Wages for Housework Campaign
Press release: Wages for Housework film All Work and No Pay at Tate Exhibition Women in Revolt.
The Wages for Housework film All Work and No Pay is part of the major Tate Britain exhibition Women in Revolt which opens tomorrow 8 November 2022 and runs until April 2024. The film was made by the Wages for Housework Campaign (WFH) with the BBC community access unit Open Door in 1975. It provided…
Read More40 Years After Sex Workers Took Over an English Church, the Fight for Justice Picks Up in San Francisco
Published in The San Francisco Standard 10 December. In 1917, hundreds of San Francisco sex workers confronted a Tenderloin church pastor for trying to chase them out of town with his sermons, effectively giving him a crash course on their inability to survive economically. That direct action laid the groundwork for sex workers in France, Canada and…
Read MorePanel Discussion with Films screened at St. Francis Lutheran Church, in collaboration with US Pros and Global Womens Strike to commemorate International Day to end Violence against Sex Workers
Nadja News: Ten times women’s unpaid care work was recognised in history.
Cooking, cleaning, gathering food and water, and caring for children and the elderly are vital for families and societies. Yet this work, performed by women 75% of the time, has seldom been given the recognition it deserves, creating huge inequality around the world. Here are ten times unpaid care work has been recognised for what it…
Read MoreUpcoming Event : Resistance Exhibition – Day of Workshops and Talks – Saturday 12 November.
Event organised by Stonehenge Heritage Action Group, Global Women’s Strike and Resistance Exhibition Address : Black Door, Soho Studios, 17-19 Archer Street, London, W1D 7, United Kingdom. ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐: ๐๐๐: ๐ฎ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐พ๐๐๐๐’๐ ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐: ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ถ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐จ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐.๐๐๐๐: ‘๐ฒ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐’ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ช๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐พ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐: ๐น๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐น๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐! ๐ท๐๐๐๐ ๐ซ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ fellow ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐๐๐ค๐๐ซ๐ฌ: ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ก:…
Read MoreIslington Tribute: Itโs 50 years since the Wages for Housework campaign was launched. Angela Cobbinah asks how far it has come
Waging war Itโs 50 years since the Wages for Housework campaign was launched. Angela Cobbinah asks how far it has come Thursday, 11th August โ By Angela Cobbinah Womenโs Centre premises in Kingโs Cross in the 1970s IT is some time in the mid-1970s and a pensioner is stopped in a London street by a BBC…
Read MoreFri 22 & 29 July: Brazil & Venezuela films
Celebrate Wages for Housework’s 50th anniversary with three great films at Crossroads Women’s Centre London!
Read MoreWages for Housework: 50 years of campaigning โ The Global Women’s Strike experience event
The Global Womenโs Strike ExperienceโPart 1 When: Saturday 28 May, 2-4pm, in person Where: Bishopsgate Institute, London EC2M 4QH Speakers: CRISSIE AMISS, UK: Global Women Against Deportation (GWAD), Women Against Rape, Women of Colour Global Womenโs Strike (GWS) CHARLOTTE LEE, Singapore/UK: International Prostitutes Collective, GWS LIZ HILTON, Australia/Thailand: Empower, Community Women Human Rights Defenders Collective,…
Read MoreArchitectural Review magazine looks at collective action and references Crossroads Women…
The Collective Body by Lola Olufemi. https://www.architectural-review.com/magazines/ar-1489
Read MoreSpecial offer on these brilliant books via the Crossroads online bookshop.
www.crossroadsbooksonline.net OUR TIME IS NOW: Sex, Race, Class, and Caring for People and Planet. A Selection of Writings by Selma James: From Wages for Housework to a Care Income (1977-2020), Introduction Margaret Prescod, Editor Nina Lopez.ย PM Press, 2021. ย ยฃ13.00 โSelma James is a force of nature in the flesh and on the page. She…
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