Posts by Global Women's Strike
Hookers in the House of the Lord: The Reunion, 21 October 2022.
This autumn marks 40 years since the English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) occupied the Church of the Holy Cross in the red-light area of King’s Cross, London, for 12 days to protest “police illegality and racism” against sex workers. Tickets for our event below were snapped up before we had a chance to publicise it!…
Read MoreFuel Poverty Action: Energy for all petition. Join us today on Downing Street at 1pm.
#EnergyForAll means giving everyone a free amount of energy – that is enough energy, free, to cover the basics like heating, cooking, and lighting – to give us all the security we need, taking account of people’s actual needs related to their age, health, and housing. They already have over 600,000 signatures demanding a universal basic energy guarantee. A number of…
Read MoreFracking Rears Its Head Again. We are talking to The Nanas Against Fracking, Lincolnshire.
Following the horrendous government decision to lift the ban on fracking forshale gas in the UK, Nanas against Fracking sent us the October 2022 FrackFree Lancashire Newsletter which we thought you might want to see –please see attached. And one of the founding Nanas, Tina, wrote thisOpinion piece for the Guardian – see below also…
Read MoreFree Assange Human Chain: Surround Parliament on Saturday 8 October.
A number of us will participate in this action in defense of Julian Assange organised by the Don’t Extradite Assange Campaign on Saturday 8 October. See their mailing below. Hope you can join us there. Will you be the next link in our Human Chain to Free Assange? We have 3549 links out of an…
Read MoreStatement: White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, 28 Sept 2022
Statement from the Global Women’s Strike, Women of Color/GWS and Care Income Now! To reach President Biden’s goal of ending hunger by 2030, the poverty of mothers, other primary caregivers and those caring for the land must be eliminated. We call for an expanded fully-refundable Child Tax Credit paid monthly and directly to mothers/ primary…
Read MoreMothers and other Caregivers Say, Our Children Are Hungry – Reinstate the Child Tax Credit Now!
Studies show that the majority of families used the Child Tax Credit to buy food. Reinstating the expanded refundable Child Tax Credit is needed to end hunger: Prioritize it!
As the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health convenes tomorrow – the first such conference in over 50 years – and as President Biden has pledged to end hunger and diet-related diseases by 2030, it’s urgent to call on elected officials to make reinstating the expanded Child Tax Credit a top priority.
Read MoreSelma James is speaking at the Anarchist Bookfair, London
16.30-17.30pm : Autonomy – Central to Organizing and Unity. UPCOMING EVENT : Selma James is speaking at the Whitechapel Gallery this weekend! Workshop with Q&A at the London Anarchist Bookfair Clore Creative Studio in the Whitechapel Gallery (close to the Bookfair) 77-82 Whitechapel High St, London E1 7QX. The Global Women’s Strike is also having…
Read MoreRace and Wrongful Convictions in the US, published by the National Registry of Exonerations.
Download the report here…
Read MoreIslington Tribute: It’s 50 years since the Wages for Housework campaign was launched. Angela Cobbinah asks how far it has come
Waging war It’s 50 years since the Wages for Housework campaign was launched. Angela Cobbinah asks how far it has come Thursday, 11th August — By Angela Cobbinah Women’s Centre premises in King’s Cross in the 1970s IT is some time in the mid-1970s and a pensioner is stopped in a London street by a BBC…
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