Dear Left Link subscribers,
We are now into the last month of the World March of Women 2000 campaign
against poverty and violence against women.
The World March of Women now involves women in an unprecedented number of
countries worldwide: women in 157 countries are working together on the
campaign. Women have developed a list of world demands as well as a
subsidiary list of Australian demands. These demands include the
cancellation of Third World debt, an end to structural adjustment programs,
the implementation of legislative frameworks to ensure that rights to pay
equity, employment, decent housing, education, health care and social
protection, life-long income security and a minimum social wage are
protected.
As you may know, a central part of the World March of Women campaign has
been the collection of signatures on support cards which will be presented
to Kofi Annan at United Nations headquarters on October 17th, International
Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
Thanks to those of you who have already distributed cards for signature.
At this stage, we still have some of these cards remaining to be
distributed. In the past week, Lorraine Spears has contacted me to say that
after their state-wide day of action against violence against women, the
Central Coast Community Women's Health Centre still has over 1,000 cards
remaining. Can you please help us distribute these cards?
The cards can be signed by women and men.
As they need to be returned by September 27th, we need to move the cards
very quickly. If you can you help by distributing some of these cards,
could you please email me before Wednesday 20th September at:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
letting me know how many cards you would like and to what address you would
like them to be sent?
If you can help us, it would be a valuable contribution to this campaign
against poverty and violence.
many thanks and all the best,
Cathy Picone
for the national coordinating committee
World March of Women 2000 - Australia
Ph: 08 8296 4357
Fax: 08 8377 0706
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PS If you know of anyone else who might be able to distribute some of
these cards, could you please forward this message to them?
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