HOBART HOBART HOBART � THIS FRIDAY
WORLD MARCH OF WOMEN
AGAINST POVERTY AND VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Friday October 13th
* From 12 midday women's installation and information, Salamanca
Lawns
* 6pm gather Salamanca Lawns for rally, speakers, entertainment � all
supporters welcome
* 7pm women's march to Elizabeth St mall and Franklin Square
* bring pots, pans, drums, placards, banners, friends, firesticks,
candles, whistles�..
Grass-roots actions are being taken globally to build the campaign against
poverty and violence against women. Women make up 70% of the global poor;
systematic oppression of women is manifest in poverty and its many causes,
and violence and denial of women's human rights. International demands being
raised by the world march include measures to alleviate women's poverty in
particular, such as by improving women's access to jobs, education,
child-care, etc, and against the global institutions that profit from and
promote women's poverty, eg calling for cancellation of Third World debt and
structural adjustment programs, implementation of the Tobin Tax with
democratic control of the money in a way that equally includes women and
men, and which enables preferential access to women, the majority of the
global poor. The demands also include a call for restructuring the global
political and economic system. On top of this are added demands for the
recognition of women's rights as human rights, the right of women to be
granted asylum on the basis of fleeing sex-based oppression, and persecution
on the basis of sexual preference, and action against violence and
discrimination against women.
LINKING UP WITH THIS, an action will be held in Hobart, as a joint World
March of Women 2000 and Reclaim the Night event.
Join us to demand
* fight poverty
* abolish the GST
* paid maternity leave
* restore child-care funding
* reverse welfare cuts
* cancel Third World debt
* respect asylum-seekers' rights
* eliminate violence against women
* combat domestic violence
* safety for sex industry workers
* end sexist media images
* decriminalise abortion
* end discrimination in access to reproductive technology (eg IVF,
artificial insemination)
* Australia sign the optional protocol of the Convention on the
Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
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