Global Women’s Strike
Petition: Release organiser Nodeep Kaur from jail
We join Citizens for Justice & Peace in India to urge you to please sign this petition & share it widely Petition: Release Dalit Trade Union Activist Nodeep Kaur On 12 January, organiser and factory worker, Ms Kaur, with other Kundli Industrial Area factory workers, was participating in the farmers’ protest near the Singhu border…
Read MoreStatement: Remembering Maureen Colquhoun (1928-2021) with love and gratitude
The Wages for Housework Campaign, Queer Strike & the English Collective of Prostitutes For more information contact: 0207 482 2496 or gws@globalwomenstrike.net We were upset to hear of the passing of Maureen Colquhoun. Many of us who knew her and had worked with her really loved her. She had no airs and graces though she…
Read MoreCNJ: Child poverty is government policy
It’s time the crisis of mothers’ and children’s poverty and the climate crisis were prioritised 28 January, 2021 — By Selma James and Nina López MARCUS Rashford, called “leader of the opposition” for his campaign against child poverty, speaks of the suffering of his mother when she couldn’t afford food for him and his siblings…
Read MoreEndorsers to the Open Letter to Governments – A Care Income Now!
#MeToo Survivors, US ACT UP Philadelphia, US Action for women and Awakening in Rural Environment, Uganda AGHS legal aid cell, Pakistan Alexandria House, US All Africa Women’s Group (AAWG), UK Alliance for Global Justice, US ALTSEAN-Burma, Thailand ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), US Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and…
Read MoreMessage of support to Farmers in India on Republic Day
We send our solidarity to the millions of farmers, women and men, across India who are protesting against Modi’s horrendous farm laws. We know that 70% of agricultural workers in India are women and that these laws attack first of all women and girls, who are the primary caregivers in every country. Despite brutal police…
Read MoreMessage of support to Women Farmers Day, India
From: Care Income Now! A network coordinated by Global Women’s Strike and Women of Colour in GWS We stand in solidarity with the women farmers of India, whether they are farmers of small family holdings or farm labourers, who are demanding the scrapping of Modi’s three Farm Acts: The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion…
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 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 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…
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