BY GAIL LORD
PARRAMATTA — After staging the first International Women's Day march and rally in Parramatta for 30 years in 2000, feminists in Sydney's western suburbs are organising an even bigger IWD action on March 8 with the theme, "Women fighting for global justice".
Kobra Bahraimi, from the Worker Communist Party of Iran, will address the rally on the Australian government's inhumane policy of detaining refugees and the plight of women refugees in the Villawood detention centre.
Kerry Nettle, from the prisoners' rights group Justice Action and the Stop the Women's Jail committee, will speak against the NSW Labor government's decision to build a women's prison in Windsor, on the western outskirts of Sydney.
The western Sydney IWD rally will assemble at 4pm, outside the Parramatta Town Hall. A march will stop at various places around Parramatta to highlight the denial of rights to refugees, women prisoners and women workers.
Phone Susan on (0404) 479 682 to get involved.