Archive for June 2020
Morning Star: ‘Juneteenth’ is our Freedom Day
SARA CALLAWAY AND CRISSIE AMIS FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2020 Today we will celebrate the anniversary of our emancipation from slavery by joining the Poor People’s Campaign Digital Gathering, write SARA CALLAWAY and CRISSIE AMIS Coinciding with the anniversary of emanciptaion in the US, a remarkable wave of protests for racial equality has swept the globe…
Read MoreEvent: Sat 20 June join Poor People’s Campaign virtual march
The Global Women’s Strike & Payday networks are joining the Poor People’s Campaign virtual march on Washington this Saturday 20 June 2020. Wherever you are, join us! An unprecedented wave of protests for racial justice has swept the United States and the globe since the modern-day police lynching of George Floyd on 25 May. In…
Read MoreEvent: June 20: Poor People’s Campaign Digital Mass Gathering!
The Global Women’s Strike and Women of Color in the Global Women’s Strike are national partner organizations with the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. We urge you to join us for the Poor People’s Campaign June 20th Digital Gathering. In the context of uprisings across the country against police killings of…
Read MoreStatement: 56 Groups: Employers who breach OSH laws and expose workers to Covid-19 must be prosecuted
We, the 56 undersigned organizations, groups and trade unions are concerned about the lack of obvious enforcement and prosecution of employers, contractors, developers including Directors and CEOs when they violate laws meant to ensure worker safety and health, even during this Movement Control Order (MCO) where workers ought to be kept safe from Covid-19. No…
Read MoreMansi Vithlani: BLM LONDON PROTESTS
Guest Articles by Guest Writer – 12/06/2020 The Stories of those involved: Written by Greg Kennedy After the murder of George Floyd by four Minneapolis Police officers and countless other cases of racially motivated hate crimes across the US by citizens and police – the UK stood alongside the United States this weekend in a number of Black…
Read MoreWomen of Colour submission to Women and Equalities Committee inquiry into Coronavirus and the impact on people with protected characteristics
Women and Equalities Parliamentary Select Committee inquiry Unequal impact: Coronavirus (Covid 19) and impact on people with protected characteristics Submission by Women of Colour Global Women’s Strike* The coronavirus throws a harsh light on what communities of colour have been suffering and campaigning about for decades, holding a mirror up to stark and widespread inequalities. …
Read MoreCNJ: Death a massive wake-up call
Camden New Journal Letters Coverage of Mr Cardoso and other deaths in police custody, and CNJ’s marks of respect for anti-racist protest is appreciated. (Mother of student who died in custody: ‘Black men are dying for no reason’) Harrowing images of George Floyd’s torture and death by police kneeling on his neck have been a…
Read MoreStatement: Haiti’s Peasants Stand in Solidarity w US protesters
The Global Women’s Strike works with the Haiti Action Committee (HAC) in support of the grassroots movement for democracy in Haiti. HAC is distributing the important message below from Haitian peasant organizations who say: ‘We Stand In Solidarity to Demand an End to Police Terror’. Press Release fromPeasant Organizations in Haiti,Port-au-Prince May 31, 2020 Haiti…
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