Women Run for Gender Justice and Labor Justice at Ayala, Makati

MEDIA ADVISORY

Contact Alnem Pretencio (PALEA VP) @ 09209543634

        Judy Ann Miranda (PM Sec-Gen) @ 09228677522

International Women’s Day Commemoration

Women Run for Gender Justice and Labor Justice at Ayala, Makati

WHAT: PALEA and PM women members to hold Women Run for Gender Justice, Labor Justice

WHEN:  Tomorrow, March 8, 6:00 am

WHERE: Ayala cor.

Makati Ave.

(wreath-laying at Gabriela Silang Monument) then proceed to Allied Bank along

Ayala Ave.

DETAILS: The Women Run for Gender Justice and Labor Justice caps the weeklong commemoration of International Women’s Day (IWD) by the Philippine Airlines Employees Association (PALEA) and Partido ng Manggagawa (PM). After the Women Run at Ayala, Makati, the PALEA and PM women members will hold a motorcade to Mendiola and join the World March of Women in a traditional rally.

“The Women Run for Gender Justice and Labor Justice is a celebration of the inseparability of the fight for women’s rights and workers rights. IWD in fact started in honor of the 1908 garment workers' strike in New York. While much has been achieved by women in general, for women workers the sweatshop conditions of the 1900’s is still the norm in factories, shops, offices and farms as capitalist globalization rolls back the gains of the labor movement even as the fight for gender equality remains crucial concerns,” asserted Judy Ann Miranda of PM.