TAKING ACTION

TAKING ACTION

The 8^th of March is around the corner and organizing is happening in many places. Anyone can be part of the Global Women's Strike, on your own or with others, taking whatever time off you can, organising an activity or bringing your present activities into the Strike. Here are some ideas of how to use the Strike to strengthen and extend what you are already doing or to start a new initiative:

Publicize the Strike demands at meetings. Ask your group or trade union to endorse or pass a resolution of support and to make a financial donation.
Give prominence to women's anti-war demands with the INVEST IN CARING NOT KILLING Petition. Gather signatures wherever you go, and give it to others.
Distribute the Strike JOURNAL - it has news and photos of last year's Strike.
Leaflet neighbours and family, at school, college, community group, nursery, laundry, shopping centre, hospital, doctor's surgery . . .
Use the letter in support of women in Venezuela - spread the news of what we are winning there. It will add power to everything else we do.
Attend Strike meetings if you live near a Strike group, or form your own - we'll be glad to help you to do this.
Take the Strike to the media. Write or call your local press, TV and radio station to tell them why you support it and what activities you're planning.
Mount an exhibition of the work that women do and highlight our contribution to the anti-war, anti-poverty and human rights movements.
Make a Strike banner to take to pickets and demonstrations, and to go petitioning.
Tell men that their support is welcome and that Payday men's network is coordinating men's support internationally.

The Journal and website will give you ideas of what other women have done:

Putting a broom outside the front door, taking an extended lunch break, asking local churches to ring their bells for women, marching through the village, town or city centre, congregating at a significant location, holding a picket or a speakout, having a Strike video show, presenting grievances and demands to politicians ...

In some countries, where International Women's Day is officially celebrated, women have been able to get schools and local government to publicly recognize women's contributions and support the Strike demands.

Don't forget to send us your news and views, photos, poems, art work, so we can post them on the website and put people in touch with you. If you speak more than one language, please help with translation. And let us know if you have a new email address. For info, journals petition and leaflet:

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Email: womenstrike8m@server101.com

Strike / anti-war actions 2003

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