International Women's Day Speakout at the UN!

[Ramona Ortega]

 

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Feminist Speakout at the United Nations – March 8th at 12:30

For all the world to see, Redstockings will expose and protest the
myth that U.S. women are the most liberated in the world. Join us
on March 8, International Women's Day, at the United Nations as
women testify from personal experience on the true conditions we
face here, and as we join ranks with women of the world to fight for
women's liberation!

Women in the U.S. are supposed to be thankful to be the "freest."
But U.S. women don't have it all, we do it all. In many countries
women don't have to work the double day that U.S. women still do:
long hours of paid work, and the unpaid care work in the home.

In 145 other countries they have PAID parental leave; many have free
childcare, and most other industrialized countries have national
healthcare and shorter working hours, making women less dependent on
men and employers. Our government doesn't guarantee any of these
programs!

The lack of these programs in the U.S. not only sets U.S. women back
to dependence on marriage and employers for basic necessities like
health insurance, it lowers the bar for women around the world. We
call on women in the U.S. and our sisters overseas to unite in
solidarity to demand these crucial steps to women's liberation and
economic freedom!

Join us:
When: Thursday March 8th, 12:30-1:15
Where: Across from the UN, Ralph Bunche Park, 1st Avenue & 43rd Street

SPONSOR: Redstockings

 

Co-sponsors: Veteran Feminists of America, Physicians for a National Health Program-NYC Metro Chapter, Healthcare-NOW, Women’s Liberation Task Force for National Healthcare, Harlem Tenants Council, A Better Balance, Brooklyn-Queens NOW, PSC-CUNY (Local 2334, AFT, AFL-CIO), NJ- NOW, Women of Color & Allies of Essex County NOW, National Lawyers Guild Anti-Sexism Committee and Women’s Caucus, National Jobs for All Coalition, Democracy in Action (South Dakota), Communication Workers of America, Local 1180, All-African People’s Revolutionary Party,  Human Rights Project-Urban Justice Center

 

  For More Info: Contact Allison Guttu 646-285-1723 or
redstockin...@hotmail.com
www.womensliberation.org/socialwagecommittee.html