ARAB WOMEN’S VOICE – will join Strike through Nisswa & Development Network.

ARGENTINA – The Sindicato de Amas de Casa (Housewives Union) in Santa Fe which has co-ordinated the Strike since 2000, is holding daily women’s assemblies in the poorest neighbourhoods as part of the popular uprising. Their leaflet has their Manifesto demands to deal with the Argentinian crisis, as well as Strike information. They are meeting together with women in Rosario and are calling their Strike actions "The Sweep". They’re contacting other women’s groups to join the Strike with their own demands.***A woman radio producer of a programme for 8 March said of the Strike videos, "It would be an honour to spread such valuable information."

AUSTRIA – woman wanting contact with "Austrian Strike team".

BOLIVIA – PROMUTAR in Tarija are preparing Strike actions once again. A single mother who supports the Strike wrote that she is planning to go on the game to support her family.

BRAZIL – A woman in Sao Paulo wants to take part.

A young woman from Minsk, BELARUS, has translated the Strike material into Russian and her friends will try to have an action but "we are not absolutely confident of our social power." She says "Good luck in holding the Strike & no surrender!"

A farmer in CANADA is proposing that other women in Nelson, British Columbia, come out on Strike with her. Womenspace On Line website has put Strike info on and a link.

Dialogo Mujer in COLOMBIA and the men who work with them as well as a women’s organisation in Kinshasa, CONGO, wrote for information.

ENGLAND – London Strike Committee is organising a Whistle Stop Tour and "Cacerolazo" (pots and pans protest) to Sweep Out the Global Killers: Shell, Ministry of Defence, Institute of Directors, finishing at the World Bank. Lesbian/bisexual women invited to march with Dykes on Strike contingent. Rhythms of Resistance will drum + dance! 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. The Tour will join both and will move on together. Will be joined by a busload of Kent students. A Striking woman was on the BBC London Live Jo Brand Show 12.30-1 (94.9 FM) Sunday 24 Feb. The Firefighters Union supports the Strike and has given £50 donation. Students will run a Strike stall at E. London University on 7 March. Jewish Socialist Group is publicising Strike in their Bulletin and some will join us on the day. Woman from Labour Against the War will distribute information. Lesbian health care manager says it’s hard to come out as lesbian at work.

A woman and her friends from Lizac, South west FRANCE, wrote for information.

The People’s Education Association of GHANA, which campaigns on the issue of girls dropping out of school because of poverty, has "earmarked Global Women’s day every year to campaign for the vision."

GUYANA’s Red Thread multi-racial women’s group is organising a 3-4-hour pots and pans strike/demo in Linden along 3 miles of the main road. "The demands of the Strike are immediate for the Afro-Guyanese women and the Indigenous women in and near Linden, where the economy is in crisis because the bauxite industry is in steep decline. In the Indigenous community, there is no electricity or running water. Indo-Guyanese were driven out of Linden during the race violence of the 1960s. A small contingent of Indo-Guyanese women will come up for the strike/demo and will be publicly welcomed back by Afro-Guyanese women. To apply the global demands, we’ll demand an end to exorbitant prices for electricity, phones and water as a result of privatisation; and affordable land and housing materials for single mothers."

In INDIA, Chhattisgarh Women’s Organisation (CWO) are again organizing a meeting in Pithora where village women, including Dalit and Tribal women, will put their demands to the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh. The demands include equal pay for equal work, land rights, safe drinking water, health and medical facilities, removing "untouchability" against Dalit people, a bonus for Tendu leaf (smoke stick business that Tribal women particularly work in). "We are also raising our voice against globalisation, the World Trade Organisation, and the IMF which is affecting our people adversely."

IRELAND – Women in Media & Entertainment will make a presentation to the president, pressing "to make St Bridget’s day a public paid holiday in recognition of women’s unpaid work and its contribution to the wealth and health of our society," + other issues.  Holding a 10-hour vigil outside a Galway church, to exchange music, poetry, other "creative contributions".  Men in touch with Payday are doing collective Strike support statement.

A woman in Rome, ITALY, is organising an event at a university.

