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RECLAIM MAY 1ST - MAYDAY On May 1st People Not Profit organised a march to celebrate International Workers day. Although there were only just over 100 people on the march, we picketed McDonalds, The Gap, Starbucks, and then the Town hall. We believe the people meeting within the building built from the profits of the slave trade represent no-one - they certainly no longer serve the people of Liverpool. We refuse to allow the government and the establishment to tell us when May day is, it is not the first bank holiday in May - IT IS MAY 1ST. People recognise it all over the world. And we aim to make May 1st 2002 a much bigger event. RECLAIM INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY - MARCH 8TH This year about 150 people marched to the Gap in Liverpool in solidarity
with women forced into sweatshop labour and to participate in the Global
Women's Strike, which was taking place in over 100 countries throughout
the world. International women's day at least in the UK over recent years
has almost become like a 'be nice to women day' with women of all classes
and positions of power participating in it, thus leading it away from
its political roots, of women workers fighting for justice, equal pay
and equality. It is still a fact that even in the UK, where many people
believe equality has largely been achieved, that women still receive 40%
less wages than men. Where domestic violence has only recently been acknowledged
as a major component of millions of women's lives. Millions of women work
unpaid, raising children, running the home so their partners can serve
capitalism better, and so eventually their children can become cogs in
the capitalist machine. |
