Films made / co produced by Wages for Housework / Global Womens Strike
Our Time Is Coming Now, 1970: Selma James explores the beginnings of the women's liberation movement in Britain of 1970. For the last half-century she has continued leading its search for equality and justice.
All Work and No Pay, 1976: Made by the Wages for Housework Campaign with the BBC TV's Open Door series, 1976. Features the Iceland women's general strike of 1975, when full-time housewives and women working outside the home took to the streets together; women's music and protest; women sex workers in London to factory work in Ceylon; women organizing in Northern Ireland; domestic violence survivors exchanging experiences with other women including a Black nurse and a lesbian woman.
Venezuela: Journey with the Revolution, 2006: Seventy-two women and men from five continents who are members of the Global Woman’s Strike – a grassroots network which campaigns to change economic priorities, to “invest in caring not killing” – take a journey into the heart of the revolution in Venezuela. They meet the midwives, nurses, doctors, housewives, teachers, gay and disability activists who are transforming Venezuela, and visit the services they run – health clinics, soup kitchens, land committees, education and micro-credit programmes. We see how they are transforming a revolution from the bottom up. The excitement of the revolution is contagious. If you want to find out what a revolution, this is the film for you. Features President Hugo Chávez, ‘the president of the poor’, and Nora Castañeda, President of the Women’s Development Bank, Sharmini Peries, Adviser to President Chávez on International Relations. Directed by Finn Arden & Nina Lopez. A Global Women’s Strike Production.