Women's Strike Organising Mtg (LND)

Organising Meeting for Women's Strike Assembly London

1. Report back - update on pledges to strike, endorsements, outreach, public events, international
2. Break into Working Groups:
i) Media and communication,
ii) Universities,
iii) Base Unions
iv) Activating Parents, mothers and Carers
3. On the Day - 1pm Russell Square, Actions, 7pm Soho

Next Organising Meeting 14th February 2018 - with drinks and red feminist horizon social after the meeting.

Cant make the meeting but want to be involved?

Distribute leaflets in your neighbourhood, workplace - leaflets are available at meetings, Common house and Mayday Rooms
Put up 10 posters in local cafes in their neighbourhood or one at work - posters will be available by 2 Feb.
Put stickers everywhere - on the streets, in the toilets
Write a #whyistrike post - can be short, long or a poem - about why they are going on strike and post it on social media using #westrike #womenstrike #8M (and send it us so we can add it to our feed

We are open to people of any gender attending the meeting but the strike will led by and prioritise the voices of women and non-binary people. We are trans and sex worker inclusive. We respectfully suggest that men avoid dominating discussion and that they also volunteer for tasks which are traditionally done by women e.g. cooking, cleaning, care.

The meeting will be kid friendly - we will organise care and food for everyone

——> call to action

#westrike
On 8 March women across the world are going on strike. This is a call to action for women in the UK to join the strike. We will refuse to work. We will be on the streets. We will shut things down and disrupt business as usual.

#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
The Women’s Strike is an international strike being planned and organised by and for women in over 56 countries. On 8 March 2018 we will refuse to work. We will walk out of our kitchens, universities, brothels, schools, bedrooms, factories, hospitals and offices. We will strike from all the work we do, whether it is paid or unpaid. We are on strike against the decades of neoliberal policies directed towards women working inside and outside of the home.

#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.
info@womenstrike.org.uk
www.womenstrike.org
Instagram - womenstrike.uk