The Jayyous Women's Charitable Society founded in 1980 in Qalqilya, Palestine,\r\nis leading a women's march to the West Gate of the Separation Wall on Thursday\r\nOctober 23 at 8 am (see their email below). The Global Women's Strike has\r\nbeen in touch with them and issued the following statement of support.\r\nThe Strike will be holding a support action at lunchtime in the center\r\nof Galway as part of Palestine Support Week in Ireland North and South.\r\nIn London the weekly Anti-War Community Picket in Parliament Square will\r\ngive the latest news. The US Strike network is working to get media coverage\r\nof the March.\r\n<\/p>
Please circulate widely, add your name to the statement and send it\r\nback to us (see contact emails below) so we can put together a list of\r\nendorsers, and send emails to the Jayyous women at info@palsolidarity.org\r\n<\/p>
Stop the world and change it. Invest in Caring Not Killing Global Women's\r\nStrike\r\n<\/p>
Global Women's Strike in US:\r\n\r\n
West Coast:<\/i> Los Angeles - la@crossroadswomen.net,\r\nPhone\/Fax 323-292-7405; San Francisco - sf@crossroadswomen.net,\r\nPhone\/Fax 415-626-4114\r\n
East Coast:<\/i> Philadelphia - philly@crossroadswomen.net,\r\nPhone 215-848-1120, Fax 215-848-1130\r\n<\/p>
Web: http:\/\/womenstrike8m.server101.com\r\n<\/p>
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Message of Support from the Global Women's Strike to the Jayyous Women's\r\nCharitable Society\r\n
'WOMEN MARCH AGAINST THE WALL\r\n
Mothers demand right to feed their children'\r\n
Jayyous, Qalqilya, Palestine October 23, 2003\r\n<\/p>
We send love and solidarity for your March that expresses women's absolute\r\nopposition to the Wall's ghettoisation of Palestinian society, the theft\r\nof its land, and the genocide of its people. You act for women all over\r\nthe world who face unending violence, as well as for all - Muslim, Jewish,\r\nChristian, atheist . . . - who oppose the particular form of apartheid\r\nyou confront daily.\r\n<\/p>
We are women from an international network which has been campaigning\r\nsince 1972 to make visible women's unwaged caring work and our right to\r\nsociety's support for this work. Our central demand is that society Invest\r\nin Caring, not Killing, and that military budgets be returned first of\r\nall to carers.\r\n<\/p>
The struggle in Palestine is portrayed as a struggle only of men. Yet\r\nit is clear that the Occupation which has imposed racist violence, heartbreak\r\nand loss on the entire population, also has meant a tremendous workload\r\nfor women. Without the caring work that women do, families and communities\r\nwould not survive or be able to sustain the extraordinary resistance to\r\nthe occupying force that we witness every day. Yet women's vital contribution\r\nto this struggle is hidden and unrecognised, and women's demands are as\r\ninvisible as our work.\r\n<\/p>
The Occupation of Palestine is never connected with any other imperialist\r\noccupation - just as the holocaust against Jewish people has been disconnected\r\nfrom the many holocausts, beginning with that of Indigenous people and\r\nenslaved Africans hundreds of years ago, which continue to this day.\r\n<\/p>
All over the world, populations are organising massive resistance to\r\nUS economic domination enforced by military might. US military spending\r\nis more than half of the $900+ billion world expenditure. Israel, the US\r\npoliceman in the Middle East, is the third largest world military power.\r\n<\/p>
From Colombia and Venezuela to Angola and Congo, Vietnam and East Timor,\r\nwe have faced invasions, military dictatorships, coups, death squads, assassinations,\r\ndisappearances . . . We have had governments forced on us, while those\r\nwe have chosen were eliminated. And every time, it is women, starting with\r\nmothers, who have organised for the right to survival and to food for our\r\nchildren, spearheading movements which have led to the defeat of our oppressors.\r\n<\/p>
In London (England), Galway (Ireland) and some US cities we hold weekly\r\npickets against the occupation and exploitation of Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan,\r\nCongo and other countries where imperial powers are perpetrating genocide\r\nfor the benefit of corporations and political and military domination.\r\nWomen in our network have held anti-war actions in many countries. We bear\r\nwitness in order to save lives by publicising and supporting the struggles\r\nof our sisters in Iraq, Palestine and elsewhere.\r\n<\/p>
Today, we will publicise your March on our pickets and through whatever\r\nmedia we have access to. We are with you, women of Jayyous; we are with\r\nyou, women of Palestine; we are with you today and every day until the\r\nwalls and those who build them fall.\r\n<\/p>
Global Women's Strike\r\n
Argentina, England, Guyana, India, Ireland, Peru, Spain, Trinidad &\r\nTobago, Uganda, United States, Venezuela\r\n<\/p>
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Original Message From International Solidarity Movement \r\n<\/p>
INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT\r\n
October 21, 2003 For Immediate Release\r\n
***Media Advisory***\r\n<\/p>
WOMEN MARCH AGAINST THE WALL\r\n
Mothers demand right to feed their children\r\n<\/p>
[Jayyous, Qalqilya] For the first time since the construction of the\r\nSeparation Wall, Jayyous women will collectively demonstrate their opposition\r\nto the Israeli Occupation and the confiscation of their farmland. The Jayyous\r\nWomen's Charitable Society will be organizing and leading a women's march\r\non Thursday, October 23 beginning at 8 am. The march will proceed from\r\nthe Jayyous Charitable Society Building down to the West Gate of the Separation\r\nWall.\r\n<\/p>
The Wall is built 6 km inside the Green Line, cutting through Jayyous\r\nfarmland and impeding the natural agricultural cycle and olive harvest.\r\nThe farmland in Jayyous, and all over the West Bank, provides the major\r\nsource of income to Palestinian families, and the recent gate closures\r\nmean financial crisis for much of the local community. International women\r\nare invited to join the women of Jayyous in solidarity to draw attention\r\nto the suffering of men, women, and children.\r\n<\/p>
The Jayyous Women's Charitable Society was founded in 1980 to promote\r\nthe social, political and economic development of women in Jayyous. The\r\nSociety currently has 200 active members in the 3,000 person town.\r\n<\/p>
For more information please contact:\r\n
Huwaida +972-67-473-308\r\n
Francesca +972-66-290-618\r\n<\/p>
For transportation information please contact:\r\n
Laura +972-58-628-014\r\n<\/p>
END\r\n<\/p>
The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) is a Palestinian-led nonviolent\r\ninitiative supported by International Peace Activists from all over the\r\nworld. ISM aims towards ending the Israeli Occupation in Palestine through\r\nnonviolent means.\r\n<\/p>
Tel: +97222774602 Fax: +972227744773 e-mail: ism-alert@palsolidarity.org\r\n<\/p>
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