Men are joining the

MOTHERS MARCH

for the survival of people & planet, against poverty and war

WISCONSIN: “Mainly women are being immediately affected. The administration made a calculation that the men would not support the women. But now they know otherwise. There is plenty of money to fight wars just not to pay people decent wages. Keep fighting like Egyptians!”

   Sam, US trade-unionist at Wisconsin protests.

TAHRIR SQUARE PLACARD:  Egypt supports Wisconsin Workers. One World, One Pain.

·  As so many of us are losing jobs, wages and benefits, we are joining with women to recover what continues to be stolen from us by government cuts, bank bailouts & military budgets. The Mothers March is the occasion to demand with our sisters that society and governments Invest in Caring Not Killing.

· The vital work of feeding, protecting and caring for families, neighbours, friends, colleagues – against great odds in a society that values the market over human life – is mostly done, unwaged, by our mothers, grandmothers, women partners and friends, but increasingly by men as well.

· Thus more men are recognizing women’s caring work, including in support of our own struggles.  Men’s organizing often starts in discussion around the kitchen table where mothers and partners advise us on how to face managers, unemployment, immigration authorities; how to escape conscription, or if we are soldiers, how to refuse to be murderers, rapists and torturers.

· Trade unions which claim to speak for workers at best only protect some of us at the waged workplace.  Whether we are discriminated against by a landlord or cuts in education, whether women are raped, or whether a child is bullied or made homeless is rarely of concern to them.

· In this period when we are building a movement to oppose poverty & violence, it is vital we join with those who have shown they want to win for the whole community, whether we are men, women or children, whether we are in, Cairo, Gaza, London or Wisconsin!

Join those who care for all of us – Join the Mothers March!

Payday men’s network, working with the Global Women’s Strike -

Refusing to Kill is Not a Crime - Invest in Caring Not Killing!

London:  +44 207 267 8698    Philadelphia:  +1 215 848 1120

payday@paydaynet.org      www.refusingtokill.net

International Women's Week and Mothering Sunday

MOTHERS MARCH

Sat 12 March 2011 All welcome

Assemble 12 noon: Trafalgar Square (north side)

Speak-out 2pm: Room G2, SOAS, London

School of Oriental & African Studies, Thornhaugh St, WC1H OXG

Invest in caring not killing

For Everyone's

SURVIVAL

& WELFARE

End Cuts, Poverty

& Discrimination

WOMEN, MEN, YOUNG, OLD BRING YOUR DEMANDS!

Why a Mothers March? Because:

·      Mothers produce and care for the world’s people, while brutal market forces destroy us and our planet.

·      Mothers’ basic contribution to survival and welfare is unrecognised and unpaid.

·      Governments invest in weapons of war, banks and corporations. Feeding, housing, health, support, education, the environment – they couldn’t care less.

·      Our young people are victimised for defending everyone’s right to education.

·      Everywhere people are risking their lives to bring change – from Palestine to Egypt, from Haiti to Colombia, from Kashmir to Congo and Nigeria …

Fathers, sons, brothers, partners . . . join us. It’s time to show your support!

ENDORSERS SO FAR:

All African Women’s Group; Birkbeck Students Union; Black Women’s Rape Action Project; Climate Camp London; Colombia Solidarity; Donne in Lotta (Cremona, Italy); EMERGENCY (UK); Gruppo Donne No Dal Molin (Vicenza, Italy); International Prostitutes Collective; Legal Action for Women; Lesbian Bi Trans Queer in the Global Women’s Strike; Michelene Wandor (writer); Mom’sy Gwen Omega Radio & Rain Forest Cuisines Ltd; Noel Lynch (Chair, Green Party, London); Oliver James (child psychologist, author); Outrage!; Payday men’s network; Queen Mary Students Union; Sheila Kitzinger (breastfeeding & natural childbirth campaigner & author); Single Mothers’ Self-Defence; SOAS Student Union (School of African & Oriental Studies), WinVisible (women with disabilities); Women Against Rape; Women of Colour in the Global Women’s Strike.

Mothers March in Guyana, Haiti, India, Peru, the US.

ASK ORGANISATIONS TO ENDORSE THE MARCH