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International Women?s Day 2006
Break the Chains! Unleash the Fury of Women as a Mighty Force for Revolution! Stand in Unity and Solidarity with the European Great Walk Against Anti-Women Laws in Iran?s Islamic Republic!
This week, starting March 4 in Frankfurt, Germany, women and men are marching through city centers and will rally at the International Criminal Court in the Hague on March 8th. The call from the organizers of the European Great Walk (Campaign for the Abolition of All Misogynist, Gender-Based Legislation & Islamic Punitive Laws in Iran) starts with:
?If you are against death by stoning!
If you are against forced veiling!
If you are against the prosecution and imprisonment of women!
If you are against lashing a woman?s body!
If you are against any form of patriarchy!
If you are against the medieval laws of Iran?s Islamic Republic of Iran imposing inequality on women!
?Join the [European] great walk against anti-women laws in Iran?s Islamic Republic on 8 March 2006!? (European Great Walk: www.karzar-zanan.com, www.8mars.com)
A future of Islamic fundamentalism vs. the Bush regime?s ?McCrusades? is a brutal disaster for the world?s people, and we cannot and will not accept it. Support those risking their lives to oppose barbaric Islamic fundamentalist laws and practices against women. Be a part of bringing forward a movement of women and others the world over to reject both these deadly and crushing ruling orders. Instead, fight for relations of equality between men and women, and against domination and plunder of the world by a handful of imperialist powers.
To those who still wonder whether George Bush and his regime can deliver some kind of liberation to the women in the Middle East - or anyone else on the planet - the Great Walk statement says: ?The American government has declared that it seeks to liberate the women of the Middle East from the yoke of Islamic fundamentalism. This is a ridiculous claim that makes a mockery of real liberation and is an insult to the women of the Middle East. The march of events in Afghanistan and Iraq should have helped those who were taken in by these self-styled liberators of Middle Eastern women to realize how badly they were fooled...talk to American women fighting to prevent him from taking away their right to abortion as well as against the efforts of the Christian fascists to dominate every aspect of the lives of women in the U.S. What George Bush is taking away from the women in the USA he will not deliver to women in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan or any other country.?
Join with us in supporting the Great Walk in Europe. Celebrate International Women?s Day with us and help build the independent ranks of women against U.S. imperialism as well as the reactionary states governing these countries. Contact: IWDLA2006@yahoo.com
Los Angeles: Wednesday, March 8, 2006
★March:11:30 am Wilshire and Veteran
★Rally: 1:30 pm Wilshire and Westwood
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