International Women’s Day planning meeting

We are inviting people of all genders to this meeting to develop our plans for a strong mobilisation on International Women’s Day on Friday March 8th.

Please come along to the meeting if you possibly can, and if you can’t make it be sure to message us so we can keep you up to speed and talk about how you can get involved. Also, please share and like the Event and our Page Leeds Women’s Strike Assembly.

We are organising in solidarity with all those locally as well as across the globe who are struggling for decent incomes, housing, reproductive rights, healthcare and childcare provision; freedom from physical, sexual and emotional violence and abuse, from homophobia and transphobia, from the violence of detentions and deportations, against the rise of right-wing reaction, racism and fascism, and against the escalating destruction of the natural resources we need for our survival.

On March 8th we will be calling a lunch-time walk-out and mobilisation, led by women and non-binary people but for people of all genders to participate in solidarity, to whatever extent and in whatever way they can. Later in the day we are calling a “Women’s Strike Assembly” – a gathering for women and non-binary people to share experiences, explore priorities and create strategies for the future – because Women’s Strike is not (just) a one-off “event”, but a movement to grow and develop, guided by the circumstances and challenges of those participating.

There is plenty of room for new ideas and strengthening up our plans for the day, and we will need loads of people of all genders to get involved with building, outreach, getting their own organisations involved and taking on tasks/bringing in others to take on tasks on the day. We need people who are involved in trade union activism and/or with any sort of community-based organising; people’s whose campaigns chime with our demands and aspirations; people who can spread the word/organise in their schools, colleges. universities, in their communities/neighbourhoods/children’s schools; who want to make a practical contribution to unpicking the gendering of care and reproductive labour – especially of course men to commit to childcare and food preparation on the day.