Event this Friday – Join the Women’s Speak Out at XR’s The Big One
Friday 21 April, 1pm, Downing Street, London SW1A 2AA.
XR’s The Big One – four days of actions 21-24 April to bring together 100,000 people around Parliament to get this government to act on the climate emergency. On Friday – “Unite to Survive” day – diverse networks of mothers, grandmothers, other carers and people with disabilities will speak out on refusing poverty, the devaluing of caring and cuts in benefits. The government wants to cut mothers’ and disabled people’s benefits to force us “back to work” regardless of needs, wishes or poverty wages – stealing our survival entitlements to enrich fossil fuel polluters and other destructive industries. Raising children and coping with disability and ill-health is essential work which should be supported not punished.
Young people and women have been at the forefront of the movement to stop fossil fuels and for climate justice. Come and highlight the obscene profits of industries, massively subsidised by governments, that undermine our health even before birth, impoverish us and threaten our very survival, starting with mothers and children of colour/working class in the Global South as well as in the poorest areas of the Global North.
Come and join us – speak out about your issue! All welcome to this exciting event!
Please see The Big One programme so far here and info about inclusion and access here.
Invest in caring not killing,
Planning group includes women from Disability Mothers’ Rights Campaign; East London Unite Community; Global Women’s Strike; Justice for Bristol Protesters; Mothers’ Manifesto; Nanas Against Fracking; Newham Disability Reps Forum; Single Mothers’ Self-Defence; WinVisible (women with visible and invisible disabilities); Women of Colour Global Women’s Strike; XRUK programming; and individuals from around the UK as well as from Payday men’s network.