WOZA flyers appear on the street
WOZA - Women of Zimbabwe Arise - hit the streets today in the form of flyers everywhere. Two very busy city streets that I saw (there may have been more) were liberally strewn with flyers and small cards at peek lunch hour. These areas were a flurry of activity as passers-by picked them up and some even sat down on the pavement to read them.
They are planning to march tomorrow, as they do every year on Valentines Day. Last year the police harrassed the women before the march even started - some were arrested in their homes long before anything took place. I hope these intrepid souls are safe tonight! Keep WOZA in your thoughts tomorrow, and join them in their efforts if you can.
This information about a solidarity march taking place in London comes from an email I received today:
WOZA will be taking to the streets again this Valentines Day and we in the UK will be staging a support action at 12 noon on Saturday 18th February outside the Zimbabwe Embassy, 429 Strand London WC1.
WOZA’s theme this year is inspired by the ‘Bread and Roses’ strike led and won by American women textile workers in 1912. For WOZA in 2006 the bread symbolises the need for affordable food in Zimbabwe and the roses signify the need to be dignified and the call for social justice.
WOZA are determined to force the goverment and the international community to take account of the effect of the crisis in Zimabwe on women, their famililesd and their children.
Come and help them do it!
12 noon Saturday 18th February
Zimbabwe embassy, 429 Strand, London WC1
(nearest tube Charing Cross)
February 20th, 2006 11:14
[...] Zimbabwe: Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA), a civic action group looking out for the welfare of Zimbabwean women, held their third annual valentine’s day protest march. This is Zimbabwe blogged that flyers promoting the march brought Zimbabwe’s second city, Bulawayo, to a standstill days before the event. [...]