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ON “WOMEN’S EQUALITY DAY”, THERE IS
NO EQUALITY FOR WOMEN
On Aug. 27, 2007, women of diverse communities will speak out
to:
STOP THE WAR AGAINST WOMEN AT HOME AND
ABROAD
Aug. 26, “Women’s Equality Day,” marks the day, 87 years
ago, that women legally got the right to vote in the U.S. There was no equality
for all women back then and today there is still no “equality” to
celebrate.
Today there is a hidden war against women here, fueled by the U.S war against
Iraq. I n the political climate accelerated by this war, high courts have
attacked women’s right to equal pay with men, and women’s
reproductive justice. The anti-immigrant climate has resulted in attacks on
Moslem women. The war has meant discrimination, hardship and deportations for
immigrant women workers, whose labor keeps this city going. Meanwhile,
unprovoked police assaults have increased against women of color, poor women,
lesbian, bisexual, transgender and transsexual women.
Young women cannot find jobs, rents are through the roof, 45 million people
have no health care, the city of New Orleans still lies in waste after Katrina,
yet the U.S. spends $140,000 a minute on its wars! Bush claimed U.S. troops
entered Iraq and Afghanistan to “help women.” Yet today, our
sisters in these countries live in desperate conditions, and are much worse
off.
On Aug. 27, at 5 pm in Union Square, women from many communities will mark
“Women’s Equality Day” by renewing the fight for real
equality and justice. Called together by the Women’s Fightback Network,
they will tell their stories, and demand an end to the war against women at
home and abroad. This speak-out is an important part of the mobilizing efforts
initiated by the Troops Out Now Coalition for the Sept. 22-29 encampment and
national march in Washington, D.C. to demand “Stop the War
Now!”
Aug. 27 speakers include:
- Alba, May 1st Immigrant Rights Coalition
- Nieves Ayres, La Pena del Bronx; Trabajadores por la Paz, immigrant
rights
- Sharon Black, nurse and healthcare activist, Troops Out Now Coalition
- Joyce Chediac, Lebanese American
- Sue Davis, Women’s Fight Back Network, reproductive rights
activist
- Gwen Debrow, co-chair, Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition, NYC
- LeiLani Dowell, youth organizer with Fight Imperialism, Stand Together
(FIST)
- Valerie Francisco, Secretary-General of Filipinas for Rights and
Empowerment (FIRE)
- Teresa Gutierrez, May 1st Immigrant Rights Coalition
- Representative from Kabalikat Domestic Workers Support Network
- K. Schecter, a youth providing a perspective on getting quality
healthcare for elderly parents
- Ellie Ommani, co-founder, American-Iranian Friendship Committee (AIFC)
- Elizabeth Rivera, TransJustice
- Rosita Romero, Dominican Women’s Development Center
- Asha A. Samad, The Human Rights Center and SAFRAD-Somali Association
- Nana Soul, activist, singer/song writer and host of TV show, The Ghetto
Chronicles
- Brenda Stokely, New York Solidarity Coalition for Katrina and Rita
Survivors, Troops Out Now Coalition
- Juanita Young, mother of Malcolm Ferguson, slain by NYC police
- Evelyn Warren, attorney, abused by NYC police
STOP the War Against Women at Home &
Abroad
Unite against sexism, racism, homophobia,
transphobia!
Unite against economic exploitation!
Unite to win everything we need!
The U.S. claims “liberation of women” as it bombs & kills
women, men, children, & the people of Iraq, Afghanistan, & the world.
But U.N. studies show women surviving in Iraq & Afghanistan are far worse
of since the Pentagon assaults began.
Inside the U.S. women–most notably Katrina survivors– are
losing jobs, housing, health care, day care; are rounded up in immigrant raids
& locked up in prison foracts of survival, self-defense & drug
addiction; are denied reproductive and economic justice; forced into debt to
get an education; raped & battered as domestic shelters are closed down;
are losing their loved ones, children & families through police brutality,
to the military poverty draft, to racist attacks, gender-phobic attacks,
attacks on lesbian, bisexual, transgender & transsexual women.
Poor women & women of color are most at risk. And the U.S. is spending
$140,000 a minute on its wars. A Nobel prize-winning economist, Joseph
Stiglitz, says the total cost of the Iraq war alone may ultimately be $2
trillion.
Politicians won’t stop the war -
only the people will stop the war
March on Washington
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Monday
AUG 27
Speak Out
Rally 5-7pm
Union Square
New York City
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End the wars! Use the money to
provide—
- Jobs at a living wage with pay equity, equal access, no discrimination
- Free, universal, sensitive, accessible health care for all
Free education–from day care through adult training to life-long
learning
- Affordable housing & safe homes for everyone
- Reproductive justice for all women–ob-gyn services, paid maternity
leave & job protection, safe contraception, no forced sterilization, full
access to abortion, positive sex education, all the social & economic
resources needed to raise healthy children
- Centers for shelter & self-defense against sexual & domestic
violence, for independent living for disabled people and seniors, for recovery
from addiction, with an end to racist, sexist incarcerations
- Full rights & services for all undocumented workers & an end to ICE
raids
- Rebuilding the infrastructure of New Orleans & Gulf Coast to bring
Hurricane Katrina & Rita survivors home
- Cancellation of all student loan debt with support services for young
people
- A national campaign against racism, sexism & anti-LGBT bigotry
The Women’s Fightback
Network is a grassroots alliance of
poor and working women of all nationalities, immigrants, disabled activists,
students, elders and youth, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual and transgender
women–all standing together to protest budget cuts, racism, sexism,
homophobia and war.
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Leaflets
Issued by the Nat’l Women’s Fightback Network, 55 W. 17th St., 5th
Fl., NYC
For info. call: 212-633-6646. E-mail: NYWomenFightback@action-mail.org.
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