Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.10, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Global Women's Strike/ Wages for Housework/ Selma James GWS is an international network campaigning for a living wage for mothers & other carers, we have been calling for a women's strike since 8 March 2000. GWS is co-ordinated by the Wages for Housework Campaign & Selma James ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://globalwomenstrike.net/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Latest News](https://globalwomenstrike.net/latest-news/) - ['HOUSEWIVES as NATION-BUILDERS'](https://globalwomenstrike.net/housewives-as-nation-builders/) - Women: Nation builders, missing from the nation’s books Dr. Amina Hussain July 10, 2026 An exploration of the path-breaking verdict delivered by the SC declaring “housewives as nation-builders”[1]. The author, an academic explores, academically and historically, how societies and nations have only imagined economies and valued production through narrow prisms while feminist scholars have spent - [Care Income Now! Tax Credits for Mothers and other Caregivers - Not Tax Breaks for Billionaires](https://globalwomenstrike.net/care-income-now-tax-credits-for-mothers-and-other-caregivers-not-tax-breaks-for-billionaires/) - ⏰Action Alert⏰ Tell Congress families need support: Pass the American Family Act and the Worker Relief and Credit Reform Act Mothers and other family caregivers, including those of us who are immigrants, work hard, and our unpaid work contributes $873.50 billion a year to the economy, yet we are denied support and our families are - [SIGN Roadmap to Eliminate Poverty - includes UNIVERSAL CARE INCOME](https://globalwomenstrike.net/sign-roadmap-to-eliminate-poverty-includes-universal-care-income/) - Dear sisters and friends, For the past year we, and many others, have been working with the UN Rapporteur on Poverty and Human Rights on the Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth. As you know we have been campaigning for over 50 years for wages for housework, reformulated as a care income. The proposals in the - [New Book published on India's Wages for Housework campaign](https://globalwomenstrike.net/new-book-published-on-indias-wages-for-housework-campaign/) - Please see new book by Prabha Kotiswaran - Wages for Housework: India’s Experiment with Unconditional Cash Transfers to Women. Available Open Access from Oxford University Press. The link for download is at https://academic.oup.com/book/62989 Part I sets out the normative case for unconditional cash transfers to women by engaging with debates in feminist economics, feminist theories of the welfare - [Guaranteed Care Income San Francisco](https://globalwomenstrike.net/guaranteed-care-income-san-francisco/) - Guaranteed Care Income San Francisco The research findings of the Guaranteed Care Income San Francisco (GCISF) pilot were made public November 12, 2025 on the steps of City Hall in San Francisco. The event had a strong turnout, including lots of press (see below). There was Spanish interpretation for the event and it opened with - [A proposal for the Special UN Rapporteur on poverty - A care income for all caring work for people and planet](https://globalwomenstrike.net/a-proposal-for-the-special-un-rapporteur-on-poverty-a-care-income-for-all-caring-work-for-people-and-planet/) - A PROPOSAL FOR THE SPECIAL UN RAPPORTEUR ON POVERTYrelating to all five areas but most especially to social protections, labour andthe care economy, the climate and global solidarity – 30 March 2025 (updated April 26) https://www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for-input/2025/call-submissions-roadmap-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth A care income for all caring work for people and planet 1. Increased recognition for caring work In - [Sat 28 Mar - Join the TOGETHER March against the fascists](https://globalwomenstrike.net/sat-28-mar-join-the-together-march-against-the-fascists/) - Dear friends We’ll be going on the “TOGETHER MARCH” this coming Saturday, joining the Palestine bloc from 12noon on Exhibition Rd (Hyde Park end). Look out for the Global Women’s Strike and Women of Colour GWS banners. We’re joining thousands of people outraged by Reform, Tommy Robinson’s followers, pro-genocide Zionists, Trump’s war mongers, and others - [Webinar: STOP the rape & torture of Palestinian women, children & men](https://globalwomenstrike.net/webinar-stop-the-rape-torture-of-palestinian-women-children-men/) - [Alerta de Acción: Las Madres y Otros Cuidadores Dicen Detener ICE y Restaurar los Beneficios para Inmigrantes!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/alerta-de-accion-las-madres-y-otros-cuidadores-dicen-detener-ice-y-restaurar-los-beneficios-para-inmigrantes/) - Patrocinar esta alerta de acción Las Madres y Otros Cuidadores Dicen: ● Detener el Asesinato, Secuestro y Abuso Infantil de ICE ● DETENER la financiación de ICE ● Restaurar los Créditos Tributaries por Hijos, SNAP y Beneficios de Medicaid para Inmigrantes Como madres y otras cuidadoras, estamos furiosas y profundamente molestas por el reinado de - [Action Alert: Mothers and Other Caregivers Say STOP ICE, Restore Benefits for Immigrants!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/action-alert-mothers-and-other-caregivers-say-stop-ice-restore-benefits-for-immigrants/) - Endorse this Action Alert Mothers and Other Caregivers Say: ● Stop ICE Murder, Kidnapping and Child Abuse ● STOP Funding ICE ● Restore Child Tax Credits, SNAP and Medicaid Benefits for Immigrants As mothers and other caregivers, we are furious and deeply upset at the reign of terror being imposed on immigrants, our families and - [GWS at End the blockade of Cuba demonstration](https://globalwomenstrike.net/gws-at-end-the-blockade-of-cuba-demonstration-21st-february-2026/) - [Maggie Ronayne, GWS Ireland at International Women's Day march, Belfast in the North of Ireland](https://globalwomenstrike.net/maggie-ronayne-gws-ireland-at-international-womens-day-march-belfast-in-the-north-of-ireland/) - Maggie Ronayne from the Global Women's Strike in Ireland speaking out against war, genocide and military spending and for a care income at the IWD march and rally, Belfast in the North of Ireland on 7th March 2026. - [An attack on trans women is an attack on women](https://globalwomenstrike.net/an-attack-on-trans-women-is-an-attack-on-women/) - An attack on trans people is an attack on women We reject all attacks on trans people. They have led to over 5,000 murders globally since 2008 (when the Trans Murder Monitoring was set up) at the hands of violent men – 94% of the victims were women, 93% women of colour, 46% of those - [Event: London Mining Network on Just Transition](https://globalwomenstrike.net/event-london-mining-network-on-just-transition/) - We are speaking at this conference, Saturday 30 November 2.45pm, Bernie Grant Centre, Tottenham N15 4RX. Women are central to a Just Transition, resisting mining, corporate greed, and the state/military interests that back them. GWS will talk about what we’ve learned working with women in farming and mining communities in Thailand, and in India. - [International Women's Week events](https://globalwomenstrike.net/international-womens-week-events/) - [Venezuela, Palestine, Haiti…we stand with you against US imperialism and occupation](https://globalwomenstrike.net/venezuela-palestine-haitiwe-stand-with-you-against-us-imperialism-and-occupation/) - By the Global Women’s Strike (GWS), Women of Colour GWS and Payday men’s network Once again, the US government and military have violently intervened to remove a head of state who did not serve their purpose, President Nicolas Maduro and his wife and colleague Celia Flores. Once again, local elites (in Venezuela and some Caribbean - [Venezuela, Palestina, Haití… estamos con el pueblocontra el imperialismo y la ocupación de Estados Unidos](https://globalwomenstrike.net/venezuela-palestina-haiti-estamos-con-el-pueblocontra-el-imperialismo-y-la-ocupacion-de-estados-unidos/) - Por la Huelga Mundial de Mujeres (GWS), Mujeres de Color de la GWS y la red de hombres Payday Una vez más, el Gobierno y el ejército de Estados Unidos han intervenido violentamente para derrocar a un jefe de Estado que no servía a sus intereses, el presidente Nicolás Maduro y su esposa Celia Flores. - [After more than 50 years of campaigning,wages for housework is becoming a reality – in India and elsewhere.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/after-more-than-50-years-of-campaigningwages-for-housework-is-becoming-a-reality-in-india-and-elsewhere/) - After more than 50 years of campaigning,wages for housework is becoming a reality – in India and elsewhere. By the International Wages for Housework Campaign, 15 December 2025 For more information contact: gws@globalwomenstrike.net or 020 7482 2496 We women are owed a debt and the first payments have come – more is expected as the - [Margaretta D’Arcy – our dearest sister in struggle](https://globalwomenstrike.net/margaretta-darcy-our-dearest-sister-in-struggle/) - We mourn the loss of our beloved sister in struggle, Margaretta D’Arcy, and we offer our deepest condolences to all her family, friends and movement colleagues. Margaretta was a bold, fearless and determined campaigner against war and imperialism, and for women. Throughout her life, she used her many talents as an actor, playwright, writer, broadcaster - [Our proposal to the UN Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights for: A Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth](https://globalwomenstrike.net/our-proposal-to-the-un-rapporteur-on-extreme-poverty-and-human-rights-for-a-roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/) - A PROPOSAL FOR THE SPECIAL UN RAPPORTEUR ON POVERTYrelating to all five areas but most especially to social protections, labour andthe care economy, the climate and global solidarity – 30 March 2025 https://www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for-input/2025/call-submissions-roadmap-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth A care income for all caring work for people and planet 1. Increased recognition for caring work In recent years and - [50 years ago, 24 October 1975, women in Iceland went on strike from waged and unwaged work.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/50-years-ago-24-october-1975-women-in-iceland-went-on-strike-from-waged-and-unwaged-work/) - 50 years ago, 24 October 1975, women in Iceland went on strike from waged and unwaged work. They called it a ‘Day Off’ and 90% of women took part. They said, “When women stop, everything stops” and everything stopped in Iceland! The media hardly mentioned it but the International #WagesforHousework Campaign heard of it – - [Angkhana Neelapaijit, a human rights defender at risk - Let us stand together in solidarity with her](https://globalwomenstrike.net/angkhana-neelapaijit-a-human-rights-defender-at-risk-let-us-stand-together-in-solidarity-with-her/) - CHARLES HECTOR ON HUMAN RIGHTS, JUSTICE AND PEACE ISSUES, LABOUR RIGHTS, MIGRANT RIGHTS, FOR THE ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY, TOWARDS AN END OF TORTURE, POLICE ABUSES, DISCRIMINATION... Friday, October 17, 2025 Senator Angkhana Neelapaijit, a prominent woman human rights defender (WHRD), former National Human Rights Commissioner of Thailand, and a long-standing advocate for human - [Palestinian-American legal scholar Noura Erakat brief to the UN Security Council](https://globalwomenstrike.net/7438-2/) - Drop Site @DropSiteNews Palestinian-American legal scholar Noura Erakat (@4noura) made history Monday as only the second Palestinian woman to brief the UN Security Council since October 7, 2023— and the first to present the legal case that Israel’s war on Gaza is genocide. Speaking for over 10 minutes, Erakat explained how Israel’s campaign amounts to - [Hookers, dykes and women of colour celebrate 50 years of making trouble & history](https://globalwomenstrike.net/hookers-dykes-and-women-of-colour-celebrate-50-years-of-making-trouble-history/) - [Defend Ireland’s Neutrality – Keep The Triple Lock! Calling on all women to defend the triple lock and stop the government from abandoning neutrality! Resist, sisters, resist!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/defend-irelands-neutrality-keep-the-triple-lock-calling-on-all-women-to-defend-the-triple-lock-and-stop-the-government-from-abandoning-neutrality-resist-sisters-resist/) - DEFEND IRELAND’S NEUTRALITY – KEEP THE TRIPLE LOCK! Statement by: Raging Grannies, Red Umbrella Éireann, Street Workers Collective of Ireland& Global Women’s Strike Ireland Calling on all women to defend the triple lock and stop the government from abandoning neutrality! Resist, sisters, resist! Taoiseach Michéal Martin said in 2013 that the Triple Lock is at - [Defend Ireland’s neutrality – keep the triple lock!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/defend-irelands-neutrality-keep-the-triple-lock/) - The Triple Lock is a key part of the current means of keeping Ireland out of wars. The Triple Lock means that to send more than 12 soldiers on an overseas mission, there needs to be approval from the Irish government, the Dáil and the UN (authorised by either the UN Security Council or the - [Tues 20 May - International actions for Haiti. Reparations NOW! London French Consulate](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tues-20-may-international-actions-for-haiti-reparations-now-london-french-consulate/) - [Queer Strike - From our archive*: lesbian visibility in the 70s](https://globalwomenstrike.net/queer-strike-from-our-archive-lesbian-visibility-in-the-70s/) - On lesbian visibility day, let’s remember Maureen Colquhoun. Ms Colquhoun was the Labour MP for Northampton North from 1974-1979, a time when there were only about 30 women in Parliament. In 1977 she was outed (with her life partner Babs Todd) as a lesbian by the tabloid press and accused among other things of having - [Queer Strike Italy book tour 13-18 April](https://globalwomenstrike.net/queer-strike-italy-book-tour-13-18-april/) - Dear friends, We are delighted to let you know that a book of Wages Due Lesbians’ archive materials (mainly from the 1970’s/80’s) has been published in Italy by Asterisco Edizioni publishers SALARIO ALLE LESBICHE L’esperienza di Wages Due Lesbians/Queer Strike. It has an introduction from Queer Strike and from the editor Olivia Fiorilli. We are - [Mothers Manifesto Regional Mothers’ Day hunger strikes](https://globalwomenstrike.net/mothers-manifesto-regional-mothers-day-hunger-strikes/) - GWS will be supporting the Mothers’ Manifesto Regional Mothers’ Day 24hr hunger strikes starting on Sat 29 March. From Mothers Manifesto: Mothers Manifesto are holding one day regional hunger strikes over Mothers Day weekend across the UK. Do join us and please share with friends 💗🙌 We are calling for legislative change to ensure the - [Wed 19 March: Stefania Barca, Book Club "Workers of the Earth" 6pm. Zoom Link](https://globalwomenstrike.net/wed-19-march-stefania-barca-book-club-workers-of-the-earth-6pm-zoom-link/) - Stefania Barca’s talk with London Mining Network will be on-line via zoom (see link below). It will be a hybrid format so you can also take part in person, by joining on zoom at Crossroads Women’s Centre. All welcome. This exciting book includes a chapter on WFH’s organising against “nuclear housework” and the UK’s nuclear - [Visit Wages For Housework & English Collective of Prostitutes in major exhibition ‘Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights’](https://globalwomenstrike.net/visit-wages-for-housework-english-collective-of-prostitutes-in-major-exhibition-hard-graft-work-health-and-rights/) - Wages for Housework Campaign & English Collective of Prostitutes in major exhibition Dear Friends, As part of International Women’s Week celebrations, we’re planning a group visit to see ‘Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights’ at the Wellcome Collection (183 Euston Road London NW1 2BE) on Sunday 9 March at 1pm. If you would like to join us, - [Book Launch: Wages for Housework - The Story of a Movement, an Idea, a Promise.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/book-launch-wages-for-housework-the-story-of-a-movement-an-idea-a-promise/) - A fascinating new book by Emily Callaci about the history of the International Wages for Housework Campaign is being launched in the UK next week (US launch to follow). Wages for Housework The Story of a Movement, an Idea, a Promise features WFH founder Selma James (who turns 95 this year), co-ordinates the Global Women’s - [International Women's Day fundraiser for Middle East Children's Alliance (MECA) in solidarity with Palestinian women and children](https://globalwomenstrike.net/international-womens-day-fundraiser-for-middle-east-childrens-alliance-meca-in-solidarity-with-palestinian-women-and-children/) - This International Women’s Day, we stand with Palestinian women, children, and their families against the Israel/US genocide including bombing and starvation. Fundraiser for Palestinian Women and Children All proceeds to Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) who are organizing food & other direct support in Gaza. Sunday March 10, 1 PM PDT / 4 PM EDT - [Ann Snitow Prize Ceremony honoring Margaret Prescod, Tuesday 10 December](https://globalwomenstrike.net/ann-snitow-prize-ceremony-honoring-margaret-prescod-tuesday-10-december/) - Margaret Prescod, Women of Color/Global Women’s Strike and co-coordinator of Global Women’s Strike in the US, is being honored with the Ann Snitow Prize next Tuesday, December 10. Please join us in celebrating this important acknowledgement and hear more from Margaret, by registering for the award ceremony starting at 3pm US Pacific / 4pm Mountain / 5pm Central / 6pm Eastern / 11pm UK. - [GWS UK visit Thailand, November 2023](https://globalwomenstrike.net/gws-uk-visit-thailand-november-2023/) - In November 2023, Lisa and Sara from GWS UK were invited to Thailand by Bee (Pranom Somwong of Protection International) for a two-day gathering of the Community Women Human Rights Defenders Collective which campaigns for a care income. The event was followed by a national tour to meet women organisers in their communities. It was a fantastic learning - [Irish Referendum results: not a return to the Ireland of the past, but the rejection of a government which denies its responsibilities.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/irish-referendum-results-not-a-return-to-the-ireland-of-the-past-but-the-rejection-of-a-government-which-denies-its-responsibilities/) - On 8 March, a government referendum proposed to change the Irish Constitution by extending the definition of the family (Amendment 39) and replacing Article 41.2 on the work of mothers in the home with wording that diminished the State’s obligation to support caring in the home and outside (Amendment 40). The government suffered a comprehensive - [Thailand letter - Urgent Observation Request: Protection of WHRDs and Children at P-Move Peaceful Assembly](https://globalwomenstrike.net/thailand-letter-urgent-observation-request-protection-of-whrds-and-children-at-p-move-peaceful-assembly/) - Dear Excellency, I hope this email finds you well. On October 14th, 2024, Protection International and P-Move organized a seminar at the P-Move protest site titled "From Global Forums to the Hearts of the Poor: Thailand’s Role in Human Rights and Justice," following Thailand’s recent election to the UN Human Rights Council. The seminar aimed - [Save the date: 24 October: International Women's Strike Actions](https://globalwomenstrike.net/save-the-date-24-october-international-womens-strike-actions/) - Spread the word – Women are rising A Week of Actions When women stop, everything stops. On 24 October 2024, women and allies from around the world will participate in the Global Women's Strike, commemorating the historic 1975 Icelandic women’s strike, where women halted their unwaged and waged work in the home and outside, in - [Wages for Housework Campaign in major exhibition - Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights](https://globalwomenstrike.net/wages-for-housework-campaign-in-major-exhibition-at-the-wellcome-collection-london/) - ‘Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights’ at the Wellcome Collection (London) explores "the profound impact of physical work on health and the body. It delves into the stories of underrepresented workers and their rights within precarious and unsafe labour environments. From protests to healing practices, the exhibition unveils hidden histories of resistance and collective action. - [Why we support Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Farming: a grassroots rebuttal by Nina López and Selma James](https://globalwomenstrike.net/why-we-support-andhra-pradesh-community-managed-farming-a-grassroots-rebuttal-by-nina-lopez-and-selma-james/) - In June 2024, the Global Women’s Strike was invited to speak at two sessions on A Care Income to Protect the Land, the People and the Natural World at the International Degrowth Conference in Pontevedra. At the second session, Swati Renduchintala presented via zoom on Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming (APCNF) and the women’s Self-Help - [Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming, India, wins the Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/andhra-pradesh-community-managed-natural-farming-india-wins-the-gulbenkian-prize-for-humanity/) - This Natural Farming movement spearheaded by women’s Self-Help Groups, is regenerating the soil, feeding plentiful nutritious food to families and communities, and at the same time demonstrating how to stop and reverse global warming if widely practised. See extracts of the Prize ceremony with a short film highlighting APCNF’s achievements, and speeches by Vijay Kumar, - [July 20 Philadelphia: Black Women's Lives Count](https://globalwomenstrike.net/july-20-philadelphia-black-womens-lives-count/) - BLACK WOMEN’S LIVES COUNT RECLAIMING OUR SISTERS EVERYWHERE (ROSE) Community Conversation · Archives Display · Film clipsMusic · Refreshments · Childcare (call ahead) Saturday July 20 3-5pmCrossroads Women’s Center5011 Wayne Ave Phila PA 19144 Since the early 1980s, at least 200 Black women and girls were killed or disappeared and presumed dead in South Los - [Event: London Land Justice Fair, 21 July, 12-6pm](https://globalwomenstrike.net/event-london-land-justice-fair-21-july-12-6pm/) - We’ll be running a stall, and a workshop on land use in the women-led natural farming movement in Andhra Pradesh, India. All welcome! - [Press release from Queer Strike: “When women are paid for all we do, there’ll be a lot of wages due . . ."](https://globalwomenstrike.net/in-the-media-when-women-are-paid-for-all-we-do/) - Singer-song writer Gemma Rogers has re-imagined the song, “Wages Due”, written and originally sung by Boo Watson in 1975. Released on Bandcamp, people are asked to pay what they can when they download the song. We’re delighted that all proceeds will go to Crossroads Women. Boo Watson was a founding member of Wages Due Lesbians in Toronto, Canada, and a talented musician. She composed and wrote the “Wages - [Final report: What Mothers and Other Caregivers Want](https://globalwomenstrike.net/what-mothers-and-other-caregivers-want/) - In a survey of 1065 respondents from 50 countries, an overwhelming 84% said that caring deserves a care income. They wanted more time with their family, and to work outside the home part-time rather than full-time. While the responses summarized in the report reflect only the views of those who took part, they provide illustrative testimonials on crucial topics. Read the report - [Natural Growing in India - our article in Allotment Gardener newsletter](https://globalwomenstrike.net/natural-growing-in-india-our-article-in-allotment-gardener-newsletter/) - Dear Friends, Please see article below by food growers in the Global Women’s Strike network, inspired by the movement of women farmers in Andhra Pradesh spreading natural farming through their Self-Help Groups. More information on this growing movement here. - [Webinar : What Mothers and Other Caregivers Want - findings from international survey, May 11](https://globalwomenstrike.net/what-mothers-and-other-caregivers-want-findings-from-international-survey-may-11/) - From March 2022 to May 2023, this survey asked 1065 mothers and other caregivers from different generations and in different countries what they want and need. Assumptions are always being made about this, but in fact caregivers are rarely directly asked about how we spend our time, the resources we have or don’t have, or - [Crowdfunder - Surviving the Military Dictatorship in Myanmar](https://globalwomenstrike.net/crowdfunder-surviving-the-military-dictatorship-in-myanmar/) - Surviving the Military Dictatorship in Myanmar is a crowdfunder launched after the powerful testimony we heard at our recent Trade Unions Under Military Rule in Myanmar conference at Friends House. People are being tortured by the regime as political prisoners and need serious medical and physical support when they are released. Others are in hiding - [Webinar: Compensating Care: How U.S. Policy Can Support Unpaid Family Caregivers](https://globalwomenstrike.net/webinar-compensating-care-how-u-s-policy-can-support-unpaid-family-caregivers/) - TODAY, May 2 - join us for this pathbreaking one hour webinar on Compensating Care: How U.S. Policy Can Support Unpaid Family Caregivers, Thursday, May 2, 2-3pm Eastern Time, 11am-12noon Pacific Time – It is a joint event by the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP), Global Women’s Strike & Women of Color/GWS. - [Happy Birthday Mumia Abu-Jamal!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/happy-birthday-mumia-abu-jamal/) - Dearest Mumia, Thinking of you especially on your landmark 70th birthday and sending arm-loads of love and every good wish. We can’t say enough how precious you are to us and many around the world. You’ve made and continue to make a remarkable life under the most challenging circumstances – inspiring, thoughtful and compassionate. What - [Women of Colour speaking at Mothers Rebellion](https://globalwomenstrike.net/women-of-colour-speaking-at-mothers-rebellion/) - Women of Colour speaking at Mothers Rebellion London circle weekend, in solidarity with the people of Palestine before the National March, Hyde Park corner, Sat 9 March 2024. See the speech here. - [Join us at conference in support of the movement against the military coup in Burma/Myanmar.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/join-us-at-conference-in-support-of-the-movement-against-the-military-coup-in-burma-myanmar/) - Join us on 20 April at the conference we are organising with Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), No Sweat and Peace & Justice Project, in support of the movement against the military coup in Burma/Myanmar. See below and book your tickets here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfLXLTMLikaNO84eh5GUk8gyGPz3woxJJy8e-9jSfWP1NjzOA/viewform We are also hosting a benefit comedy gig for Myanmar trade - [International Women’s Day fundraiser to support Palestinian women & children, Sunday March 10](https://globalwomenstrike.net/international-womens-day-fundraiser-to-support-palestinian-women-children-sunday-march-10/) - This International Women’s Day, we stand with Palestinian women, children, and their families against the Israel/US genocide including bombing and starvation. Online fundraiser for Palestinian Women and Children All proceeds to Middle Eastern Children’s Alliance (MECA) who are organizing food & other direct support in Gaza. Sunday March 10, 1 PM PST / 4 PM EST - [Día Internacional de la Mujer Acto para Juntar Fondos En Apoyo de Mujeres y Niñes Palestinas/os](https://globalwomenstrike.net/dia-internacional-de-la-mujer-acto-para-juntar-fondos-en-apoyo-de-mujeres-y-nines-palestinas-os/) - Este Día Internacional de la Mujer, nosotras estamos en en solidaridad con mujeres, niñes y familias Palestinas en contra del genocidio llevado por Israel y EE.UU, incluyendo el bombardeo de Palestina y la hambruna causada. Acto para Juntar Fondos En Apoyo de Mujeres y Niñes Palestinas/os Estamos juntando fondos para la organización Alianza del Medio - [Letter: to the Government of Ireland, in relation to the proposed wording of the amendments to the Irish constitution on Women and Family](https://globalwomenstrike.net/letter-to-the-government-of-ireland-december-2023-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 - [Letter: Evidence to the Citizens Assembly, Ireland](https://globalwomenstrike.net/letter-evidence-to-the-citizens-assembly-ireland/) - From Maggie Ronayne, lecturer at NUI Galway, trade unionist and co-ordinator of the Global Women’s Strike, Ireland. Dear members of the Citizens Assembly, I write representing the Ireland branch of an international women’s network which has been working on the recognition of caring work for decades; as a carer for my mother; as an academic (archaeologist) - [Media: Invisibility would undermine carers' struggle for equity](https://globalwomenstrike.net/media-invisibility-would-undermine-carers-struggle-for-equity/) - THE IRISH TIMES, Fri, Jul 13, 2018 By Maggie Ronayne Family Carers Ireland estimates there are 200,000 family carers, but the means-tested carer’s allowance is only €214 per week for caring for one person. Abolishing the Constitution’s recognition of caring work done within the family would be a disservice to those doing this work. - [We denounce the gay Israeli Defense's (IDF) soldiers](https://globalwomenstrike.net/we-denounce-the-gay-israeli-defenses-idf-soldiers/) - We denounce the gay Israeli Defense Force’s (IDF) soldiers in this article https://www.jta.org/.../israeli-lgbtq-soldiers-hope-the... and all vicious Israeli pinkwashing. There is No Pride in the Slaughter of Others! Palestinian people in Gaza being bombed, starved, and denied all human rights, will not care if the IDF soldiers killing them and their loved ones are gay or - [Congress: Don’t exclude the most vulnerable children from the Child Tax Credit!