Media Coverage 2004
How to handle the Media:

Help publicise the Strike and its demands by contacting newspapers, newsletters, journals and other publications.

  • Please contact your local press!

  • Call radio and TV stations (some have women's or community programes), tell them why you are planning to go on strike - you could use the news articles below as a model.
  • Don't forget there are Strike jingles in English and Spanish and song which your local radio may be interested in broadcasting (contact us to get a copy).
  • We also have a webcast and videos with footage from previous years Global Women's Strike, in English and Spanish

2005
Women of Colour in the Global Women's Strike article for publication in CCRJ Social Justice Desk Newsletter

2004
England: Home truths for feminists: How should the work women do as mothers be rewarded?  Selma James and Melissa Benn argue about carers and careers, The Guardian, 21 Feb   Full version from Guardian website
Grassroots women take action globally against war and poverty - Voice of the Unions 
Global Women's Strike Catholic Omnibus


Guyana
: Fund caring not killing - Women's Day message, Stabroek News, 9 March

Article 88, Grassroots women in Venezuela are being held up by their peers around the world as a shining example of what can be achieved through lobbying and advocacy, Stabroek News, 28 Feb

Spain: Women demand that military budgets are spent on family benefits


USA public radio:
KPFK: The Sojourner Truth Edition of Morning Review with host Margaret Prescod 
7:00 - 8am 90.7 FM So Cal / 98.7 FM Santa Barbara

"What Women Want" Mumia Abu-Jamal, speaking from death row in support of the Strike, 26 Feb 2004

2003
The Kathmandu Post, Nepal's Largest Selling English Daily, 29 March 2003

Irish Examiner
28 March
Asian Times -  Picket report April
Press release, 18 March
Indymedia picket report, 18 March
Press Update 5 March
Ireland Press Release, 4 March
Guardian report of London anti-war demo, including the Strike, 17 Feb
Eastern Eye, 8 March
African Voice, 8 March
Magnet Spring 2003: Revolt of the Pots and Pans: A Christian magazine in Britain reports on Argentinian women in the Strike
Strike Reports were also carried by The Big Issue, Scotland, March 6-12 2003
Kilombo, African Liberation Support Campaign Newsletter, March - April 2003
In the US, on the 8th March 2003, Pacifica Radio broadcast the Strike live.

Media coverage from 2002

Home