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Join us at these events today for International Women’s Day 2023
Tell Congress to Support Regenerative Agriculture! Farmers rally in DC March 6-8
Please join us in signing the petition linked below and in other ways supporting this important initiative by Farmers for Climate Action and Regenerate America. The Global Women’s Strike and Payday will be joining the DC rally under the banner of “A Guaranteed Care Income for People and Planet”. The rally and march are on…
Read MoreAn open letter from the mothers of the Russian Federation
An open letter from the mothers of the Russian Federation Please read this important anti-war letter from Russian mothers. The letter was issued on Mothers’ Day, November 2022, but it only recently came into our hands. We don’t know the risk the mothers had to take to write and circulate this letter, but they took…
Read More8 March: Andhra Pradesh Natural Farming comes to Kentish Town!
A Global Women’s Strike event for International Women’s Day 2023 Andhra Pradesh Natural Farming comes to Kentish Town! Wednesday 8 March, 5-7pm Kentish Town Library, 262-266 Kentish Town Road,London NW5 2AA ALL WELCOME SOLVEIG FRANCIS, based at Crossroads Women’s Centre, will report on her recent visit to the growing women-led farmers’ movement in Andhra Pradesh…
Read MoreAlabama: Power to prisoners & supporters on both sides of the wall
Dear friends, We wanted you to see our letter of support (below) sent by Payday and other organizations in the Global Women’s Strike network to the prisoners’ movement against slavery and cruel and unusual punishment in the US state of Alabama. The Alabama prisoners’ strike lasted almost a month last fall despite constant harassment and retaliation…
Read MoreVideo: GWS speaking to mark the second anniversary of the military coup in Myanmar
Event: Selma James speaking at “Public Access Television, the Community Programme Unit and the BBC”
2-6pm Saturday 25 March 2023 Bishopsgate Institute 230 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4QH Public Access Television – the Community Programme Unit Panelists include Selma James of the International Wages for Housework Campaign/Global Women’s Strike It was the new Wages for Housework Campaign Selma had founded (1972) which brought women together to put All Work and No…
Read MoreJoin us to mark the second anniversary of the military coup in Myanmar
To mark the second anniversary of the military coup in Myanmar, GWS and No Sweat as part of the Myanmar Military: Never in Fashion campaign we co-ordinate, are joining the demonstration in London on Wednesday 1 February against the killings, rape and torture committed by the military since the coup. Myanmar Military: Never in Fashion…
Read MorePeru: joint statement against the coup
Joint statement issued on 30 December 2022 by grassroots organizations and trade unions in Peru, including Huelga Mundial de Mujeres/Global Women’s Strike, condemning the coup and the horrendous repression against protestors. The government declared a state of emergency and suspended all rights and guarantees, allowing the police and military to kill with impunity. The resistance…
Read MoreSelma James in the Guardian: For peace in Haiti, first win the war on hunger
Your article on the Haiti crisis omits mention of the only Haitian government that people voted in by a landslide – twice. Headed by the former liberation theology priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti’s first democratically elected president, it uniquely focused on tackling poverty, supporting small farmers, building schools and hospitals, increasing the minimum wage and demanding justice…
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