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/congress-dont-exclude-the-most-vulnerable-children-from-the-child-tax-credit/) - URGENT! Please ask Congressional leadership and your reps to make critical improvements to the Child Tax Credit (CTC) in the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024, the bi-partisan bill now under consideration. Send a letter to Congress TODAY! ⚡ Also call and tweet your members of Congress and Congressional leadership, see - [Tweets: Congress, don’t exclude the most vulnerable children from the Child Tax Credit!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tweets-congress-dont-exclude-the-most-vulnerable-children-from-the-child-tax-credit/) - URGENT: Tax Relief for American Families & Workers Act is being voted on as soon as week of Jan 29. Tell Congressional leaders & your reps to strengthen it to include covering the poorest children in #ChildTaxCredit. ✍ https://actionnetwork.org/letters/congress-dont-exclude-the-most-vulnerable-children-from-the-child-tax-credit/ URGENT! @RepJeffries @SpeakerJohnson @SenSchumer @LeaderMcConnell don’t leave the poorest, most vulnerable children out of #ChildTaxCredit. The - [Watch our workshop with our sisters from Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming](https://globalwomenstrike.net/watch-our-workshop-with-our-sisters-from-andhra-pradesh-community-managed-natural-farming/) - Speakers: Meerabi Chunduru, Swati Renduchintala, Vijay Kumar, Selma James. Chair: Jyoti Fernandes In the last 20 years, in Andhra Pradesh, India, grassroots women in a secular movement of self-help groups are collectively transforming the food they grow, their families’ health, and increasing their income. They are the largest transition to agroecology in the world, simultaneously - [We were shocked and saddened by the sudden death of Benjamin Zephaniah](https://globalwomenstrike.net/we-were-shocked-and-saddened-by-the-sudden-death-of-benjamin-zephaniah/) - Benjamin was an old friend of the Wages for Housework Campaign/ Global Women's Strike since our centre's early days in a King's Cross squat. The last time we had the pleasure to see him was in October 2022 at the 40th anniversary of the English Collective of Prostitutes occupation of the Holy Cross Church against - [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](https://globalwomenstrike.net/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, - [4 Jan: Women Feed the World – Oxford Real Farming Conference](https://globalwomenstrike.net/4-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 - [Xmas Eve: Boycott Gaza Genocide – Protestors Carrying Guernica Placards Gather Outside Mcdonald’s On Oxford Street](https://globalwomenstrike.net/xmas-eve-boycott-gaza-genocide-protestors-carrying-guernica-placards-gather-outside-mcdonalds-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 of - [Help us support children and families in Gaza! ](https://globalwomenstrike.net/help-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 - [Mothers Manifesto outside Parliament today!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/mothers-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 - [Statement: To united Families & Friends Campaign (UFFC) against all state violence.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/statement-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 - [Urgent: Tell Congress, Include Extended CTC in End Of Year Tax Package!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/action-alert-urgent-action-needed-to-bring-back-extended-child-tax-credits/) - 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 - [Event: Meet the brave Colombian women campaigning against state murders](https://globalwomenstrike.net/event-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 - [Press release: Wages for Housework film All Work and No Pay at Tate Exhibition Women in Revolt.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/press-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 - [Event: Theft from Africa - Workshop for Black History Month.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/event-theft-from-africa-workshop-for-black-history-month/) - Women of Colour GWS tell the story of what the British and other empires stole from the African continent and its people. According to research, £7.5 trillion is owed by Britain to its former colonies for slavery. Is this an underestimate and if so what is the true cost of the theft of people and resources - [Press Release: Mothers and Other Family Caregivers From Across The US Tell Congress to Value Our Work](https://globalwomenstrike.net/press-release-mothers-and-other-family-caregivers-from-across-the-us-tell-congress-to-value-our-work/) - Congressional Briefing featuring Rep. Gwen Moore (WI-4), directly impacted family caregivers from across the country and policy experts, followed by Press Conference. October 24, 2023 9-10am Briefing, 10:30am Press Conference. Briefing: Rayburn House Office Building, Rm 2060, Washington DC. Breakfast served. Press conference: House Triangle, United States Capitol - [Caregiving is Work Congressional Briefing in DC, Tues 24 October](https://globalwomenstrike.net/caregiving-is-work-congressional-briefing-in-dc-tues-24-october/) - Congressional Briefing and Press Conference, Caregiving is Work: Supporting mothers and other family caregivers through the Worker Relief and Credit Reform Act (WRCR) and beyond Please join us Tuesday in Washington DC! Also being live-streamed on Center for the Study of Social Policy Facebook page - [Remembering Liz Hilton, our dear sister-in-arms](https://globalwomenstrike.net/remembering-liz-hilton-our-dear-sister-in-arms/) - Today, 3 August 2023, on her birthday, we remember Liz Hilton, our much-loved wonderful friend and sister in struggle. She would have been 61 had she not been unexpectedly taken from us earlier this year. Liz was born in Australia and lived in Thailand for decades, where she found a new movement family with Empower, - [Protest: Stand with the people of Haiti! NOT another invasion.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/protest-stand-with-the-people-of-hait-not-another-invasion/) - The Global Women’s Strike UK (GWS), Women of Colour GWS and Caribbean Labour Solidarity join with Haiti Action Committee US in defence of the people of Haiti. Join us to demonstrate: Tuesday 10 October 2023, 4.30-6pm at Kenya High Commission, 45 Portland Place, London W1B 1AS. Haiti Action Committee condemns in the strongest possible terms - [Event: Workshop on Autonomy – women, race & immigration, at the Anarchist Bookfair.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/event-workshop-on-autonomy-women-race-immigration-at-the-anarchist-bookfair/) - Join us at the Anarchist Bookfair in London next week. Workshop: Autonomy – women, race and immigration. Saturday 7 October 1pm - 2:30pm Zilkha Auditorium, Whitechapel Gallery. In 1982, the Wages for Housework Campaign organised the first conference in the UK on women, race and immigration. Insisting on our right to be here is even - [Event summary: GWS at XR, The Big One.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/event-summary-gws-at-xr-the-big-one/) - Together with 60,000, we took part in XR's The Big One, four days of action 21-24 April, around Parliament to force the UK government to act on the climate emergency. Day One: Unite to Survive – "Women Care" Speak Out Diverse networks of mothers, grandmothers, other carers and people with disabilities spoke out on refusing - [Press conference and action outside Philadelphia Family Court: Take away our poverty, not our children - Implement recommendations on child separation](https://globalwomenstrike.net/press-conference-and-action-outside-philadelphia-family-court-take-away-our-poverty-not-our-children-implement-recommendations-on-child-separation/) - For Children’s Week for the Child Tax Credit, mothers, grandmothers and supporters from Philadelphia will be joined by others from Baltimore, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, New York, England and Scotland who are suffering from the same abusive child welfare system. We are demanding the implementation of the Recommendations of the Philadelphia City Council Special Committee on Child Separation, starting with: Poverty is not neglect and must not be used as a reason for child removal; Get resources to mothers/caregivers – support, not separation; Open the family court - [PRESS RELEASE: As new Child Tax Credit legislation is introduced in Congress, international networks gather in Philadelphia to demand an End of Mothers’/Caregivers’ Poverty.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/press-release-as-new-child-tax-credit-legislation-is-introduced-in-congress-international-networks-gather-in-philadelphia-to-demand-an-end-of-mothers-caregivers-poverty/) - This week new legislation making permanent the Child Tax Credit (CTC) was introduced into Congress (The American Family Act). The expanded refundable CTC which expired last year had cut the child poverty rate in the US almost in half. This and other measures to get cash directly into the hands of mothers and families will be the focus of a national and international gathering this weekend June 9-11, entitled End Women’s Poverty – A Guaranteed Care Income for All Caregivers of People & Planet. Childcare available. - [End Women's Poverty: Invest in Caring Not Killing online event](https://globalwomenstrike.net/end-womens-poverty-invest-in-caring-not-killing-online-event/) - The California Poor People’s Campaign and women’s organizations who are national partners of the Poor People’s Campaign including the Global Women’s Strike are hosting a nationwide online event for International Women’s Day, End Women’s Poverty - Invest in Caring Not Killing, to recognize the struggles and contributions of women to the economy, communities and movements for justice – and to demand cash and resources go to end women’s poverty, not war. - [Press Announcement: International and Community Gathering in Philadelphia, June 9-11](https://globalwomenstrike.net/press-announcement-international-and-community-gathering-in-philadelphia-june-9-11/) - End Women’s Poverty: A Care Income, A Movement Whose Time Has Come What: International and Community Gathering: End Women’s Poverty – A Guaranteed Care Income for All Caregivers of People & PlanetWhen: June 9-11, 2023Where: Crossroads Women’s Center, 5011 Wayne Ave, Philadelphia PA 19144, and online The Global Women's Strike and the new Crossroads Women's - ["News story of the year" goes to Channel 5's coverage on disabled mothers: A collaborative project with Support Not Separation and Disabled Mothers Rights Campaign.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/news-story-of-the-year-goes-to-channel-5s-coverage-on-disabled-mothers-a-collaborative-project-with-support-not-separation-and-disabled-mothers-rights-campaign/) - Disabled Mothers’ Rights Campaign and Support Not Separation worked with Channel 5 on its national news programme broadcast at 5pm, 25 January 2023. Ch5 announced their shocking findings that parents with a learning disability are 54 times more likely to have their children taken into care. This confirms our experience of the discrimination and hostility - [Event: London Socialist Film Co-Op presents: Walter Rodney: What they don't want you to know.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/event-london-socialist-film-co-op-presents-walter-rodney-what-they-dont-want-you-to-know/) - Join us for a screening of Walter Rodney: What they don't Want you to Know (2022), a documentary exploring the life of Guyanese academic and activist Dr Walter Rodney. The event will be accompanied by a panel and Q&A with: Arlen Harris, director Dr. Patricia Rodney, academic and widow of Walter Rodney Selma James, writer and activist Prof. - [Esme Baker sexually assaulted in a police van](https://globalwomenstrike.net/esme-baker-sexually-assaulted-in-a-police-van/) - [No police license to rape: In fighting for justice for Jackie Berkeley, we are fighting for justice for all.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/in-fighting-for-justice-for-jackie-berkeley-we-are-fighting-for-justice-for-all/) - [Protesting against the National Front](https://globalwomenstrike.net/protesting-against-the-national-front/) - Black Women for Wages for Housework picket the Ferndale Hotel to protest against National Front attacks on the Kings Cross Women's Centre and other organisations and individuals. The picket was 500 strong and sponsored by over 80 organisations. - [Protesting against the US bombing of Libya](https://globalwomenstrike.net/protesting-against-the-us-bombing-of-libya/) - Joining the mass demonstration outside the US Embassy to protest against the bombing of Libya. - [Black Women for Wages for Housework supporting the Anti Apartheid struggle 1986](https://globalwomenstrike.net/black-women-for-wages-for-housework-supporting-the-anti-apartheid-struggle-1986/) - Black Women for Wages for Housework support the march in 28 June 1986. Breakfast Benefit organised by Black Women for Wages for Housework and Sex Race and Class to raise funds for the Time Off 86 and gather a contingent to go on the Anti Apartheid March. The event was a great success. 28 June - [Statement: How the Black community is affected by racism from the police, the justice system and the media (1998).](https://globalwomenstrike.net/statement-how-the-black-community-is-affected-by-racism-from-the-police-the-justice-system-and-the-media-1998/) - [Campaign by Black Women for Wages for Housework to stop the PENTA 1 trial.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/campaign-by-black-women-for-wages-for-housework-to-stop-the-penta-1-trial/) - ["Shanty Town" at the UNHCR: Global Women's Strike join protests on European Day of Action for the rights of immigrants and asylum seekers.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/shanty-town-at-the-unhcr-global-womens-strike-join-protests-on-european-day-of-action-for-the-rights-of-immigrants-and-asylum-seekers/) - [No shoot to Kill, Justice for Jean Charles de Menezes](https://globalwomenstrike.net/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. JeanCharlesDeMenezes-2005Download - [Protesting Operation “Hope & Recovery”: refusing opportunism in the movement](https://globalwomenstrike.net/protesting-operation-hope-recovery-refusing-opportunism-in-the-movement/) - What is Operation “Hope & Recovery”? After the uprisings, a group appeared calling themselves “Blackleaders”, led by Lee Jasper (Co Chair, BARAC) and staged a rally on 19 August 2011. Panel speakers were all men except Diane Abbott (who spoke and then left). Parents – code for single mothers – were blamed for the riots. - [Botched police raid: My 18 months of hell after race charge.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/botched-police-raid-my-18-months-of-hell-after-race-charge/) - A disabled mother has hit out at police after they charged her with racially assaulting an officer during a raid on her home. Download the full article here below MariaMenyVictoryCNJ2014Download - [Press: Day of action says Black Women's Lives matter too.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/press-day-of-action-says-black-womens-lives-matter-too/) - Black Coaltion fighting serial murderers: For two decades over 200 black women went missing in South Central Los Angeles. To remember the victims and get justice for their families, an International Day of Action was held in the US and UK during International Women's week. Read our full article here below. - [Press: Windrush scandal victim died under ‘enormous stress’ Camden New Journal 24 May 2018](https://globalwomenstrike.net/press-windrush-scandal-victim-died-under-enormous-stress-camden-new-journal-24-may-2018/) - 24 May, 2018 — By William McLennanNEIGHBOURS of a man who died while under “enormous stress” caused by thegovernment’s clampdown on children of the Windrush generation have said that his treatmentwas “disgusting”.Dexter Bristol, 58, collapsed and died in the street outside his home in Holborn. Police toldneighbours at the time that he had suffered a heart attack. - [End Police rape, brutality, killings in Nigeria #EndSARS: ](https://globalwomenstrike.net/end-police-rape-brutality-killings-in-nigeria-endsars/) - In blatant disregard for the lives of fellow African people, Nigerian police areattacking protesters, but we are heartened at the bravery and determination of people in the massive protests against police killing and brutality and the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). The movement in support of the uprising in Nigeria is growing worldwide. Read our statement in support - [Women of Colour GWS: International Women’s Day statement – 8 March 2019](https://globalwomenstrike.net/women-of-colour-gws-international-womens-day-statement-8-march-2019/) - As we celebrate, we also struggle and re-energise all our campaigns for justice. The hostile environment has caused such deep suffering, and whipped up racism against communities of colour, and therefore all of us. A damning Parliamentary report (6 March 2019) lays out how the Home Office is continuing the brutal treatment of Windrush survivors and - [OPEN LETTER: Calling out Opportunists, Hijackers and police in the movement...](https://globalwomenstrike.net/open-letter-calling-out-opportunists-hijackers-and-police-in-the-movement/) - The massive Black Lives Matter movement with its timely and urgent demands to endsystemic racism is facing the threat of being diverted from its core demands. Attempts arebeing made to shift the focus onto manufactured issues that stereotype our communities, like“Black on Black” violence and knife/gang crime -- code words for labelling young Blackpeople, often - [Press: ‘Juneteenth’ is our Freedom Day.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/press-juneteenth-is-our-freedom-day/) - Today we will celebrate the anniversary of our emancipation from slavery by joining the Poor People’s Campaign Digital GatheringPress: ‘Juneteenth’ is our Freedom Day. JUNE 19 commemorates the date — Freedom Day — in 1865 when black people in Texas finally heard the Emancipation Proclamation issued two years earlier, which officially ended slavery in the - [Why women oppose the Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Bill.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/why-women-oppose-the-police-crime-sentencing-courts-bill/) - WAR-WOC-statement-vs-Police-Bill-illustrated-3Download - [Statement: Why women oppose the Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Bill. By Women Against Rape and Women of Colour in GWS](https://globalwomenstrike.net/statement-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 - [Women's Demands for Black Lives Movement: End Stop & Search.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/womens-demands-for-black-lives-movement-end-stop-search/) - The most pervasive racist abuse by police. Every mother of sons worries about and the possibility of its escalation. Read our full statement here below. WoCDemandsBLM-2Download - [Mothers Manifesto protest outside Parliament - join us!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/mothers-manifesto-protest-outside-parliament-join-us/) - Dear Friends The Global Women’s Strike will be supporting The Mothers Manifesto protest calling for action on food insecurity outside Parliament on Wednesday 13 September from 11am-4pm. They wrote the following email about the protest. We hope you can join us. We know the situation for many women here in the UK, one of the - [GWS at XR's The Big One, 4 days of action in Central London](https://globalwomenstrike.net/gws-at-xrs-the-big-one-4-days-of-action-in-central-london/) - Four days of action from 21 to 24 April brought together 60,000 people around Parliament to force the UK government to act on the climate emergency. On Friday – “Unite to Survive” day – diverse networks of mothers, grandmothers, other carers and people with disabilities spoke out on refusing poverty, the devaluing of caring and - [Letter: Why doesn’t Stand Up To Racism stand up to the racism against Palestinians?](https://globalwomenstrike.net/why-doesnt-stand-up-to-racism-stand-up-to-the-racism-against-palestinians/) - Women of Colour GWS sent this letter to some of the organisers of the rally but had no reply. Dear BLM Enfield, BLM Croydon, Black Lives Matter Plymouth, and others organising the 29 April “Shut it Down” rally. We are writing to ask how Stand Up to Racism (SUTR) was allowed to take over the - [Give Us Back Our Children](https://globalwomenstrike.net/give-us-back-our-children/) - “Take Away our Poverty not Our Children” * Give Us Back Our Children is a US-based national multiracial network of organizations, mothers, grandmothers and supporters demanding an end to forced and unjust separation of children from their mothers and other primary caregivers by the child welfare system. It includes Alexandria House, A New Way of - [Tribute to Madjiguène Cissé, distinguished Sans Papiers spokeswoman who passed away recently.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tribute-to-madjiguene-cisse-distinguished-sans-papiers-spokeswoman-who-passed-away-recently/) - Women of Colour GWS and Payday Men’s network wrote this tribute for an event organised by some Sans-Papiers collectives from the Paris region, students in struggle in Paris and the Marche des Solidarities, held 27 June 2023 in Paris.(French translation below). We send our deepest condolences to Madjiguène Cissé’s family and friends and all the - [Support Worker Relief & Credit Reform Act: mothers, other caregivers & students need it!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/support-worker-relief-credit-reform-act-mothers-other-caregivers-students-need-it/) - Congresswoman Gwen Moore (D-WI) has reintroduced the Worker Relief and Credit Reform (WRCR) Act (HR 1468) and we are encouraging that as many as possible support this important bill. The WRCR Act would redefine who is a worker to include those of us who are unpaid mothers/other unpaid family caregivers as well as low-income students in higher education - making both eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit for the first time. This is monumental - and urgently needed at this time when public benefits are under attack in Congress, including imposing further work requirements. - [Event: Climate change - learning from women farmers in Andhra Pradesh, India.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/climate-change-learning-from-women-farmers-in-andhra-pradesh-india-a-global-womens-strike-event-for-south-india-heritage-month/) - A Global Women's Strike event for South India Heritage Month. Thursday 20 July 2023, 6-8pm, Swiss Cottage Library, 88 Avenue Rd, London NW3 3HA. ALL WELCOME. What we saw when we visited the women’s self-help groups transforming their communities with natural farming. We in the city must know more about how our food is grown - [In the media: Climate change lessons from Andhra Pradesh, Camden New Journal.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/in-the-media-camden-new-journal-reports-on-climate-change-lessons-from-andhra-pradesh/) - The state of Andhra Pradesh in India has seen a transformation to natural farming which has been made possible by women organizing, writes Solveig Francis. They have created thousands of self-help organizations across more than 3,000 villages. Since 2016 they have spearheaded an agricultural, economic and social transformation through Community Managed Natural Farming: agroecology based on no/low tilling, - [Workshop: How Nature Regulates the Climate & How Natural Farming Can Help](https://globalwomenstrike.net/workshop-how-nature-regulates-the-climate-how-natural-farming-can-help/) - FRIDAY JUNE 9, 10am-4pm (EDT) Crossroads Women’s Center, 5011 Wayne Ave Philadelphia, PA 19144 and by Zoom With: Didi Pershouse, educator, author and soil sponge strategist committed to building healthy communities both above and below ground. Ms Pershouse’s publications include The Ecology of Care: Medicine, Agriculture, Money, and the Quiet Power of Human and Microbial Communities - [Taking Agroecology to scale: Learning from the experiences of Natural Farming in India](https://globalwomenstrike.net/taking-agroecology-to-scale-learning-from-the-experiences-of-natural-farming-in-india/) - Learning from the experiences of Natural Farming in India, this new publication has been compiled by the Alliance for food sovereignty in Africa. Download a copy of it for free here below. AFSA-AP-Natural-farming-guide-engDownload - [Shamima case shows terrible prejudice](https://globalwomenstrike.net/shamima-case-shows-terrible-prejudice/) - Read Layla Omar's brilliant article published in the Camden New Journal, describing how and why the government's removal of Shamima Begum's British citizenship is drenched in racism, and undermines all our rights. If Shamima isn’t British, then many of us are not. - [Letter to the supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal from the Global Women's Strike, Women of Colour in GWS and Pay Day Men's Network.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/letter-to-the-supporters-of-mumia-abu-jamal-from-the-global-womens-strike-women-of-colour-in-gws-and-pay-day-mens-network/) - Dear supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Mumia, as he is known to millions, has been fighting for a new trial free of racism. In December, a petition on Mumia’s behalf will be filed before the US Supreme Court centered on the key issue: that racism kept some Black people off the jury which convicted Mumia. If the - [TODAY Join the Haiti Action Committee for a Day of Action in Solidarity with the Haitian People, thursday 27 April.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/haitian-women-call-on-womens-organisations-for-haiti-day-of-action-april-27/) - Please share this powerful statement issued yesterday by women’s and popular organizations in Haiti, calling for an end to the genocide of the people of Haiti. And join TODAY’s (Thursday) Day of Action called by Haiti Action Committee, our point of reference. Tweet/share on your social media. See Demands, sample tweets and background information here. Global Women’s Strike (GWS), Women of Color/GWS, and Payday men’s - [Destitute pregnant women joins striking women to demand rights](https://globalwomenstrike.net/destitute-pregnant-women-joins-striking-women-to-demand-rights/) - [Danny Glover supports Global Women's Strike campaign for Haitian people](https://globalwomenstrike.net/danny-glover-supports-global-womens-strike-campaign-for-haitian-people/) - [A Chronology of Injustice: The case of Winston Silcott's conviction to be overturned](https://globalwomenstrike.net/a-chronology-of-injustice-the-case-of-winston-silcotts-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. - [Open letter to Refugee Council, Refugee Arrivals Project, Refugee Action to Stop Collaborating with the most repressive and racist immigration laws ever](https://globalwomenstrike.net/open-letter-to-refugee-council-refugee-arrivals-project-refugee-action-to-stop-collaborating-with-the-most-repressive-and-racist-immigration-laws-ever/) - [Black Women for Wages for Housework picketing the AGM of Rio Tinto Zinc in London.