The experience of women in our network who protested the Republican Convention in Philadelphia was that it was difficult enough to get coverage of why people are protesting when the press wants to focus on tactics and violence. But it was even more difficult to get coverage of all the reasons why women are protesting, and to get across how central these issues are to the whole movement. We grow most of the world's food and then cook it. We give birth to and mostly raise all the world's workers, even the heads of multi-nationals. And we provide the care for those who, having worked a lifetime, are ill or disabled or just poor.
Women provide more health care than all health care industries combined.
Until we speak, the full truth about globalization does not emerge, nor does the opposition to it. We are the invisible workers, the invisible adjusters, and the invisible fighters. Come to the Mothers Convention on Aug 12, the women's march on Aug 15, our contingents to the other events, or plan an event or activity of your own. Lots of marches are related to each of the themes given below. End Criminalization of Our Communities contact us for more info.