Global Women's Strike
Global Women’s Strike is an international multiracial network campaigning for recognition and payment for all caring work for people and planet - a Care Income. It is co-ordinated by the International Wages for Housework Campaign and was launched by Selma James in 1972.
PRESS RELEASE: No to executions in Myanmar. Comprehensive economic sanctions now.
PRESS RELEASE…PRESS RELEASE…PRESS RELEASE NO TO EXECUTIONS IN MYANMARCOMPREHENSIVE ECONOMIC SANCTIONS NOW Myanmar Military: Never in Fashion campaign is distraught and outraged to hear about the executions of four political prisoners in Myanmar. Their murders add to the over 5,800 women children and men killed since the military coup In February 2021. These executions make…
Fri 22 & 29 July: Brazil & Venezuela films
Celebrate Wages for Housework’s 50th anniversary with three great films at Crossroads Women’s Centre London!
Screening Great Archive Films: Friday 8 July, 6pm at Crossroads Women’s Centre.
Our Time is Coming Now, 1971 : Selma James, a socialist and feminist uses her own experiences working in low paid jobs and being a mother and housewife as a starting point in this investigation into whether women are exploited in all areas of society. All Work and No Pay, 1976 : Made for Open…
Unwaged Caregivers join June 18th Poor People’s Campaign Mass Poor People’s & Low Wage Workers Assembly & Moral March on Washington DC
On June 18th mothers and other unwaged caregivers are joining with other poor, unwaged and low-waged workers and people of conscience to take part in the giant Poor People’s Campaign Mass Assembly in Washington, DC. Women and children make up 70% of impoverished people in the US. Though we are workers putting in long hours…
Selma James has been invited to speak at Refugee Week in Brighton & Hove Library
UK – Rwanda migration plan: What does it mean for the Refugee Convention? About this event: Activists, a thinker, and a newly arrived asylum seeker will address the questions, how does the UK in fact, treat forced migrants? Who really supports them? And what must be done? The United Kingdom is portrayed as one of…
PRESS RELEASE: Myanmar Military: Never in Fashion
PRESS RELEASE Guess, H&M, Next, Primark, Zara – no business as usual in Myanmar. On Saturday 11 June 2-3pm the campaign Myanmar Military: Never in Fashion will protest outside H&M, Zara and Primark on Oxford street to inform the public and urge the brands to cease all production in Myanmar to weaken the military…
Myanmar Military: Never in Fashion – Protest outside H&M, Zara and Primark
Stop doing business with murderous dictators! Protest outside H&M, Zara and Primark Saturday 11 June 2-3pm Oxford Street London Start at H&M, 250 Oxford St, London W1B 2ES, we will march to ZARA,215-219, Oxford St, London W1D 2LG and then Primark, 14-28 Oxford St, London W1D 1AU for a speak-out outside each shop. H&M,…
Thailand: People’s Movement versus laws which undermine freedom of association.
An open letter to The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) Cc Gita Sabharwal, United Nations Resident Coordinator in Thailand Dear Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, Executive Secretary of UNESCAP, We, the People’s Movement Against the Draft Laws that Undermine Freedom of Association, are writing to express our serious concerns regarding Thailand’s Draft Act on the Operations…
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,…