Information Of Interest International "Tomorrow's Children" - Partnership School And Education

WIN News, Spring, 2000

Tel/Fax: 1-212-866-8130 or 1-631-368-1652;

e-mail: womearth@dorsai.org

web site: http://www.dorsai.org/-womearth/

INITIAL ANNOUNCEMENT - CALL FOR PAPERS/PRESENTATIONS/PERFORMERS/FILM

"Please send us proposals for presentations/papers/performances for the Conference AS SOON AS POSSIBLE to ensure that your participation is everything you want it to be [ldots]

Conference topics include: Women and Politics/Public Lives, Women and Economic Development Women in Business/Entrepreneurship, Women in the Arts and Literature, Goddess Spirituality, Women and Ecology, Women and Health, Women and Media, Women and Violence, Women and Technology Empowering African Women, Women and Human Rights and more [ldots]"

"WOMAN AND EARTH ALMANAC" is being published and available from the above.

WORLD MARCH OF WOMEN

WORLD MARCH OF WOMEN, Federation des femmes du Quebec, 110 rue Ste-Therese, #307, Montreal, Quebec, CANADA H2Y 1E6; Tel: (1) 514-395-1196; Fax: (1) 514-395-1224

e-mail: marche2000@ffq.qc.ca

(See WIN NEWS Summer '98 p. 66)

OBJECTIVES OF THE WORLD MARCH

* "to undertake a vast process of popular education during which all women can analyze by and for themselves the causes of their oppression and the liberating alternatives that are possible;

* to work on the national scale to identify demands related to poverty and violence against women and to start acting to get them implemented;

* to foster solidarity among women of all continents through exchanges, common projects and unifying actions. In the context of market globalization, solidarity between North and South has become crucial in building a resistance movement;

* to promote our world demands by presenting them wherever decision-makers must take them into account;

* to lay the foundations of an international feminist network where dedicated, militant, creative feminists will want to unite to provoke major changes in the order or disorder of the world.

WOMEN'S WORLD DEMANDS

In Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on October18, 1998, 140 women from 65 countries adopted a platform of world demands for the World March of Women in the Year 2000. Against poverty for sharing of wealth; Against violence against women for the respect of women's physical and mental integrity.

PARTICIPATING GROUPS - WHO CAN JOIN?

* non-governmental women's organizations;

* women's committees of mixed groups (women and men);

* mixed organizations that do not have a women's committee but where women are taking the leadership for the March and received a letter of confirmation are then included in our data base.

ACTIONS

In Montreal, New York, Geneva and other major cities, March 8, 2000, is the OFFICIAL LAUNCH DATE OF THE WORLD MARCH.

Between March 8 and October 17, 2000, millions of signed cards will be sent to the UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan.

June 2000, Beijing 5 international meeting.

On October 15, 2000, representatives of countries participating in the World March of Women will be in Washington, D.C., participating in a massive demonstration.

On October 17, 2000, millions of women will march in the streets of New York to the world headquarters of the United Nations.