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.
Statement: Open Letter to Birmingham Pride from 11 LGBTQIA+ Groups: Drop HSBC
To Birmingham Pride, As LGBTQIA+ groups in the UK, we welcome your commitment to ensuring events for our communities continue during the Covid-19 pandemic, with the announcement of a ‘virtual pride’ on May 24th. An online pride event has the potential to bring people together across borders and time zones, in a celebration of LGBTQIA+…
Action: Money for Mothers & Other Caregivers – take action!
Action Alert Demand Money for Mothers & Other Caregivers in Every Stimulus Bill! Mothers and other unwaged primary caregivers are counted on for everyone’s survival, especially but not only during this pandemic, yet we are never included in relief/stimulus legislation. Instead, we’re disrespected, especially those of us on welfare or other benefits struggling the…
Press: Coronavirus: MPs hear of disabled people’s struggle to survive pandemic
By John Pring on 7th May 2020 Category: Activism and Campaigning Disabled people have described how they have been abandoned by the UK government, local authorities, and the supermarket giants, as they struggle to survive during the pandemic crisis. Their descriptions of their experiences over the last two months are included in evidence provided by the pan-London disabled people’s…
Comment: The cost of opposing mines in Thailand’s rural heartland
Comment from Queer Strike: Article in the Thai Enquirer about communities in rural Thailand defending themselves, their families, the land and the environment vs harmful mining operations, and the repression they face. One of the activists is Sunthorn Duangnarong a trans woman defending her community who we posted about on 1 May . Please circulate…
Press release: Mothers, Caregivers Demand Funds in CARES 2 Stimulus Bill
PRESS RELEASE…PRESS RELEASE…PRESS RELEASE…PRESS RELEASE… Mothers & Other Caregivers Demand Fundsin CARES 2 Stimulus Bill Where is the relief package for us? RE: CARES2 Stimulus Legislation From: Every Mother is a Working Mother; Global Women’s Strike; Women of Color in the Global Women’s StrikeContact: Margaret Prescod 323-646-1269, Phoebe Jones 610-505-4944 Date: May 4, 2020 Mothers…
Speeches: from #CareIncomeNow webinar
Selma James, Care Income Now webinar, 3 April 2020 Margaret First I’d like to introduce Selma James, delighted to introduce Selma, who is the founder of the International Wages for Housework Campaign way back in 1972. She is the coordinator of the Global Women’s Strike. She is the author of many feminist classics, including the…
PRESS STATEMENT: In response to Covid-19 and the climate emergency: organizations around the world call for a Care Income Now!
For more information contact: Global Women’s Strike (India, Ireland, Peru, Thailand, UK, US) +44 20 7482 2496 or +1 215 848 1120 The Global Women’s Strike and Women of Colour GWS, which have campaigned for financial recognition for unwaged caring work for decades, have joined with the Green New Deal for Europe to urge governments…
Ham & High: Kentish Town women’s group call for ‘carer’s income’ amid coronavirus pandemic
PUBLISHED: 18:15 07 April 2020 Sam Volpe Shoda Rackal and Kay Chapman ahead of the Crossroads Women’s Centre’s International Women’s Day celebration. Picture: Crossroads Women’s Centre The Kentish Town-based Global Women’s Strike (GWS) group have written an open letter to the UK government – and others around the world – calling for a “care income” to…
Programme for today’s Care Income Now! webinar
Please join us for a webinar exploring the implications of a campaign for a Care Income, North and South,to stop climate change, promote caring work for people and planet, and refuse work that is destructive to the environment and to the worker. Friday April 3, 11am-1pm US Eastern (4pm UK, 10pm Thailand) Pre-registration necessary Register…