KOREA – A woman has made the Strike the Homepage of their website and sent us translations. Also sent news of plans, including marches by Korea Women’s Assn United (KWAU), Korean Women Workers Assn (KWWA), Korean Women’s Trade Union, Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU).

MACEDONIA – Feminist Initiative which includes the Association of Roma Women "Esma", Peace Action and Women’s Civic Centre "will participate in Intl Wimin’s Day Global Strike with a program of its own"– films, photo exhibitions, a women’s fair.

COLEM women’s organization in Chiapas, MEXICO, will probably have a march, a picket in front of the ministry with their demands, a meeting with cultural activities, and the compañeros of Puerta Negra (the men’s group) will do some theatre.

Auckland International Women’s Day Committee in AOTEAROA/NEW ZEALAND sent a great statement wishing "our sisters around the world the greatest success for their global strike!" Their theme: "Value Women’s Work." Rally in Freyberg Square, downtown and march to Suffragette Square. Their demands include equal pay, support National Caregivers Day, free childcare, support the nurses, stop rape and violence, stop all wars of aggression and big power domination. They’re campaigning against closure of the National Women’s Hospital and their speakout will be for wages for caring work and against the oppressive conditions of immigrants and refugees. *** Parents as Partners in Hamilton say "caring for dependants is at least as important as soldiering . . ."

PERU – The Aymara Centre ‘Pacha Aru’ is co-ordinating Strike actions in the Aymara and Quechua communities in the Andes. Big mobilization this year. ‘Pacha Aru’ has written to Indigenous women all over the world (See website for English and Spanish) inviting them to use the Strike. They are now in touch with UMALA, an Indigenous Aymara organization in Puno, whose address was forwarded from London. The Centre for the Empowerment of Domestic Workers is co-ordinating the Strike among grassroots women’s organisations & trade unions in Lima and the rest of the country.

A women's organisation from POLAND will translate the Strike leaflet into Polish.

Zero Tolerance" [of sexual violence] in SCOTLAND supports the aims of the Strike: "Delighted to pass information/campaign reports to local groups and policy makers."

The Wages for Housework Campaign in Barcelona again co-ordinating the Strike in SPAIN. Core organizers include older, immigrant and lesbian women, housewives, domestic workers and mothers. Main Plaza San Jaime in Barcelona will be "occupied" from midday to midnight. They have again won resources from the Council to hold a press conference for grassroots women to speak out against overwork and poverty, have musical performances, theatre, food from different countries. And there will be a crèche! Demands include: welfare benefits for all women, including immigrant women, at the (higher) level of other European countries, and for the government to implement the 2000 law to measure & value unwaged work in national accounts. In Spanish an updated collection of men's statements and anti-war article from London lesbian magazine were part of their mailing. The local Federation of the CGT, one of three major trade unions, in Ubeda (Jaén) wants the 27-minute video of Strike 2000 (now with Spanish subtitles), the short video "Why go on Strike?", the radio jingle, and Red Jenn’s Strike song. They’re in touch with women in villages and towns. In the region Alcoia-Comtat y Muro women dressed up as Mothers of the Disappeared from Argentina, with placards demanding "Invest in Caring Not Killing" and pensions for their lifetime’s work. In Bilbao in the BASQUE COUNTRY the Feminist Collective LANBROA support Strike demands as in previous years. They’re calling a one-hour stoppage and demonstration, followed by a women’s meal. Other organizations supporting their demonstration including Izaera, Nerea del Servicio Municipal del Ayuntamiento de Gernika, and the CGT of Bilbao. Other Strike activities planned in the Canary Islands, Córdoba, Jaen, Sant Guim de Freixenet (Catalunya).

A woman is leafleting Stockholm University, SWEDEN, having translated the Strike leaflet.

A woman from Zurich, SWITZERLAND, sent us her version of the Strike leaflet in German. A man from the same group, FleXibles, "Society for the investigation of a new economic system," works with women and will help co-ordinate the Strike.

An education and human rights group in TANZANIA intend to organize on 8 March.

TRINIDAD National Union of Domestic Employees (NUDE) have put up a lovely Strike banner at their home/office until 8 March. They’ll get an article in the press. They plan an all-day celebration, inviting women to display all the work they do at home for no pay: knitting, sewing, floral arrangements, etc. They will hang up brooms and mops and host a speakout. MPs not invited – "grassroots women are taking the floor!"