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/black-women-for-wages-for-housework-picketing-the-agm-of-rio-tinto-zinc-in-london/) - BWWFH with Kings Cross Women's Centre Peace Collective, Greenham women, NFIP network and Partizans, picketing the 1986 AGM of Rio Tinto Zinc, which mines uranium on Black People's land in Namibia, Canada and the USA. - [Race and Wrongful Convictions in the US, published by the National Registry of Exonerations.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/race-and-wrongful-convictions-in-the-us-published-but-the-national-registry-of-exonerations/) - Download the report here... Race-Report-PreviewDownload - [Selma James’ message to Mumia, after news of the terrible Lucretia Clemons judgment that denied his latest appeal for legal redress.   ](https://globalwomenstrike.net/selma-james-message-to-mumia-after-news-of-the-terrible-lucretia-clemons-judgment-that-denied-his-latest-appeal-for-legal-redress/) - Dear Mumia, It is painful to envisage your having to read this judgement where, once again, the evidence of your innocence is drowned in a racist class sadism. This is how the truth continues to be hidden. We know from your own example and writings that prisoners often win justice by becoming jailhouse lawyers for - [Women of Colour GWS invited speak on a panel discussion at a screening Stephen Vittoria’s film, Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/women-of-colour-gws-invited-speak-on-a-panel-discussion-at-a-screening-stephen-vittorias-film-mumia-long-distance-revolutionary/) - Women of Colour Global was an invited speak on a panel discussion at a screening Stephen Vittoria’s film, by the Development & Conflict Group at University of Westminster’s School of Law. Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary a film by STEPHEN VITTORIA (119 minutes) Wednesday 30 April 2014 at 6 p.m. Venue: School of Law, University of Westminster, 4 - [Screening of “In Prison My Whole Life” part of the International Offensive to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, in which over 500 organisations took part.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/screening-of-in-prison-my-whole-life-part-of-the-international-offensive-to-free-mumia-abu-jamal-in-which-over-500-organisations-took-part/) - Free Mumia Abu-Jamal. Award-winning journalist & Black Panther wrongly imprisoned for over 30 years. Public meeting & film showing Saturday 24 March 2018 – 7pm Crossroads Women’s Centre 25 Wolsey Mews, London NW5 2DX - [Why a retrial for Mumia Abu-Jamal is necessary...](https://globalwomenstrike.net/why-a-retrial-for-mumia-abu-jamal-is-necessary/) - On December 16, 2022, Judge Lucretia Clemons (Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas) Will Hold the Final Hearing Where She Will Grant or Deny Formal Review of New Exculpatory Evidence, Abu-Jamal’s Best Chance at a New Trial Newly discovered exculpatory evidence reveals that, during Abu-Jamal’s 1982 wrongful conviction trial for the shooting of Police Officer Daniel Faulkner, prosecutors - [Event this Friday – Join the Women’s Speak Out at XR’s The Big One](https://globalwomenstrike.net/join-the-womens-speak-out-at-xrs-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 - [Event: London - 5 April - International Protest - Solidarity with the Peruvian People Down with the dictatorship of #DinaBoluarte](https://globalwomenstrike.net/event-london-5-april-international-protest-solidarity-with-the-peruvian-people-down-with-the-dictatorship-of-dinaboluarte/) - #LONDRES: PROTESTA INTERNACIONAL LONDON INTERNATIONAL PROTEST Solidaridad con el pueblo peruanoSolidarity with the Peruvian People Abajo la dictadura de #DinaAsesinaDown with the dictatorship of #DinaBoluarte 5 Abril 18:00Hrs - April 5th at 18h00Parliament Square LONDON SW1P 3BD 🎤 Micrófono abierto (Open mic) #NiUnMuertoMás#NoAlTerrorismoDeEstado#MásDe70Asesinadxs#DinaAsesinaRenunciaYa#CierreDelCongresoCorrupto#AsambleaConstituyente#NuevaConstituciónPlurinacional#PedroCastilloLibertad Traer pancartas, banners, banderas y whipalas. - [Press: The legal trial of PC Anderson 1985-1990](https://globalwomenstrike.net/press-the-legal-trial-of-pc-anderson-1985-1990/) - intro text - [Press: Calvin Bungisa: It's time we had justice, says mother](https://globalwomenstrike.net/press-calvin-bungisa-its-time-we-had-justice-says-mother/) - Celine Nzuzi gives first interview THE mother of a young man killed by a group of masked men last year said she missed her “lovely boy” every day as she described the devastation his death has wreaked on her family. In her first interview, Celine Nzuzi said the community needed justice for her son, Calvin - [Event: Selma James speaking at "Public Access Television, the Community Programme Unit and the BBC"](https://globalwomenstrike.net/event-selma-james-speaking-at-public-access-television-the-community-programme-unit-and-the-bbc/) - 2-6pm Saturday 25 March 2023 Bishopsgate Institute 230 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4QH Public Access Television – the Community Programme Unit Panelists include Selma James of the International Wages for Housework Campaign/Global Women’s Strike It was the new Wages for Housework Campaign Selma had founded (1972) which brought women together to put All Work and No - [8 March: Andhra Pradesh Natural Farming comes to Kentish Town!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/a-global-womens-strike-event-for-international-womens-day-2023/) - A Global Women’s Strike event for International Women’s Day 2023 Andhra Pradesh Natural Farming comes to Kentish Town! Wednesday 8 March, 5-7pm Kentish Town Library, 262-266 Kentish Town Road,London NW5 2AA ALL WELCOME SOLVEIG FRANCIS, based at Crossroads Women’s Centre, will report on her recent visit to the growing women-led farmers’ movement in Andhra Pradesh - [Join us at these events today for International Women's Day 2023](https://globalwomenstrike.net/join-us-at-these-events-today-for-international-womens-day-2023/) - [US: Ask your Representative to cosponsor Worker Relief & Credit Reform Act](https://globalwomenstrike.net/us-ask-your-representative-to-cosponsor-worker-relief-credit-reform-act/) - Exciting news – Rep Gwen Moore will be reintroducing the Worker Relief and Credit Reform (WRCR) Act this Thursday, March 9. Please ask your Representative to sign-on to the WRCR Act right away as an original co-sponsor. You can send a model letter directly to your reps at this link.The WRCR Act modernizes the Earned - [Selma James speaks at Oxford Real Farming Conference: A Care Income to Protect the Land, the People and the Natural World](https://globalwomenstrike.net/selma-james-speaks-at-oxford-real-farming-conference-a-care-income-to-protect-the-land-the-people-and-the-natural-world/) - Speakers: Selma James, Swati Renduchintala, Pranom Somwong, Dee Woods, Jyoti Fernandez. As mothers, carers, farmers/farm workers, land and human rights’ defenders, women do most of the work of feeding (starting with breastfeeding) and protecting families and communities, the soil and the environment. For doing this fundamental caring work of society, unwaged and low-waged, we are - [Tell Congress to Support Regenerative Agriculture! Farmers rally in DC March 6-8](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tell-congress-to-support-regenerative-agriculture-farmers-rally-in-dc-march-6-8/) - Please join us in signing the petition linked below and in other ways supporting this important initiative by Farmers for Climate Action and Regenerate America. The Global Women’s Strike and Payday will be joining the DC rally under the banner of “A Guaranteed Care Income for People and Planet”. The rally and march are on - [An open letter from the mothers of the Russian Federation](https://globalwomenstrike.net/russian-mothers-anti-war-letter/) - An open letter from the mothers of the Russian Federation Please read this important anti-war letter from Russian mothers. The letter was issued on Mothers’ Day, November 2022, but it only recently came into our hands. We don’t know the risk the mothers had to take to write and circulate this letter, but they took - [Event: Giacomo D’Alisa on Care Income & Degrowth](https://globalwomenstrike.net/event-giacomo-dalisa-on-care-income-degrowth/) - Mon, 8 March 2021 16:00 – 17:30 GMT Location: Online Event The Care Income Campaign is an international grassroots network demanding payment for care for others and environmental stewardship About this Event The Care Income Campaign is an international grassroots network demanding payment and recognition of housework, care for others and environmental stewardship. Its history - [Sign letter: We urge that Child Tax Credits go to mothers or other primary caregivers](https://globalwomenstrike.net/sign-letter-we-urge-that-child-tax-credits-go-to-mothers-or-other-primary-caregivers/) - Members of Congress, President Biden and Vice President Harris: We urge that Child Tax Credits go to mothers or other primary caregivers, leading to a permanent child cash benefit, and for the $15/hour minimum wage campaign promise to be honored. SIGN THE LETTER Seventy percent of the poor in the US are women and children.1 - [Selma James is speaking at the Anarchist Bookfair, London](https://globalwomenstrike.net/selma-james-is-speaking-at-the-anarchist-bookfair-london-/) - 16.30-17.30pm : Autonomy – Central to Organizing and Unity. UPCOMING EVENT : Selma James is speaking at the Whitechapel Gallery this weekend! Workshop with Q&A at the London Anarchist Bookfair Clore Creative Studio in the Whitechapel Gallery (close to the Bookfair) 77-82 Whitechapel High St, London E1 7QX. The Global Women’s Strike is also having - [Mothers and other Caregivers Say, Our Children Are Hungry - Reinstate the Child Tax Credit Now!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/mothers-and-other-caregivers-say-our-children-are-hungry-reinstate-the-child-tax-credit-now/) - Studies show that the majority of families used the Child Tax Credit to buy food. Reinstating the expanded refundable Child Tax Credit is needed to end hunger: Prioritize it! As the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health convenes tomorrow – the first such conference in over 50 years – and as President Biden has pledged to end hunger and diet-related diseases by 2030, it’s urgent to call on elected officials to make reinstating the expanded Child Tax Credit a top priority. - [Statement: White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, 28 Sept 2022](https://globalwomenstrike.net/statement-white-house-conference-on-hunger-nutrition-and-health-28-sept-2022/) - Statement from the Global Women's Strike, Women of Color/GWS and Care Income Now! Download PDF To reach President Biden’s goal of ending hunger by 2030, the poverty of mothers, other primary caregivers and those caring for the land must be eliminated. We call for an expanded fully-refundable Child Tax Credit paid monthly and directly to - [Free Assange Human Chain: Surround Parliament on Saturday 8 October.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/free-assange-human-chain-surround-parliament-on-saturday-8-october/) - A number of us will participate in this action in defense of Julian Assange organised by the Don’t Extradite Assange Campaign on Saturday 8 October. See their mailing below. Hope you can join us there. Will you be the next link in our Human Chain to Free Assange? We have 3549 links out of an - [Fracking Rears Its Head Again. We are talking to The Nanas Against Fracking, Lincolnshire.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/fracking-rears-its-head-again-we-are-talking-to-the-nanas-against-fracking-lincolnshire/) - Following the horrendous government decision to lift the ban on fracking forshale gas in the UK, Nanas against Fracking sent us the October 2022 FrackFree Lancashire Newsletter which we thought you might want to see –please see attached. And one of the founding Nanas, Tina, wrote thisOpinion piece for the Guardian – see below also - [Call to action: #CTC Social Media Storm: Calling on Congress to Reinstate the Child Tax Credit Now! December 7th.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/call-to-action-ctc-social-media-storm-calling-on-congress-to-reinstate-the-child-tax-credit-now-december-7th/) - It’s URGENT that Congress members extend the expanded refundable Child Tax Credit before 2022 comes to a close.US Census data shows that child poverty was cut 46% to a record low of 5.2% in 2021, mostly due to the expanded Child Tax Credit. But Congress did not extend the CTC when it ended in December 2021, - [Press statement: Women Human Rights Defenders collective in Thailand amplify demands to goverment.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/press-statement-women-human-rights-defenders-collective-in-thailand-amplify-demands-to-goverment/) - On the occasion of International Women Human Rights Defenders Day we, Community WHRDs Collective in Thailand gather to restate and amplify our demands first submitted to three Parliamentary Committees to mark International WHRD Day, 21 November 2019. We re-affirm that the 2017 Constitution is not fit for purpose and must be replaced. It must be - [Selma James talk on KPFA radio Letters and Politics is published](https://globalwomenstrike.net/selma-james-talk-on-kpfa-radio-letters-and-politics/) - https://archives.kpfa.org/data/20221206-Tue0500.mp3?_gl=11a0pji_ga*ODQzNTI Monday, December 5, to Letters and Politics with Mitch Jeserich for an interview with Selma James of the Global Women’s Strike. The interview will be aired at either 10.08am or 10:30. Selma spoke about the historic 1982 occupation of the Holy Cross Church by sex workers in London. She was their spokeswoman at the time and - [Child Tax Credit Popular Across Parties, Reinstate Now!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/child-tax-credit-popular-across-parties-reinstate-now/) - URGENT ACTION ALERT: The Child Tax Credit is Popular! Voters: Independent, Republican, Democrats Call for Expansion of the Child Tax Credit Or in this holiday season will Members of Congress gift poverty to millions of children? The clock is ticking! Congress must reinstate the refundable Child Tax Credit before the end of 2022. The 2021 expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC) was an overwhelming success! By making it fully refundable (which made it available to the most impoverished families), raising the amount, and paying it out monthly, the expanded CTC resulted in the largest-ever decline in child poverty in a single year. Child poverty fell to 5.2%, the lowest rate on record. - [Join us at Oxford Real Farming Conference, 4-6 Jan – Register now](https://globalwomenstrike.net/join-us-at-oxford-real-farming-conference-4-6-jan-register-now/) - The Global Women’s Strike is speaking at two sessions of theOxford Real Farming Conference (ORFC) 4-6 Jan 2023. We hope you can attend and tell others about the conference: three days of packed sessions, the first day online only, the following two in person & online. You can register for the online sessions HERE (free - [Media: Selma James joins host Margaret Prescod for the hour to discuss the history of her involvement in organizing for fair wages for women, and her continued organizing at 92 years old.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/media-selma-james-joins-host-margaret-prescod-for-the-hour-to-discuss-the-history-of-her-involvement-in-organizing-for-fair-wages-for-women-and-her-continued-organizing-at-92-years-old/) - Today on Sojourner Truth, author, organizer and anti-capitalist campaigner, Selma James joins host Margaret Prescod for the hour to discuss the history of her involvement in organizing for fair wages for women, and her continued organizing at 92 years old.In 1972 Selma put forward Wages for Housework (WFH) as a political perspective that redefined the - [Novara Media: Correction request re Wages for Housework Campaign article](https://globalwomenstrike.net/novara-media-correction-request-re-yesterdays-wages-for-housework-campaign-article/) - Dear Novara Media, Re https://novaramedia.com/2022/03/21/the-wages-for-housework-campaign-is-as-relevant-as-ever/ The article by Sophie Rosa, published on 21 March, grossly misinforms about the Wages for Housework Campaign which is celebrating 50 years of uninterrupted campaigning this year. It jumbles together academics past and present, avoiding the concrete struggles our international grassroots network has been making in the Global South and - [Climate Justice and the women's natural farming movement in Andhra Pradesh, India](https://globalwomenstrike.net/climate-justice-and-the-womens-natural-farming-movement-in-andhra-pradesh-india/) - Dear Friends, Many of you will know that the Wages for Housework Campaign, which co-ordinates the Global Women’s Strike, and celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, has broadened its demand for financial recognition for caring work to include also the care and protection of the planet we all depend on. Recently, in the course of supporting - [Women 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:](https://globalwomenstrike.net/women-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-2/) - 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 - [Draft international petition: A care income for all caring work for people and planet](https://globalwomenstrike.net/a-draft-international-petition-a-care-income-for-all-caring-work-for-people-and-planet/) - Caring for others is the foundation of every society. Yet this work, done mostly by women, in the home, on the land and in the community, is devalued, unwaged or low waged, leading to poverty, dependence and endless work. The pandemic and above all the climate emergency have forced us to recognise that caring for and protecting people and the natural world must become the universal priority. - [Selma James in the Guardian: For peace in Haiti, first win the war on hunger](https://globalwomenstrike.net/selma-james-in-the-guardian-for-peace-in-haiti-first-win-the-war-on-hunger/) - Your article on the Haiti crisis omits mention of the only Haitian government that people voted in by a landslide – twice. Headed by the former liberation theology priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti’s first democratically elected president, it uniquely focused on tackling poverty, supporting small farmers, building schools and hospitals, increasing the minimum wage and demanding justice - [Alabama: Power to prisoners & supporters on both sides of the wall](https://globalwomenstrike.net/alabama-power-to-prisoners-supporters-on-both-sides-of-the-wall/) - Dear friends, We wanted you to see our letter of support (below) sent by Payday and other organizations in the Global Women’s Strike network to the prisoners’ movement against slavery and cruel and unusual punishment in the US state of Alabama. The Alabama prisoners’ strike lasted almost a month last fall despite constant harassment and retaliation - [Video: GWS speaking to mark the second anniversary of the military coup in Myanmar](https://globalwomenstrike.net/video-gws-speaking-to-mark-the-second-anniversary-of-the-military-coup-in-myanmar/) - [Join us to mark the second anniversary of the military coup in Myanmar](https://globalwomenstrike.net/join-us-to-mark-the-second-anniversary-of-the-military-coup-in-myanmar/) - To mark the second anniversary of the military coup in Myanmar, GWS and No Sweat as part of the Myanmar Military: Never in Fashion campaign we co-ordinate, are joining the demonstration in London on Wednesday 1 February against the killings, rape and torture committed by the military since the coup. Myanmar Military: Never in Fashion - [Peru: joint statement against the coup](https://globalwomenstrike.net/peru-joint-statement-against-the-coup/) - Joint statement issued on 30 December 2022 by grassroots organizations and trade unions in Peru, including Huelga Mundial de Mujeres/Global Women’s Strike, condemning the coup and the horrendous repression against protestors. The government declared a state of emergency and suspended all rights and guarantees, allowing the police and military to kill with impunity. The resistance - [Message to the Royal College of Nursing in support of the nurses’ strike](https://globalwomenstrike.net/message-to-the-royal-college-of-nursing-in-support-of-the-nurses-strike/) - Caring matters. Carers matter. Those who need care, all of us, matter. In supporting the nurses strike we support ourselves, in our common carers’ struggle for every life to matter and be cared for. Unlike the government, we the people who came out clapping to thank NHS workers during Covid meant it – that’s why we urge everyone to support the strike and your demand for pay justice. Power to the nurses and all other low paid workers in the NHS! Invest in caring, invest in carers. - [Open letter to governments – a Care Income Now!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/open-letter-to-governments-a-care-income-now/) - Bahasa, Burmese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Mandarin, Romanian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Urdu so far. Every day and in every emergency, unwaged or low waged caregivers, urban and rural, mostly women, often immigrant women, struggle to protect and care for people of every age and condition. But this work is kept invisible and therefore there is - [Press statement 29 November 2022 by Community WHRDs Collective in Thailand](https://globalwomenstrike.net/press-statement-29-november-2022-by-community-whrds-collective-in-thailand/) - On the occasion of International Women Human Rights Defenders Day we, Community WHRDs Collective in Thailand gather to restate and amplify our demands first submitted to three Parliamentary Committees to mark International WHRD Day, 21 November 2019. We re-affirm that the 2017 Constitution is not fit for purpose and must be replaced. It must be - [Care Income leaflet for 2023 Oxford Real Farming Conference](https://globalwomenstrike.net/care-income-leaflet-for-2023-oxford-real-farming-conference/) - Campaigning for an income for all who care for people, the soil and the natural world can: • Strengthen the movement against environmental destruction & global warming • Address poverty & other injustice suffered by those, overwhelmingly women, who do this work unwaged or low-waged • Redirect economic & social priorities internationally towards nourishing food (starting with breastfeeding), clean water & air, and the care & protection of all life • Encourage all genders & identities to commit to this lifesaving life-enhancing work. - [40 Years After Sex Workers Took Over an English Church, the Fight for Justice Picks Up in San Francisco](https://globalwomenstrike.net/40-years-after-sex-workers-took-over-an-english-church-the-fight-for-justice-picks-up-in-san-francisco/) - Published in The San Francisco Standard 10 December. In 1917, hundreds of San Francisco sex workers confronted a Tenderloin church pastor for trying to chase them out of town with his sermons, effectively giving him a crash course on their inability to survive economically. That direct action laid the groundwork for sex workers in France, Canada and - [Panel Discussion with Films screened at St. Francis Lutheran Church, in collaboration with US Pros and Global Womens Strike to commemorate International Day to end Violence against Sex Workers](https://globalwomenstrike.net/panel-discussion-with-films-screened-at-st-francis-lutheran-church-in-collaboration-with-us-pros-and-global-womens-strike-to-commemorate-international-day-to-end-violence-against-sex-workers/) - [Women human rights defenders collective demands constitutional reform](https://globalwomenstrike.net/women-human-rights-defenders-collective-demands-constitutional-reform/) - News By Prachatai Submitted on Wed, 7 Dec 2022 - 03:13 PM A network of women human rights defenders has called for a more inclusive constitution and proposed amendments to the constitution which included the protection of women’s rights, decentralization, and state welfare. Representatives of the Collective announcing their demands for constitutional reform On 29 - [Event: meet Selma James - the celebrated author & campaigner](https://globalwomenstrike.net/event-meet-selma-james-the-celebrated-author-campaigner/) - Dear friends, You are welcome to come and meet the celebrated author and campaigner Selma James on Thursday, 15 December, 5pm at our local Kentish Town Library, NW5 2AA. Selma will speak about her latest anthology Our Time is Now - Sex, Race, Class, and Caring for People and Planet, followed by discussion.Please RSVP. - [Child Tax Credit Emergency Twitter Storm, Friday 14 Jan](https://globalwomenstrike.net/child-tax-credit-emergency-twitter-storm-friday-14-jan/) - URGENT ⚡ #ChildTaxCredit Twitter Storm ⚡ Friday January 14th 1-2PM ET, 10-11AM PT TAKE EMERGENCY ACTION TO PROTECT THE CHILD TAX CREDIT! For the past 6 months, the Child Tax Credit (CTC) has lifted millions of children out of poverty. Using present poverty measures it cut child poverty in half, decreased food insecurity by 1/3, - [Mothers and grandmothers speak out on what losing the Child Tax Credit has meant for their families](https://globalwomenstrike.net/mothers-and-grandmothers-speak-out-on-what-losing-the-child-tax-credit-has-meant-for-their-families/) - “We'll just be back in the poorhouse again, back where we started from. We will not get to go out on family outings. No snacks, no going out. No more Taco Tuesdays, no more movie night, no pizza night. I won't get breaks. Less socks and shoes for the kids. The CTC was helping me catch up on my bills, but now I'm going to have to be starting all over again. Plus food prices went up, and food’s going up more. With the CTC being shut off, some people's going to be hungry again. Five pounds of chicken wings is now $17.99. Toilet tissue’s doubled in price. It's now 10 rolls for $10.99. Sodas were $2.98, to it's now $6.99. That's going to be a struggle because they ain't upping your food stamps.” - [URGENT! Tell Congress & the White House to Restore the #ChildTaxCredit Payments Now!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/urgent-tell-congress-the-white-house-to-resume-the-childtaxcredit-payments-now/) - Children are suffering due to Senate inaction! ⚡ Twitterstorm Tuesday March 8, International Women’s Day ⚡ 11am-1pm PT / 2-4pm ETDefend the #ChildTaxCredit The #ChildTaxCredit in the Build Back Better plan helped more than 36 million families with children afford groceries and school supplies, pay bills and make ends meet. It lifted 3.7 million children - [Take Action: Child Tax Credit & Earned Income Tax Credit Awareness Day](https://globalwomenstrike.net/take-action-child-tax-credit-earned-income-tax-credit-awareness-day/) - Help get out the word that it’s not too late to get the rest, or all, of your 2021 Child Tax Credit (CTC) money, as part of a national day of action on the Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit on Feb 8. What you can do: - [Work Requirements for Child Tax Credits Are An Insult to Mothers (Ms. Magazine)](https://globalwomenstrike.net/work-requirements-for-child-tax-credits-are-an-insult-to-mothers-ms-magazine/) - Sen. Joe Manchin has been demanding “work requirements” for qualification—but every mother is a working mother, and every mother knows that. - [A 'front loaded' child benefit avoids the financial recognition mothers are campaigning for](https://globalwomenstrike.net/a-front-loaded-child-benefit-avoids-the-financial-recognition-mothers-are-campaigning-for/) - As the Wages for Housework Campaign celebrates its 50th anniversary, money for mothers is increasingly on the agenda. The think tank Civitas proposes that parents with children under the age of four should be paid £8,000 a year to look after them. See here. This would be done by “frontloading” child benefit, that is more of the - [Nadja News: Ten times women's unpaid care work was recognised in history.