[van-announce] Marginalized and working class women to take banners and noise makers to the street for International Women's Day

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For immediate release: March 7, 2004

Marginalized and working class women to take banners and noise makers to the
street for International Women's Day

(Vancouver, Canada) -- This International Women's Day (March 8, 2004) join
marginalized and working class women in a rally and march to call for
"Health for all!" The march is part of a series of events Grassroots Women
is hosting for International Women’s Day to showcase and strengthen women’s
resistance to imperialism and wars of aggression.

Marginalized and working class women around the world are facing deepening
threats to our health and human rights with brutal military occupations and
wars of aggression; heightened assaults on our right to dissent and other
civil rights; and, outright attacks on our land, livelihoods, access to
health care and other social programs.


We call for “Health for all” to assert that access to public health services
as well as our housing, our work, our access to decent food and nutrition,
and freedom from exploitation, militarization, wars of aggression are
fundamental to our health, well-being, and liberation. We call on
marginalized peoples to “Resist Imperialist War and Plunder” in order to
expose the root causes of our exploitation and oppression and advance our
struggle for genuine peace, freedom, and liberation.


This International Women’s Day, you are invited to join Grassroots Women:

Rally and March
Vancouver Art Gallery (Robson Street side)
March 8, 2004, 5pm

Speakers from:
Filipino Nurses Support Group
Grassroots Women
International League of People's Struggles
Native Youth Movement - Vancouver Chapter
Palestine Solidarity Group
South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy
and more...

Celebrate our Resistance
An evening of visual art, music, culture, and politics.
Mouse and Bean Antojeria Mexicana (207 W. Hastings at Cambie)
March 8, 2004, 7pm

Performers:
Sawagi Taiko
Sinag Bayan
Solidarity Note Sisters
Hotfooted Haints
Premiere of Towards our Liberation Conference Video
and more...

Visual artists:
Grassroots Women
Gloria Arenas Agis, Group of Relatives and Friends of Political Prisoners in
Mexico
Nora Patrich (For the Purple Rose Campaign against the sex trafficking of
Filipino women and children)
Ethel Farrales, Philippine Women Centre of BC
Tania Williard, Redwire Native Youth Media


All events are free. Everyone is welcome. For more information, contact
Grassroots Women at 604.682.4451 or grassrootswomen at telus.net.


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Reclaim the struggle for a renewed and militant women's movement!

Grassroots Women
t: 604.682.4451
e: grassrootswomen at telus.net
w: http://www3.telus.net/grassrootswomen
#304-207 West Hastings, Vancouver, Canada

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