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.
Webinar – Myanmar military: never in fashion
On the eve of the 1st anniversary of the military coup in Myanmar, we will launch an international statement in support of a call from All Burma Federation of Trade Unions (ABFTU) and the Federation of General Workers Myanmar (FGWM), issued on 3 September 2021, for international brands to cease all production in Myanmar. The…
INDIA General Strike now 28 & 29 March called by rural & urban TUs!
Dear Friends, Heroic Indian farmers and farm workers fresh from their victory over Modi’s three hated farm laws, are once again mobilising. Central Trade Union together with Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), the coalition of protesting farmers unions, have called a General Strike across India on 23-24 February. We must do all we can to support…
Child Tax Credit Emergency Twitter Storm, Friday 14 Jan
URGENT ⚡ #ChildTaxCredit Twitter Storm ⚡ Friday January 14th 1-2PM ET, 10-11AM PT TAKE EMERGENCY ACTION TO PROTECT THE CHILD TAX CREDIT! For the past 6 months, the Child Tax Credit (CTC) has lifted millions of children out of poverty. Using present poverty measures it cut child poverty in half, decreased food insecurity by 1/3,…
Kenya: Judge Rules That Household Labor Is Still Labor—Here’s What That Means for Stay-at-Home Moms
Domestic duties fall largely on mothers who work hard to take care of families. Paying them what they’re worth would change the game. By A. Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez January 12, 2022 The work of motherhood is often invisible, and is rarely seen as the intensive full-time job that it is. Especially during the pandemic, mothers have had to navigate…
Caregivers Participated in Mass Direct Action with the Poor People’s Campaign to Push US Senate to Pass Build Back Better, including extending the Child Tax Credit
A delegation from the Global Women’s Strike (GWS), Women of Color in the Global Women’s Strike (WOC/GWS) and Payday men’s network joined the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival (PPC:NCMR) in doing mass non-violent civil disobedience in the nation’s capital on December 13 Moral Monday to press for passage in 2021 of the Build Back Better Act, and in particular for the continuation of the extended Child Tax Credit (CTC).
Morning Star: Victory to the Indian farmers’ protests!
Activists celebrated the triumph over the hated farms laws by gathering at the High Commission of India in London. DIDI ROSSI reports ON November 26 2021, the great Indian farmers’ protest celebrated its first anniversary and its first major victory. A few days before President Narendra Modi had announced he would repeal his hated farm…
Burma/Myanmar: Urgent Appeal for Donations
Dear sisters and friends, Burma/Myanmar: Urgent Appeal for Donations We wrote to you earlier this year to ask for your donations for the Karen Women’s Organization (KWO) in Burma/Myanmar, where people are risking their lives every day to oppose a military coup. Since the coup in February 2021, the military has killed over 1000 people,…
US Launch 11 Dec: Andaiye and Selma James, The Point is to Change the World & Our Time Is Now
Saturday, Dec 11, 2021 9am PST / Noon EST / 5pm GMT Register for online event Between the Lines Books in Toronto, City Lights Books in San Francisco, Eso Won Bookstore in Los Angeles, the Howard Zinn Book Fair, Marcus Books in Oakland, Pacifica Radio’s “Sojourner Truth”, Pacifica station WPFW in Washington DC, PM Press…
Women Human Rights Defenders Collective in Thailand statement on International Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs) Day
To the People of Thailand, Today, 29th of November is International Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs) Day, A Day to recognize women caring for and defending the rights of family, community and nature. Women who are fighting for a better life for everyone. Women in Thailand, especially mothers, have been pushed further into poverty from…
26 Nov: Endorsements for Indian Farmers protest anniversary
Dear Friends, Please see info about UK events in support of Indian Farmers: · 26 November demonstration at High Commission of India, London, WC2B 4NA 12-2pm. Contact: 020 7482 2496 · 26 November Birmingham & Sandwell Branch members are demonstrating 2.30pm at 346 Soho Road Handsworth, Shaheed Udham Singh Welfare Centre contact: Bhagwant Singh Mob…