Third Annual Global Women's Strike
Targets Big Business

To celebrate the 3rd Annual Global Women's Strike Against Low Pay, No Pay and Overwork, women around the world took to the streets on March 8-9 to expose the suffering imposed on women and our communities by Big Business and the biggest business of all, war.  Women organized strike events in Argentina, Austria, Basque Country, Belarus, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Britain, Burkina Faso, Canada, Chad, Columbia, Congo, Czech Republic, France, Ghana, Guyana, Honduras, India, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Uganda, and the United States.  

The Global Women's Strike is organized by International Wages for Housework groups in London, LA & Philadelphia.

To find out more about Global Women's Strike activities around the world, visit the Strike webpage.

 

New Song for Bloated Big Business

The five wealthiest corporations on Earth are General Motors, Walmart, Exxon, Ford, and Daimler-Chrysler.  Their GNP is higher than that of 182 countries.  We created this song to describe their shameful histories.  We would like to add verses for the bloated big businesses we will visit on our March 9 Bloated Big Business Bus Tour: Walgreens, Taco Bell, Manpower, Beverly Enterprises Nursing Homes, and Children's World.  Please send your suggestions to Welfare Warriors, 2711 W. Michigan, Milwaukee, WI, 53208; 414-342-6662.

Bloated Big Business Has No Shame
to the tune of "Old MacDonald Had a Farm"

Old Sam Walton had a store
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And in this store he robbed the poor
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and in this store he robbed the poor
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With a low wage here; no benefits there
Part time here, and no time there
Old Sam Walton robbed the poor
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General Motors build some cars,
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Yet many workers didn't get far,
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With a lay-off here, and a downsize there,
Jobs gone south, the bosses don't care
General Motors built some cars,
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Exxon Oil had a ship
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And on this ship they had some oil
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An oil slick here; Some dead fish there,
Keep the money coming, Exxon don't care
Exxon Oil had a ship
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Big Ford Motors had a plan
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To make more profits than Japan
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Mexican factories here; Filipine factories there
Payin' slave wages and pollutin' the air
Big Ford Motors had a plan
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