- Visit our website regularly. It will be packed with updated information in different languages. If you have a website, link it to ours.
- Send us your own Striking Statement of why you are going on Strike.
- Distribute leaflets to neighbours and family, at your school, college, community group, nursery, laundry, shopping centre, hospital, doctor's surgery . . . Resources you can use
- Raise money to help cover the expenses of organising the Strike. It cost us a fortune last year, and we are not funded.
- Attend Strike meetings where there is a Strike group (get in touch for the address nearest you) or advertise, including to friends, that you want to form one.
- Help publicise the Strike and its demands by contacting newspapers, newsletters, journals and other publications. How to handle the media
- Make a Global Women's Strike banner and join demonstrations and events with it.
- Pass a resolution supporting the Strike in your trade union, student union or other organisation. Click here for the Model Resolution and for a Model article for your Union Newsletter.
- Mount an exhibition on the work women do.
Your library or community centre may be ready to help and to display it. We are preparing
one on Strike 2000 – please send photos, drawings, collages, poems, media coverage .
. . Calling All Art Teachers!
Invitation to host the
Global Women's Strike Caravan, Britain
Strike 2001 leaflets available in these languages:
Aymara | Catalan | Chinese | Czech | Deutsch | Dutch | English | Español | Farsi | Francais | Gujerati | Hindi | Italiano | Japanese | Luo | Magyar | Norwegian | Português | Nerurimi rweshona | Russian |Sinhala | Somali | Svenska | Swahili | Türkçe| Twi Contact us if you can help us translate more, or if you need others not available here.
Begin to organise an event in your community, workplace, place of worship (see sample letter) or trade union. You can suggest that on 8 March women and girls:
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stop work for an hour, 10 minutes . . . however long you can manage; Endorse a 2-hour lunch break for women |
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put a broom outside the front door or window to make your support visible; |
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hold a speakout where you can talk about your work, your lives, your demands; |
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get churches to ring their bells in recognition of women's contribution to society; |
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ask to meet local or national politicians to express your grievances and present your demands. |
- Send your news as you make it. We'll post it on our website.
- Tell the men you know that Payday Men's Network is co-ordinating men's support for the Strike and to contact them.
- The leaflet for
Strike 2000 was produced in 26 languages* -- a fantastic achievement made possible by help
from all over the world. We urgently need translations of the new leaflet. Please
contact the London address if you can help.
* Arabic | Basque | Bengali | Brazilian Portuguese | Catalan | Chinese (simplified characters) | Chinese (traditional characters) | Croatian | Danish | English | French | Gaelic | Gallego | German | Greek | Gujerati | Haitian Creole | Hindi | Italian | Russian | Somali | Spanish | Swedish | Tigrinia | Turkish | Urdu |
Don't forget to take photos and video your event and send us a copy - we can make it available to people all over the world.
A new video and webcast are available.