Ham & High: Camden campaigner Selma James launches new book at 91
Sam Volpe0 Published: 9:34 AM August 4, 2021 Selma James holds a Q&A celebrating her new book – at the age of 91 – in Kilburn – Credit: Global Women’s Strike/Sara Callaway One of Camden’s most enduring civil rights campaigners Selma James launched a new book, at the age of 91, last week. Selma James helped found the Crossroads…
Read MoreVideo: ‘Women Should Organise Themselves for Their Rights Because There Is No Saviour’ Selma James
Selma James speaks to Sidharth Bhatia about her new book ‘Our Times Is Now’, about the global network she is part of and of her late husband, the Marxist scholar C.L.R. James. Selma James has been fighting for and running campaigns on behalf of unwaged women. She says women are the ones who raise newer…
Read MoreCamden New Journal: Waging a war on wages
At the launch of Selma James’ latest book, Angela Cobbinah finds the 91-year-old as resolute and sagacious as ever 13 August, 2021 Selma James pictured at the publishing event for her book, Our Time is Now: Sex, Race, Class, and Care for People and the Planet IT is only to be hoped that someone who has…
Read MoreEvent: Selma James – Our Time is Now book launch 3 September
Dear Friends, Selma James will be speaking about her much anticipated second anthology, Our Time Is Now: Sex, Race, Class, and Caring for People and Planet, at a virtual event on3 September. JOIN on your computer or mobile app Click here to join the meetingOr call in (audio only) +44 20 3787 4277,,614729267#For more information see below and poster…
Read MorePress statement: Mothers and others welcome the re-introduction of Worker Relief & Credit Reform Act
Date: Friday July 23, 2021From: Care Income Now!/US (CIN!)*, coordinated by Global Women Strike and Women of Color/GWS careincomenow@globalwomenstrike.net Unpaid family caregivers are workers! Mothers and others welcome the re-introduction of the Worker Relief & Credit Reform Act making unpaid caregivers and students eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit. Today, as US Congresswoman Gwen…
Read MoreStatement: Why women oppose the Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Bill. By Women Against Rape and Women of Colour in GWS
We have been organising for decades for protection and justice from a pandemic of sexual and domestic violence against women and children, reinforced by policies of austerity that target us, undermining our financial independence and therefore our safety. Survivors of rape and domestic violence have come forward, nationally and internationally, reporting an epidemic of sexual…
Read MoreOut now! SELMA JAMES’s new book Our Time Is Now
Out now! The much-anticipated new collection by SELMA JAMES Our Time Is Now: Sex, Race, Class, and Caring for People and Planet. Selma James, who launched the International Wages for Housework Campaign (WFH) in 1972, will be 91 this August. She was recently honoured with the Sheila McKechnie Long-term Achievement Award. WFH will be celebrating…
Read MoreWomen and mothers of South Peasants Federation Thailand have said what a Care Income would mean to them as people who care for the family, the community, and the land.
A Care Income would mean: Economic liberation .. it would mean being independent from the men Now I have to manage to provide for everything on a tiny amount of money. Every single day I have to spend a lot of time thinking and planning how to manage. If I have a care income I…
Read MoreIndian 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…
Read MoreUnpaid 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…
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