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/nadja-news-ten-times-womens-unpaid-care-work-was-recognised-in-history/) - Cooking, cleaning, gathering food and water, and caring for children and the elderly are vital for families and societies. Yet this work, performed by women 75% of the time, has seldom been given the recognition it deserves, creating huge inequality around the world. Here are ten times unpaid care work has been recognised for what it - [Event : Hear Selma James speak at KPFA’s Letters & Politics, on Hookers in the House of the Lord](https://globalwomenstrike.net/hear-selma-james-dec-5-kpfas-letters-politics-on-hookers-in-the-house-of-the-lord/) - Tune in to KPFA on Monday, December 5, to Letters and Politics with Mitch Jeserich for an interview with Selma James of the Global Women’s Strike. The interview will be aired at either 10.08am or 10:30. Selma will speak about the historic 1982 occupation of the Holy Cross Church by sex workers in London. She was their spokeswoman at - [Event : Black Women's Lives Count: Reclaiming Our Sisters Everywhere.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/event-black-womens-lives-count-reclaiming-our-sisters-everywhere/) - Support a permanent memorial for South Los Angeles victims of serial murders. ONLINE Thursday, December 8, 2022 3:30pm PST / 5:30pm CST / 6:30pm ESTRegister at https://bit.ly/rosesladec8 Event organized by Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial MurdersDonate: http://rosesouthla.org/donate For more info: http://rosesouthla.org/contact-us. - [Event: An initial dialogue on Care Income](https://globalwomenstrike.net/event-an-initial-dialogue-on-care-income/) - [Haitian women mobilize against government violence](https://globalwomenstrike.net/haitian-women-mobilize-against-government-violence/) - Powerful statement by Haitian women taking to the streets against government violence and massacres. Please share widely. https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/11/24/haitian-women-to-mobilize-on-november-25-against-political-violence/ Haitian women mobilize on November 25 against political violence Amid an increase in political violence and human rights violations, Haitian women of all backgrounds denounce violence against women by the governments of Ariel Henry and his Dominican - [Ham & High podcast : Selma James speaks about the campaign’s success, initial resistance from feminists, and how, if at all, things have improved for women and unpaid carers across the world. ](https://globalwomenstrike.net/ham-high-podcast-selma-james-speaks-about-the-campaigns-success-initial-resistance-from-feminists-and-how-if-at-all-things-have-improved-for-women-and-unpaid-carers-across-the-world/) - https://podfollow.com/hamhigh/episode/4c268891beb680672a3aa2e7b9997926a1876ca0/view - [Women’s Demands for Black Lives Matter Movement](https://globalwomenstrike.net/womens-demands-for-black-lives-matter-movement/) - End Stop & Search. The most pervasive racist abuse by police: 375,588 s&s in England & Wales (2019), and a sharp increase during lockdown. Black people, especially children and young men, are 10x more likely to be s& than white people; Asian people x3 more. It humiliates, persecutes and interferes in daily life. Every mother - [Upcoming Event : Resistance Exhibition - Day of Workshops and Talks - Saturday 12 November.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/upcoming-event-resistance-exhibition-day-of-workshops-and-talks-saturday-12-november/) - Event organised by Stonehenge Heritage Action Group, Global Women's Strike and Resistance Exhibition Address : Black Door, Soho Studios, 17-19 Archer Street, London, W1D 7, United Kingdom. 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞: 𝟐𝒑𝒎: 𝑮𝒍𝒐𝒃𝒂𝒍 𝑾𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏'𝒔 𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒌𝒆: 𝟓𝟎 𝒀𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑶𝒓𝒈𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑨𝒄𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒔 𝑺𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒔 𝟑.𝟑𝟎𝒑𝒎: '𝑲𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑬𝒏𝒆𝒎𝒚' 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑪𝒐𝒓𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝟓𝒑𝒎: 𝑹𝒐𝒂𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆! 𝑷𝒂𝒏𝒆𝒍 𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒖𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 fellow 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬: 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡: - [Urgent Action Alert : Join with Haiti’s popular movement to strongly condemn the call for an expanded foreign military occupation of Haiti!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/urgent-action-alert-join-with-haitis-popular-movement-to-strongly-condemn-the-call-for-an-expanded-foreign-military-occupation-of-haiti/) - Please endorse the letter below from Haiti Action Committee by endorsing the letter online. Or respond to this email with your name, contact info, and organization. Please also make calls to the officials listed below the letter. Turning to the UN Security Council, the OAS, and the US government to “stabilize” the crisis in Haiti is - [United Friends & Family annual march, Sat 29 Oct, 12 noon](https://globalwomenstrike.net/united-friends-family-annual-march-sat-29-oct-12-noon/) - We’re joining the annual march again this Sat 29 Oct, assemble 12 noon, Trafalgar Sq. Please come to support and let your networks know. Look out for our banner. More info here: https://4wardeveruk.org/2022/10/uffc-announce-the-2022-annual-rally-demonstration/ - [Free Mumia! Key hearing 26 Oct, Philadelphia](https://globalwomenstrike.net/free-mumia-key-hearing-26-oct-philadelphia/) - Dear Friends, PACKING THE PHILADELPHIA COURT This Wednesday 26 Oct in support of Mumia Abu-Jamal An important hearing is being held 26 Oct that could lead to reopening Mumia Abu-Jamal’s case, establish his innocence and secure his release. v Links to court live-stream & what you can do: linktr.ee/mumia v More info from Love Not - [Haiti: Fri 21 Oct. Stop US-Canadian intervention, 4-5pm](https://globalwomenstrike.net/haiti-fri-21-oct-stop-us-canadian-intervention-4-5pm/) - HANDS OFF HAITI! Friday 21 Oct 2022 4-5pm High Commission of Canada, Canada House, London SW1Y 5BJ Called by Caribbean Labour Solidarity. See more info: Haiti Action Committee Support Haiti’s Popular Movement by donations to Haiti Emergency Relief Fund. No to US and UN military intervention in Haiti • US Stop Supporting Ariel Henry and - [Haiti Action Committee Condemns Calls for Expanded Foreign Military Intervention in Haiti](https://globalwomenstrike.net/haiti-action-committee-condemns-calls-for-expanded-foreign-military-intervention-in-haiti/) - From Haiti Action SF/Bay Area! Come Out To Protest Expanded Foreign Military Intervention in Haiti October 26th, 4pm San Francisco Federal Building 90 - 7th Street, San Francisco Turning to the UN Security Council, the OAS, and the US government to “stabilize” the crisis in Haiti is like pleading with arsonists to quell the fire they - [Fuel Poverty Action: Energy for all petition. Join us today on Downing Street at 1pm.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/fuel-poverty-action-energy-for-all-petition-join-us-today-on-downing-street-at-1pm/) - #EnergyForAll means giving everyone a free amount of energy – that is enough energy, free, to cover the basics like heating, cooking, and lighting – to give us all the security we need, taking account of people’s actual needs related to their age, health, and housing. They already have over 600,000 signatures demanding a universal basic energy guarantee. A number of - [What Mothers and Other Caregivers Want: Fill in the International Survey.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/what-mothers-and-other-caregivers-want-fill-in-the-international-survey/) - We write to bring to your attention our What do mothers and caregivers want? international survey. We urge you to fill it in and/or circulate it among family, friends and social networks if you haven’t already. The survey is being circulated in different countries and four languages so far – English, Italian, Spanish and Thai – and has - [Hookers in the House of the Lord: The Reunion, 21 October 2022.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/hookers-in-the-house-of-the-lord-the-reunion-21-october-2022/) - This autumn marks 40 years since the English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) occupied the Church of the Holy Cross in the red-light area of King’s Cross, London, for 12 days to protest “police illegality and racism” against sex workers. Tickets for our event below were snapped up before we had a chance to publicise it! - [Protesting Operation "Hope and Recovery"](https://globalwomenstrike.net/protesting-operation-hope-and-recovery/) - Refusing opportunism in our movement What is Operation “Hope & Recovery”? After the uprisings, a group appeared calling themselves “Black leaders”, led by Lee Jasper (Co Chair, BARAC) and staged a rally on 19 August 2011. Panel speakers were all men except Diane Abbott (who spoke and then left). Parents – code for single mothers - [Burma/Myanmar: Urgent Appeal for Donations](https://globalwomenstrike.net/burma-myanmar-urgent-appeal-for-donations-4/) - Dear sisters and friends, Burma/Myanmar: Urgent Appeal for Donations We are distraught and outraged to hear about the executions of four political prisoners in Myanmar. Their murders add to the over 5,800 women, children and men killed since the military coup in February 2021. These atrocities must spur us all into action. We see the - [Islington Tribute: It’s 50 years since the Wages for Housework campaign was launched. Angela Cobbinah asks how far it has come](https://globalwomenstrike.net/islington-tribute-its-50-years-since-the-wages-for-housework-campaign-was-launched-angela-cobbinah-asks-how-far-it-has-come/) - Waging war It’s 50 years since the Wages for Housework campaign was launched. Angela Cobbinah asks how far it has come Thursday, 11th August — By Angela Cobbinah Women’s Centre premises in King’s Cross in the 1970s IT is some time in the mid-1970s and a pensioner is stopped in a London street by a BBC - [Nina Lopez, GWS speaking at Myanmar 8888 protest](https://globalwomenstrike.net/nina-lopez-gws-speaking-at-myanmar-8888-protest-/) - [GWS speaking at this event today to honour the lives of the four executed Myanmar activists & Myanmar’s spirit of resistance](https://globalwomenstrike.net/gws-speaking-at-this-event-today-to-honour-the-lives-of-the-four-executed-myanmar-activists-myanmars-spirit-of-resistance/) - International Activists to Host an Online Event to Honour the Lives of the 4-Executed Myanmar Activists & Myanmar’s Spirit of Resistance An international group of activists, scholars, musicians and singers have teamed up with Myanmar dissidents to host a 2-hour YouTube LIVE event on Saturday, 30 July, 2022. FORSEA on July 28, 2022 PRESS RELEASE Outraged by - [PRESS RELEASE: No to executions in Myanmar. Comprehensive economic sanctions now.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/press-release-no-to-executions-in-myanmar-comprehensive-economic-sanctions-now/) - PRESS RELEASE…PRESS RELEASE…PRESS RELEASE NO TO EXECUTIONS IN MYANMARCOMPREHENSIVE ECONOMIC SANCTIONS NOW Myanmar Military: Never in Fashion campaign is distraught and outraged to hear about the executions of four political prisoners in Myanmar. Their murders add to the over 5,800 women children and men killed since the military coup In February 2021. These executions make - [Fri 22 & 29 July: Brazil & Venezuela films](https://globalwomenstrike.net/fri-22-29-july-brazil-venezuela-films/) - Celebrate Wages for Housework's 50th anniversary with three great films at Crossroads Women's Centre London! - [Nomination by Maggie Ronayne from Strike Ireland to the president of her university and the National University of Ireland](https://globalwomenstrike.net/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 - [Demonstration in Dublin against a Shell pipeline in Co.Mayo Ireland, 24 February 2007](https://globalwomenstrike.net/demonstration-in-dublin-against-a-shell-pipeline-in-co-mayo-ireland-24-february-2007/) - A rural community in the west of Ireland is fighting a group of companies led by Shell who are trying to build a life-threatening gas pipeline & polluting refinery in their area. There was about 850-1000 people at the demonstration. They were mainly from the Left, the Parties, trade unions, NGOs and a big contingent - [Event with Myanmar trade union leader](https://globalwomenstrike.net/event-with-myanmar-trade-union-leader/) - [Screening Great Archive Films: Friday 8 July, 6pm at Crossroads Women's Centre.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/screening-great-archive-films-friday-8-july-6pm/) - Our Time is Coming Now, 1971 : Selma James, a socialist and feminist uses her own experiences working in low paid jobs and being a mother and housewife as a starting point in this investigation into whether women are exploited in all areas of society. All Work and No Pay, 1976 : Made for Open - [Unwaged Caregivers join June 18th Poor People’s Campaign Mass Poor People’s & Low Wage Workers Assembly & Moral March on Washington DC](https://globalwomenstrike.net/unwaged-caregivers-join-june-18th-poor-peoples-campaign-mass-poor-peoples-low-wage-workers-assembly-moral-march-on-washington-dc/) - On June 18th mothers and other unwaged caregivers are joining with other poor, unwaged and low-waged workers and people of conscience to take part in the giant Poor People’s Campaign Mass Assembly in Washington, DC. Women and children make up 70% of impoverished people in the US. Though we are workers putting in long hours - [How Can Women Defeat Austerity? Selma James talks at Maynooth.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/how-can-women-defeat-austerity-selma-james-talks-at-maynooth/) - Founder of the Wages for Housework campaign and coordinator of the Global Women's Strike, Selma James brought a lifetime of movement experience to bear in this electrifying talk. Asked to speak to organisers' needs in the current crisis, she spoke to a roomful of 30 activists and researchers passionately, clearly and incisively for an hour - [Letter of thanks from Margarett D'Arcy](https://globalwomenstrike.net/letter-of-thanks-from-margarett-darcy/) - Dochas Women’s PrisonMount JoyNC RoadDublin 7 (posted 25 Feb 2014) Dear Women, I am overwhelmed with your support and amazed with your energy, it is hard work when the State incarcerates women who are doing the work that the Irish State should be doing. Protecting our neutrality, bringing justice, affirming its devotion to the ideal - [Free Margaretta D'Arcy, Free Shannon](https://globalwomenstrike.net/free-margaretta-darcy-free-shannon/) - Dear friends, Please find below a statement from Global Women’s Strike demanding that our dear friend and colleague Margaretta D’Arcy, be released. She has been jailed for three months in Ireland, for protesting the use of Shannon’s civilian airport for US wars. She is only allowed one phone call a day and two half-hour visits - [Why the Irish Constitution Must Recognise Workers In the Home and Pay Equity](https://globalwomenstrike.net/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 - [Journey with the Revolution, Galway Film Tour, 12 July](https://globalwomenstrike.net/journey-with-the-revolution-galway-film-tour-12-july/) - Film TourGalway Tuesday 6th March 7pmNational University of Ireland, Galway Tyndall Theatre Arts/Science Bldg - [Coming to Galway, Photography Exhibition, 12-16th March.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/coming-to-galway-photography-exhibition-12-16th-march/) - The Global Women's Strike invites you to an inspiring exhibition of 30 beautiful colour photos with captions by and about the lives of women participating in the Strike in many countries. Dublin Arts Block, University College Dublin, Mon 5th - Fri 9th March. Hosts: UCD Students' Union. Coming to Galway: National University of Ireland, Galway - [Selma James has been invited to speak at Refugee Week in Brighton & Hove Library](https://globalwomenstrike.net/selma-james-has-been-invited-to-speak-at-refugee-week-in-brighton-hove-library/) - UK - Rwanda migration plan: What does it mean for the Refugee Convention? About this event: Activists, a thinker, and a newly arrived asylum seeker will address the questions, how does the UK in fact, treat forced migrants? Who really supports them? And what must be done? The United Kingdom is portrayed as one of - [PRESS RELEASE: Myanmar Military: Never in Fashion](https://globalwomenstrike.net/press-release-myanmar-military-never-in-fashion/) - PRESS RELEASE Guess, H&M, Next, Primark, Zara – no business as usual in Myanmar. On Saturday 11 June 2-3pm the campaign Myanmar Military: Never in Fashion will protest outside H&M, Zara and Primark on Oxford street to inform the public and urge the brands to cease all production in Myanmar to weaken the military - [Myanmar Military: Never in Fashion - Protest outside H&M, Zara and Primark](https://globalwomenstrike.net/myanmar-military-never-in-fashion-protest-outside-hm-zara-and-primark/) - Stop doing business with murderous dictators! Protest outside H&M, Zara and Primark Saturday 11 June 2-3pm Oxford Street London Start at H&M, 250 Oxford St, London W1B 2ES, we will march to ZARA,215-219, Oxford St, London W1D 2LG and then Primark, 14-28 Oxford St, London W1D 1AU for a speak-out outside each shop. H&M, - [Black Women: Bringing It All Back Home](https://globalwomenstrike.net/black-women-bringing-it-all-back-home/) - Falling Wall Press, March, 1980 - [Every Mother is a Working Mother](https://globalwomenstrike.net/every-mother-is-a-working-mother/) - Safire, October 1977 - [Equality Begins With Money](https://globalwomenstrike.net/equality-begins-with-money/) - Labrish Newsletter, 1978 - [Sex, Race and Class, Black and Third World's Discussion and Study Group](https://globalwomenstrike.net/sex-race-and-class-black-and-third-worlds-discussion-and-study-group/) - Crossroads Women's Centre, 1985 - [Invite to Breakfast Benefit](https://globalwomenstrike.net/invite-to-breakfast-benefit/) - Crossroads Women's Centre, June 1986 - [Blacks Still Get A Raw Deal](https://globalwomenstrike.net/blacks-still-get-a-raw-deal/) - Sharon Du Bois, The Observer, 1986 - [Black Women Keep Vigil Against Racist Organisation](https://globalwomenstrike.net/black-women-keep-vigil-against-racist-organisation/) - The Journal, February 1987 - [Survey to Appraise Women's Unpaid Work](https://globalwomenstrike.net/survey-to-appraise-womens-unpaid-work/) - London Daily News and various newspapers, 1987 - [Black and White Women in the Peace Movement](https://globalwomenstrike.net/black-and-white-women-in-the-peace-movement/) - Homerton School, November 1987 - [Waging War for Women](https://globalwomenstrike.net/waging-war-for-women/) - Tricia Read, Caribbean Times, October 1988 - [Thailand: People’s Movement versus laws which undermine freedom of association.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/thailand-peoples-movement-versus-laws-which-undermine-freedom-of-association/) - An open letter to The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) Cc Gita Sabharwal, United Nations Resident Coordinator in Thailand Dear Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, Executive Secretary of UNESCAP, We, the People’s Movement Against the Draft Laws that Undermine Freedom of Association, are writing to express our serious concerns regarding Thailand’s Draft Act on the Operations - [War Against Children?](https://globalwomenstrike.net/how-can-we-get-justice-when-the-accused-is-also-the-judge/) - Wages for Housework, International Campaign Journal, May, 1982 - [Wages for Housework: 50 years of campaigning – The Global Women's Strike experience event](https://globalwomenstrike.net/wages-for-housework-50-years-of-campaigning-the-global-womens-strike-experience-event/) - The Global Women’s Strike Experience—Part 1 When: Saturday 28 May, 2-4pm, in person Where: Bishopsgate Institute, London EC2M 4QH Speakers: CRISSIE AMISS, UK: Global Women Against Deportation (GWAD), Women Against Rape, Women of Colour Global Women’s Strike (GWS) CHARLOTTE LEE, Singapore/UK: International Prostitutes Collective, GWS LIZ HILTON, Australia/Thailand: Empower, Community Women Human Rights Defenders Collective, - [Wages for Housework: 50 years of campaigning - archives moving forward by looking back](https://globalwomenstrike.net/wages-for-housework-50-years-of-campaigning-archives-moving-forward-by-looking-back/) - Photos from the launch of the archives 27 March 2022: - [Endorsers to the Open Letter to Governments – A Care Income Now!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/organizational-endorsers-to-the-open-letter-to-governments-a-care-income-now/) - #MeToo Survivors, US ACT UP Philadelphia, US Action for women and Awakening in Rural Environment, Uganda AGHS legal aid cell, Pakistan Alexandria House, US All Africa Women's Group (AAWG), UK Alliance for Global Justice, US ALTSEAN-Burma, Thailand ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), US Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and - [Mothers March leaflet](https://globalwomenstrike.net/mothers-march-leaflet/) - Date: Saturday, 12 March 2011 - 12:00pm - 4:00pm Location: London All welcome Assemble 12 noon: Trafalgar Square (north side) Speak-out 2pm: Room G2, SOAS, London Sign language interpreter School of Oriental & African Studies, Thornhaugh St, WC1H OXG For Everyone’s SURVIVAL & WELFARE End Cuts, Poverty & Discrimination Invest in caring not killing WOMEN, MEN, YOUNG, OLD BRING YOUR DEMANDS! French Italian Portuguese Russian Spanish Swedish Turkish Everywhere people - [Petition: A living wage for mothers and other carers](https://globalwomenstrike.net/petition-a-living-wage-for-mothers-and-other-carers/) - Mar 14 2015 Global Women’s Strike (GWS) and Women of Colour in GWS #Gender Rights and IssuesTarget:Petition to ALL governmentsRegion:GLOBALWebsite:www.facebook.com We demand a living wage for mothers and other carers because: · Every worker is entitled to a living wage. Women do 2/3 of the world’s work – in the home, on the land and - [Vital Discussions: RSL Remembers C. L. R James with A Lloyd Banwo, Margaret Busby & Selma James](https://globalwomenstrike.net/vital-discussions-rsl-remembers-c-l-r-james/) - ONLINE ONLY. Free for RSL Members and Digital Events Passholders. Members can also book one discounted online ticket for a guest for £3. LOG IN to book or join HERE. Non-Members can book public tickets through the BRITISH LIBRARY. Ahead of a special event on James's life and times at Trinidad and Tobago’s premier literature festival, the NGC Bocas - [Workshops at COP26](https://globalwomenstrike.net/workshops-at-cop26/) - Global warming: The future lies in the soil Indigenous peoples who are protecting the forests and natural farmers around the world are showing the way. They must be defended from attacks by governments corporations and their militaries. Governments have focused on decreasing CO2. But this is not enough because the oceans are overflowing with carbon. - [Selma James attends disability demo - and is quoted in Disability News Service.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/selma-james-attends-disability-demo-and-is-quoted-in-disability-news-service/) - Among the allies who attended the action was 91-year-old writer, feminist and social activist Selma James, co-founder of the International Wages for Housework Campaign, which this year is celebrating its 50th anniversary. She told DNS that “remembrance” was “an important part of our movement” and that “winning is power”, and “not only what you win then but - [Architectural Review magazine looks at collective action and references Crossroads Women...](https://globalwomenstrike.net/architectural-review-magazine-looks-at-collective-action-and-references-crossroads-women/) - The Collective Body by Lola Olufemi. https://www.architectural-review.com/magazines/ar-1489 - [Selma James WFH in Oxfam Wales report "Childcare: Tackling the Motherhood Penalty"](https://globalwomenstrike.net/selma-james-in-oxfam-wales-report-childcare-tackling-the-motherhood-penalty/) - Politics and PolicyChildcare, equality, Gender If you want to eliminate poverty, start by looking at childcare, Head of Oxfam Cymru Sarah Rees argues. Motherhood can be an absolute blessing and joy, if you discount the Spring Equinox scuppering a Mothering Sunday lie-in. Yet in a Wales where the highest value is placed on paid work outside of the - [Special offer on these brilliant books via the Crossroads online bookshop.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/special-offer-on-these-books-via-the-crossroads-online-bookshop/) - www.crossroadsbooksonline.net OUR TIME IS NOW: Sex, Race, Class, and Caring for People and Planet. A Selection of Writings by Selma James: From Wages for Housework to a Care Income (1977-2020), Introduction Margaret Prescod, Editor Nina Lopez. PM Press, 2021. £13.00 “Selma James is a force of nature in the flesh and on the page. She - [Events - Organizing Stories: Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein in conversation with Selma James 6 April 12.15 EDT](https://globalwomenstrike.net/events-organizing-stories-dr-chanda-prescod-weinstein-in-conversation-with-selma-james/) - Join us for a conversation with Professor Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Black feminist theorist and theoretical physicist and author of The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred (2021), and her grandmother Selma James, long-time feminist activist and ‘Wages for Housework’ co-founder, on Wednesday, April 6th, 12:15-1:15pm. In keeping with this spring’s Organizing - [Video: Wages for Housework: 50 years of campaigning – Empowering Women: A Care Income for People and Planet](https://globalwomenstrike.net/video-wages-for-housework-50-years-of-campaigning-empowering-women-a-care-income-for-people-and-planet/) - Watch the webinar here: https://www.facebook.com/GlobalWomensStrike/videos/389912809261517 Empowering caregivers is advanced as a strategy against poverty and for climate justice. This webinar showcases international efforts from the 1995 UN Beijing conference decision to measure and value unremunerated work in the home, on the land and in the community, to the Wages for Housework Campaign which spearheaded the - [Video: Wages for Housework: 50 years of campaigning - Selma James, founder of the WFH Campaign, in conversation with Margaret Prescod, co-founder Black Women for Wages for Housework](https://globalwomenstrike.net/video-wages-for-housework-50-years-of-campaigning-selma-james-founder-of-the-wfh-campaign-in-conversation-with-margaret-prescod-co-founder-black-women-for-wages-for-housework/) - [What Mothers and Other Caregivers Want - an International Survey](https://globalwomenstrike.net/what-mothers-and-other-caregivers-want-an-international-survey/) - For the first time unwaged caregivers in different countries and cultures, and of different genders, will be asked for their views on caregiving, the most important work of society. - [Ham & High: 'We've put caring on the agenda': Selma James on Wages for Housework campaign](https://globalwomenstrike.net/ham-high-weve-put-caring-on-the-agenda-selma-james-on-wages-for-housework-campaign/) - Frankie Lister-Fell0 Published: 3:32 PM March 18, 2022 Selma James outside of the previous Crossroads Women's Centre - Credit: Archant I meet Selma James at Kentish Town’s Crossroads Women’s Centre on what feels like the first day of Spring. She was described to me as a “force of nature”, and on first impression she is, but a force that - [Press release: March 8, Int'l Survey Asks Mothers and other Caregivers What They Want and Need](https://globalwomenstrike.net/press-release-march-8-intl-survey-asks-mothers-and-other-caregivers-what-they-want-and-need/) - CONTACT: Peggy O’Mara 505-699-3909 Nina Lopez 44 20 7482 2496 wmsurvey@gmail.