Women’s Day Flashmob
8 March 2014 (Saturday), 12 noon
Landmark Food Court, Trinoma, Quezon City

On the 8th of March, 2014, International Women’s Day, Filipino women demanded: “No to Corporate Occupation of our Land! No to Occupation of our Bodies!

Over 200 women and supporting men sang the emblematic theme “Bread and Roses.” This was followed by a community singing of “Babae” by Inang Laya. Some of them dressed up as fastfood workers and cleaners. Towards the end of the first song, they revealed inner pink shirts, which carried this text in front: “Stop Corporate Land-grabbing!” The back of their shirts contained the logo of ‘bread and roses.’

This action is a protest of women against Ayala and other corporations that displace and threaten urban poor communities, a children’s hospital, a seedlings bank in Quezon City, as well as farming and indigenous communities defending their lands, and now public lands in disaster areas. It is a protest against privatization of public services, too, and the continuing threat against the Reproductive Health Law.

Led by the World March of Women – Pilipinas and participated in by around 30 organizations and numerous individuals: Alliance of Progressive Labor/SENTRO – Women, Bagong Kamalayan, Batis-AWARE, Buklod, CATW-AP, Center for Migrant Advocacy (CMA), D2KA, Kaisa Ka, Sarilaya, Pambansang Koalisyon ng Kababaihan sa Kanayunan (PKKK), WomanHealth, Focus on the Global South, Free Burma Coalition, Freedom from Debt Coalition-Women, KAMP, Lilak, Piglas Kababaihan, PC-ICC, PLM, Partido ng Manggagawa (PM), Rainbow Rights Project, Transform Asia, Women’s Legal and Human Rights Bureau (WLB), Women’s Crisis Center (WCC), and Youth and Students Advancing Gender Equality (YSAGE).

See video of the flash mob @ https://www.facebook.com/jean.enriquez?fref=ts#

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