Global Women’s Strike
How Can Women Defeat Austerity? Selma James talks at Maynooth.
Founder of the Wages for Housework campaign and coordinator of the Global Women’s Strike, Selma James brought a lifetime of movement experience to bear in this electrifying talk. Asked to speak to organisers’ needs in the current crisis, she spoke to a roomful of 30 activists and researchers passionately, clearly and incisively for an hour…
Read MoreDanny Glover supports Global Women’s Strike campaign for Haitian people
Protesting Operation “Hope and Recovery”
Refusing opportunism in our movement What is Operation “Hope & Recovery”? After the uprisings, a group appeared calling themselves “Black leaders”, led by Lee Jasper (Co Chair, BARAC) and staged a rally on 19 August 2011. Panel speakers were all men except Diane Abbott (who spoke and then left). Parents – code for single mothers…
Read MoreProtesting Operation “Hope & Recovery”: refusing opportunism in the movement
What is Operation “Hope & Recovery”? After the uprisings, a group appeared calling themselves “Blackleaders”, led by Lee Jasper (Co Chair, BARAC) and staged a rally on 19 August 2011. Panel speakers were all men except Diane Abbott (who spoke and then left). Parents – code for single mothers – were blamed for the riots.…
Read MoreMothers March 2011 photos
Mothers March leaflet
Date: Saturday, 12 March 2011 – 12:00pm – 4:00pm Location: London All welcome Assemble 12 noon: Trafalgar Square (north side) Speak-out 2pm: Room G2, SOAS, London Sign language interpreter School of Oriental & African Studies, Thornhaugh St, WC1H OXG For Everyone’s SURVIVAL & WELFARE End Cuts, Poverty & Discrimination Invest in caring not killing WOMEN, MEN, YOUNG, OLD BRING YOUR DEMANDS! French Italian Portuguese Russian Spanish Swedish Turkish Everywhere people…
Read MoreJourney with the Revolution, Galway Film Tour, 12 July
Film TourGalway Tuesday 6th March 7pmNational University of Ireland, Galway Tyndall Theatre Arts/Science Bldg
Read MoreComing to Galway, Photography Exhibition, 12-16th March.
The Global Women’s Strike invites you to an inspiring exhibition of 30 beautiful colour photos with captions by and about the lives of women participating in the Strike in many countries. Dublin Arts Block, University College Dublin, Mon 5th – Fri 9th March. Hosts: UCD Students’ Union. Coming to Galway: National University of Ireland, Galway…
Read MoreDemonstration in Dublin against a Shell pipeline in Co.Mayo Ireland, 24 February 2007
A rural community in the west of Ireland is fighting a group of companies led by Shell who are trying to build a life-threatening gas pipeline & polluting refinery in their area. There was about 850-1000 people at the demonstration. They were mainly from the Left, the Parties, trade unions, NGOs and a big contingent…
Read MoreNomination by Maggie Ronayne from Strike Ireland to the president of her university and the National University of Ireland
Dear President, I write to nominate President Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías for an honorary doctorate at the National University of Ireland, Galway. President Chávez is the head of State of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. He was first elected to this post in 1998 and has won eight elections and referendums since then. He has…
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