Put People First: But Don’t Put Women Second – WILPF – 28th March 2009
Put People First – But Don’t Put Women Second
WILPF (Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom) is co-ordinating a women’s contingent for the Put People First march next Saturday 28th March and asks any woman who wants to march behind the slogan PUT PEOPLE FIRST – BUT DON’T PUT WOMEN SECOND to assemble in Victoria Embankment Gardens (near Embankment tube station) at 10.30 am (near the coffee kiosk) ready to join the march leaving around 12pm.
We have prepared banners with the sogans PUT PEOPLE FIRST – BUT DON’T PUT WOMEN SECOND and LISTEN TO WOMEN FOR A CHANGE and a number of placards focusing on women’s concerns around economic justice and militarism. Bring your own banners and join like minded women.
Why women first?
“We need to make both our fellow marchers and decision makers aware that the economic crisis affects women most acutely, after all 70% of the poorest people in the world are women. We need to emphasise that cuts in social and welfare services whether in the UK or in the developing world mean women carry the extra burden as carers. In Africa women produce 60-80% of the food consumption but own hardly any land. They are the hardest hit by climate change, as they cope with pollution, flooding and drought. You only have to look at the D. R. Congo to see how women are most affected by the conflicts that are resulting from the scramble for resources“
