Payment for caring work

Make our voices heard on * anti-mother, anti-caregiver policies * criminalizing poverty * racism *war and occupation * housing * welfare * valuing and payment for caring work* pay equity * children unjustly taken from mothers by LA County *justice for victims of South LA serial murders * California budget cuts *UC & Cal State fee increases* immigration policies that break up families *prostitution & other struggles for survival * the right to home care by those of us who are older &/or have a disability * healthcare *rape & violence * breastfeeding * childcare * lesbian/gay/

An International Women’s Day and Mother’s Day Event Saturday 13 March 2010 – Mothers March & Speak Out – For recognition and support for all the workwe contribute to society – Come with your children, relatives and friends.Bring your banners, placards and demands – Assemble 2pm Trafalgar Sq – March to Parliament Sq – Wes

Helen Lowder, Mother and parliamentary secretary speaks on: "Double trouble double day", speaking at the International Gathering of the Global Women's Strike and the International Women Count Network, London 31 January - 8 February 2009 at Bolivar Hall, Venezuelan Embassy.

It’s our money not the bankers’!

How dare MPs, defiant about paying back “expenses”, squeeze those of us with least during this economic crisis?

Kim Sparrow of Single Mothers Self-Defence speaks at the International Gathering of the International Women Count Network and the Global Women's Strike, London, February 2009.