[Anarchafeminists] mwr - request for solidarity

[butterflea at riseup.net]

Subject: Million Women Rise presenting DRC visit report and
recommendations to MP'S on Wednesday 4th May- we call on your solidarity
to join us!

From: millionwomanrise at gmail.com



Dear Sisters and Supporters,



Please pass this invite wide and far. We need your support on the 4th May



The UK delegation of Million Women Rise to the World March of Women
International
Action, Bukavu, east of the DR Congo will be presenting their report and
recommendations to MP's and Peers at a meeting co-sponsored by Jeremy
Corbyn MP, the
Great Lakes All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) and the Million Women
Rise UK
delegation to the World March of Women on:



Wednesday 4th May 2011

6pm - 7.30pm

Grimond Room, Portcullis House, SW1A 3JA

speakers will include

Marie- Claire (WILPF, COMMON CAUSE, MWR)

Jane Gregory (Rape Crisis England & Wales, MWR)

Sabrina Qureshi (MWR)

Maman Louise (Common Cause)

Chaired by (Jeremy Corbyn)



Women wanted to take action. Here's what we can do right now:



Please contact your MP, tell them about the APPG meeting and say that as a
constituent you really want them to attend. You may want to make points
about ongoing horrific violence against women in the east of the DR Congo
being relevant
to you, all UK tax payers and indeed everyone in the UK since the Dept for
International Development spends a million $ a day in Congo, British based
multi-nationals have been linked to the torture and murder of women e.g.
Afrimex, UK
Government foreign policy regarding support for regimes in the Great Lakes
Region
plays an important role and crucially we are all carrying mobiles and
using technology that rely on minerals from Congo e.g. coltan. If you can
take the time to
write a personal email/letter to your MP it will have an impact. It's our
job to
make all our MP's take notice that this is an issue we want them to engage
in.



If you want to attend the meeting on the 4th May in Westminster Palace
that would be
fab! Please email me at info at brcg.org.uk to register and get further info.



Lets see if we can be part of building an unstoppable momentum to end
violence
against women in Congo, in the UK and everywhere.



Jane

Vice Chair

Rape Crisis England and Wales

and on behalf of Million Women Rise