Posts by Global Women's Strike
ACTION ALERT Thailand: defend We Walk Solidarity from repression
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…
Read MorePRESS RELEASE: Thailand: call to defend We Walk Solidarity marchers from repression
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…
Read MoreEvent: Dec 9 Haiti Benefit at the Omni, Oakland
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,…
Read MoreOnly the Rich are Unemployed
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…
Read MoreOn the Centenary of Our Revolution Against the Russian Empire
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…
Read MoreLetter: Protest against the attack on homeopathy by NHS England
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…
Read MoreLori Nairne, Presente!
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…
Read MorePress: Lori Nairne, Oct. 23, 1951-Aug. 19, 2017: She leaves love in her wake
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,…
Read MoreStatement: Lori Nairne, Presente!
Many of you may have already heard the shocking, sudden and sad news that Lori Nairne has died. We are all devastated. We loved Lori; she was our dear campaign sister and friend. Lori was a dedicated and active member of the Wages for Housework Campaign (WFH) since 1973 when she first met Selma James.…
Read MoreTories – the Blue and the Red
Towards the end of a long interview with Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell on the Andrew Marr Show last Sunday 16 July (BBC One), he was yet again asked to take back his statement that people at Grenfell Tower were “murdered by political decisions”. The corporate media was so used to getting away with labelling social murder…
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