of us who are overworked and underpaid.
Our demand is:
invest in caring not killing
Called by All African Women?s Group Mothers? Campaign (MoCa), Global Women?s Strike (GWS), and Single Mothers? Self-Defence
Endorsed by: Kay Adshead (playwright & poet), Black Women?s Rape Action Project, English Collective of Prostitutes, Oliver James (child psychologist, author of Affluenza & Guardian columnist), Sheila Kitzinger, (breastfeeding and natural childbirth campaigner & author), Payday men?s network, The Peace Strike at Parliament Square, Wages Due Lesbians, WinVisible (women with visible and invisible disabilities, Women Against Rape, Women of Colour in the GWS.
Sign MoCa?s petition for family reunion:
www.PetitionOnline.com/MumsKids/petition.html
For info on disability access and facilities for children, to sponsor or
to make a donation: (020) 7482 2496 voice/minicom
www.globalwomenstrike.net
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