 March 2002
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Message from the Women of Uganda This statement is from the site http://womenstrike8m.server101.com/ Dear Sisters, We the women of Kaabong Women's Group on behalf of the rural grassroots women in Uganda are opposing military actions, budgets, arms fairs, and highly condemn the acts of terrorism and the revenge the USA has taken. Women, children are dying innocently. We bring this message of millions of women deprived of their basic human rights and status in all parts of the world, and we join the International Women Count Network in London as we come to the third Global Women's Strike, with the theme "Invest in caring not killing." Women and children are the majority of those killed and wounded in armed conflicts, besides their hard work of life-giving, going through severe hardship, cleaning, nursing, building, walking miles for clean water. All of us who have joined the Global Women's Strike are here on earth as living witnesses of thousands of people--women who suffer acts of violence and injustice caused by armed conflicts. We forced political and economic leaders to listen to us about military budgets, but we've failed to obtain even one satisfactory response to our demands. The demands stand unchanged. It is up to us to continue acting with all anti-neo-liberal globalization and anti-sexist movements to force international financial institutions (World Bank & IMF) to radically change course and to make the UN assume veritable political leadership in the people's--particularly women's--interests. We must also find the means and the platform from which to continue our action to eliminate violence in the world. We have a lot on our plates. Members of Kaabong Women's group had a silence of prayers for all those who died in the terrorists act in New York and Washington and for the women and children who died in Afghanistan. Throughout history, women have crossed geographical, cultural and ideological borders in search of peace. We the women can find an end to this terrible act. Join us on the third Global Women's Strike so that we make it real: "CARING NOT KILLING"
Yours in Power to the Sisters, 
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