Global Women’s Strike
8 March: picket Royal Courts of Justice 12-2 pm
WHAT IS THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S STRIKE? ● The first Global Women’s Strike (coordinated by the Wages for Housework Campaign – WFH) was called for 8 March 2000, inspired by the 1975 Iceland women’s Day Off and a strike call by women in Ireland ● In 2016 women in Poland stopped work against anti-abortion laws ●…
Read MorePlease sign: Unison petition to repeal two child limit to Universal Credit +Tax Credits
Dear Friends Please sign, and circulate the Petition to the UK Government and Parliament: Repeal the two child limit to Tax Credits and Universal Credit http://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/233887 Tweet from Unison, 11 Jan 2019 http://twitter.com/unisontweets/status/1083665095304101888 UNISON – the union @unisontweets The decision not to extend the 2 child limit to families that had their third child before 6…
Read MoreThur 21 Feb: Another kind of Question Time w Leanne Wood & Natalie Bennett
Another kind of Question Time We welcome to London who will be joined by LEANNE WOODformer leader of Plaid Cymru (Party of Wales) NATALIE BENNETTformer leader of the Green Party Chaired by Selma James 7-9 pm Thursday 21 February Crossroads Women’s…
Read MoreScreening Mangrove 9 film, Sat 2 Feb
Save the date! – Saturday 2 Feb 2019 Film screening: How the Mangrove 9 Won Altheia Jones-LeCointe, defendant and point of reference for the Black Panther Movement (UK) which organised the defence. Ian Macdonald, now QC, then key barrister of the defence team. Key participants describe the successful trial and community organising which spearheaded the…
Read MoreKevan Thakrar – 8 years in solitary confinement! Send season’s greeting and Write to your MP
From Payday Men’s Network working with the Global Women’s Strike Emergency Alert! Kevan Thakrar in Solitary Confinement for 8 years in the UK Please send him a holiday card and write to your MP! Dear friends, Kevan Thakrar has been in solitary confinement in UK prisons for more than eight years. The UN has called for…
Read MoreFrance: Mothers denounce police brutality
Since 17 November, there’s been widespread street protests and road blocks all over France by the ‘gilets jaunes’ (named after the hi-vis yellow vests they wear). They were sparked off by an increase in the tax on petrol while the rich had had a tax cut. The movement has grown and broadened its demands…
Read MoreStatement from a Yellow Vests group in France
As you know there has been widespread street protests all over France in the last few weeks. It started against an increase in the tax on petrol while the rich had had a tax cut. The protests have grown and broadened their demands, and many sectors including students, ambulance workers, campaigners against police murders and…
Read More11 Dec: Protecting Breastfeeding from state intervention
From Legal Action for Women: Dear Friends, Protecting breastfeeding from State intervention (family courts, detention centres, hospitals, prisons, etc.) We thought you would like to know about an important meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Infant Feeding & Inequalities on Tuesday 11 December 2018. See agenda here. Solveig Francis and Shoda Rackal from…
Read MoreInternational Women’s Strike 2019 – “Stop the world and change it”
International Women’s Strike planning meeting Tues 20 Nov, 6pm
Come to a planning meeting for the International Women’s Strike (IWS: 8 March 2019) 6pm, Tuesday 20 November 2018 Liz Hilton (EMPOWER-Thailand) is in London for a few days. So we are meeting now to benefit from Thai women’s struggle and especially their mass movement of sex workers. Also, Liz, Selma James and Nina Lopez (Global…
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