BBC World Service, Friday 8 March, 5-7am, London: 648MW
on 'The World Today' programme one of the co-ordinators of the Strike will be interviewed. You can hear the same interview throughout the weekend on the World Service Website.

London- Women Living Under Muslim Laws have linked their website and send best wishes for 8^th, clarification: women mental health system survivors are protesting outside Maudsley Hospital Trust Offices against money being spent on high office rents but saying they can’t afford women-only wards, against electric shock treatment, forced drugging.  Incapacity Action is one of co-ordinators of a protest by people with disabilities outside Hackney Town Hall in defence of the Freedom pass (free travel on public transport for pensioners and people with disabilities) on 8 March, the deadline for filling in the new, more restrictive forms. There will be an open advice session & speakout. At Unite, trade union & grassroots conference, Unison agreed to its members supporting the demo which is linked to the Strike.- Liverpool- Women and men from People Not Profit are organizing “a celebration of talks, music, films and general mayhem and fun to celebrate International Women’s Day, and are linking their event to the Strike.

Lesbian/bisexual women invited to march with Dykes on Strike contingent.  Women mental health system survivors will protest outside a psychiatric hospital based near Shell, and women from the Catholic Worker and Metropolitan Community Church along with those of other faiths are holding a public prayer in front of Ministry of Defence.  Click here for letter inviting women of different faiths to join. The Tour will join both and will move on together.  Women from Kent are planning to come in a bus.  

The Firefighters Union supports the Strike and has given £50 donation. 

Students will run a Strike stall at E. London University on 7 March, and other students are holding events locally. 
Call for Students to join the Global Women's Strike
Young women joining the strike

Lesbian health care manager says it’s hard to come out as lesbian at work.

BBC London Radio, 94.9FM, Sunday, 24 February, 12.35-1pm.
A Striking woman was interviewed about the Strike on the Jo Brand show.

Rhythms of Resistance who brought their drums and pots and pans to the cacerolazo which WinWages held in front of the World Bank in support of our Argentinean sisters, have said they will bring 10 people to do “some samba stuff ”+ dancers on 8 March!  

A member of the Jewish Socialist Group wrote saying she was trying to get a piece about the Strike in their Bulletin, and was planning to join us on the day.

We have emails from a number of women in Britain, many are attending weekly Strike meetings. A woman from Labour Against the War who can't attend meetings because she is quite far from London asked for information to distribute.

Men have also written in support.

Men join women to demand “Invest in caring not killing”

Events in England from 2001

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