UGANDA – Kaabong Women’s Group has sent fantastic statements from members saying how the Strike has changed their lives –husbands have given them land and animals since last year’s Strike when they won free hospital services for all! "We are demanding an end of World Wars, since billions of lives are lost especially innocent children and women . . . We want affordable and accessible housing, transport, protection from violence at home and outside . . . We have visited 100 parishes and more information has reached all the women’s groups in Karamoja and neighbouring districts. . . We have agreed to wear traditional dresses and carry a broom as symbolic sign to sweep the world clean and solve this local and international super crisis. We shall demonstrate to the world the achievements and commitments of Kaabong Women’s Group to the cause of the Global Women’s Strike." *** The Federation of Uganda Women Business Organisation Industry & Agriculture: "The war investment has left widows, orphans, poverty, street family, homelessness, famine, and politically, socially and economically raped. Globalisation is another syndrome to kill a worldly woman as it has no message for the poor woman in favour of the capitalists and giant multinational companies that women do not own. . . We shall make a demonstration of the war widows, orphans, disabilities persons of the war and girls." *** The Women’s Media Association want "information on this strike to prepare the ground."

UNITED STATES – Los Angeles – welfare mothers, grandmothers, immigrant women, lesbian women, women with disabilities as well as men supporters will take to the streets with puppets, street theatre, music, banners highlighting all the demands of the Strike to "call out the thieves" at the BankAmerica, welfare office, Housing Authority, Social Security office, Mexican Consulate, McDonald’s and a notorious police station. They will also press for a living wage and higher welfare benefits. The National Center for Lesbian Rights, Human Services Alliance, and LA Coalition to End Hunger and Homelessness endorse the Strike. A teacher striking on 8 March wants to show the Strike video to students so they know why she’ll be absent. 
New York The Global Sweatshops Coalition’s march on March 9 is a Strike event! Vamos a la Pena in the Bronx is also hosting a Strike event on March 9, from 3-8 pm with food, speakers and entertainment. We invite others to join a psychiatric abuse survivor in protest on 8 March outside Kings County G building where she was locked up, in a vigil in solidarity with the women inside. "I remember they gave us coffee mixed with tea ‘because some people like coffee & some people like tea’ - Free ALL women." 
Hudson Valley NY State Bard College Women’s Alliance will bring vanloads to Strike in D.C. "May have a feminist chorus to lead songs." 
Philadelphia Penn/Camden New Jersey: Women will be hopping aboard the Global Women's Strike Bus "following the money trail. Taking lead from sisters in Argentina, we will do pots-and-pans protests at bus stops, in front of banks, government and private welfare offices, defense contractors, politicians’ offices, etc." 
In San Francisco women will march and have cacerolazos from Welfare Dept to the Federal Building against war-mongering and corporate thievery. Mothers cut off welfare will speak out against the resulting violence and criminalisation. Women from the Immokalee farm workers, Florida, will also join them. They’ll carry brooms, a large puppet, paper dolls representing women’s double day, entertainment, songs and chants. *** 
In Utah – Jedi for Women (against welfare "reform") will be taking action. 
On 9 March Welfare Warriors is organising a Photo Bus Tour through Wisconsin to expose the relationship between poor moms forced by welfare "reform" to take any job, anywhere, at any wage, and the corporations which benefit.

URUGUAY – Viva La Revolucion translators working with the Strike again and this year will hold their own event!

COUNTRY UNKNOWN – "I run the campaign which asks that military resources be converted to human needs. I will advertise your Strike."

Payday network of men is co-ordinating men’s support globally including from men who are immigrant, gay, with disabilities . . . Men invited to add support statements to those from 18 countries so far. Some men helping with computers/ technical work, translation, videoing, transport, food preparation, childcare. . . Information on organising collective childcare and on men refusing to work for the military is on the web site: http://womenstrike8m.server101.com/English/menjoinwomen.htm

*** The 27 minute Strike video now has sub-titles in Spanish! Contact us now for your copy***