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Creating a Caring Economy
Since 2002 the Strike has been working with the Venezuelan revolution, highlighting women's contribution and leadership, and disseminating what grassroots self-activity is winning for all of us

Video! Journey with the revolution
Meet the midwives, nurses, doctors, housewives, teachers, gay and disability activists, who are transforming Venezuela. Visit health clinics, soup kitchens, land committees, education and micro-credit programmes… The excitement of the revolution is contagious. If you want to find out what a revolution is, this is the film for you. Order here

Showing in August & September on Philadelphia TV

Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
Article 88
The State guarantees equality and equity between men and women in the exercise of their right to work. The State recognises work at home as an economic activity that creates added value and produces social welfare and wealth. Housewives are entitled to Social Security in accordance with the law.
Articles of the constitution are printed on milk cartons and food wrappings.

Article 88 and wages for caring work in three international meetings in Mexico and Venezuela

Letter regarding Venezuela Referendum Results

News from the Global Women’s Strike in Venezuela which is campaigning for the YES to Constitutional Reforms on 2 December

Noticias: El Pueblo se organiza para defender el Nuevo Canal

London: Venezuela Oil Deal will mean half-price bus travel for "130,000 carers on income support"

European Tour of Juanita Romero & Gastón Murat

Touring Europe with Venezuelan organisers Juanita Romero and Gastón Murat - what we learnt October 2006 was particularly exciting as we took two activists from Venezuela on a speaking tour of (in chronological order) London, Venice, Galway, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Barcelona and London again.

Neighbourhood Mothers Mission

Statement from women housewives workers in the home to President Chavez

The Women's Development Bank

Book for sale: Creating a Caring Economy - Nora Castañeda and the Women's Development Bank
The extraordinary Women’s Development Bank (Banmujer) is part of the process of revolutionizing Venezuela’s economy: promoting grassroots self-activity backed by the oil revenue.

Bringing the women’s revolution to Europe & US (Journal 2006)

European Tour of Nora Canstañeda and Angelica Alvarez
Invitation to participate in organizing a European tour for Nora Castañeda, President of the Women’s Development Bank (Banmujer), and Angelica Alvarez, co-ordinator of the Network of Users of Banmujer, in March 2005 (dates to be finalised).

News & Articles about Venezuela

A resounding victory for President Chávez and the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela!

To our compañeras/os in Venezuela on election day
Last Sunday we watched on Aló Presidente the huge crowd which filled the centre of Caracas in support of President Chávez. From the five continents in which we have co-ordinating organizations, we are with you during the presidential elections this Sunday... Full text

Chávez is a threat because he offers the alternative of a decent society
John Pilger, The Guardian 13 May 06

Chavez-style revolution speaks for all of us
letter from the Strike to The Voice newspaper, June 2006

John Pilger and Global Women’s Strike respond to British TV attack on Chavez and Bolivarian revolution March 2006

Hands Off Venezuela's Sexism against the Women of Venezuela March 2006

Welcome to President Chávez!
May 2006: President Chávez visits London

Photos: President Chávez spoke in Camden to an ecstatic audience, 14 May 2006

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Chavez honorary doctorate nomination:
Nomination by Maggie Ronayne from the Strike in Ireland to the President of her university and the National University of Ireland

A government based on the self-activity of the grassroots (Journal 2006)

Report-back on Venezuela and Haiti from the World Social Forum Caracas January 2006

Adjournment Debate on Venezuela: British MP credits women March 2006

Talking of Power - sex, race and class in revolutionary Venezuela

Venezuela, The Bolivarian Revolution: Enter the Oil Workers

Venezuela: a 21st Century Revolution

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The Milk of Human Kindness: Defending breastfeeding from the global market & the AIDS industry

Selma James

The Power of Women & the Subversion

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Sex, Race and Class
by Selma James

OAXACA:
Megamarch for Justice Teachers, students, housewives, Indigenous & rural communities marched in their hundreds of thousands demanding the removal of state governor Ulises Ruiz.

Journey with the revolution
Meet the midwives, nurses, doctors, housewives, teachers, gay and disability activists, who are transforming Venezuela.