2009 International Womens Day Rally Peace, Justice & Equality

State Library, Cnr Swanston & LaTrobe streets Friday 6th March 2009, 2.00pm- 3.00pm

We demand the right to: *Safe and secure work *Equal and decent pay & conditions *Paid parental leave- "It's Time To Deliver" *Free and public child care *Flexible work arrangements And the Right to: *Be safe at home, at work, and all public spaces *Affordable housing, education and health care * Be treated with dignity and respect

For further information please contact: Jennifer O'Donnell-Pirisi, VTHC Women's Officer, 9669 3511.

Sydney, 2007- Laughter reigns in court when two members of the Tranny Cops, a cross-dressing outfit of women who lampoon riot police, face court on charges of “impersonating police” at a recent protest against US Vice President Dick Cheney. When the Magistrate David Helipern is presented with the women’s outfits, which feature an anarchy symbol and the words “Cop It Sweet”, he begins to giggle.

When a second witness, APEC Security Command’s Sergeant Ian Franke, admits that the women’s sideburns, moustaches and goatees were clearly made of ink the prosecution’s case further unravels with more laughter greeting his description of the Tranny cops routines as including “Placing their thumbs inside their belts and rocking back and forth in a heel-toe manner.”

Russian Anarchist, "Skat" Baburova Assassinated Anastasia "Skat" Baburova, 30.11.1983-19.01.2009 http://news.infoshop.org/newspics/2009/nastya.jpg

Our friend and comrade Skat was murdered today in Moscow, shot to head by an assassin. Assassin was not after her - he was after advocate Stanislav Markelov, another good friend and comrade. We do not know who was there to kill Stas - it could be associates of some war criminals he put to prison, it could be connected to some corporate crimes, it could be Nazis, many of whom Stas put to prison as well. List of achievements of Stas is so long, that it will take a couple of days to gather all of them to a necrology - and list of his enemies is even longer. But we know for sure, that Nastya had a bad luck of being in a wrong place in wrong time.

a community run and self organised self defence anti rape project run in kenya's slums.

I'M WORTH DEFENDING (IWD) is a modern Anti-Rape Self-Defense program based in Korogocho slum in Nairobi Kenya. We are a 10 member team of instructors who travel from slum to slum visiting schools, churches and community groups. We offer our lifesaving Self-Defense skills free of charge to women and children ages 7 and older. It is estimated that 1,240 women and children are sexually assaulted every day in Kenya. It is our goal to prevent these attacks by preparing our students to defend themselves and to infuse their efforts with the unalterable belief that they are worth defending... always.

http://www.imworthdefending.org/

I’M WORTH DEFENDING P.O. Box 23127- 00100, GPO Nairobi-Kenya Telephone + 254 724 97 30 57 iwd@fastermail.com

I’M WORTH DEFENDING PO Box 40728 San Francisco CA 94110 415 648 1338 info@IMWORTHDEFENDING.org

Reproduction; social and sexual Submitted by Joseph K. on Jan 13 2009

The practical everyday activity of wage-workers reproduces wage labor and capital. Through their daily activities, "modern" men, like tribesmen and slaves, reproduce the inhabitants, the social relations and the ideas of their society; they reproduce the social form of daily life. Like the tribe and the slave system, the capitalist system is neither the natural nor the final form of human society; like the earlier social forms, capitalism is a specific response to material and historical conditions . - Fredy Perlman

More: http://libcom.org/blog/reproduction-social-sexual-13012009

These days, we are not prepared for life by the kind of culture which has any sort of psychological orientation.  Even my upbringing in right wing Rhodesia was kinder to the proletarian --- which is to say, my education had more of an emphasis on psychological knowledge and psychological affirmation of others, compared to what is generally given in the educational systems today.

Latest figures suggest 1,010 have died in Gaza of which 673 are civilians. Of these civilians deaths 315 are children, and 95 are women. (Guardian 15th January 2009)

http://womensgrid.freecharity.org.uk/?p=1716

We women’s organizations from a broad spectrum of political views demand an end to the bombing and other tools of death, and call for the immediate start of deliberations to talk peace and not make war. The dance of death and destruction must come to an end. We demand that war no longer be an option, nor violence a strategy, nor killing an alternative. The society we want is one in which every individual can lead a life of security – personal, economic, and social. It is clear that the highest price is paid by women and others from the periphery – geographic, economic, ethnic, social, and cultural – who now, as always, are excluded from the public eye and dominant discourse. http://womensphere.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/statement-by-women%e2%80%99s-organizations-in-israel/

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Vigil for Gaza Women for peace will be holding a vigil outside the Aust- Israel Chamber of Commerce

As women we deplore genecide, violence and delving in death. Military action only causes grief and devastation to profit the arms industry.

Stop the occupation No weapons No wars Global Disarmament

Monday 19th Jan 11.00am-3.00pm Aust-Isreal Chamber of Commerce 11 Queens Rd, Melbourne

near Albert Park St Kilda Rd tram(3,5,6,,16,64,67,72) stop 22….walk to lions with paw on ball statues (opposite Mc Donalds)…

Asia Pacific House along side to next street (back of 11 Queens Rd building )

Wear black. Bring garden flowers, candles (or pictures, cutouts) any visual displays from papers) poems for peace

Everyone welcome Silence is approval Apathy is complacency Retaliation is imminent anywhere around the globe Stop the massacre

Negotiate don’t obliterate Mourn the dead

ph 0447 361 659

Photos & Report - 9 Women Occupy Raytheon Offices in Derry - Arms Supplier to Israeli War Crimes in Gaza

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/90565

Derry plant of Arms manufacturer and Israel sponsor occupied for 3d time since 2003 Nine Women from Derry Make a Stand Against Raytheon Weapons and its Tools of Occupation

'We call for a criminal investigation into the activities of the Raytheon company in Ireland, Britain and elsewhere with a view to the prosecution of Raytheon executives for complicity in war crimes.'

Statement issued by the nine women as they entered the Raytheon premises:

From the Derry Anti War Coalition: From Nine Women Who Have Chained Themselves Inside The Raytheon Building At Springtown Today (January 12Th)

At 2.30pm We have taken this action in an effort to prevent or delay war crimes being committed by the Israeli Defence Forces in Gaza with the use of Raytheon weapons and to try to force a criminal investigation into the activities of the Raytheon company in Derry and elsewhere which, we believe, amount to complicity in war crimes.

Review Going To Extremes Notes from a Divided Nation (aka This Land Is Their Land Reports from a Divided Nation.)

Barbara Ehrenreich. Granta, 2008. ISBN 978 1 84708 065 3

In Blood Rites, Barbara Ehrenreich delved into the origins of our species’ attraction to war & violence. In Dancing in the Streets she explored the opposite impulse, one that has been so effectively suppressed that we lack even a term for it: the desire for collective joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing.

Nickle & Dimed recorded from direct experience how millions of Americans (75% of wage slaves) work for poverty-level wages. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that any job equals a better life. But how can anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 to $7 an hour?