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NEWS & LETTERS, April 2002
Column: Women
Worldwide by Mary Jo Grey
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than 150 demonstrators in New York City commemorated International Women's Day
with a protest against global injustices focusing on the world's sweatshop
workers-80% of whom are women. Their march wound through the East Village and
Soho pausing for a moment of silence at the site of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist
fire that killed 146 mainly immigrant women workers. *
* * With
the 1996 Welfare Reform Act up for renewal this year, welfare rights activists
marched in Washington, D.C., March 5, protesting three proposals of President
Bush: 1) an increase in funding from $50 million to $135 million for
abstinence-only sex education programs with no discussion of contraception; 2)
financial incentives to states to force single mothers into marriage, and 3) a
new subminimum wage with no workers' rights as part of the workfare program. |
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