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World March of Women

Heathrow UK 2005,
British Asian women workers at Gate Gourmet (airline catering)strike against unfair dismissal, bringing British Airways flights to a standstill


We want bread,
and roses too!
Read more about the mobilisation of women in the US from the Chicago Women's Liberation Union

Some of the organisations that support International Women's Day
Women all over the world have mobilised together to protest against war and injustice or to claim their rights as workers and as women. They have been successful in both changing the law and changing people's perceptions. International Women's Day, March 8th, was established in 1910, at the suggestion of the German socialist, Clara Zetkin. It celebrates the 1857 strike by New York City garment workers on that date, along with the long history of women's industrial and political action.

Here we have started a list with some of our favourite examples of women's mass mobilisation. Send us yours!

World March of Women started 1997 unites 6000 women's groups in 165 countries in a political platform for global social change
Mothers of the Disappeared Latin America from 1976 raised awareness of the unseen violence perpetrated by US-backed dictatorships
Widows of the Genocide Rwanda from 1994 women from both sides of the conflict worked together to build peace and rebuild their lives
Clean Clothes Campaign Europe from has helped to promote ethical trading and improve working conditions for women and child workers in the sweatshops of the global garment industry eg in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Southern Africa, Central America...*

* this is a good example because men are involved in this too!

Keep in contact
If you have good examples we can use, please email us
lysistrata@BiologicalClock.org
cassandra@BiologicalClock.org

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Last updated 11.11.2005