Media Coverage
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How to handle the Media:

Help publicise the Strike and its demands by contacting newspapers, newsletters, journals and other publications.

  • Call radio and TV stations (some have women's or community programes), tell them why you are planning to go on strike - you could use the news articles below as a model.
  • Don't forget there are Strike jingles in English and Spanish and song which your local radio may be interested in broadcasting (contact us to get a copy).
  • We also have a webcast and videos with footage from previous years Global Women's Strike, in English and Spanish

Media Coverage:

In 2002 women in many countries were very successful at getting media coverage. See country reports. Here is only some of the international media we got.  

The Weekly Gleaner 6-12 March
 African Voice, 1 March 2002
SchNEWS, Feb 2002
SchNEWS, Feb 2002
VOICE OF THE UNIONS, JUNE 2002: report of Arab & Jewish Women speak out against the holocaust in Palestine 		Voice of the Union, Feb 2002
Women's News, Ireland's Feminist Monthly, Feb 2002
 g3, November 2001, Wages due Lesbians against the war

Los Angeles Sentinel, 7 March 2002, L.A. Women to Join in 'Global Women's Strike' 
LA Times, 9 March 2002, Women's Day Protest

Radio shows which broadcast news of the Strike:

BBC World Service, Friday 8 March, 5-7am, London: 648MW
'The World Today' programme interviewed one of the co-ordinators of the Strike in London .

BBC World Service broadcast in the Caribbean Friday 8 March 
featured an interview with Selma James, also on BBC website.

DEMOCRACY NOW, hosted by distinguished progressive journalist Amy Goodman on the Pacifica Network, again featured the Global Women’s Strike for its March 8 program!  Live on-the-spot interviews with women in Strike actions in several countries. www.democracynow.org.

Media 2001

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