Global women's strike targets big business

Off Our Backs, May/Jun 2002 by Gowens, Pat

Trinidad Women Take the Floor-No MP's Invited

The National Union of Domestic Employees (NUDE) held an all-day celebration where women displayed their unpaid work: knitting, sewing, floral arrangements, cooking, etc. They hung up brooms and mops and hosted a speak-out. The grassroots spoke-MP's were not invited.

Aotearoa/New Zealand Women Demand National Caregivers Day

The Auckland International Women's Day Committee rallied downtown and marched to Suffragette Square. Their theme was "Value Women's Work." Their demands included: equal pay, a National Caregivers Day, free childcare, support the nurses, stop rape and violence, stop wars of aggression and big power domination, wages for caring work, and stop oppressive conditions of immigrants and refugees. Parents in Hamilton stated, "Caring for dependants is at least as important as soldiering."