International Women's Day: A Day Without a Woman Rally/Strike

Riverside City Hall
3900 Main St
Riverside, CA 92501
United States
March 8, 2017,
11:30 am to 2:00 pm

Join women in at least 49 countries celebrate International Women's Day by attending our local sister rally in support of International Women's Day, A Day Without a Woman Strike. 

We will have live music starting at 11:30, featuring, "Wake the Bard" with the main program starting at noon, including amazing speakers talking about the challenges women face today, the struggles ahead and how to resist inequality in all forms in our society.

The strike is inclusive of all women and of all forms of work women do: women working in the formal labor market with or without labor rights, with or without unions and the legal right to strike, and with or without legal status; unemployed women; sex workers; women performing unpaid housework and care work; and students. For this reason, participation in the strike can take several forms:

1. Wherever it is possible, help the creation of a large women’s strike social coalition. 
2. Organize or participate in local marches, demonstrations and walkouts.
3. Organize or participate in picket lines and direct actions of civil disobedience. This can also be organized in support of already existing campaigns or labor negotiations or controversies, especially if involving working women.
4. Organize a strike in your workplace. If you have a union, get your union on board; if you don't, assess with your coworkers whether it is possible to organize a walkout without jeopardizing your job.
5. Organize a boycott of companies using sexism in their advertisements or approach to workers.
6. Organize a boycott of chosen local misogynists.
7. If you can, leave care and housework for the day and join your local demonstrations.
8. In case you can’t stop work, get your friends together who support the strike and wear or use the color red that day, for example, red clothes, or a red ribbon.
9. Strike from gender roles.