Posts by Global Women's Strike
Selma James in Hunger Magazine
Selma James in Hunger Magazine “READ THE MOST INSPIRING QUOTES FROM THE WOMEN OF HUNGER 14” “In the recent months what has happened is that women in prominent positions have complained about what they suffer, and that has been very useful. It can be even more useful when they include the rest of us in…
Read MoreEqual Pay article by Selma James for What Women Want report
WHAT WOMEN WANT 2.0 EQUAL PAY: SELMA JAMES Co-ordinator of the Global Women’s Strike and author of Sex, Race & Class – The Perspective of Winning “[I want] wages for housework. Equal pay. Safety from violence and bullying.” Equal pay was a defining theme in the responses to the What Women Want 2.0 survey, showing…
Read MoreInvisibility would undermine carers’ struggle for equity
Abolishing the Constitution’s recognition of caring work done within the family would be a disservice to those doing this work Fri, Jul 13, 2018, 05:11Maggie Ronayne4 Family Carers Ireland estimates there are 200,000 family carers, but the means-tested carer’s allowance is only €214 per week for caring for one person. Photograph: Getty ImagesShare to FacebookShare…
Read MoreSelma James discusses Julius Nyerere’s Tanzania
8 March: Protest Unilever, disinvest from Myanmar!
8 March 2018 International Women’s Day 5-6pm PROTEST outside UNILEVER HQ UNILEVER House, 100 Victoria Embankment, London EC4Y 0DY Why UNILEVER? UNILEVER claims to embody principles that respect the dignity and rights of women and girls, especially in the marketing of Dove products. UNILEVER has been so successful in this that the company holds the…
Read More8 March: Family Courts on Trial – speak out outside Parliament
PRESS RELEASE 8 March 2018: International Women’s Day Speak out: FAMILY COURTS ON TRIAL 12-2pm, Old Palace Yard, Westminster All Welcome On the centenary of (some) women’s suffrage, mothers, grandmothers and women’s organisations will expose and protest the devaluing of mothers and the unwarranted rise in children being taken into care and adopted against the wishes of…
Read MoreInternational Women’s Day events 2018
UK Wednesday 7 March 2018 17:00 – 20:45 What Women Want 2.0 Report Launch London: Attlee Suite, Portcullis House, 1 Parliament Street, Westminster, London SW1A 2JR Selma James and others will speak about their chapter in the report. More info here. International Women’s Day Thursday 8 March 2018, 12-2pm Family Courts on Trial London: Old…
Read MoreNGO crimes go far beyond Oxfam
We were so incensed by the way the scandal of Oxfam was being presented, and how the issue of the money collected and whether it reached people was not mentioned, that some of us wrote this letter to The Guardian. It gave us a chance to focus public attention on the way that Haitians in…
Read MoreStatement: Thailand – We Walk: freedom of assembly wins, and the courts affirm their rights!
Freedom of Assembly Wins, and the Courts affirmed their rights –’We Walk…Friendship/Solidarity’ The people of Thailand inspire us into action to struggle and further promote our rightsand freedoms…People themselves need to act – time for dependency on politicians and political parties must end… The ‘We Walk…Friendship/Solidarity’ of the ordinary people of Thailand has concluded today(17/2/2018).…
Read MoreMedia statement – Thailand must respect and promote human rights, end harassment and suppression of rights of “We Walk…Solidarity/Friendship” participants and supporters.
Dear Editor, Please find enclosed a Joint Media Statement by 52organisations, trade unions and groups, and also two individuals, from many countries including UK, US, Canada, Indonesia, Malaysia, Netherlands, Myanmar and Bangladesh entitled, THAILAND MUST RESPECT AND PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS, AND END HARASSMENT AND SUPPRESSION OF RIGHTS OF “WE WALK…SOLIDARITY/FRIENDSHIP” PARTICIPANTS AND SUPPORTERS. Revoke summons…
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