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE International Survey Asks Mothers and other CaregiversWhat They Want and Need On Tuesday March 8, 2022, International Women’s Day, the Global Women’s Strike (GWS) will launch an international survey, “What Do Mothers and Caregivers Want?” This event opens a year of - [Press release - Wages for Housework at 50: isn’t it time for a care income?](https://globalwomenstrike.net/press-release-wages-for-housework-at-50-isnt-it-time-for-a-care-income/) - PRESS RELEASE: Celebrating 50 years of campaigning to put unwaged caring work on the agenda: isn’t it time for a care income? Throughout 2022, the International Wages for Housework Campaign (WFH) is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a programme of events online and in person. They will showcase organising done in different countries, evaluate what - [Poem for Selma James has been published in new book “House Work” by Khadija Rouf](https://globalwomenstrike.net/poem-for-selma-james-has-been-published-in-new-book-house-work-by-khadija-rouf/) - A poem for Selma James has been published in new book “House Work” by Khadija Rouf for International Women's Day 2022 https://fairacrepress.co.uk/shop/house-work-by-khadija-rouf/. All profits are being donated to Global Women’s Strike. - [Camden New Journal: Carers quizzed in global survey](https://globalwomenstrike.net/camden-new-journal-carers-quizzed-in-global-survey/) - [Women's natural farming movement v climate change](https://globalwomenstrike.net/womens-natural-farming-movement-v-climate-change/) - Dear sisters and friends, Climate justice and the women’s natural farming movement in Andhra Pradesh, India Many of you will know that the Wages for Housework Campaign, which co-ordinates the Global Women’s Strike, and celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, has broadened its demand for financial recognition for caring work to include also the care - [LSE Blog: Book Review: Our Time is Now: Sex, Race, Class, and Caring for People and Planet by Selma James](https://globalwomenstrike.net/lse-blog-book-review-our-time-is-now-sex-race-class-and-caring-for-people-and-planet-by-selma-james/) - Dr Julia Downes March 9th, 2022 In Our Time is Now: Sex, Race, Class, and Caring for People and Planet, Selma James brings together essays and writings that reflect on collaborative activist practice and span her reflective thinking on a range of themes, including care, anti-capitalism and climate justice. Written in James’s characteristically accessible, whip-smart and defiant voice, this - [Thai Women Human Rights Defenders Collective statement on International Women's Day](https://globalwomenstrike.net/thai-women-human-rights-defenders-collective-statement-on-international-womens-day/) - 8 March 2022, International Women's Day #BreaktheNPOLawtoBreaktheBias 111 years ago, women in Russia, the United States of America, Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland banded together to form groups and take to the street. Their organization and struggles have ensured that we are not made to do more than eight hours of waged work a day, - [Selma James is Kentish Town on City of Women London map](https://globalwomenstrike.net/selma-james-is-kentish-town-on-city-of-women-london-map/) - The City of Women map is the result of a collaboration launched in 2020 between Reni Eddo-Lodge, Rebecca Solnit, Emma Watson, cartographer Molly Roy, designer Lia Tjandra and Haymarket Books, in partnership with Transport for London, the Women of the World Foundation and University College London (UCL). See the interactive map here: https://www.cityofwomenlondon.org/ Press here: - [Women’s organisations internationally must support women in Myanmar](https://globalwomenstrike.net/womens-organisations-internationally-must-support-women-in-myanmar/) - 90% of garment workers in Myanmar are women, the primary carers of children and others. Their unions are calling for fashion brands to act urgently and cease all production in Myanmar to weaken the military dictatorship and force it to step down. Over 170 organisations internationally have so far signed our statement in support of - [Urgent appeal for Burma/Myanmar Karen Women's Organisation](https://globalwomenstrike.net/urgent-appeal-for-burma-myanmar-karen-womens-organisation/) - Dear sisters and friends, Burma/Myanmar: Urgent Appeal for Donations We wrote to you at the end of last year asking for donations for the Karen Women's Organization (KWO) in Burma/Myanmar. We enclose below a report from KWO about their survival work, saving the lives of people fleeing bombing and repression. The population is as determined - [Boston Review: Care Work in a Wageless World](https://globalwomenstrike.net/boston-review-care-work-in-a-wageless-world/) - As the planet burns and pandemics rage, Selma James’s work with the Wages for Housework movement shows that we ignore the labor of care at our own peril. Emily Callaci March 2, 2022 Sex, Race, and Class—The Perspective of Winning: A Selection of Writings 1952–2011Selma JamesCommon Notions and PM Press, $20 (paper) Our Time is - [Ham & High: International Women's Day: Kentish Town charity launches global survey for mothers](https://globalwomenstrike.net/ham-high-international-womens-day-kentish-town-charity-launches-global-survey-for-mothers/) - Frankie Lister-Fell0Published: 1:59 PM March 1, 2022 Global Women's Strike at an Extinction Rebellion protest on October 12 2019. - Credit: Crossroads Audiovisual Collective Ahead of International Women's Day next Tuesday, a charity based at Kentish Town's pioneering women's centre, Crossroads, is launching a global survey asking: What do women and carers really want? Global Women's Strike (GWS), which is - [Camden New Journal: Caring Not Killing](https://globalwomenstrike.net/camden-new-journal-caring-not-killing/) - [Burma/Myanmar: Urgent Appeal for Donations](https://globalwomenstrike.net/burma-myanmar-urgent-appeal-for-donations-3/) - We wrote to you at the end of last year asking for donations for the Karen Women's Organization (KWO) in Burma/Myanmar. We enclose below a report from KWO about their survival work, saving the lives of people fleeing bombing and repression. The population is as determined as ever to continue the resistance against the military takeover. The Global Women's Strike has met KWO and we are confident that it is best placed to ensure that all aid reaches those who need it most. We have pledged to make a regular monthly donation so that KWO can better plan what help it provides. Any support you can give will help – both one-off donations and a monthly commitment if you are able. - [Caregivers Participated in Mass Direct Action with the Poor People’s Campaign to Push US Senate to Pass Build Back Better, including extending the Child Tax Credit](https://globalwomenstrike.net/caregivers-participated-in-mass-direct-action-with-the-poor-peoples-campaign-to-push-us-senate-to-pass-build-back-better-including-extending-the-child-tax-credit/) - A delegation from the Global Women's Strike (GWS), Women of Color in the Global Women’s Strike (WOC/GWS) and Payday men’s network joined the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival (PPC:NCMR) in doing mass non-violent civil disobedience in the nation’s capital on December 13 Moral Monday to press for passage in 2021 of the Build Back Better Act, and in particular for the continuation of the extended Child Tax Credit (CTC). - [Morning Star: Myanmar military junta: never in fashion](https://globalwomenstrike.net/morning-star-myanmar-military-junta-never-in-fashion/) - The unions' message is clear: if international clothing manufacturers are serious about human rights and democracy, they must take their factories out now — or risk funding the the dictatorship, writes LAURA WATSON Anti-coup protesters flash the three-finger sign of defiance during a demonstration in Yangon, Myanmar, April 23 2021 ON THE first anniversary of - [Women of Colour submission to Women and Equalities Committee inquiry into Coronavirus and the impact on people with protected characteristics](https://globalwomenstrike.net/women-of-colour-submission-to-women-and-equalities-committee-inquiry-into-coronavirus-and-the-impact-on-people-with-protected-characteristics/) - Women and Equalities Parliamentary Select Committee inquiry Unequal impact: Coronavirus (Covid 19) and impact on people with protected characteristics Submission by Women of Colour Global Women’s Strike* The coronavirus throws a harsh light on what communities of colour have been suffering and campaigning about for decades, holding a mirror up to stark and widespread inequalities. - [URGENT! Tell the White House & Congress that Our Children Need You to Save the Child Tax Credit NOW!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/urgent-tell-the-white-house-congress-that-our-children-need-you-to-save-the-child-tax-credit-now/) - With the Senate failing to extend the Child Tax Credit (CTC) into 2022, families with children have not gotten a monthly check since December 15th and millions of children have been thrust back into poverty, millions of families have been hurt. But we cannot give up on extending the CTC, because the health and well-being of millions of children benefited from it. Vote for the CTC now! No work requirements! What job is more important than raising the next generation? Raising children is real work and moms and grandmas shouldn’t be required to get a “real job” to qualify. Children need the CTC and mothers and other primary caregivers have earned it. - [INDIA General Strike now 28 & 29 March called by rural & urban TUs!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/india-general-strike/) - Dear Friends, Heroic Indian farmers and farm workers fresh from their victory over Modi’s three hated farm laws, are once again mobilising. Central Trade Union together with Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), the coalition of protesting farmers unions, have called a General Strike across India on 23-24 February. We must do all we can to support - [Wages for Housework: 50 years of campaigning](https://globalwomenstrike.net/wages-for-housework-50-years-of-campaigning/) - [Statement - Myanmar Military: Never in Fashion](https://globalwomenstrike.net/statement-myanmar-military-never-in-fashion/) - On eve of 1st anniversary of military coup in Myanmar, 150+ organisations launch intl statement supporting Myanmar unions call for brands to cease all production there to force the dictatorship to step down. www.myanmarmilitaryneverinfashion.org/ #myanmilitaryneverinfashion Join our webinar 31 January 2022 1-2pm GMT launching the statement. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_46iRbyU1TP-lzFlAQAJZtw - [Webinar - Myanmar military: never in fashion](https://globalwomenstrike.net/webinar-myanmar-military-never-in-fashion/) - On the eve of the 1st anniversary of the military coup in Myanmar, we will launch an international statement in support of a call from All Burma Federation of Trade Unions (ABFTU) and the Federation of General Workers Myanmar (FGWM), issued on 3 September 2021, for international brands to cease all production in Myanmar. The - [Kenya: Judge Rules That Household Labor Is Still Labor—Here's What That Means for Stay-at-Home Moms](https://globalwomenstrike.net/kenya-judge-rules-that-household-labor-is-still-labor-heres-what-that-means-for-stay-at-home-moms/) - Domestic duties fall largely on mothers who work hard to take care of families. Paying them what they're worth would change the game. By A. Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez January 12, 2022 The work of motherhood is often invisible, and is rarely seen as the intensive full-time job that it is. Especially during the pandemic, mothers have had to navigate - [Thailand: Open letter on Concern regarding seven migrant workers arrested at Ministry of Labour](https://globalwomenstrike.net/thailand-open-letter-on-concern-regarding-seven-migrant-workers-arrested-at-ministry-of-labour/) - Joint Open Letter 1/11/2021 Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-chaRoyal Thai GovernmentGovernment House1 Phitsanulok RoadDusit, BangkokThailand c.c. 1. Minister of Labour 2. Minister of Interior 3. National Human Rights Commission of Thailand (NHRCT) 4. The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants 5. UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders 5. - [Red Pepper Review: Our Time is Now: Sex, Race, Class and Caring for People and Planet](https://globalwomenstrike.net/red-pepper-review-our-time-is-now-sex-race-class-and-caring-for-people-and-planet/) - Marin Scarlett looks back - and forward - at Selma James' seven decades of intersectional activism December 23, 2021 · 5 min readSelma James speaks in 2019. Image credit: ECP Sex, Race and Class is now in its third incarnation. A short pamphlet of the same title was originally published in 1974, and an anthology spanning a - [26 Nov: Endorsements for Indian Farmers protest anniversary](https://globalwomenstrike.net/26-nov-endorsements-for-indian-farmers-protest-anniversary/) - Dear Friends, Please see info about UK events in support of Indian Farmers: · 26 November demonstration at High Commission of India, London, WC2B 4NA 12-2pm. Contact: 020 7482 2496 · 26 November Birmingham & Sandwell Branch members are demonstrating 2.30pm at 346 Soho Road Handsworth, Shaheed Udham Singh Welfare Centre contact: Bhagwant Singh Mob - [Review 31: A Living, Breathing Work](https://globalwomenstrike.net/review-31-a-living-breathing-work/) - Selma James, Our Time Is Now: Sex, Race, Class, and Caring for People and Planet PM Press, 256pp, $17.00, ISBN 978629638386 reviewed by Frith Taylor Selma James is a writer and activist who has written extensively on the interrelated issues that affect women's liberation. Her book Sex, Race and Class (1974) is regarded by many as a classic of - [Morning Star: Victory to the Indian farmers’ protests!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/morning-star-victory-to-the-indian-farmers-protests/) - Activists celebrated the triumph over the hated farms laws by gathering at the High Commission of India in London. DIDI ROSSI reports ON November 26 2021, the great Indian farmers’ protest celebrated its first anniversary and its first major victory. A few days before President Narendra Modi had announced he would repeal his hated farm - [Burma/Myanmar: Urgent Appeal for Donations](https://globalwomenstrike.net/burma-myanmar-urgent-appeal-for-donations-2/) - Dear sisters and friends, Burma/Myanmar: Urgent Appeal for Donations We wrote to you earlier this year to ask for your donations for the Karen Women’s Organization (KWO) in Burma/Myanmar, where people are risking their lives every day to oppose a military coup. Since the coup in February 2021, the military has killed over 1000 people, - [US Launch 11 Dec: Andaiye and Selma James, The Point is to Change the World & Our Time Is Now](https://globalwomenstrike.net/us-launch-11-dec-andaiye-and-selma-james-the-point-is-to-change-the-world-our-time-is-now/) - Saturday, Dec 11, 2021 9am PST / Noon EST / 5pm GMT Register for online event Between the Lines Books in Toronto, City Lights Books in San Francisco, Eso Won Bookstore in Los Angeles, the Howard Zinn Book Fair, Marcus Books in Oakland, Pacifica Radio’s “Sojourner Truth”, Pacifica station WPFW in Washington DC, PM Press - [Women Human Rights Defenders Collective in Thailand statement on International Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs) Day](https://globalwomenstrike.net/women-human-rights-defenders-collective-in-thailand-statement-on-international-women-human-rights-defenders-whrds-day/) - To the People of Thailand, Today, 29th of November is International Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs) Day, A Day to recognize women caring for and defending the rights of family, community and nature. Women who are fighting for a better life for everyone. Women in Thailand, especially mothers, have been pushed further into poverty from - [Fri 26 Nov: join farmers' victory celebration outside India High Commission, London](https://globalwomenstrike.net/fri-26-nov-join-farmers-victory-celebration-outside-india-high-commission-london/) - Power to the Indian farmers protestswho are winning the repeal ofModi’s hated Farm Laws! ਭਾਰਤੀ ਕਿਸਾਨਾਂ ਦੇ ਸੰਘਰਸ਼ ਨੂੰ ਤਾਕਤ ਦਿਓ।ਜੋ ਮੋਦੀ ਦੇ ਨਫ਼ਰਤ ਭਰੇ ਖੇਤੀ ਕਾਨੂੰਨਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਰੱਦਕਰਨ ਲਈ ਲੜ ਰਹੇ ਹਨ| Friday 26 November 2021,12-2pm High Commission of India, India House, Aldwych, London WC2B 4NA, (closest tube Holborn/Temple) On 19 November, Prime Minster Modi announced he is repealing his hated Farm Laws. Millions are celebrating this historic victory all over India - [Stop Singapore's Execution of an Intellectually Disabled Man](https://globalwomenstrike.net/stop-singapores-execution-of-an-intellectually-disabled-man/) - Dear Friends, Women from Singapore, currently living in the UK and people from the Global Women’s Strike network in Malaysia are asking for support to stop the execution of a man with learning disabilities. He has been sentenced to death in Singapore for a non-violent crime. Please sign the #SaveNagaenthran petition here BACKGROUND Singapore is - [Tell US Congress: Don't cut the Child Tax Credit! ⚡ Twitter storm Wednesday](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tell-us-congress-dont-cut-the-child-tax-credit-⚡-twitter-storm-wednesday/) - 10am PT / 11am MT / 12noon CT / 1pm ET Mothers say: We need the Child Tax Credit (CTC) for all our children, made permanent, and paid directly to us. The lives of millions of children have been dramatically improved as they are lifted out of poverty by their mothers receiving CTC. (See: census.gov). - [Letter to editor: Child Tax Credit is saving Philly Families (Phila Inquirer)](https://globalwomenstrike.net/letter-to-editor-child-tax-credit-is-saving-philly-families-phila-inquirer/) - We agree with Jeremy Jones (Oct 13): the improvement to the Child Tax Credit (CTC) “must be preserved and expanded.” Mothers based at our Center have been writing, tweeting and calling elected officials, desperate to hold on to the payments.* One mother said, “The CTC has changed my life. For the first time I was able to - [#ChildTaxCredit Twitter Storm! Call/Tweet Congress and White House](https://globalwomenstrike.net/childtaxcredit-twitter-storm-call-tweet-congress-and-white-house/) - 📞 Call/Tweet Congress & Biden! 🐤 Thursday, October 13 Progressive Caucus, Speaker Pelosi, Senator Manchin, President Biden! Mothers & grandmothers say: We need the Child Tax Credit (CTC) for all our children! - [Urgent: Mothers say Don't Cut Child Tax Credit in Reconciliation Bill](https://globalwomenstrike.net/urgent-mothers-say-dont-cut-child-tax-credit-in-reconciliation-bill/) - Open Letter to Congress and the White House Dear Member of Congress: We are writing as mothers and primary caregivers – the ones who do the hard work of raising children. The Child Tax Credit has allowed us to put food on the table for our children everyday. We urge you: do not punish children - [Mothers say: We need the Child Tax Credit (CTC). We need it to remain fully refundable, made permanent, and paid directly to us.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/mothers-say-we-need-the-child-tax-credit-ctc-we-need-it-to-remain-fully-refundable-made-permanent-and-paid-directly-to-us/) - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFROM: CARE INCOME NOW! careincomenow@globalwomenstrike.netDATE: September 29, 2021 STOP PRESS: Senator Manchin Attacks Mothers! Senator Joe Manchin is attacking mothers and other unpaid caregivers. He is refusing to acknowledge our work! He is insisting that in order to receive Child Tax Credits mothers have to “get a job”. But raising children is work, - [CNJ: Why women oppose the police bill](https://globalwomenstrike.net/cnj-why-women-oppose-the-police-bill/) - Protests against the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill • WOMEN from Camden joined in a lively protest against the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill as it was debated in the Lords last week, spotlighting women’s case against this repressive legislation. Despite bucketing rain, a diverse crowd spoke about how the bill would impact - [Selma James speaks at CLR James Library, Thurs 30 Sept 6pm](https://globalwomenstrike.net/selma-james-speaks-at-clr-james-library-thurs-30-sept-6pm/) - [27 Sept: Indian Farmers call for Shutdown across India!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/27-sept-indian-farmers-call-for-shutdown-across-india/) - Support Indian Farmers/Farm labourers’Bharat Bandh (Shutdown) across All India27 September 2021 Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) coalition of farmers unions has called for a complete shutdown across India (except emergency services) on 27 September against Modi’s three farm laws which will open the floodgates to corporations undermining food security and livelihoods of millions of people, and - ["Welfare as a Women's Issue" (1972)](https://globalwomenstrike.net/welfare-as-a-womens-issue-1972/) - "Welfare as a Women's Issue" (1972)Johnnie TillmonDownload - [Event: Women protest vs the Police Bill, Tues 14 Sept, 1pm](https://globalwomenstrike.net/event-women-protest-vs-the-police-bill-tues-14-sept-1pm/) - As the House of Lords debates the Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Bill Tues 14 Sept, 1pm Women protest vs the Police Bill Old Palace Yard SW1P 3JY (opp House of Lords) ● All welcome Protect women, protect the planet. Tell the Lords to #Kill the Bill Called by Women of Colour Global Women’s Strike - [Refinery29: Life Lessons To Be Learned From A 91-Year-Old Activist](https://globalwomenstrike.net/refinery29-life-lessons-to-be-learned-from-a-91-year-old-activist/) - At 91, Selma James has been an activist for longer than I’ve been alive, times three. A Jewish woman born in New York, in 1952 she published her first book, A Woman’s Place, aged just 22 – a radical piece of work underlining the frustrations of women's lives in the home and the significance of their unwaged labour - [Thailand: SPFT wins landmark verdict against the assassination attempt of one of its members](https://globalwomenstrike.net/thailand-spft-wins-landmark-verdict-against-the-assassination-attempt-of-one-of-its-members/) - The Global Women’s Strike (GWS) and Women of Colour GWS welcome the guilty verdict against Somphon Chimrueng for the attempted assassination of Mr. Dam On-muang, a land rights defender from the Southern Peasant Federation of Thailand (SPFT). This federation of collective farming communities has fought long and hard for justice and for an end to - [Thailand court verdict on attempted assassination of SPFT land rights defender Dam Onmuang, 26 Aug](https://globalwomenstrike.net/thailand-court-verdict-on-attempted-assassination-of-spft-land-rights-defender-dam-onmuang-26-aug/) - Dear Friends, Tomorrow, the Wiang Sa Provincial Court in Thailand will read the verdict on the accused of the attempted assassination of Dam Onmuang, member of the Southern Peasant Federation of Thailand (SPFT) and a land rights defender. He is the sixth land rights defender who has been a victim of assassination attempts, four - [The Surviving Society Podcast: Our Time Is Now (Selma James, Sara Callaway, Shanice Octavia McBean & Aviah Day)](https://globalwomenstrike.net/the-surviving-society-podcast-our-time-is-now-selma-james-sara-callaway-shanice-octavia-mcbean-aviah-day/) - [Urgent appeal: Haiti Struck by 7.2 magnitude Earthquake](https://globalwomenstrike.net/urgent-appeal-haiti-struck-by-7-2-magnitude-earthquake/) - Dear friends, Haiti urgently needs our practical solidarity following another devastating earthquake – so far the death toll is over 1,300 people. Donations are crucial to support and save lives after the earthquake and in the face of imminent storm Grace. Please see the appeal below from Haiti Emergency Relief Fund haitiemergencyrelief.org with whom we - [Ham & High: Camden campaigner Selma James launches new book at 91](https://globalwomenstrike.net/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 - [Video: ‘Women Should Organise Themselves for Their Rights Because There Is No Saviour' Selma James](https://globalwomenstrike.net/video-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 - [Camden New Journal: Waging a war on wages](https://globalwomenstrike.net/camden-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 - [Event: Selma James - Our Time is Now book launch 3 September](https://globalwomenstrike.net/event-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 - [Press statement: Mothers and others welcome the re-introduction of Worker Relief & Credit Reform Act](https://globalwomenstrike.net/press-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 - [The Weekly Journal: The Crime Bill and the Black Community](https://globalwomenstrike.net/the-weekly-journal-the-crime-bill-and-the-black-community/) - The Weekly Journal: The Crime Bill and the Black CommunityDownload - [How the black community is affected by racism from the police, the justice system and the media. Prepared by Reverend Francis Ackroyd, High Cross Church, Tottenham, with Black Women for Wages for Housework and Legal Action for Women](https://globalwomenstrike.net/howtheblackcommunityisaffectedbyracism/) - How the black community is affected by racism from the police, the justice system and the media. Prepared by Reverend Francis Ackroyd, High Cross Church, Tottenham, with Black Women for Wages for Housework and Legal Action for WomenDownload - [Out now! SELMA JAMES’s new book Our Time Is Now](https://globalwomenstrike.net/out-now-selma-jamess-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 - [Women 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.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/women-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 menNow 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 can - [Indian Farmers & Central Trade Unions protest 26 June](https://globalwomenstrike.net/indian-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 - [Unpaid 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](https://globalwomenstrike.net/unpaid-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 - [Burma/Myanmar: Urgent Appeal for Donations](https://globalwomenstrike.net/burma-myanmar-urgent-appeal-for-donations/) - Dear sisters and friends, Burma/Myanmar: Urgent Appeal for Donations We are writing to ask you to support this appeal for money from the Karen Women’s Organisation (KWO) in Burma/Myanmar where people are risking their lives to oppose a military coup, which overthrew their democratically elected government. The military has killed more than 850 people and - [Renta de los cuidados_YA!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/renta-de-los-cuidados_ya/) - Click here to read: Renta de los cuidados YADownload - [Event: Protest Royal College of Psychiatrists covering up abuse & solitary confinement in prisons](https://globalwomenstrike.net/event-protest-royal-college-of-psychiatrists-covering-up-abuse-solitary-confinement-in-prisons/) - Where: 21 Prescot Street, London E1 8BB (Aldgate, Aldgate East, Tower Hill tube) When: Monday, 28 June 2021, 12.30–2pm Co-sponsored by Legal Action for Women (LAW) Payday men’s network, Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association (JENGbA), Women of Colour Global Women’s Strike, Community Action on Prison Expansion (CAPE), Fight Racism Fight Imperialism (FRFI), Prisoner Solidarity - [Mothers' Climate March, Sunday 12 May, 12 noon Hyde Park Corner – join us](https://globalwomenstrike.net/mothers-climate-march-sunday-12-may-12-noon-hyde-park-corner-join-us/) - We’re joining the Mothers’ Climate March because: Rural mothers risk their lives to defensed lands/forests/waters from agribusinesss/mega-dams/mining/fracking which are driving much of global heating. Mothers are at the forefront of a global peasant movement which is taking on industrial agriculture to provide healthy food for all and re-green and cool the planet! Breastfeeding is discouraged- - [Press round-up: International Women’s Day, 2021](https://globalwomenstrike.net/press-round-up-international-womens-day-2021/) - The Senate Just Took a Baby Step Toward the Feminist Goal of a Universal Child Benefit It is extraordinary that those who reproduce the human race are still unsupported and impoverished for this fundamental biological and societal work. Unwaged, in a world dominated by money. Selma James, founder of the socialist feminist Wages for Housework - [Event: Selma James speaking "Food Poverty Is A Feminist Issue"](https://globalwomenstrike.net/event-selma-james-speaking-food-poverty-is-a-feminist-issue/) - Join us for a rally broadcasting live on our Facebook page with Welsh and international speakers including: SELMA JAMES Founder, International Wages for Housework Campaign in 1972. Author, The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community & Sex, Race, and Class – the Perspective of Winning. REBECCA BODEN Tampere University, Finland. For over - [Statement: International Women’s Day 2021](https://globalwomenstrike.net/statement-international-womens-day-2021/) - Global Women’s Strike & Women of Colour GWS – International Women’s Day 2021 CARING for PEOPLE and PLANET Against POVERTY and DICTATORSHIP Women (and men) in a number of countries are calling for a Care Income Now!, an income for all those – beginning with women, the first carers everywhere, and extending to all genders - [Statement: The Community Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs) Collective in Thailand statement on International Women’s Day](https://globalwomenstrike.net/statement-the-community-women-human-rights-defenders-whrds-collective-in-thailand-statement-on-international-womens-day/) - EnglishDownload ThaiDownload We demand an end to State Violence and for a new government – the government we all deserve. The Community Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs) Collective in Thailand statement on International Women’s Day Over one hundred years ago when women in Russia, and in the US took to the streets, giving birth to - [CNJ: We will be honouring mothers, as care-givers, on International Women’s Day](https://globalwomenstrike.net/cnj-we-will-be-honouring-mothers-as-care-givers-on-international-womens-day/) - 04 March, 2021 • ON March 8 International Women’s Day, despite the pandemic, women are involved in many life-changing struggles around the world. In Haiti, Myanmar and Thailand millions risk their lives protesting the dictatorships. In India millions are protesting laws which would put all farmland in the hands of multinationals, including Monsanto and its - [Event: Remembering Berta Cáceres, 8 March](https://globalwomenstrike.net/event-remembering-berta-caceres-8-march/) - Dear friends, We are forwarding information (below) about an 8 March International Women’s Day event 3-4.30pm (UK time) in memory of Berta Cáceres. Her daughter Bertha Zuñiga Cáceres will be speaking. Please share and circulate with your networks, thank you. Global Women’s Strike This International Women’s Day we remember Berta Cáceres, Indigenous leader and environmental - [Support Money for Unwaged Caregivers! Endorse the Worker Relief and Credit Reform Act!