Statement: Urgent, endorse statement supporting We Walk..Solidarity in Thailand

27th January 2018

Dear Friends, We urgently ask your organisation/ group/ trade union to endorse this statement (below) supporting We Walk…Solidarity in Thailand and demanding that all charges against the peaceful walkers be immediately dropped. On 20/1/2018, 3 teams of 4 people, mostly women, began to separately walk from Bangkok to Khon Kaen, some 450 kilometres, a journey…

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ACTION ALERT Thailand: defend We Walk Solidarity from repression

21st January 2018

ACTION ALERT Thailand: defend We Walk Solidarity from repression Hundreds of people have started a 28-day walk from Bangkok to KhonKaen along the Friendship Road (Mitrparb) demanding the return of civil rights and public participation which were taken away three years ago by the military junta. Their peaceful march is facing repression. Act now to…

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PRESS RELEASE: Thailand: call to defend We Walk Solidarity marchers from repression

21st January 2018

PRESS RELEASE:Thailand: call to defend We Walk Solidarity marchers from repression Hundreds of people have started a 28-day walk from Bangkok to KhonKaen along the Friendship Road (Mitrparb) demanding the return of civil rights and public participation which were taken away three years ago by the military junta. Their peaceful march is facing repression and…

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Event: Dec 9 Haiti Benefit at the Omni, Oakland

4th December 2017

We hope everyone can come to the benefit concert for the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund — we have a great line up of musicians!  But if you can’t be there in person, you can still make a tax-deductible donation here  or send a check to fiscal sponsor Women in Dialogue, P.O. Box 14512, San Francisco,…

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Only the Rich are Unemployed

22nd November 2017

I’m so tired of hearing Tories brag about how unemployment has gone down dramatically. We must remind them that under slavery there was no unemployment at all (except for the Masters class). The difference between slavery and wage labour is, they may remember, the little matter of the employed getting wages. But the wages of…

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On the Centenary of Our Revolution Against the Russian Empire

7th November 2017

Today is the centenary of the Bolsheviks taking power.  We asked Giorgio Riva from Payday Men’s Network to write from memory some idea of what happened 100 years ago today.  (He is in Venice for his uncle’s funeral, and his books are not with him.) The attack on that revolution has been almost unanimous in…

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Letter: Protest against the attack on homeopathy by NHS England

19th October 2017

Camden New Journal 19 October, 2017 • NHS England is threatening to remove homeopathic and other complementary therapies and supplements from the list that doctors can prescribe. Anyone can send their objections directly to them www.engage.england.nhs.uk/consultation/items-routinely-prescribed/ Six million people in the UK, including the Queen, use homeopathy, and many more take supplements. To remove them from…

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Lori Nairne, Presente!

13th October 2017

I’m addicted to reading obituaries, especially of people I knew or know about. You find out important things about them that you could not imagine, and how people felt about them. But you also find out about the times in which they, we, lived, and can look again at how it was for us during…

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Press: Lori Nairne, Oct. 23, 1951-Aug. 19, 2017: She leaves love in her wake

5th September 2017

Lori Nairne, Oct. 23, 1951-Aug. 19, 2017: She leaves love in her wake September 5, 2017 A celebration of Lori Nairne’s life will be held at the Omni Collective – Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck in Oakland – on Tuesday, Sept. 5, at 2:30 p.m. Lori Nairne, women’s, queer rights and anti-racist campaigner, nurse and homeopath,…

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