Posts by Global Women's Strike
Verso Books: “Real Theory Is in What You Do and How You Do It”
Selma James11 January 20210 comments Camila Valle interviews Selma James about feminism, anti-imperialism, and a lifetime of international Marxist organizing. Photograph by Eamonn McCabe, courtesy The Guardian Camila Valle: I wanted to start with what most people know as the heart of your work: the recognition of unpaid care work, disproportionately done by women. You actually coined…
Read MoreVideo: Rev. Barber Poor People’s Campaign sermon after coup attempt
Global Women’s Strike and Women of Colour in the Global Women’s Strike in the US are National partners of the Poor People’s Campaign. Watch here: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=398457971219525 “If you really want to do something, transform our politics from control by the corporations to CARING for the least of us. That’s what real repentance would look like.…
Read MoreBBC: Vanessa Bryant, her mother’s lawsuit and the value of childcare
By Ashitha NageshBBC NewsPublished2 days agoShare Vanessa Bryant, wife of the late basketball star Kobe Bryant, has found herself at the centre of a torrid domestic drama, within a year of the death of her husband and daughter. She is being sued by her mother. In the lawsuit Sofia Laine argues that she should be…
Read MoreHam & High: Camden civil rights activist Selma James remembers ‘crucial’ Mangrove 9 trial
Sam Volpe COMMENTS Published: 4:36 PM December 10, 2020 Updated: 3:25 PM December 15, 2020 A still from the BBC’s Small Axe episode about the trial of the Mangrove 9. Among the defendants was Altheia Jones-LeCointe, here played by Letitia Wright. – Credit: BBC/McQueen Limited/Kieron McCarron “What McQueen saw in it was what we experienced. it was a crucial…
Read MoreMorning Star: Campaigners demand end to ‘cruel and inhumane’ prison segregation units
CEREN SAGIR MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2020 CIVIL rights icon Angela Davis demanded that the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP) stop endorsing “cruel and inhumane” prison segregation units in a letter today. The letter from over 60 organisations and 200 campaigners was signed by Davis, journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, author Selma James, former chief inspector of prisons…
Read MoreEvent: Haitian Lives Matter – Week of Action 10-16 Dec 2020
Haitian Lives Matter!JOIN WEEK OF ACTION IN SUPPORT OF TODAY’S BLACK JACOBINS From 10 Dec (Intl Human Rights Day) to 16 Dec (30th anniversary of Haiti’s first democratically elected government) Today, Haitians are in revolt against a corrupt government backed by the US and other western powers. As the movement has grown, the…
Read MoreCNJ: Mangrove Nine: justice in the dock
REVIEWFILM To complement a Steve McQueen Small Axe film, an online account of the momentous trial can now be viewed, writes Bronwen Weatherby 04 December, 2020 — By Bronwen Weatherby Ian Macdonald, Altheia Jones-LeCointe and Selma James in How the Mangrove Nine Won A FIRST-HAND account of the momentous court case that saw nine black men and…
Read MoreIWRAW Asia Pacific: ‘Wages For Caring Work’: An Exploration Of The Care Income Campaign
In this interview, IWRAW Asia Pacific asks two activists based in Thailand about the concept of care income, its history in the women’s rights movement, and its role in building gender-just post-COVID-19 economies. Liz Hilton works with Empower Foundation, a sex-worker-led advocacy organisation in Chiang Mai, and Bee Pranom Somwong works at Protection Desk Thailand,…
Read MoreOPEN LETTER: Calling out Opportunists, Hijackers and police in the movement…
The massive Black Lives Matter movement with its timely and urgent demands to endsystemic racism is facing the threat of being diverted from its core demands. Attempts arebeing made to shift the focus onto manufactured issues that stereotype our communities, like“Black on Black” violence and knife/gang crime — code words for labelling young Blackpeople, often…
Read MoreCNJ: “Bill is a move towards a police state”
Camden New Journal 27 November, 2020 ‘This bill is a significant departure from natural justice and towards a police state.’ • TOM Foot’s November 19 report of the Undercover Policing Inquiry highlighted police surveillance in Camden. Women are giving evidence about abusive sexual relationships with police spies, and the Lawrence family about infiltration to discredit their justice…
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