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Unite to give each other support!
Million Mothers March begins with one step...and one mum!
We started on Friday 2 December 2005 – 12 noon on Parliament lawn, Canberra
and we will keep going until we can see a future where fairness, freedom and "for all
Australians" means caring and compassion for each other - not callous competition
10 years ago the Million Man March of protest and unity converged on Washington
DC.
Now it’s the turn of all Australians who don’t accept the Howard’s government’s
proposed laws on Workplace Relations, Welfare and Terrorism to show our faces and
our feelings.
Why Mothers? Many of us are mothers. Most of us had mothers. Mothers will be
disproportionately damaged by the Welfare and Workplace changes. But not only
mothers. Millions of people in Australia will be adversely affected by these
unmandated inhumane laws.
And with the Terrorism sedition provisions you will lose the right to even read about
it!
Mothers, fathers, kids, people will have to work in even more substandard conditions
and for even less money. Individual workers will lose their rights to get together and
act for each other.
The Government pushed these changes through last Christmas.
What a wonderful selection of presents the government gave to mothers, children, and
people who are disabled, pensioners, workers, or unemployed!
Unwrap the packaging and what do you get? All this legislation has horrible
consequences – not unforeseen either. Anyone can see the disadvantages sole parents
and their children will suffer under the wicked Welfare to Woe package. It won't just
mean losing out on payments. People will lose current benefits such as health care
cards, transport concessions, and access to public housing. Parents in particular -will
end up being minus almost everything except the kids they are trying to look after!
Anyone who has a heart – anyone who had a mother or has been a child – anyone who
is half way human – join the Million Mothers March. You can do it online, by writing
to the media, or to your MP or any other way. Just let us know:
www.millionmothersmarch.org
PO Box 42 S. Maroubra 2035 or contact Ariel: 0411 852 452
ariel@millionmothersmarch.org International Women’s Day 11 March 2006