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.
Indian Farmers & Central Trade Unions protest 26 June
Dear Friends, Please see: · Mailing below from Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research · Shadipur · New Delhi 110008 India. https://thetricontinental.org/ · Press release from the National Platform of Central Trade Unions “The CTUs to observe June 26th across the Nation In solidarity with Samyukta Kisan Morcha as a “Save Agriculture-Save Democracy” Day” · Kisan…
Unpaid Caregivers Participate in Child Tax Credit Awareness Day, and Press Policy Makers to Make the Child Tax Credit Permanent and Pay It to the Primary Caretaker
ISSUED BY: Care Income Now/US careincomenow@globalwomenstrike.net Care Income Now/US is participating in the Monday, June 21 Child Tax Credit (CTC) Awareness Day. Our multi-racial urban and rural network is releasing a letter calling on President Biden, Vice President Harris, elected officials, and the Treasury Department to make the credits a permanent child benefit payable by…
Press: ‘Juneteenth’ is our Freedom Day.
Today we will celebrate the anniversary of our emancipation from slavery by joining the Poor People’s Campaign Digital GatheringPress: ‘Juneteenth’ is our Freedom Day. JUNE 19 commemorates the date — Freedom Day — in 1865 when black people in Texas finally heard the Emancipation Proclamation issued two years earlier, which officially ended slavery in the…
Burma/Myanmar: Urgent Appeal for Donations
Dear sisters and friends, Burma/Myanmar: Urgent Appeal for Donations We are writing to ask you to support this appeal for money from the Karen Women’s Organisation (KWO) in Burma/Myanmar where people are risking their lives to oppose a military coup, which overthrew their democratically elected government. The military has killed more than 850 people and…
Event: Protest Royal College of Psychiatrists covering up abuse & solitary confinement in prisons
Where: 21 Prescot Street, London E1 8BB (Aldgate, Aldgate East, Tower Hill tube) When: Monday, 28 June 2021, 12.30–2pm Co-sponsored by Legal Action for Women (LAW) Payday men’s network, Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association (JENGbA), Women of Colour Global Women’s Strike, Community Action on Prison Expansion (CAPE), Fight Racism Fight Imperialism (FRFI), Prisoner Solidarity…
India: Farmers to observe ‘Total Revolution Day’ on 5th June
Please see press statement below from the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), the umbrella body of over 40 farmers’ unions, India. Farmers and farm labourers, women and men, supported by people all over India, and internationally, are intensifying their campaign, demanding the repeal of Modi’s repressive and hated three Farm Laws. See our supporting statement 26thMay…
Farmers Unions call for protests across all India
Update from Global Women’s Strike (GWS) Women of Colour GWS and Payday men’s network, (which include farmers and farmworkers in different countries). GWS & WOC have been working with grassroots Dalit and Adivasi women in our network in India since 1992. We have been spreading the word about this momentous strike of millions of farmers…
Please sign this petition to save women’s and children’s lives in Palestine
Introduce sanctions against Israel The Government should introduce sanctions against Israel, including blocking all trade, and in particular arms. Its disproportionate treatment of Palestinians and settlements that are regarded by the international community as illegal are an affront to civilised society. Sign this petition
Join protests in solidary with Palestine
This Saturday – Join protests in Solidarity with Palestine 15 May 12 noon Marble Arch Look out for Women of Colour banner near the tea hut nearest to Marble Arch. We’ll be marching with International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network Watch interview: Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAqxwzWI9tU Take part wherever you can. See UK list of protests…
Webinar: Solitary Confinement is a Crime
Solitary Confinement is a Crime International Webinar: 12 May 20212 – 3.30pm (US Eastern Time) / 7 – 8.30pm (UK) REGISTER HERE Hosted by Legal Action for Women, Payday men’s network,Women of Colour Global Women’s Strike Speakers include: · Kevan Thakrar, over 11 years in UK Close Supervision Centre – audio presentation Now in further…