HOW YOU CAN TAKE ACTION

In 2000, 2001 and 2002, those of us who live in villages and provincial towns sent in our news so that those of us in cities (sometimes in other countries) could circulate them via e-mail or fax, ensuring that no one is deprived of access to the media. We hope that Strike reports, including on the website, will spark ideas of what you can do and achieve.

  1. Visit our website regularly. It will be packed with updated information in different languages. If you have a website, link it to ours. Send your news as you make it.
  2. Send us your own ‘Striking Statement’ about why you are going on Strike.
  3. Distribute leaflets to neighbours and family, at your school, college, community group, nursery, laundry, shopping centre, hospital, doctor's surgery . . .
  4. Ask people you know to translate the Strike leaflet into your language and send us the translation so we can circulate it and put it on our webpage.
  5. Attend Strike meetings where there is a Strike group (get in touch for the address nearest you) or advertise, including to friends, to form one.
  6. Publicise the Strike and its demands by contacting newspapers, newsletters, journals and other publications. Write or call local press, radio and TV, especially women's or community programmes, tell them why you are planning to go on strike (use our model letter). Don't forget there is a great 3-minute video about why to go on Strike (available in English or Spanish), a jingle and a song which your local radio or TV may be interested in broadcasting.
  7. Make a Global Women's Strike banner to bring to demonstrations and events.
  8. Pass a resolution supporting the Strike in your trade union, student union or other organisation.
  9. Mount an exhibition on the work that women do. Your library or community centre may be ready to help and to display it. Please send us your photos, drawings, collages, poems, media coverage . . .
  1. Begin to organise an event in your community, workplace, place of worship or trade union. You can suggest that on 8 March women and girls:
  • stop work for an hour, 10 minutes . . . however long you can manage;
  • put a broom outside the front door or window to make your support visible;
  • hold a speakout to talk about your work, your lives, your demands;
  • show the exciting 27-minute video of the 1st Global Women’s Strike;
  • get churches to ring their bells in recognition of women's contribution to society;
  • march to a significant location or hold a picket;
  • ask local or national politicians to hear your grievances and demands.
  1. Raise money to cover the expenses of organising the Strike. We’re not funded.
  2. Tell the men you know that Payday is co-ordinating men's support for the Strike and to contact them (see below).

Please don't forget to send us e-mail addresses wherever possible, as this is now the cheapest AND FASTEST way to communicate.

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