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/support-money-for-unwaged-caregivers-endorse-the-worker-relief-and-credit-reform-act/) - The pandemic demonstrates how caregivers serve as frontline and essential workers, filling the gaps in our health care system. Even before this crisis, around 43.5 million Americans worked as unpaid caregivers to their children, aging parents or adult family members with a disability. The WRCR Act updates the definition of work to recognize the uncompensated - [Green New Deal For Europe – A Care Income (Excerpts)](https://globalwomenstrike.net/green-new-deal-for-europe-a-care-income-excerpts/) - Download the report here. The Green New Deal for Europe is the first attempt at a political response to climate change that is on the same scale as the problem itself, and it recognizes that any response to the climate and sustainability crisis must necessarily also deal with the austerity and economic short-sightedness that currently - [There is more than one pandemic. In response to the health, climate, poverty and war crises, we call for a Care Income Now!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/statement-there-is-more-than-one-pandemic-in-response-to-the-health-climate-poverty-and-war-crises-we-call-for-a-care-income-now/) - The coronavirus pandemic comes on top of the climate pandemic, the poverty pandemic and the war pandemics which have hit single mother families, ill, disabled and older people hardest. It is exposing weaknesses in our ability to resist and survive physically and financially – from immune systems already compromised by poverty, pollution, war, occupation and displacement - [Webinar: From Coronavirus and Beyond: Valuing Caregiving — The Unwaged Work that Protects People and the Environment](https://globalwomenstrike.net/webinar-from-coronavirus-and-beyond-valuing-caregiving-the-unwaged-work-that-protects-people-and-the-environment/) - [CARE INCOME NOW! Sign the letter & join webinar](https://globalwomenstrike.net/care-income-now-sign-the-letter-join-webinar/) - Dear Friends, We write to ask that your organization endorse the Open letter to governments – A Care Income Now! If you are not a member of an organization or are unable to confirm your organization’s endorsement, of course personal endorsements are also welcome. The Open Letter is jointly issued by the Global Women’s Strike, - [Programme for today’s Care Income Now! webinar](https://globalwomenstrike.net/programme-for-todays-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 - [Webinar: Care Income Now!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/webinar-care-income-now/) - [Ham & High: Kentish Town women’s group call for ‘carer’s income’ amid coronavirus pandemic](https://globalwomenstrike.net/ham-high-kentish-town-womens-group-call-for-carers-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 - [PRESS STATEMENT: In response to Covid-19 and the climate emergency: organizations around the world call for a Care Income Now!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/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 - [Speeches: from #CareIncomeNow webinar](https://globalwomenstrike.net/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 - [Event: Selma James & Nina Lopez at Gender, livelihood & impact of Covid](https://globalwomenstrike.net/event-selma-james-nina-lopez-at-gender-livelihood-impact-of-covid/) - Tuesday 1 Sept, 2.30-4.30pm: Selma James and Nina Lopez speaking at conference session on: Gender, livelihood and the impact of Covid organized by the Feminisms and Degrowth Alliance. To register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/economy-and-livelihoods-after-covid-19-tickets-116083505891 This session is organized by the Feminisms and Degrowth Alliance (FaDA). It contains intersectional feminist reflections on Covid-19 and the politics of social reproduction, the Care Income, and - [Video: Nina Lopez speaking at The World Transformed on a #CareIncomeNow](https://globalwomenstrike.net/video-nina-lopez-speaking-at-the-world-transformed-on-a-careincomenow/) - [Event: Care During COVID-19](https://globalwomenstrike.net/event-care-during-covid-19/) - Political Freshers' Week: Care During COVID-19 Wednesday, October 21, 2020 at 6 PM UTC+01 – 7:30 PM UTC+01 Hosted by Cambridge SU Women's Campaign and Cambridge University Justice 4 Workers Campaign Online Event This Political Freshers’ Week, the Women’s Campaign and Justice 4 Workers Cambridge have teamed up with Global Women’s Strike to discuss one of the most - [IWRAW Asia Pacific: ‘Wages For Caring Work’: An Exploration Of The Care Income Campaign](https://globalwomenstrike.net/iwraw-asia-pacific-wages-for-caring-work-an-exploration-of-the-care-income-campaign/) - In this interview, IWRAW Asia Pacific asks two activists based in Thailand about the concept of care income, its history in the women’s rights movement, and its role in building gender-just post-COVID-19 economies. Liz Hilton works with Empower Foundation, a sex-worker-led advocacy organisation in Chiang Mai, and Bee Pranom Somwong works at Protection Desk Thailand, - [#CareIncomeNow](https://globalwomenstrike.net/careincomenow/) - READ OPEN LETTER TO GOVERNMENTS – A CARE INCOME NOW! See TRANSLATIONS so far.ENDORSE here. List of organizational and individual endorsers. Watch the webinars “From Coronavirus and Beyond: Valuing Caregiving -- The Unwaged Work that Protects People and the Environment” and Care Income Now! webinar. Read press coverage and the press statement about the #CareIncomeNow - [Women, the Unions and Work or... What is Not to be Done and the Perspective of Women.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/women-the-unions-and-work-or-what-is-not-to-be-done-and-the-perspective-of-women/) - [Journal of the Power of Women Collective, July/August 1974](https://globalwomenstrike.net/journal-of-the-power-of-women-collective-july-august-1974/) - [Power of Women Collective Journal, March/ April 1974](https://globalwomenstrike.net/power-of-women-collective-journal/) - [Video: People for Tomorrow Selma James Our Time is Coming](https://globalwomenstrike.net/video-people-for-tomorrow-selma-james-our-time-is-coming/) - “Selma James, a socialist and feminist, uses her own experiences working in low-paid jobs and being a mother and housewife as a starting point in this investigation into whether women are exploited in all areas of society. Interviews with full-time housewives, and with females who work outside the home but still do almost all of - [Anti-racist and anti-sexist children's exhibition](https://globalwomenstrike.net/anti-racist-and-anti-sexist-childrens-exhibition/) - [Refusing Nuclear Housework](https://globalwomenstrike.net/refusing-nuclear-housework/) - [Trinidad and Tobago Women Count, Count Women's Work](https://globalwomenstrike.net/trinidad-and-tobago-women-count-count-womens-work/) - ["Waging the War over Wages", Los Angeles Times](https://globalwomenstrike.net/waging-the-war-over-wages-los-angeles-times/) - [Wages for Housework Campaign Bulletin, Spring 1977](https://globalwomenstrike.net/wages-for-housework-campaign-bulletin-spring-1977/) - [Wages for Housework, International Campaign Journal, Summer 1985](https://globalwomenstrike.net/wages-for-housework-international-campaign-journal-summer-1985/) - [Wages for Housework Special Bulletin, Spring 1978](https://globalwomenstrike.net/wages-for-housework-special-bulletin-spring-1978/) - [Black Women for Wages for Housework Bulletin, Autumn 1977](https://globalwomenstrike.net/black-women-for-wages-for-housework-bulletin-autumn-1977/) - [Increase Family Allowance Now!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/increase-family-allowance-now/) - [Journal of the Power of Women Collective, January 1975](https://globalwomenstrike.net/journal-of-the-power-of-women-collective-january-1975/) - [Power of Women, Magazine of the International Wages for Housework Campaign](https://globalwomenstrike.net/power-of-women-magazine-of-the-international-wages-for-housework-campaign/) - [Gay Times: Lesbian Women Take Time Off](https://globalwomenstrike.net/lesbian-women-take-time-off/) - [Leaflet: Time Off for Women](https://globalwomenstrike.net/time-off-for-women/) - [Event: How Gay is Gay?](https://globalwomenstrike.net/wdl-how-gay-is-gay/) - [Statement: Against Redistribution Poverty](https://globalwomenstrike.net/against-redistribution-poverty/) - [Lesbian and Gay Socialist: review of Out of the Clause into the Workhouse: a lesbian women's view of what Clause 28 intends and what we intend to promote against it](https://globalwomenstrike.net/lesbian-and-gay-socialist/) - [Statement: Message of support to take back the night march and rally, Los Angeles](https://globalwomenstrike.net/message-of-support-to-take-back-the-night-march-and-rally/) - [In support of the Maureen Colquhoun Action Committee](https://globalwomenstrike.net/in-support-of-the-maureen-colquhoun-action-committee/) - [Selma James interviews her friend Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian writer and campaigner for women’s rights, by post in Third World Women’s News, 1986](https://globalwomenstrike.net/selma-james-interviews-her-friend-nawal-el-saadawi-egyptian-writer-and-campaigner-for-womens-rights-by-post-in-third-world-womens-news-1986/) - Selma James and Nawal El Saadawi - [Valuing Women's Unwaged Work, a bill to UK Parliament](https://globalwomenstrike.net/valuing-womens-unwaged-work-a-bill-to-uk-parliament/) - [Scrap the Child Support Act petition](https://globalwomenstrike.net/scrap-the-child-support-act-petition/) - [Open letter to all anti-racists: boycott the Child Support Act, defend black and immigrant people's right to claim benefits](https://globalwomenstrike.net/open-letter-to-all-anti-racists-boycott-the-child-support-act-defend-black-and-immigrant-peoples-right-to-claim-benefits/) - ["Labours of love, or maybe just a rip-off", The Times](https://globalwomenstrike.net/labours-of-love-or-maybe-just-a-rip-off-the-times/) - [In opposing the Gulf War, we are refusing this criminal waste of our lives and work.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/in-opposing-the-gulf-war-we-are-refusing-this-criminal-waste-of-our-lives-and-work/) - [Why men are petitioning to count women's work](https://globalwomenstrike.net/why-men-are-petitioning-to-count-womens-work/) - ["Pretended Families" against the Child Support Act. Defend lesbian mothers' rights to benefits.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/pretended-families-against-the-child-support-act-defend-lesbian-mothers-rights-to-benefits/) - [Global Women's Strike demands](https://globalwomenstrike.net/global-womens-strike-demands/) - [Global Women's Strike weekly picket opposite Downing Street](https://globalwomenstrike.net/global-womens-strike-weekly-picket-opposite-downing-street/) - [Pink Paper message to readers.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/pink-paper-message-to-readers/) - [Book: Policing The Bedroom and how to refuse it](https://globalwomenstrike.net/policing-the-bedroom/) - [Rouge: Resisting Section 28](https://globalwomenstrike.net/resisting-section-xxviii/) - [Letter to Pink Postbag](https://globalwomenstrike.net/wdl-letter-to-pink-paper-re-police/) - [WDL who we are](https://globalwomenstrike.net/wdl-who-we-are/) - [Letter to The Guardian: Clause 28](https://globalwomenstrike.net/wages-due-lesbians/) - [Leaflet: Wages Due Lesbians, who we are and our activities](https://globalwomenstrike.net/wages-due-lesbians-2/) - [The Pink Paper: Caring or Killing? The Choice is Yours.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/caring-or-killing-the-choice-is-yours/) - [International Women Count Network proposals on wording of counting unwaged work in UN Declaration](https://globalwomenstrike.net/international-women-count-network-proposals-on-wording-of-counting-unwaged-work-in-un-declaration/) - [Mothers March 2011 photos](https://globalwomenstrike.net/mothers-march-2011-photos/) - [Men are supporting the 2nd Global Women's Strike](https://globalwomenstrike.net/men-are-supporting-the-2nd-global-womens-strike/) - [Trade Unionists speak out in support of the Global Women's Strike](https://globalwomenstrike.net/trade-unionists-speak-out-in-support-of-the-global-womens-strike/) - [Dykes on Strike "I'm coming out on 8 March because.."](https://globalwomenstrike.net/dykes-on-strike-im-coming-out-on-8-march-because/) - [Global Women's Strike: Women's response to globalisation](https://globalwomenstrike.net/global-womens-strike-womens-response-to-globalisation/) - [Children's exhibition and video show](https://globalwomenstrike.net/childrens-exhibition-and-video-show/) - [Selma James and Melissa Benn in The Guardian](https://globalwomenstrike.net/selma-james-and-melissa-benn-in-the-guardian/) - Gender Home truths for feminists How should the work women do as mothers be rewarded? Selma James and Melissa Benn argue about carers and careers Selma James and Melissa Benn Sat 21 Feb 2004 10.30 GMTFirst published on Sat 21 Feb 2004 10.30 GMT Hi Selma, You were probably as surprised as I was to see recent reports that Michael - [A life in writing: Selma James in The Guardian](https://globalwomenstrike.net/a-life-in-writing-selma-james-in-the-guardian/) - Books A life in ... A life in writing: Selma James 'By demanding payment for housework we attack what is terrible about caring in our capitalist society' Becky Gardiner Fri 8 Jun 2012 22.45 BSTFirst published on Fri 8 Jun 2012 22.45 BST The last time Selma James was interviewed by the Guardian was in 1976, by the feminist columnist - [Global Women's Strike 8 March 2002](https://globalwomenstrike.net/global-womens-strike-8-march-2002/) - [The Big Issue: Love Not War](https://globalwomenstrike.net/love-not-war/) - [The Pink Paper: Caring Not Killing](https://globalwomenstrike.net/caring-not-killing/) - [Hugo Chávez knew that his revolution depended on women](https://globalwomenstrike.net/hugo-chavez-knew-that-his-revolution-depended-on-women/) - And he wasn't the only one. Presidents of Tanzania and Haiti have both benefited from making women central to progress Selma James and Nina López Fri 8 Mar 2013 19.15 GMTFirst published on Fri 8 Mar 2013 19.15 GMT The funeral of President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela took place on International Women's Day – a fitting day of departure for "the president of - [An antidote for apathy](https://globalwomenstrike.net/an-antidote-for-apathy/) - Venezuela's president has achieved a level of grassroots participation our politicians can only dream of Selma James Fri 13 Aug 2004 09.28 BSTFirst published on Fri 13 Aug 2004 09.28 BST Shares0Increasing numbers of people, especially the young, seem disconnected from an electoral process which, they feel, does not represent them. This is part of a general cynicism about - [WAGES FOR ANYONE IS BAD FOR BUSINESS](https://globalwomenstrike.net/wages-for-anyone-is-bad-for-business/) - By Laura Sullivan, 9 January 20060 Comments3286 ReadsPrin Featured in Mute Vol 1, No. 29 – The Precarious Issue Venezuela's 'Bolivarian constitution' contains a unique article (Article 88) recognising women's unwaged work as economically productive. Wages For Housework (WFH) has been fighting for this recognition since 1972, and has participated in the annual Global Women's Strike (GWS) since - [Global Women's Strike Calls Women to Shannon Airport](https://globalwomenstrike.net/global-womens-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 - [Petition: End poverty of mothers & children. Recognize caregiving work. Support the RISE Act and Reintroduction of the WORK Act.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/petition-end-poverty-of-mothers-children-recognize-caregiving-work-support-the-rise-act-and-reintroduction-of-the-work-act/) - Jun 30 2013 Global Women's Strike, Women of Color in the Global Women's Strike, and Every Mother is a Working Mother Network #Gender Rights and IssuesTarget:US CongressRegion:United States of AmericaWebsite:everymothernetwork.net 21.6% of US children live in poverty, more than in any other major industrialized country.Mothers are the primary caregivers everywhere in the world, working to ensure - [Viewpoint Magazine: Care Work and the Power of Women: An Interview with Selma James](https://globalwomenstrike.net/viewpoint-magazine-care-work-and-the-power-of-women-an-interview-with-selma-james/) - Julie McIntyre March 19, 2012PDF In their 1972 pamphlet The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community, Selma James and Mariarosa Dalla Costa presented an original and influential analysis of “unwaged work.” This concept, which identified the care work that women do in the home as an essential element of the reproduction of capitalism, opened - [Action alert: Support the church sit-in and hunger strike of immigrant people in Spain for papers for all and against immigration laws](https://globalwomenstrike.net/action-alert-support-the-church-sit-in-and-hunger-strike-of-immigrant-people-in-spain-for-papers-for-all-and-against-immigration-laws/) - [QED: Chelsea Manning Joins the Army – Of Whistleblowers](https://globalwomenstrike.net/qed-chelsea-manning-joins-the-army-of-whistleblowers/) - Selma James, QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, 2014 Considering the enormity of the truths which Chelsea Manning made accessible to us, it was somewhat disappointing how modest were the demonstrations in her support, in Europe as well as in the United States, though millions more were sympathetic who stayed at home. This was the case - [Why Don't We Just Pay a Living Wage to Mothers and Carers?](https://globalwomenstrike.net/why-dont-we-just-pay-a-living-wage-to-mothers-and-carers/) - ‘Since Tony Blair called single mothers “workless” we have been treated as worthless, and our benefits have been cut – first one parent benefit, then universal child benefit and income support, the only benefits that recognised mothers were entitled to money from the state while raising their children’ –Nina Lopez Nina Lopez of the Global Women’s - [Do We Value Women's Work?](https://globalwomenstrike.net/do-we-value-womens-work/) - “While the 1% more than doubled their income in the last 10 years and the arms trade has risen by 22%, 1 billion children worldwide live in poverty, 3.7m in the UK and 176,565 surviving on food banks.” The Global Women Strike discuss the deepening sexism of austerity and the market. Do we value women’s work? - [Global Women Strike in Red Pepper](https://globalwomenstrike.net/global-women-strike-in-red-pepper/) - “The campaign for a living wage has taken off internationally led by cleaners, McDonald’s employees, caretakers, hospital and other workers. But will mothers and other carers be included or will we continue to be treated as ‘workless’ scroungers?” http://www.redpepper.org.uk/blog/ - [The Struggle to Care in the Face of Cuts](https://globalwomenstrike.net/the-struggle-to-care-in-the-face-of-cuts/) - From 2,000 caring institutions – hospitals, schools, social services, housing, have been encroached upon by an expanding police force. Becka Seglow Hudson writes on the replacement of care with neglect, violence, and discipline in the Camden New Journal - [Woman's Hour: Swedish Mothers Refusing to Work a Double Day](https://globalwomenstrike.net/womans-hour-swedish-mothers-refusing-to-work-a-double-day/) - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06nnqq9 Woman’s Hour this week had a section dedicated to Swedish mothers who are refusing to work the double day in work and at home. These women are staying at home and living off sick pay in order to take care of their children and to get a little respite from the mental exhaustion that 70,000 women - [Women Carers Fighting for the Right to not be Impoverished and Overworked](https://globalwomenstrike.net/women-carers-fighting-for-the-right-to-not-be-impoverished-and-overworked/) - “Women face a dilemma. If we do the caring, men do not become carers with us but consumers of the care we provide. And if we refuse to care, those who need care suffer neglect and worse.” Selma James, coordinator of the Global Women’s Strike had an article published in Open Democracy this week, reviewing - [The Political Case for Caring Inside the Academy](https://globalwomenstrike.net/the-political-case-for-caring-inside-the-academy/) - “Academic institutions are not built for caring” Writes Aliya Yule, volunteer with Women of Colour in the Global Women Strike and Black Women’s Rape Action Project in a piece published both on Media Diversified and the Ain’t I A Woman Collective website. Aliya, who is taking time off from studying at Oxford University, describes the uncaring - [Our Conference in the Morning Star](https://globalwomenstrike.net/our-conference-in-the-morning-star/) - Between panels that regularly provoked tears, belly-laughs, chants and standing ovations from the audience, hundreds of buzzing chats took place. Becka Seglow Hudson reports on our international conference for the Morning Star. The opening panel of the conference, with Selma James and Professor Alison Wolf discussing class, care, and the women’s movement, is available to - [From Lima to London: the Common Struggles of Rape Survivors](https://globalwomenstrike.net/from-lima-to-london-the-common-struggles-of-rape-survivors/) - Coming together across international borders, we can win our rights — for everyone. And we will. The Morning Star this week hosted a double page spread focused on the work of anti-rape groups based at the Crossroads Centre. In this piece, Lisa Longstaff of Women Against Rape talks to the general secretary of Peruvian domestic - [Women of Colour Often Ignored in the Fight Against Rape](https://globalwomenstrike.net/women-of-colour-often-ignored-in-the-fight-against-rape/) - Does UN Women’s figure of ‘one in three women have experienced physical or sexual violence’ include the majority of women and girls in the world who are of colour and grassroots, and the millions risking their lives to flee war? From the Democratic Republic of Congo to Haiti, from Iraq to Uganda, from India to Peru, - [Measuring and valuing unwaged work. Women Count, count women's work](https://globalwomenstrike.net/measuring-and-valuing-unwaged-work-women-count-count-womens-work/) - The International Women Count Network, with the support of 1,200 Non-Governmental Organizations worldwide, won these historic decisions at the UN Forth World Conference of Women (Platform for Action, Beijing 1995). They are now being implemented in a number of countries. The International Women Count Network campaigns for governments to measure and value unwaged ("unremunerated" work - [Governments agree to measure and value unwaged work](https://globalwomenstrike.net/governments-agree-to-measure-and-value-unwaged-work/) - [Women Celebrate New Recognition of Unpaid Work, Beijing Watch](https://globalwomenstrike.net/women-celebrate-new-recognition-of-unpaid-work-beijing-watch/) - [Women Count, Count Women's Work](https://globalwomenstrike.net/women-count-count-womens-work/) - [Counting women's unwaged work: an anti-racist measure](https://globalwomenstrike.net/counting-womens-unwaged-work-an-anti-racist-measure/) - [Trinidad and Tobago Wages for Housework speech](https://globalwomenstrike.net/trinidad-and-tobago-wages-for-housework-speech/) - [Honour Mothers, Honour all carers](https://globalwomenstrike.net/honour-mothers-honour-all-carers/) - [What we can learn from Tanzania’s hidden socialist history](https://globalwomenstrike.net/what-we-can-learn-from-tanzanias-hidden-socialist-history/) - Selma JamesAfter independence President Julius Nyerere applied welfare state principles to his own country and never lost sight of African traditions Thu 11 Dec 2014 10.29 GMTLast modified on Sat 12 Jan 2019 17.59 As we celebrate the 53rd anniversary of Tanzania’s independence this week and the publication of its hidden socialist history written by Ralph Ibbott, we - [Work of Carers Sorely Needed](https://globalwomenstrike.net/work-of-carers-sorely-needed/) - An article on the struggle to care in the face of austerity, written by Becka Seglow Hudson of the Global Women’s Strike was responded to last week in a letter, penned by care assistant in an elderly people’s home, Kate Thompson. ”I see examples of excellent care, small acts of kindness, compassionate treatment of those we - [In 2016 - Free Chelsea Manning](https://globalwomenstrike.net/in-2016-free-chelsea-manning/) - If Chelsea’s sentence stands, she won’t be out until 2045. We cannot allow this. We have to get her out Trans woman whistleblower Chelsea Manning’s supporters from LGBTQ, women’s, anti-war, anti-racist, anti-zionist, whistleblowers’ and other movements for change celebrated her 28th birthday at 16 locations in seven countries (that we know of), calling for her release. Chelsea - [Resistance to USA's Drone Assassination Programme](https://globalwomenstrike.net/resistance-to-usas-drone-assassination-programme/) - On 19 January, anti-drone grandmother Mary Anne Grady Flores was convicted to 6 months in jail. Her conviction sprang from her protest at Hancock Air National Guard Base (New York state) in 2013. Earlier this year, former drone operators blew the whistle on the US drone programme and wrote a collective letter to President Obama. - [Bernie's Movement - Global Women's Strike in NYT](https://globalwomenstrike.net/bernies-movement-global-womens-strike-in-nyt/) - On Tuesday, Ms. Grover invited me to a women’s speak-out event at a church downtown that was organized by the social justice group Global Women’s Strike. The event’s attendees skewed older and much more local than the protest on Monday did. Here were people invested in the unglamorous work of coalition building — activists on - [Security Forces and Corbyn: Guardian Letter](https://globalwomenstrike.net/security-forces-and-corbyn-guardian-letter/) - The following is a letter written to the Guardian, in response to an interview with Unite leader, Len McCluskey: Len McCluskey says that the security forces are “involved in dark practices” to discredit Jeremy Corbyn (Len McCluskey: intelligence services using ‘dark practices’ against Corbyn, 23 July, andhttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/25/len-mccluskey-adds-context-to-his-comments-on-mi5). McCluskey has been in politics long enough to - ['Evidence Against the Witch-Hunt, and the Racism that is Hidden by it'](https://globalwomenstrike.net/evidence-against-the-witch-hunt-and-the-racism-that-is-hidden-by-it/) - “we do not believe that Labour is rife with antisemitism and weare outraged that antisemitism is being used to undermine the new anti-austerity,anti-racist and anti-imperialist Labour leadership. Below is evidence against thewitch-hunt, and of the racism in the UK which is hidden by it.” This is the submission from the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) - [Women of Colour to the Chakrabati Inquiry on Racism in the UK](https://globalwomenstrike.net/women-of-colour-to-the-chakrabati-inquiry-on-racism-in-the-uk/) - We thought you might be interested in our statement which has been submitted to the Chakrabarti Inquiry“into antisemitism and other forms of racism including islamophobia, within the Labour party”. We would be glad for any feedback. We are also circulating the highly recommended submission from International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network UK, titled “An anti-racist movement versus - [Selma James: On Winning with Corbyn](https://globalwomenstrike.net/selma-james-on-winning-with-corbyn/) - When Jeremy Corbyn announced that he was anti-austerity, overnight he began to attract thousands who then joined Labour to vote for him as leader of the party. Some who had left in disgust at Blair’s deadly wars rejoined. Membership doubled, becoming a political force. This was entirely unexpected, like an earthquake. It upset the whole - [Women Reject the Use of Gender to Silence Legitimate Political Opposition](https://globalwomenstrike.net/women-reject-the-use-of-gender-to-silence-legitimate-political-opposition/) - A new movement announced itself in September 2015 when Jeremy Corbyn was elected Leader of the Labour Party by a landslide. Since then, almost every established media has been busy witch-hunting, undermining and insulting that movement by targeting Corbyn and John McDonnell his shadow chancellor. These two MPs have been working together for decades, representing - [Selma James: Let's Not Forget the Woman Behind Child Benefit](https://globalwomenstrike.net/selma-james-lets-not-forget-the-woman-behind-child-benefit/) - Universal family allowance, now known as child benefit and no longer universal, was paid for the first time 70 years ago today. It was primarily the work of Eleanor Rathbone. See my article in the Guardian celebrating the 70th anniversary of Child Benefit. - [Women with Corbyn](https://globalwomenstrike.net/women-with-corbyn/) - Women with Corbyn Colleagues Claire (left) and Sara (centre) at Corbyn rally in Highbury Fields, North London, 14 August. Women of Colour Global Women’s Strike has been circulating an important statement: Why people of colour should support the new Corbyn/McDonnell movement We are a network of women of colour and, although our organisation is non-party political, we - [John McDonnell is a better Gender Equality Campaigner than his MP Critics](https://globalwomenstrike.net/john-mcdonnell-is-a-better-gender-equality-campaigner-than-his-mp-critics/) - Six female activists, including Selma James, look at the shadow chancellor’s long track record of fighting for, and listening to, women. http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2016/09/john-mcdonnell-better-gender-equality-campaigner-his-mp-critics - [Transforming the World in Liverpool](https://globalwomenstrike.net/transforming-the-world-in-liverpool/) - Just back from Momentum’s The World Transformed. Very exciting being there with hundreds in the hall at Black-E when the result of the leadership election was shown live on a big screen. There was an elated and triumphant roar from the crowd as Jeremy’s 62% landslide with an increased majority was announced. And this despite - [Celebrating Corbyn's Victory](https://globalwomenstrike.net/celebrating-corbyns-victory/) - Women for Corbyn celebrating Jeremy Corbyn’s victory at The World Transformed, Black E, Liverpool, Sat 24 Sept [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il-FOVOICOg?