Wages for Housework: 50 years of campaigning – The Global Women’s Strike experience event

The Global Women’s Strike Experience—Part 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 Women’s Strike (GWS) CHARLOTTE LEE, Singapore/UK: International Prostitutes Collective, GWS LIZ HILTON, Australia/Thailand: Empower, Community Women Human Rights Defenders Collective,…

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Special 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.  PM Press, 2021.  £13.00 “Selma James is a force of nature in the flesh and on the page. She…

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Video: Wages for Housework: 50 years of campaigning – Empowering Women: A Care Income for People and Planet

Watch the webinar here: https://www.facebook.com/GlobalWomensStrike/videos/389912809261517 Empowering caregivers is advanced as a strategy against poverty and for climate justice. This webinar showcases international efforts from the 1995 UN Beijing conference decision to measure and value unremunerated work in the home, on the land and in the community, to the Wages for Housework Campaign which spearheaded the…

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Novara Media: Correction request re Wages for Housework Campaign article

Dear Novara Media, Re https://novaramedia.com/2022/03/21/the-wages-for-housework-campaign-is-as-relevant-as-ever/ The article by Sophie Rosa, published on 21 March, grossly misinforms about the Wages for Housework Campaign which is celebrating 50 years of uninterrupted campaigning this year. It jumbles together academics past and present, avoiding the concrete struggles our international grassroots network has been making in the Global South and…

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