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Please contact your local press! Dear Sisters, We are asking everyone to send letters THIS WEEK to your local newspaper to encourage women, children and men to join us in London on Saturday 8 March saying NO WAR - Invest in Caring Not Killing for the Global Women's Strike (apologies to those not able to travel to London - maybe you'd like to organise your own activity?). Feel free to adapt the letter to your own situation. Keep in mind that local papers like letters from local residents - you can give your address but ask for it to be withheld from publication if you don't want it to appear. Please send copies of your letter to us. Looking forward to hearing from you, Power to the sisters to stop the world and change it! Anne for Strike Press Group MODEL LETTER FOR LOCAL PRESS 2003 Dear Editor, I would like to invite women, children and men in [AREA] to join the 4th Global Women's Strike on 8 March, International Women's Day. We will march from Parliament Sq (Westminster tube) to the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square, to demand No War - Invest in Caring Not Killing. We are assembling at 11.30 am and expect to be in Grosvenor Sq (Bond St tube) at 2 pm for a Speakout with Performers. There will be sign language interpreting and help with transport for people with disabilities, older people and mothers with small children. Women's opposition to war is even more widespread than men's because we are the first carers, for people and for the planet. Women and children are the majority of victims of armed conflict, and 80% of refugees and displaced people. Everywhere women struggle to make up for the suffering and devastation caused by war, and for the loss of benefits, healthcare and other services that are cut or privatised to pay for war. The UK government is already spending £4m a week bombing Iraq and plans to spend at least £3.5bn on all-out war. Yet there's no money for single mothers, disability benefits, pensioners, students, asylum seekers from war-torn countries fleeing rape and other torture, decent pay for fire service workers, teachers, hospital staff . . . . Join women in over 70 countries who will be demanding that the $900 billion spent on the military worldwide goes into caring for people and our planet. Please get in touch with me for more information by phone on 020 7482 2496 Or email womenstrike8m@server101.com or visit Web: http://womenstrike8m.server101.com Payday, a network of men organizing support for the Strike would like to hear from other men payday@payday.net. [Name and local address which you can ask not to be published] |