global women's strike - 8 march 2006

international | anti-capitalism | event notice Monday March 06, 2006 12:30 by Global Women's Strike, Ireland Ireland at allwomencount dot net 087 7838688

END POVERTY, WAR AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEVASTATION - INVEST IN CARING NOT KILLING!

Every International Women's Day since 2000, women in over 60 countries have taken all kinds of grassroots actions to demand that society Invest in Caring Not Killing, and that the money squandered on war is spent instead on what our communities need, beginning with the needs of women the first carers on whom everyone else depends.

We invite you again to take action together in the 7th Global Women's Strike on or around 8 March.

Strike events in Ireland for International Women's Month to include:

- A Report Back in Galway after a recent visit to Venezuela of the Global Women's Strike, by Maggie Ronayne, GWS Ireland. With new film footage. To be held in later March in the Huston Film School, NUI, Galway.

- Launch of Creating a Caring Economy: Nora Castañeda and the Women's Development Bank of Venezuela. New book, edited by Nina Lopez, an international co-ordinator of the Global Women's Strike. Crossroads Books, London.

- Academia Returns to Politics: Archaeologists Opposing Cultural Destruction – a public talk on Wednesday 1st March, 8pm at Connolly Building (Archaeology Dept), University College Cork by Maggie Ronayne, Lecturer in Archaeology at the National University of Ireland Galway and Co-ordinator of GWS, Ireland. Hosted by UCC Archaeology Society.

- Film screenings for Latin American Week in Limerick, Dingle, Dublin and Belfast, to include 'The Bolivarian Revolution: Enter the Oil Workers!' one of three Strike films on the Venezuelan revolution.

More details coming soon!