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.
Nomination by Maggie Ronayne from Strike Ireland to the president of her university and the National University of Ireland
Dear President, I write to nominate President Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías for an honorary doctorate at the National University of Ireland, Galway. President Chávez is the head of State of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. He was first elected to this post in 1998 and has won eight elections and referendums since then. He has…
Why the Irish Constitution Must Recognise Workers In the Home and Pay Equity
By Maggie Ronayne, Ireland Current Affairs Weekly, 2 September 2005 Some say Article 41.2 of the Constitution is sexist and should be abolished. While it is sexist to refer to work in the home as a woman’s “life” and “duty”, it would be even more sexist to obliterate the only constitutional recognition of unwaged caring work…
No shoot to Kill, Justice for Jean Charles de Menezes
We send our heartfelt condolences to the family of Jean Charles de Menezes in particular his mother… read the full statement here below.
A Chronology of Injustice: The case of Winston Silcott’s conviction to be overturned
Riveting chronology of events explains why Winston Silcott’s truthful defence was never put to the jury and why after 12 years in prison, the police and media are still pursuing him.
Global Women’s Strike Calls Women to Shannon Airport
Press statement, Global Women’s Strike Global Women’s Strike Calls Women to Shannon Airport on 8th March! by Global Women’s Strike Working Group Galway. Global Women’s Strike Women in Ireland say No War — Invest in Caring Not Killing — Globalise Neutrality The Global Women’s Strike is organising a national event against war at Shannon airport…