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PRESS RELEASE . . . PRESS RELEASE . . PRESS RELEASE Press office: 0207 482 2496 An International Women’s Day and Mother’s Day Event
Saturday 13 March 2010: 2pm, Trafalgar Square then Parliament Sq, London SW1 Mothers March & Speak Out For recognition & support for all the work mothers contribute to society and to demand: invest in caring not killing |
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every mother is
a working mother |
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this march is for MOTHERS who are raising children in cities, towns or villages l Who are separated from their children or have lost children l Who are surviving war and environmental disaster l Who are seeking asylum l and grandmothers, non-biological mothers and other women doing caring work l Who have disabilities or have a child with disabilities l Who are fighting for justice for loved ones l Who have been raped l Who are sex workers supporting families l Who have been criminalised by poverty l Who want to have children but haven't been able to l For mothers of every race, age, passport, income, sexuality and occupation l For all of us who are overworked and underpaid. The March will be joined by fathers & other male carers who support mothers. |
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Called by All African Women’s Group Mothers’ Campaign (MoCa), Global Women’s Strike (GWS), and Single Mothers’ Self-Defence Endorsed by: Kay Adshead (playwright & poet), Black Women’s Rape Action Project, English Collective of Prostitutes, Oliver James (child psychologist, author of Affluenza & Guardian columnist), Sheila Kitzinger, (breastfeeding and natural childbirth campaigner & author), Payday men’s network, The Peace Strike at Parliament Square, Wages Due Lesbians, WinVisible (women with visible and invisible disabilities, Women Against Rape, Women of Colour in the GWS www.globalwomenstrike.net
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