On 8 March women across the world are going on strike. Below is the call to action for women in the UK to join the Women's Strike. We will refuse to work. We will be on the streets. We will shut things down and disrupt business as usual >> womenstrike.org.uk
Because the very idea of women going on strike from all the work (waged and unwaged) that we do is impossible - there will be collective food and childcare organised across London for the day.
The Women’s Strike will occur on International Women’s Day. We join a new international feminist movement, which has only grown in strength and determination since exploding onto the streets in recent years from Argentina to Poland, from Ireland to Mexico.
The Women’s Strike defies the idea that all women need to do is tell our stories and speak out. We are exhausted from telling the same story, over and over again. We need action.
To join the Women's Strike - come along to the following rallies and marches - kids welcome.
London: 1pm Russell Square
Birmingham: 12pm Victoria Square
Cardiff: 4.30pm Nye Bevan
Edinburgh: 6pm The Mound.
If you want to get involved in organising for the women’s strike or want to start your own strike assembly at your workplace or in your community, get in touch or come along to one of our events --> [email protected]
#WeStrike
For every woman who is sick to death of being sexually harassed and bullied at work.
For every woman who is hungry and unable to heat her house.
For every woman suffering because of benefit cuts or poverty wages.
For every woman who is expected to earn less than her male colleagues and then come home and start a second shift of cooking, cleaning and caring.
For every woman who is kept powerless by whore stigma.
For every woman of transgender experience who is subject to violence and whose womanhood is denied by the state, her doctor, her employers, and those around her.
For every woman who is told she is just going through a phase, that she’s too pretty to be a lesbian or too ugly to be straight and has endured homophobia, biophobia or queerphobia at home, at work and in the street.
For every woman who has worked herself to the bone to keep the national health and education systems functioning and yet has not received a pay rise in years.
For every woman who has suffered violence at the hands of partners, friends, colleagues or bosses and is not believed.
For every woman who faces violence at the hands of the state through immigration raids, mass incarceration and racist policing.
#westrike
Women’s work makes life possible. And for that work, we are rewarded with violence and exploitation in the streets, at work and at home. The recent #metoo campaign has exposed the daily reality of sexual harassment and violence that is at the centre of our labour exploitation. To add insult to injury, we’re told that our suffering is inevitable – even natural. We strike to reject that lie. We strike for a world where women can live free from violence and exploitation.
Nothing is external to the women’s movement.
We will strike and we will win.
#westrike to invent a time of our own where our desires and needs are the basis of a new form of life on earth.
Join us – we have a world to win.
The Women’s Strike UK is supported by:
Women’s Strike Assembly (London), Women’s Strike Assembly (Birmingham), Feminist Action Birmingham, Feminist Fightback, Precarious Workers Brigade, Plan C, The x:talk project, AntiUniversity, National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts, United Voices of the World, Pluto Press, IWGB, Action for Trans Health, Dartmouth Films, Novara Media, Zed Books, Red Pepper, London Latinxs, Housmans, Cleaners and Allied Independent Workers Union, Sisters Uncut East London, Eastside Projects Birmingham, Grand Union Gallery Birmingham, Autonomic Cooperative, IWW, …and growing!
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