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Media Release
Anti-War Coalition
3 March 2003

International Women's Day
Demonstration and Symposium: Women Against the War

On Saturday, 8 March 2003, the Anti-War Coalition will be joining women
around
the world in commemorating International Women's Day. We have organized a
Women Against the War demonstration at the US Consulate in Killarney and a
symposium on the effects of war on women and children.

We will gather at the Worker's Library and Museum in Newtown at 9:30 am and
leave by bus to the US Consulate at 10:00 am. There we will demonstrate
against the impending war on Iraq for an hour.

At 11:30, we will return to the Worker's Library and have lunch together.

After lunch, we will convene a symposium at the Worker's Library on the
social,
economic, and military effects of war on women and children. We will have
two
main speakers. One will discuss the effects of war on women and children
generally - dealing with conflicts throughout the world - and the other will
address the effects of war on women and children in Iraq and Palestine. We
ask
that any groups that wish to participate please send one speaker who will
speak
for 5-7 minutes.

For more information, please contact Makoma on 082 682 9177.

The ANTI-WAR COALITION includes: Anti-Eviction Campaign,
Anti-Privatisation
Forum, Athlone Concerned Civic Residents Association, Azanian Peoples'
Organization, Black Consciousness Forum, Bophelong Community Service Forum,
Botshabelo Palestine Solidarity Committee, Ceasefire Campaign, Concerned
Citizens Forum, Delft Concerned Residents Movement, Democratic Socialist
Movement, Environmental Justice Networking Forum, Free Burma Campaign,
Freedom
of Expression Institute, the Grail, Green Party of South Africa, Guguletu
Anti-
Privatisation Forum, Human Rights Foundation, Ikageng Crisis Committee,
Indymedia, Inner City Anti-Eviction Campaign, Ironside, Islamic Action,
Jubilee
South Africa, Kanana Community Development Forum, Kathorus Concerned
Residents,
Keep Left, Khanya College, KTC Concerned Residents Movement, Lakeside,
Landless
Access Movement of South Africa, Landless Peoples Movement, Lavender Hill
Anti-
Eviction Campaign, Lekoa-Vaal Community Forum, Mabuluka Vukuzenzele -
Pretoria,
Marlboro/Alex, Mandela Park Action Youth Housing Committee, Mandela Village
Durban Deep, Media Review Network, METSA, Mfuleni Anti-Eviction Campaign,
Mohadien Civic Association - Potchestroom, Mothers for Services, Muslim
Students Association, Muslim Youth Movement, Orange Farm Water Crisis
Committee, Palestine Solidarity Committee, Pan-African Congress, Riverpark
Residents Committee Rural Development Services Network, Smallfarm Community
Forum, South African NGO Coalition, Social Movements Indaba, Socialist Party
of
Azania, Socialist Students Movement, Soldiers Forum, Soweto Electricity
Crisis
Committee, Squatter Families of Faure Road, Strand Concerned Group, Tafelsig
Anti-Eviction Campaign, Tafelsig Concerned Parents, Tambo Square Concerned
Residents Movement, Thembelihle Crisis Committee, Trust for Community
Outreach
and Education, Tshakane Residents Committee, United Civics of South Africa,
Valhalla Park United Civic Front, Vukuzenzele Residents Committee - Alex,
Waterless Community of Fisantekraal, Workers' Organisation for Socialist
Action, Workers' Party, Working Class Coordinating Committee - Vaal, Youth
for
Work, Zamdela Palestine Solidarity Committee