Letter of thanks from Margarett D’Arcy

Dochas Women’s PrisonMount JoyNC RoadDublin 7 (posted 25 Feb 2014) Dear Women, I am overwhelmed with your support and amazed with your energy, it is hard work when the State incarcerates women who are doing the work that the Irish State should be doing. Protecting our neutrality, bringing justice, affirming its devotion to the ideal…

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Petition: End poverty of mothers & children. Recognize caregiving work. Support the RISE Act and Reintroduction of the WORK Act.

 Jun 30 2013  Global Women’s Strike, Women of Color in the Global Women’s Strike, and Every Mother is a Working Mother Network #Gender Rights and IssuesTarget:US CongressRegion:United States of AmericaWebsite:everymothernetwork.net 21.6% of US children live in poverty, more than in any other major industrialized country. Mothers are the primary caregivers everywhere in the world, working…

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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…

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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…

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Protesting 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.…

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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…

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Coming 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…

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