The compromise Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024 leaves out the most impoverished families while giving big tax benefits to corporations
We are mothers, grandmothers and other unpaid family caregivers who have been pressing for reinstatement of the expanded child tax credit (CTC) and for our caregiving work to be valued and supported. We recognize and appreciate the effort that went into this bi-partisan proposal, but it must not exclude the most impoverished children. Representative DeLauro,…
Read More4 Jan: Women Feed the World – Oxford Real Farming Conference
Dear friends, Join our online workshop with our sisters from Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming at the Oxford Real Farming Conference on 4 January 2024, where they are speaking in person about their world-changing work – info below. Register and please choose the free bursary ticket option here https://orfc.org.uk/book-orfc-2024-tickets/. This also gives access to…
Read MoreLetter: to the Government of Ireland, in relation to the proposed wording of the amendments to the Irish constitution on Women and Family
We write as women’s and community organisations with concerns about the proposed wording of the Amendments to the Irish Constitution on Women and the Family, which are to go to referendum in March 2024, and are scheduled to be discussed in the Dáil this week. Having been tasked by the Government with bringing forward proposals…
Read MoreXmas Eve: Boycott Gaza Genocide – Protestors Carrying Guernica Placards Gather Outside Mcdonald’s On Oxford Street
Today, 24 December 2023, 12-1pm, protestors are gathering outside McDonald’s on 291B Oxford Street, London W1C 2DT, calling for the boycott of all those collaborating with Israeli apartheid, occupation and genocide. In 1937, Picasso denounced the first ever aerial bombing of civilians by the Nazis in support of Franco’s military coup in the Basque city…
Read MoreHelp us support children and families in Gaza!
Donate Here As a multiracial network of women’s organizations, which includes mothers, grandmothers and other caregivers, and the men’s network with whom we work closely, we are urgently raising funds for the Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) to provide immediate aid to children and families in Gaza. 1.7 million people have now been displaced and…
Read MoreMothers Manifesto outside Parliament today!
Dear friends The Global Women’s Strike will be supporting the Mother’s Manifesto on Wednesday 13 December, 9.30-2pm, on their stall outside Parliament while some of them meet MPs inside. We hope you will join us there for all or some of the time. Mother’s Manifesto are a group of mothers who have been campaigning for 18 months to raise awareness of family food poverty and…
Read MoreUrgent: Tell Congress, Include Extended CTC in End Of Year Tax Package!
How long will the richest country in the world tolerate millions of our children in poverty? Urgent action needed to bring back extended CTC, which lifted millions of children out of poverty! The time is NOW to contact Congress because the reinstatement of the expanded Child Tax Credit is being debated as part of negotiations…
Read MoreEvent: Meet the brave Colombian women campaigning against state murders
We are delighted to welcome Jacqueline Castillo and Rubiela Giraldo from MAFAPO (Madres de los Falsos Positivos) a courageous network of mothers and other women fighting for justice for over 6,402 innocent civilians murdered by the Colombian state, in a campaign of atrocities known as “Falsos Positivos”. As millions across the world demonstrate for a…
Read MorePress release: Wages for Housework film All Work and No Pay at Tate Exhibition Women in Revolt.
The Wages for Housework film All Work and No Pay is part of the major Tate Britain exhibition Women in Revolt which opens tomorrow 8 November 2022 and runs until April 2024. The film was made by the Wages for Housework Campaign (WFH) with the BBC community access unit Open Door in 1975. It provided…
Read MoreStatement: To united Families & Friends Campaign (UFFC) against all state violence.
-The consistent campaigning which you have led for decades for justice for family membersand loved ones has helped build the movement to hold UK police and establishment accountable for their crimes.– Women of all races have joined people of colour demanding an end to the violence and injusticewe have suffered at the hands of the…
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