Strike event in Berlin, Germany 2003

Two women in Berlin, from different groups, worked together to organise an event in Berlin against war and patriarchy, which promoted the Strike. They both wrote in to report on the events.

One says their demonstration was "small but with a good sound machine" in the busy centre of Berlin. Later they met with Women in Exile (refugee women) who came from their demonstration at a deportation prison, "we ate together, showed the video from the Global Women's Strike 2000 and went together to demonstrate against the growing repression in the name of the anti-terror security policy."

The other woman writes that Women in Exile are very interested in the Strike materials and are setting up a further showing of the video in Potsdam/Brandenburg. She says:

". . . I am glad that I can tell you that NOW the global women's strike is part of the new women-movement in Germany. But the protests of women yesterday were on a very small level. Most of the women activists of the former movement are not political, they were making only parties for themselves . . ."

They put out a lot of publicity to the press, got interviewed for one newspaper and "published our leaflet and our call for strike inside Indymedia Germany. On this way NOW the strike is inside the center of activities of grass-roots-protests. All is documented on the indymedia-page. if you want to have a look: http://de.indymedia.org/2003/03/43375.shtml Headline: "Sisters around the world: - Stop the world and change it!" Inside the article you can find the demands of "global women's strike" and at the end they posted the articles from Indymedia London and other countries and cities . . . 

Our call for strike was also published inside an online-newspaper:
http://www.trend.partisan.net/trd0303/t120303.html
we always published the link to the global women's strike page".

This second woman had read Selma James's book The Power of Women and Subversion of the Community years ago. Another Berlin woman was also involved, and rang to ask for Strike journals. She's from what used to be "dhg" (deutsche hausfrauengesellschaft).

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