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On September 22 the day after the International Day of Peace, we are organising a Women鈥檚 Strike for Palestine. We welcome everyone to stand with us in this urgent call to action as we demand peace, liberation, and land back.
By striking the day after the International Day of Peace, we make it clear: peace is not a slogan while bombs fall, homes are destroyed, and people live under siege. Peace cannot exist without justice, without an end to occupation, without land back.
Palestinian women have always been at the heart of resistance. From the women鈥檚 committees of the First Intifada who organised mass boycotts and strikes, to today鈥檚 mothers, daughters, queer and trans Palestinians keeping communities alive under genocide, their struggle shows us that survival is resistance and resistance is life.
We stand in uncompromising solidarity with queer and trans people in Palestine, and with queer, trans, two-spirited, and sistergirl communities here on these stolen lands and across the world, who resist colonialism, heteropatriarchy, pinkwashing and state violence in all its forms. You are part of our community, we see you, we honour you, and we welcome you in our collective struggle. Our struggles are bound together, and none of us are free until all of us are free
Across history, women everywhere have withdrawn their labour to challenge exploitation, violence, and injustice:
* In Nigeria (1929), tens of thousands of Igbo women rose up in the 鈥淎ba Women鈥檚 War,鈥 refusing colonial taxation and shutting down colonial offices through mass protest, boycotts, and strikes.
* In Liberia (2003) women organised market shutdowns, sit-ins, and even a sex strike, forcing an end to years of civil war and pushing warring parties to the peace table.
Women鈥檚 strikes are not only about workplaces, they are about withdrawing care, labour, and consent from systems that depend on our survival while denying us dignity.
This September 22, we strike for Palestine. We strike for land back. We strike for liberation. We strike for peace rooted in justice.
Join us. Stand with us. Strike with us!