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Press round-up: International Women’s Day, 2021
The Senate Just Took a Baby Step Toward the Feminist Goal of a Universal Child Benefit It is extraordinary that those who reproduce the human race are still unsupported and impoverished for this fundamental biological and societal work. Unwaged, in a world dominated by money. Selma James, founder of the socialist feminist Wages for Housework…
Read MoreMarch 18 National Welfare Rights Union Truth Commission – Poverty in All Its Forms is Violence
Register now for the Truth Commission: Poverty in all its forms is violence: Caregivers victimized by poverty speak out! (online). Thursday March 18 from 7-8:30pm (US Eastern Time). Convened by National Welfare Rights Union (NWRU). Testifiers include Global Women’s Strike Benefits Working Group members. Registration link:https://actionnetwork.org/events/truth-commission-poverty-in-all-its-forms-is-violence-caregivers-victimized-by-poverty-speak-out
Read MoreJacobin: The Senate Just Took a Baby Step Toward the Feminist Goal of a Universal Child Benefit
BY LIZA FEATHERSTONE On International Women’s Day, the good news is that the new COVID-19 relief bill will include a kind-of, sort-of universal child benefit — a policy that feminists have long called for. But the overly complicated, burdensome way the policy is implemented means that on this issue, the Left still has its work…
Read MoreEvent: Selma James speaking “Food Poverty Is A Feminist Issue”
Join us for a rally broadcasting live on our Facebook page with Welsh and international speakers including: SELMA JAMES Founder, International Wages for Housework Campaign in 1972. Author, The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community & Sex, Race, and Class – the Perspective of Winning. REBECCA BODEN Tampere University, Finland. For over…
Read MoreStatement: International Women’s Day 2021
Global Women’s Strike & Women of Colour GWS – International Women’s Day 2021 CARING for PEOPLE and PLANET Against POVERTY and DICTATORSHIP Women (and men) in a number of countries are calling for a Care Income Now!, an income for all those – beginning with women, the first carers everywhere, and extending to all genders…
Read MoreEvent: Giacomo D’Alisa on Care Income & Degrowth
Mon, 8 March 2021 16:00 – 17:30 GMT Location: Online Event The Care Income Campaign is an international grassroots network demanding payment for care for others and environmental stewardship About this Event The Care Income Campaign is an international grassroots network demanding payment and recognition of housework, care for others and environmental stewardship. Its history…
Read MoreStatement: The Community Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs) Collective in Thailand statement on International Women’s Day
We demand an end to State Violence and for a new government – the government we all deserve. The Community Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs) Collective in Thailand statement on International Women’s Day Over one hundred years ago when women in Russia, and in the US took to the streets, giving birth to International Women’s…
Read MoreCNJ: We will be honouring mothers, as care-givers, on International Women’s Day
04 March, 2021 • ON March 8 International Women’s Day, despite the pandemic, women are involved in many life-changing struggles around the world. In Haiti, Myanmar and Thailand millions risk their lives protesting the dictatorships. In India millions are protesting laws which would put all farmland in the hands of multinationals, including Monsanto and its…
Read MoreEvent: Selma James speaking at Wages for Housework symposium
Dear friends, Please see below the e-poster for the Symposium “Debates For And Against Wages For Housework”, being held on-line, 4-6 March. Selma will be speaking on Saturday 6 March, 9-11am UK time (14.30-16.30 IST).Registration link is here. Details of the full programme for the three days are in the attached pdf. Please share and…
Read MoreEvent: Remembering Berta Cáceres, 8 March
Dear friends, We are forwarding information (below) about an 8 March International Women’s Day event 3-4.30pm (UK time) in memory of Berta Cáceres. Her daughter Bertha Zuñiga Cáceres will be speaking. Please share and circulate with your networks, thank you. Global Women’s Strike This International Women’s Day we remember Berta Cáceres, Indigenous leader and environmental…
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