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent] - [Selma James in the Tribune](https://globalwomenstrike.net/selma-james-in-the-tribune/) - Click below to see Selma’s answer included in the Tribune’s column ‘How can the left defeat right-wing populism?’ (PDF) tribunedec16inclselma - [Women and Sustainable Development](https://globalwomenstrike.net/women-and-sustainable-development/) - Para 247 of the Platform for Action agreed at the UN Forth World Conference on Women, Beijing 1995. The fact that environmental degradation results in more work for women, and that eradicating poverty is indispensable to sustainable development, were included after lobbying by the International Women Count Network. The IWCN - with the support of - [Global Women's Strike Conference 2015](https://globalwomenstrike.net/global-womens-strike-conference-2015/) - CARING, SURVIVAL & JUSTICE vs. THE TYRANNY OF THE MARKET INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S CONFERENCE ​ 14-15 NOVEM​BER 2015 Watch videos of the conference here: www.gwsconf15.weebly.com/ - [The Perspective of Caring Q&A](https://globalwomenstrike.net/the-perspective-of-caring-qa/) - The Perspective of Caring Why Mothers and All Carers Should Get a Living Wage for their Caring Work A Q&A on caring, the vital human relationship that ensures survival and well-being, the international petition to get a living wage for this work, the origins of this demand and who supports it. By Nina Lopez, 2016. - [Event: Haiti At The Crossroads: A Fundraiser For The Haiti Emergency Relief Fund](https://globalwomenstrike.net/event-haiti-at-the-crossroads-a-fundraiser-for-the-haiti-emergency-relief-fund/) - [Meeting Magaretta D'Arcy](https://globalwomenstrike.net/meeting-magaretta-darcy/) - by Selma James Margaretta D’arcy had never seen the new Centre, on Wolsey Mews, Kentish Town, and so on a trip to London some weeks back, she finally visited. The All African Women’s Group had its bi-weekly meeting the same day, this time it was about 85 women and when appropriate Margaretta was invited to - [A Woman's Place is in the Labour Manifesto](https://globalwomenstrike.net/a-womans-place-is-in-the-labour-manifesto/) - MORNING STAR 6 JUNE 2017 Labour is offering a realistic and hopeful alternative to the Tories’ continuing attacks on us all, especially women, write NINA LOPEZ and SELMA JAMES Labour’s manifesto has permanently changed the political landscape. It offers what we always wanted but were told we couldn’t have — a welfare state funded by - [Woman's Hour Arrogant and Nasty Interview with Jeremy Corbyn](https://globalwomenstrike.net/womans-hour-arrogant-and-nasty-interview-with-jeremy-corbyn/) - This complaint was sent to Woman’s Hour on Tuesday 30 May: We were shocked by the arrogant and nasty way in which Emma Barnett interviewed Jeremy Corbyn. The clear purpose of the interview was not to inform the audience but to demean the person that many thousands of people (in the majority women) made leader - ["This is Our Chance"](https://globalwomenstrike.net/this-is-our-chance/) - A member of Kilburn Labour Party called for a walkabout to follow the boundaries of the Kilburn ward, as used to be the tradition before elections. About 60 people turned up and cheerfully walked together with placards and chants, backed by a mobile sound system playing Liar Liar and Get Up Stand Up. We got - [Grenfell: Burning Fury](https://globalwomenstrike.net/grenfell-burning-fury/) - People in Grenfell Tower lost their lives because those who are to keep them safe didn’t think they were worth spending money on. Those put in tower blocks, which are hazards – and it turns out many of them are tragedies waiting to unfold – are treated as a liability, an unprofitable expense rather than - [Burning All Illusions at Grenfell](https://globalwomenstrike.net/burning-all-illusions-at-grenfell/) - The Grenfell fire was a watershed. Speaking in a debate about whether democracy is broken at Glastonbury the day after thousands serenaded Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell drew a line under the soft phrases from mealy-mouthed politicians that hide deep truths. “Is democracy working? It didn’t work if you were a family living on the 20th - [Tories - the Blue and the Red](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tories-the-blue-and-the-red/) - Towards the end of a long interview with Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell on the Andrew Marr Show last Sunday 16 July (BBC One), he was yet again asked to take back his statement that people at Grenfell Tower were “murdered by political decisions”. The corporate media was so used to getting away with labelling social murder - [Lori Nairne, Presente!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/lori-nairne-presente/) - I’m addicted to reading obituaries, especially of people I knew or know about. You find out important things about them that you could not imagine, and how people felt about them. But you also find out about the times in which they, we, lived, and can look again at how it was for us during - [On the Centenary of Our Revolution Against the Russian Empire](https://globalwomenstrike.net/on-the-centenary-of-our-revolution-against-the-russian-empire/) - Today is the centenary of the Bolsheviks taking power. We asked Giorgio Riva from Payday Men’s Network to write from memory some idea of what happened 100 years ago today. (He is in Venice for his uncle’s funeral, and his books are not with him.) The attack on that revolution has been almost unanimous in - [Only the Rich are Unemployed](https://globalwomenstrike.net/only-the-rich-are-unemployed/) - I’m so tired of hearing Tories brag about how unemployment has gone down dramatically. We must remind them that under slavery there was no unemployment at all (except for the Masters class). The difference between slavery and wage labour is, they may remember, the little matter of the employed getting wages. But the wages of - [International Women's Strike 2017](https://globalwomenstrike.net/international-womens-strike-2017/) - The call for this International Women’s Strike (IWS) follows mass protest in 2016 against men’s violence in Argentina and the criminalisation of abortion in Poland, and the women’s marches against Trump which mobilised millions in the US and 60 other countries, including 100,000 in the UK. The Women’s March UK and US are endorsing the IWD - [Statement: Lori Nairne, Presente!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/statement-lori-nairne-presente/) - Many of you may have already heard the shocking, sudden and sad news that Lori Nairne has died. We are all devastated. We loved Lori; she was our dear campaign sister and friend. Lori was a dedicated and active member of the Wages for Housework Campaign (WFH) since 1973 when she first met Selma James. - [Press: Lori Nairne, Oct. 23, 1951-Aug. 19, 2017: She leaves love in her wake](https://globalwomenstrike.net/press-lori-nairne-oct-23-1951-aug-19-2017-she-leaves-love-in-her-wake/) - Lori Nairne, Oct. 23, 1951-Aug. 19, 2017: She leaves love in her wake September 5, 2017 A celebration of Lori Nairne’s life will be held at the Omni Collective – Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck in Oakland – on Tuesday, Sept. 5, at 2:30 p.m. Lori Nairne, women’s, queer rights and anti-racist campaigner, nurse and homeopath, - [Event: Dec 9 Haiti Benefit at the Omni, Oakland](https://globalwomenstrike.net/event-dec-9-haiti-benefit-at-the-omni-oakland/) - We hope everyone can come to the benefit concert for the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund -- we have a great line up of musicians! But if you can’t be there in person, you can still make a tax-deductible donation here or send a check to fiscal sponsor Women in Dialogue, P.O. Box 14512, San Francisco, - [Letter: Protest against the attack on homeopathy by NHS England](https://globalwomenstrike.net/letter-protest-against-the-attack-on-homeopathy-by-nhs-england/) - Camden New Journal 19 October, 2017 • NHS England is threatening to remove homeopathic and other complementary therapies and supplements from the list that doctors can prescribe. Anyone can send their objections directly to them www.engage.england.nhs.uk/consultation/items-routinely-prescribed/ Six million people in the UK, including the Queen, use homeopathy, and many more take supplements. To remove them from - [Portside: Confronting Apartheid Has Everything To Do With Feminism](https://globalwomenstrike.net/portside-confronting-apartheid-has-everything-to-do-with-feminism/) - Attacking the International Women’s Strike on March 8, supporters of Israel argued that the decolonization of Palestine has no place in feminism and further asked if there is a place for Zionists in the feminist movement. We turn the question around and ask if the occupation of Palestine, the bombings of Gaza, the apartheid that - [Action: URGENT support needed to DROP CHARGES against EIGHT HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS in Thailand](https://globalwomenstrike.net/action-urgent-support-needed-to-drop-charges-against-eight-human-rights-defenders-in-thailand/) - Dear friends, URGENT support needed to DROP CHARGES against EIGHT HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS in Thailand Protection International in Thailand is appealing for our immediate action to support eight human rights defenders (HRD), two women and six men, who are being charged with breaching Article 12 which forbids “political gatherings of five or more persons”. The eight - [PRESS RELEASE: Thailand: call to defend We Walk Solidarity marchers from repression](https://globalwomenstrike.net/press-release-thailand-call-to-defend-we-walk-solidarity-marchers-from-repression/) - PRESS RELEASE:Thailand: call to defend We Walk Solidarity marchers from repression We Walk…Solidarity has four main themes: universal health care, farmers’ rights, community and environmental rights, and the Constitution which doesn’t guarantee the fundamental right to participation. Some walkers on day 2 (21 January 2018) We Walk…Solidarity has been founded by: 1. Health Security Watch - [ACTION ALERT Thailand: defend We Walk Solidarity from repression](https://globalwomenstrike.net/action-alert-thailand-defend-we-walk-solidarity-from-repression/) - ACTION ALERT Thailand: defend We Walk Solidarity from repression We Walk…Solidarity has been founded by: 1. Health Security Watch group and People Movement for Social Welfare 2. Alternative Agriculture Network – Food Security 3. National Recourse Network – Community Rights 4. Academic and lawyer Network who observe on the Constitution, Election and Right and freedom - [NGO crimes go far beyond Oxfam](https://globalwomenstrike.net/ngo-crimes-go-far-beyond-oxfam/) - We were so incensed by the way the scandal of Oxfam was being presented, and how the issue of the money collected and whether it reached people was not mentioned, that some of us wrote this letter to The Guardian. It gave us a chance to focus public attention on the way that Haitians in - [International Women's Day events 2018](https://globalwomenstrike.net/international-womens-day-events-2018/) - UK Wednesday 7 March 2018 17:00 – 20:45 What Women Want 2.0 Report Launch London: Attlee Suite, Portcullis House, 1 Parliament Street, Westminster, London SW1A 2JR Selma James and others will speak about their chapter in the report. More info here. International Women’s Day Thursday 8 March 2018, 12-2pm Family Courts on Trial London: Old - [8 March: Family Courts on Trial - speak out outside Parliament](https://globalwomenstrike.net/517/) - PRESS RELEASE 8 March 2018: International Women’s Day Speak out: FAMILY COURTS ON TRIAL 12-2pm, Old Palace Yard, Westminster All Welcome On the centenary of (some) women’s suffrage, mothers, grandmothers and women’s organisations will expose and protest the devaluing of mothers and the unwarranted rise in children being taken into care and adopted against the wishes of - [8 March: Protest Unilever, disinvest from Myanmar!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/8-march-protest-unilever-disinvest-from-myanmar/) - 8 March 2018 International Women’s Day 5-6pm PROTEST outside UNILEVER HQ UNILEVER House, 100 Victoria Embankment, London EC4Y 0DY Why UNILEVER? UNILEVER claims to embody principles that respect the dignity and rights of women and girls, especially in the marketing of Dove products. UNILEVER has been so successful in this that the company holds the - [The Global Women's Strike has evolved into a worldwide protest](https://globalwomenstrike.net/the-global-womens-strike-has-evolved-into-a-worldwide-protest/) - Decades after Iceland’s ‘day off’, our women’s strike is stronger than ever Selma James The Global Women’s Strike has evolved into a worldwide protest with myriad demands Thu 8 Mar 2018 06.00 GMTLast modified on Thu 8 Mar 2018 13.12 GMT On the first day of the UN Decade for Women in 1975, the women of Iceland took the - [Selma James in Hunger Magazine](https://globalwomenstrike.net/in-hunger-magazine/) - Selma James in Hunger Magazine "READ THE MOST INSPIRING QUOTES FROM THE WOMEN OF HUNGER 14" “In the recent months what has happened is that women in prominent positions have complained about what they suffer, and that has been very useful. It can be even more useful when they include the rest of us in - [US Poor People's Campaign launch 6 weeks of action](https://globalwomenstrike.net/us-poor-peoples-campaign-launch-6-weeks-of-action/) - 14 MAY 2018 – POOR PEOPLE’S CAMPAIGN LAUNCH SIX WEEKS OF NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION ACROSS THE UNITED STATES A new multiracial mass movement has been growing in the United States. The Poor People’s Campaign: a National Call for Moral Revival (PPC) is launching its first nation-wide event on May 14, the day after the US Mothers’ Day. Through highly publicized, non-violent - [Equal Pay article by Selma James for What Women Want report](https://globalwomenstrike.net/equal-pay-article-by-selma-james-for-what-women-want-report/) - WHAT WOMEN WANT 2.0 EQUAL PAY: SELMA JAMES Co-ordinator of the Global Women’s Strike and author of Sex, Race & Class – The Perspective of Winning “[I want] wages for housework. Equal pay. Safety from violence and bullying.” Equal pay was a defining theme in the responses to the What Women Want 2.0 survey, showing - ["Universal Credit - a hostile environment for women". Article in Morning Star.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/universal-credit-a-hostile-environment-for-women-article-in-morning-star/) - SELMA JAMES AND SOLVEIG FRANCIS | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2018 Women are more likely to be single parents and carers, which is why the attacks on welfare under the universal credit policy have been an act of political misogyny, writes SELMA JAMES and SOLVEIG FRANCIS THE FURY against universal credit (UC), imposing destitution and even - [£1 trillion worth of unpaid housework, figures show](https://globalwomenstrike.net/blog-post/) - The article by Lindsey German of Counterfire with its juicy quote about “unpaid work” was passed on to me, and I was delighted to receive it. [It said:] “The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has estimated that the amount of unpaid household work carried out in the UK is worth £1.24 trillion a year. The value has - [International Women’s Strike planning meeting Tues 20 Nov, 6pm](https://globalwomenstrike.net/international-womens-strike-planning-meeting-tues-20-nov-6pm/) - Come to a planning meeting for the International Women's Strike (IWS: 8 March 2019) 6pm, Tuesday 20 November 2018 Liz Hilton (EMPOWER-Thailand) is in London for a few days. So we are meeting now to benefit from Thai women’s struggle and especially their mass movement of sex workers. Also, Liz, Selma James and Nina Lopez (Global - [Cardiff People’s Assembly hosting an event with Selma James, “Women Race and Class: Uniting Our Struggles”.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/cardiff-peoples-assembly-hosting-an-event-with-selma-james-women-race-and-class-uniting-our-struggles/) - Selma James – on struggles of women 21 Nov 2017 /Oindrila Gupta On 30th November, Cardiff People’s Assembly is hosting an event with Selma James, “Women Race and Class: Uniting Our Struggles”. men and women on a protest against austerity (picture credit: Cardiff People’s Assembly) Selma James, celebrated author and the founder of the international Wages for Housework - [Selma James in Il Manifesto: «Per affermare il valore della cura, sciopero globale»](https://globalwomenstrike.net/selma-james-in-il-manifesto-per-affermare-il-valore-della-cura-sciopero-globale/) - INTERNAZIONALE Intervista. La cura è un’attività umanizzante, si diventa un essere umano completo quando si rende l'altro centrale nel proprio operato, oggi gli uomini stanno imparando Selma James, classe 1930, è un’autrice e attivista statunitense, da molti anni residente a Londra. Ha scritto insieme a Maria Rosa Dalla Costa «Potere femminile e sovversione sociale». È - [Launch of Marxism, Colonialism, and Cricket](https://globalwomenstrike.net/launch-of-marxism-colonialism-and-cricket/) - https://youtu.be/uZ6y-KaA0L0 - [Selma James discusses Julius Nyerere's Tanzania](https://globalwomenstrike.net/selma-james-discusses-julius-nyereres-tanzania/) - [Invisibility would undermine carers’ struggle for equity](https://globalwomenstrike.net/invisibility-would-undermine-carers-struggle-for-equity/) - Abolishing the Constitution’s recognition of caring work done within the family would be a disservice to those doing this work Fri, Jul 13, 2018, 05:11Maggie Ronayne4 Family Carers Ireland estimates there are 200,000 family carers, but the means-tested carer’s allowance is only €214 per week for caring for one person. Photograph: Getty ImagesShare to FacebookShare - [Statement: Thailand - We Walk: freedom of assembly wins, and the courts affirm their rights!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/statement-thailand-we-walk-freedom-of-assembly-wins-and-the-courts-affirm-their-rights/) - [Media statement - Thailand must respect and promote human rights, end harassment and suppression of rights of “We Walk…Solidarity/Friendship” participants and supporters.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/media-statement-thailand-must-respect-and-promote-human-rights-end-harassment-and-suppression-of-rights-of-we-walksolidarity-friendship-participants-and-supporters/) - [Statement: Urgent, endorse statement supporting We Walk..Solidarity in Thailand](https://globalwomenstrike.net/statement-urgent-endorse-statement-supporting-we-walk-solidarity-in-thailand/) - [Donate: URGENT Help grassroots women get to DC for Poor People's Campaign final week of actions!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/donate-urgent-help-grassroots-women-get-to-dc-for-poor-peoples-campaign-final-week-of-actions/) - URGENT FUNDRAISING APPEAL!Support the networks of the Global Women’s Strike (GWS), Women of Color in the GWS and Payday men’s network delegation to DC to take part in the final week of the 40 Days of Action launching The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival! The week of June 18-23, multi-racial grassroots - [International Women's Strike 2019 - "Stop the world and change it"](https://globalwomenstrike.net/international-womens-strike-2019-stop-the-world-and-change-it/) - [11 Dec: Protecting Breastfeeding from state intervention](https://globalwomenstrike.net/11-dec-protecting-breastfeeding-from-state-intervention/) - From Legal Action for Women: Dear Friends, Protecting breastfeeding from State intervention (family courts, detention centres, hospitals, prisons, etc.) We thought you would like to know about an important meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Infant Feeding & Inequalities on Tuesday 11 December 2018. See agenda here. Solveig Francis and Shoda Rackal from - [Statement from a Yellow Vests group in France](https://globalwomenstrike.net/statement-from-a-yellow-vests-group-in-france/) - As you know there has been widespread street protests all over France in the last few weeks. It started against an increase in the tax on petrol while the rich had had a tax cut. The protests have grown and broadened their demands, and many sectors including students, ambulance workers, campaigners against police murders and - [France: Mothers denounce police brutality](https://globalwomenstrike.net/france-mothers-denounce-police-brutality/) - Since 17 November, there’s been widespread street protests and road blocks all over France by the ‘gilets jaunes’ (named after the hi-vis yellow vests they wear). They were sparked off by an increase in the tax on petrol while the rich had had a tax cut. The movement has grown and broadened its demands - [Kevan Thakrar - 8 years in solitary confinement! Send season's greeting and Write to your MP](https://globalwomenstrike.net/kevan-thakrar-8-years-in-solitary-confinement-send-seasons-greeting-and-write-to-your-mp/) - From Payday Men's Network working with the Global Women's Strike Emergency Alert! Kevan Thakrar in Solitary Confinement for 8 years in the UK Please send him a holiday card and write to your MP! Dear friends, Kevan Thakrar has been in solitary confinement in UK prisons for more than eight years. The UN has called for - [Screening Mangrove 9 film, Sat 2 Feb](https://globalwomenstrike.net/screening-mangrove-9-film-sat-2-feb/) - Save the date! – Saturday 2 Feb 2019 Film screening: How the Mangrove 9 Won Altheia Jones-LeCointe, defendant and point of reference for the Black Panther Movement (UK) which organised the defence. Ian Macdonald, now QC, then key barrister of the defence team. Key participants describe the successful trial and community organising which spearheaded the - [Thur 21 Feb: Another kind of Question Time w Leanne Wood & Natalie Bennett](https://globalwomenstrike.net/thur-21-feb-another-kind-of-question-time-w-leanne-wood-natalie-bennett/) - We welcome to London who will be joined byLEANNE WOODformer leader of Plaid Cymru (Party of Wales) NATALIE BENNETTformer leader of the Green Party Chaired by Selma James 7-9 pm Thursday 21 February Crossroads Women’s Centre 25 Wolsey Mews, London NW5 2DX - [Please sign: Unison petition to repeal two child limit to Universal Credit +Tax Credits](https://globalwomenstrike.net/please-sign-unison-petition-to-repeal-two-child-limit-to-universal-credit-tax-credits/) - Dear Friends Please sign, and circulate the Petition to the UK Government and Parliament: Repeal the two child limit to Tax Credits and Universal Credit http://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/233887 Tweet from Unison, 11 Jan 2019 http://twitter.com/unisontweets/status/1083665095304101888 UNISON - the union‏ @unisontweets The decision not to extend the 2 child limit to families that had their third child before 6 - [8 March: picket Royal Courts of Justice 12-2 pm](https://globalwomenstrike.net/8-march-picket-royal-courts-of-justice-12-2-pm/) - WHAT IS THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S STRIKE? ● The first Global Women’s Strike (coordinated by the Wages for Housework Campaign - WFH) was called for 8 March 2000, inspired by the 1975 Iceland women’s Day Off and a strike call by women in Ireland ● In 2016 women in Poland stopped work against anti-abortion laws ● - [GWS on the 1st UK-wide Youth Strike 4 Climate #FFF](https://globalwomenstrike.net/710/) - The Global Women’s Strike was happy to support the 1st UK-wide Youth Strike 4 Climate #FFF in Parliament Square on 15 February. Several thousand multi-racial resolute school students gathered in Parliament Sq and blockaded the traffic. Actions were planned in at least 60 towns and cities across the UK, from Cornwall to the Highlands. Young women - [New Zealand: Women of Colour condemn Mosque Shootings](https://globalwomenstrike.net/new-zealand-women-of-colour-condemn-mosque-shootings/) - Dear friends, We have updated our statement (sent 16 March). Great if you can send it round your networks with Facebook event for the Vigil tonight, which we have been invited to co-host and speak at. We will be meeting 5.30pm onwards outside News Corp, 1 London Bridge St, London. See map Hope to see - [Video: Defending our children & our world](https://globalwomenstrike.net/video-defending-our-children-our-world/) - [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X06sCwskBc&w=560&h=315] - [Statement: End Discrimination: Respect Human Rights And Restore Shamina Begum’s UK Nationality](https://globalwomenstrike.net/statement-end-discrimination-respect-human-rights-and-restore-shamina-begums-uk-nationality/) - END DISCRIMINATION: RESPECT HUMAN RIGHTS AND RESTORE SHAMINA BEGUM’S UK NATIONALITY For clarification and/or further information, kindly contact Charles Hector (+60192371100 easytocall@gmail.com), Selma James ( +44 20 7482 2496, gws@globalwomenstrike.net ) and/or Nina Lopez ( +44 20 7482 2496, law@allwomencount.net ) Kindly report on this statement, OR alternatively cause it to be published in your - [Complain to Woman’s Hour about their sexist reporting on “parental alienation”](https://globalwomenstrike.net/complain-to-womans-hour-about-their-sexist-reporting-on-parental-alienation/) - Selma James to Woman’s Hour I am appalled by Woman’s Hour’s report on ‘parental alienation’ (26 April 2016) provoked by Families Need Fathers’s march the day before. You reported on ‘parental alienation’ which has notoriously been used by fathers, including violent fathers, to discredit the mother who is most often the caring parent, and to - [Selma James quoted in article: "What is killing marriage and the family?"](https://globalwomenstrike.net/selma-james-quoted-in-article-what-is-killing-marriage-and-the-family/) - It’s not just the free market or big government - there’s Big Sister too Belinda Brown | May 11 2019 | 1 Share on FacebookShare on Twitter forward by email Print Subscribe The male breadwinner ... now just a privilege of the upper middle class? The birth of a new Royal baby here in Britain reminds us what privileged women - [Women say: reorient benefits to support us and recognise care work](https://globalwomenstrike.net/women-say-reorient-benefits-to-support-us-and-recognise-care-work/) - Here is our submission to the Labour Policy Forum about benefits and employment, done jointly with WinVisible - women with visible and invisible disabilities . Anyone can make a submission, as an individual or organisation, as a Labour Party member or guest. The consultation ends tomorrow 30 June. https://www.policyforum.labour.org.uk/commissions Labour policy review – Work, pensions and - [Selma James in Monthly Review](https://globalwomenstrike.net/selma-james-in-monthly-review/) - Beyond Boundaries by Selma James and Ron Augustin (Sep 01, 2019) Topics: Feminism , History , Marxism , Movements Places: Europe , United Kingdom Selma James in July 2012. Photo credit: Crossroads AV Collective. Ron Augustin is a freelance journalist and editor based in Brussels. In collaboration with the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, he has been involved in editorial and digitization projects documenting anti-imperialist movements of - [Actress Jodhi May cast as Selma James in Steve McQueen’s new BBC series, Small Axe](https://globalwomenstrike.net/actress-jodhi-may-cast-as-selma-james-in-steve-mcqueens-new-bbc-series-small-axe/) - The Observer Jodhi May says Scarborough, in which her character has a romance with a 16-year-old boy, is supposed to be uncomfortable to watch Vanessa Thorpe Sun 8 Sep 2019 07.59 BST Actress Jodhi May, who stars in an uncompromising new film about a relationship between a teacher and a pupil, has defended it against critics who - [Selma James in Stylist Magazine](https://globalwomenstrike.net/selma-james-in-stylist-magazine/) - What the rise of the ‘cleanfluencer’ tells us about women’s lives in 2019 SHARE TWEET Written byAlix Walker Alix Walker is editor-at-large at Stylist magazine. She works across print, digital and video and could give Mary Berry a run for her money with her baking skills. ‘Cleanfluencers’ are the latest social media stars to sweep - [Migrant Justice bloc @ Climate Strike](https://globalwomenstrike.net/migrant-justice-bloc-climate-strike/) - We'll be on the Migrant Justice bloc @ Climate Strike this Fri 20 Sept - join us from 11-3pm - Millbank, London SW! - [Join Extinction Rebellion breastfeeding action 9 Oct](https://globalwomenstrike.net/join-xr-nurse-in-9-oct/) - Dear Friends, We invite you to take part in the Nurse-in on Wednesday 9 October 10.30-11.30 organised by Extinction Rebellion (XR) as part of the October XR Movement of Movements. Mothers are meeting at the QEII Centre, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, SW1P 3EE and move to a nearby location for the Nurse-in. Please join us if - [Event: Mexico Mothers of Disappeared & Haiti Insurrection](https://globalwomenstrike.net/event-mexico-mothers-of-disappeared-haiti-insurrection/) - Dear Friends, Please note the meeting on Sat 5 Oct is at 4pm (not 2pm).The Transformative Power of Mexico’s Movement of Mothers of the Disappeared With Laura Carlsen and a special news report Another Haitian Revolution? Margaret Prescod reporting from Haiti Saturday 5 October 2019, 4pm Crossroads Women’s Centre 25 Wolsey Mews, Kentish Town, London - [Join us at Extinction Rebellion events!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/join-us-at-extinction-rebellion-events/) - Dear Friends, We are taking part in the Extinction Rebellion (XR) Movement of Movements this week and next week. Here are some of the events we are involved in organising. The events are mostly outside and some called at short notice so please follow social media or check XRs website as sometimes events and timings - [Please join us for a special screening of All Work and No Pay & Women of the Rhondda](https://globalwomenstrike.net/please-join-us-for-a-special-screening-of-all-work-and-no-pay-women-of-the-rhondda/) - Crossroads Women’s Centre present All Work and No Pay & Women of the Rhondda Sat 19 Oct 2019 / 2-4pm LUX, Waterlow Park Centre, Dartmouth Park Hill, London, N19 5JF Booking free via Eventbrite Book online As part of our current exhibition All You Need’s An Excuse, please join us for a special screening of a recent - [Selma James speaking at Latin America Conference 2019, Saturday 23 November](https://globalwomenstrike.net/selma-james-speaking-at-latin-america-conference-2019-saturday-23-november/) - Black lives Matter: Resisting Trump from Haiti & the Caribbean to the US In the era of Trump, racism is on the rise in the Americas, but countries such as Cuba, Bolivia and Venezuela show that the cause of black liberation can be advanced with self-organisation and progressive policies. The history and current uprising in - [Selma James writes an open letter to Chris Williamson](https://globalwomenstrike.net/selma-james-writes-an-open-letter-to-chris-williamson/) - SELMA JAMES MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2019 OpinionWe are in the midst of an anti-left witch-hunt Dear Chris, I read your statement in support of Jeremy Corbyn and your article in the Morning Star and was struck by your honesty, clarity and determination to win for Labour in this election. Though I wish you were running as - [Support Corbyn in 12 December UK election](https://globalwomenstrike.net/support-corbyn-in-12-december-uk-election/) - Dear friends, While the Global Women’s Strike and Payday are non-party political, many of us are campaigning for Jeremy Corbyn in this election to stop a far-right Johnson-Trump alliance. The LP Manifesto, launched with Corbyn’s powerful speech (see also his 60 seconds resumee), is the most radical in decades and includes: · an end to - [Selma James & Women of Colour GWS sign letter: We stand with Jeremy Corbyn – just as he always stood with us](https://globalwomenstrike.net/selma-james-women-of-colour-gws-sign-letter-we-stand-with-jeremy-corbyn-just-as-he-always-stood-with-us/) - Organisations and individuals including Kehinde Andrews, Hanif Kureishi, Ahdaf Soueif, Gillian Slovo, Robert Del Naja and Anish Kapoor urge BAME and migrant communities to vote for Labour December 10, 2019 · 8 min read As BAME (Black, Asian and minority ethnic) representatives, organisations, anti-racist activists and individuals involved in local, national, and international campaigns, we urge BAME and migrant communities to vote for the - [We must remember all victims of the Nazis](https://globalwomenstrike.net/we-must-remember-all-victims-of-the-nazis/) - CAMDEN NEW JOURNAL – Letters 30 January, 2020 http://camdennewjournal.com/article/we-must-remember-all-victims-of-the-nazis We must remember all victims of the Nazis • WE remembered the victims and survivors on this 75th anniversary of the Auschwitz-Birkenau liberation, including those currently persecuted, as Gareth Murphy’s letter said (Remember the Gypsy and Roma victims, January 23). There seemed little space for - [Singapore must stop targeting HR defenders and media](https://globalwomenstrike.net/singapore-must-stop-targeting-hr-defenders-and-media/) - LETTERPublished: Feb 2nd, 2020 | Modified: Feb 2nd, 2020 LETTER | We, the 37 undersigned groups and organisations, and three individuals, are appalled by Singapore’s denial and response to the highlighting of alleged “barbaric” unlawful practices in execution method that was highlighted vide a Jan 16 media statement issued by Lawyers for Liberty (LFL). Singapore - [International Women's Day event and programme](https://globalwomenstrike.net/international-womens-day-event/) - [Photos from #ClimateStrike today!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/photos-from-climatestrike-today/) - [Free legal education course for grassroots and community groups who support women living in precarious housing situations](https://globalwomenstrike.net/free-legal-education-course-for-grassroots-and-community-groups-who-support-women-living-in-precarious-housing-situations/) - Hosted at the Crossroads Women's Centre where we are based: Law for Life are running a FREE legal education course for grassroots and community groups who support women living in precarious housing situations. Please share with relevant groups! Info and flyer: https://lawforlife.org.uk/blog/housing-rights-and-women-legal-education-course/ - [Event - breastfeeding best for babies and planet too](https://globalwomenstrike.net/event-breastfeeding-best-for-babies-and-planet-too/) - Join Shoda Rackal from @WomenStrike Women of Colour and Solveig Francis from #CrossroadsWomenCentre for a conversation about mothers, breastfeeding and campaigns for a #CareIncome! https://eventbrite.co.uk/e/breastfeeding-best-for-babies-planet-too-with-women-of-colour-global-womens-strike-tickets-96986546371?ref=eios - [WinVisible win £10,500 for woman with disability](https://globalwomenstrike.net/winvisible-win-10500-for-woman-with-disability/) - You are here: Home / Benefits and Poverty / Tribunal victory gives hope to ‘failure to attend’ benefit victims Tribunal victory gives hope to ‘failure to attend’ benefit victims By John Pring on 27th February 2020Category: Benefits and PovertyListenListen with webReaderFocus A disabled woman’s tribunal victory has given hope to claimants who cannot take part in face-to-face benefit assessments for impairment, health, or trauma-related - [Morning Star: The crucial work that women do is often overlooked](https://globalwomenstrike.net/the-crucial-work-that-women-do-is-often-overlooked/) - Women’s caring role in society means we end up doing a ‘double day’ whether we like it or not, writes SELMA JAMES WHEN the women’s liberation movement began in 1970, groups sprang up all over London and all over Britain. You would have a meeting and establish some of the things you wanted to discuss - [Grazia: The Problem Of Invisible Labour - And Why YOU Should Down Tools This International Women's Day](https://globalwomenstrike.net/the-problem-of-invisible-labour-and-why-you-should-down-tools-this-international-womens-day/) - For International Women’s Day on 8 March, Grazia commissioned an exclusive survey that revealed women are still doing more at home. Writer Sally Howard, whose new book is about all the work women do to keep a household running smoothly, isn’t surprised... BY SALLY HOWARD | POSTED5 HOURS AGO On 8 March 2018, a year into my infant - [Camden New Journal: Let’s value the work of human survival](https://globalwomenstrike.net/lets-value-the-work-of-human-survival/) - Marking International Women’s Day on Sunday, Selma James argues the long-overdue case for a Care Income 06 March, 2020 — By Selma James IT’S almost 50 years since I marched, with thousands of others, behind the women’s liberation banner. Groups formed all over London and the UK, discussing what in our lives we wanted to change. Everything! - [The Independent: I founded the Wages for Housework campaign in 1972 – and women are still working for free](https://globalwomenstrike.net/the-independent-i-founded-the-wages-for-housework-campaign-in-1972-and-women-are-still-working-for-free/) - Forget basic income, those who care for people and the planet deserve to be recognised for the unpaid work they already do Selma James 1 day ago 25 comments In 1972, a paper I wrote was discussed at the women’s liberation conference in Manchester. It had six demands: the right to work less; the right - [Event: Webinar From Coronavirus and Beyond Valuing Caregiving -- the Unwaged Work that Protects People and the Environment.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/event-webinar-from-coronavirus-and-beyond-valuing-caregiving-the-unwaged-work-that-protects-people-and-the-environment/) - Date And Time Fri, March 20, 2020 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDT Description Invitation to a Webinar From Coronavirus and Beyond Valuing Caregiving -- the Unwaged Work that Protects People and the Environment. The workshop we planned for the 64th UN Commission on the Status of Women has even more urgency now as the global pandemic has - [Press: Coronavirus: MPs hear of disabled people’s struggle to survive pandemic](https://globalwomenstrike.net/press-coronavirus-mps-hear-of-disabled-peoples-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 - [Action: Money for Mothers & Other Caregivers - take action!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/action-money-for-mothers-other-caregivers-take-action/) - [Press release: Mothers, Caregivers Demand Funds in CARES 2 Stimulus Bill](https://globalwomenstrike.net/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 - [Video: The Ballad of the Sans-Papiers](https://globalwomenstrike.net/the-ballad-of-the-sans-papiers-with-english-subtitles/) - [Event: Collective online screening of La Ballade des Sans-Papiers](https://globalwomenstrike.net/event-collective-online-screening-of-la-ballade-des-sans-papiers/) - As part of the day of action called by the International Network #PapersForAll La Ballade des Sans-Papiers A documentary by Samir Abdallah, Raffaele Ventura Collective online screening - 30 May 2020 – all day In 1996, 300 undocumented African migrants – women, men and children – occupied the church of St-Bernard in Paris for weeks, and - [Statement: Haiti's Peasants Stand in Solidarity w US protesters](https://globalwomenstrike.net/statement-haiti-action-committee-message-from-haitian-peasant-organisations/) - [Statement: Open Letter to Birmingham Pride from 11 LGBTQIA+ Groups: Drop HSBC](https://globalwomenstrike.net/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+ - [Comment: The cost of opposing mines in Thailand’s rural heartland](https://globalwomenstrike.net/comment-the-cost-of-opposing-mines-in-thailands-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 - [CNJ: Death a massive wake-up call](https://globalwomenstrike.net/cnj-death-a-massive-wake-up-call/) - Camden New Journal Letters Coverage of Mr Cardoso and other deaths in police custody, and CNJ’s marks of respect for anti-racist protest is appreciated. (Mother of student who died in custody: ‘Black men are dying for no reason’) Harrowing images of George Floyd’s torture and death by police kneeling on his neck have been a - [Mansi Vithlani: BLM LONDON PROTESTS](https://globalwomenstrike.net/mansi-vithlani-blm-london-protests/) - Guest Articles by Guest Writer - 12/06/2020 The Stories of those involved: Written by Greg Kennedy After the murder of George Floyd by four Minneapolis Police officers and countless other cases of racially motivated hate crimes across the US by citizens and police – the UK stood alongside the United States this weekend in a number of Black - [Event: June 20: Poor People's Campaign Digital Mass Gathering!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/event-june-20-poor-peoples-campaign-digital-mass-gathering/) - The Global Women’s Strike and Women of Color in the Global Women’s Strike are national partner organizations with the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. We urge you to join us for the Poor People’s Campaign June 20th Digital Gathering. In the context of uprisings across the country against police killings of - [Event: Sat 20 June join Poor People’s Campaign virtual march](https://globalwomenstrike.net/event-sat-20-june-join-poor-peoples-campaign-virtual-march/) - The Global Women’s Strike & Payday networks are joining the Poor People’s Campaign virtual march on Washington this Saturday 20 June 2020. Wherever you are, join us! An unprecedented wave of protests for racial justice has swept the United States and the globe since the modern-day police lynching of George Floyd on 25 May. In - [Morning Star: ‘Juneteenth’ is our Freedom Day](https://globalwomenstrike.net/morning-star-juneteenth-is-our-freedom-day/) - SARA CALLAWAY AND CRISSIE AMIS FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2020 Today we will celebrate the anniversary of our emancipation from slavery by joining the Poor People’s Campaign Digital Gathering, write SARA CALLAWAY and CRISSIE AMIS Coinciding with the anniversary of emanciptaion in the US, a remarkable wave of protests for racial equality has swept the globe - [Statement: 56 Groups: Employers who breach OSH laws and expose workers to Covid-19 must be prosecuted](https://globalwomenstrike.net/statement-56-groups-employers-who-breach-osh-laws-and-expose-workers-to-covid-19-must-be-prosecuted/) - We, the 56 undersigned organizations, groups and trade unions are concerned about the lack of obvious enforcement and prosecution of employers, contractors, developers including Directors and CEOs when they violate laws meant to ensure worker safety and health, even during this Movement Control Order (MCO) where workers ought to be kept safe from Covid-19. No - [Event: Selma James speaking at McStrike #StrikeforBlackLives Solidarity Zoom Rally. Sun 19 July 2020.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/event-selma-james-speaking-at-mcstrike-strikeforblacklives-solidarity-zoom-rally-sun-19-july-2020/) - Tuesday, 14 July 2020 10:26 AM 0 On July 20, 2020, members of the McStrike’s sister union, SEIU will take action across the United States in a Strike for Black Lives. Join The McStrike’s Zoom Solidarity Rally to show your solidarity and raise up our voices as together we forge a path forward to demand racial - [Wash Post op ed agrees with the Wages for Housework Campaign!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/wash-post-op-ed-agrees-with-the-wages-for-housework-campaign/) - Please see this Washington Post op ed, Yes. Balancing work and parenting is impossible. Here's the data, which mentions the Wages for Housework Campaign, links to the Global Women's Strike and calls for what we have been advocating for decades. A two-parent family chronicled balancing waged work and caregiving work for their children during lockdown and found: “The - [OPEN LETTER: Calling out Opportunists, Hijackers & Police in the movement](https://globalwomenstrike.net/open-letter-calling-out-opportunists-hijackers-police-in-the-movement/) - The massive Black Lives Matter movement with its timely and urgent demands to end systemic racism is facing the threat of being diverted from its core demands. Attempts are being made to shift the focus onto manufactured issues that stereotype our communities, like “Black on Black” violence and knife/gang crime -- code words for labelling - [Statement: Malaysia, Inquests for all deaths of workers at workplace](https://globalwomenstrike.net/statement-malaysia-inquests-for-all-deaths-of-workers-at-workplace/) - Prosecute for offences of killing and causing injury, not merely non-compliance of occupational safety and health requirements We, the 49 undersigned groups, organizations and trade unions demand that Inquests (Inquiries into death) be conducted for all deaths at workplace, to ensure that justice be done, and ensure that those responsible for the death of workers - [Petition: Domestic workers law: sign TODAY / Ley trabajadoras del hogar: Firmen HOY](https://globalwomenstrike.net/petition-domestic-workers-law-sign-today-ley-trabajadoras-del-hogar-firmen-hoy/) - Español / English petition after photo and Spanish links Las #TrabajadorasdelHogar necesitamos de tu ayuda. Firma y comparte esta petición HOY para que el Congreso no demore más el debate y la aprobación de la #LeydeTrabajadorasdelHogar #SeraLey Our sisters in Peru’s Global Women’s Strike and domestic workers union FENTTRAHOP, are asking for signatures urging Congress - [Peru domestic workers win historic law](https://globalwomenstrike.net/peru-domestic-workers-win-historic-law/) - HISTORIC VICTORY IN PERU:Congress approvesDomestic Workers Law On Saturday 5 September, the Peru Congress approved a law guaranteeing the rights of domestic workers. This is the culmination of decades of grassroots organizing, nationally and internationally. For more information contact: Leddy Mozombite Linares https://www.facebook.com/fenttrahop.peru/ Since 2011, when the ILO passed Convention 189 which recognizes domestic workers - [Video: Sara Callaway Women of Colour speaking at Extinction Rebellion protest](https://globalwomenstrike.net/video-sara-callaway-women-of-colour-speaking-at-extinction-rebellion-protest/) - [Updated urgent action alert for climate justice activist under death threat in Thailand](https://globalwomenstrike.net/updated-urgent-action-alert-for-climate-justice-activist-under-death-threat-in-thailand/) - Save the life of Mr. Lertsak Kumkongsak, environmental and human rights activist! Defend the Kahao Yai Pha Dai Community Forest Conservation Group!(in Dong Mafai Sub District, Nongbua Lamphu Province, North East Thailand). Email now (see below) to show how much international support there is for their safety and livelihoods. Mr. Lertsak Kumkongsak continues to face - [Urgent Request! Support effort to get out the vote of millions of unpaid caregivers in the US!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/urgent-request-support-effort-to-get-out-the-vote-of-millions-of-unpaid-caregivers/) - Sign on to Letter asking Biden/Harris Campaign to expand their support to include all caregivers We write to urgently ask your organization to sign onto the attached letter here to Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris asking them to strengthen their support for caregivers. There are over 53 million unpaid family caregivers in - [Urgent action alert for climate justice activist under death threat in Thailand](https://globalwomenstrike.net/urgent-action-alert-for-climate-justice-activist-under-death-threat-in-thailand/) - SEE UPDATED ACTION ALERT HERE. Dear Friends, See below an urgent action alert from our colleagues in Thailand. Environmental and human rights activist Mr. Lertsak Khamkongsak, faces repeated death threats and we are very worried for his safety. Please call on the UN agencies to publicly demand action to protect the life of Mr. Lertsak - [For US: Updated urgent action alert for climate justice activist under death threat in Thailand](https://globalwomenstrike.net/for-us-updated-urgent-action-alert-for-climate-justice-activist-under-death-threat-in-thailand/) - Save the life of Mr. LERTSAK KHAMKONGSAK, environmental and human rights activist! Defend the Kahao Yai Pha Dai Community Forest Conservation Group!(in Dong Mafai Sub District, Nongbua Lamphu Province, North East Thailand). Email now (see below) to show how much international support there is for their safety and livelihoods. Mr. Lertsak Khamkongsak continues to face - [Action Alert! Call on Biden/Harris Campaign to Expand Support for All Caregivers](https://globalwomenstrike.net/action-alert-call-on-biden-harris-campaign-to-expand-support-for-all-caregivers/) - from Election Action for Caregivers: Take action to ask Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris to strengthen their support for caregivers. There are over 53 million unpaid family caregivers in the US, plus 11 million stay at home parents. It’s URGENT that the Biden/Harris Campaign recognize this essential work with fully-refundable tax credits. - [GWS at Anarchist Bookfair 2020](https://globalwomenstrike.net/gws-at-anarchist-bookfair-2020/) - Join our online workshop: A Care Income for People & Planet! Sunday 18 Oct, 3-4pm https://anarchistbookfair.london/event/Care_Income Why a CARE INCOME? Every day and in every emergency, unwaged or low waged caregivers, mostly women, often immigrant women, struggle to protect and care for people of every age and condition. But this work is not considered part of - [CNJ: Calvin Bungisa: It’s time we had justice, says mother](https://globalwomenstrike.net/cnj-calvin-bungisa-its-time-we-had-justice-says-mother/) - 15 October, 2020 — By Bronwen Weatherby THE mother of a young man killed by a group of masked men last year said she missed her “lovely boy” every day as she described the devastation his death has wreaked on her family. In her first interview, Celine Nzuzi said the community needed justice for her son, Calvin - [An anti-racist booklist for our times](https://globalwomenstrike.net/an-anti-racist-booklist-for-our-times/) - Sex, Race and Class – The Perspective of Winning A Selection of Writings, 1952-2011 Selma James Foreword Marcus Rediker, Introduction Nina López PM Press, 2012. £12 “Selma James is a treasure . . . one of the key political thinkers and activists of our times.” Marcus Rediker, The Slave Ship. “It’s time to acknowledge - [Please act now to prevent another killing of land rights defenders in Thailand](https://globalwomenstrike.net/please-act-now-to-prevent-another-killing-of-land-rights-defenders-in-thailand/) - Dear Friends, The mass movement in Thailand has been in the news, representing many grassroots sectors and struggles. Thank you for responding to their call to save the life of Mr. Lertsak Kumkongsak, an important contributor to the struggle for justice for decades​. He has continued to be active with the anti-mining movement despite death - [Voting is Power, We Make Change from the Bottom Up](https://globalwomenstrike.net/voting-is-power-we-make-change-from-the-bottom-up/) - For the US election. To check your ballot status and other voter info: vote.com Election Protection hotline: 1-866-OUR-VOTE - [Why we as Caregivers will BUMP TRUMP OUT!](https://globalwomenstrike.net/why-we-as-caregivers-will-bump-trump-out/) - For US election, to check your ballot status and other voter info: https://vote.com or your state elections website. Election Protection Hotline: 866-OUR-VOTE - [Event: How the Mangrove Nine Won](https://globalwomenstrike.net/event-how-the-mangrove-nine-won/) - Available to watch until 11 January 2021 here:UK: https://bit.ly/36CsQimUS: https://bit.ly/2X5ieUK A fundraiser for Haiti Emergency Relief Fund How the Mangrove Nine Won In 1970, two women and seven men, four of whom were members of the Black Panther Movement (UK), were charged with riot and incitement to riot, causing an affray, assault on police, and possession - [Statement: End Police Rape, Brutality, Killings In Nigeria. #Endsars](https://globalwomenstrike.net/statement-end-police-rape-brutality-killings-in-nigeria-endsars/) - In blatant disregard for the lives of fellow African people, Nigerian police are attacking protesters, but we are heartened at the bravery and determination of people in the massive protests against police killing and brutality and the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). The movement in support of the uprising in Nigeria is growing worldwide. We are - [CNJ: "Bill is a move towards a police state"](https://globalwomenstrike.net/cnj-bill-is-a-move-towards-a-police-state/) - Camden New Journal 27 November, 2020 ‘This bill is a significant departure from natural justice and towards a police state.’ • TOM Foot’s November 19 report of the Undercover Policing Inquiry highlighted police surveillance in Camden. Women are giving evidence about abusive sexual relationships with police spies, and the Lawrence family about infiltration to discredit their justice - [CNJ: Mangrove Nine: justice in the dock](https://globalwomenstrike.net/cnj-mangrove-nine-justice-in-the-dock/) - REVIEWFILM To complement a Steve McQueen Small Axe film, an online account of the momentous trial can now be viewed, writes Bronwen Weatherby 04 December, 2020 — By Bronwen Weatherby Ian Macdonald, Altheia Jones-LeCointe and Selma James in How the Mangrove Nine Won A FIRST-HAND account of the momentous court case that saw nine black men and - [Event: Haitian Lives Matter - Week of Action 10-16 Dec 2020](https://globalwomenstrike.net/event-haitian-lives-matter-week-of-action-10-16-dec-2020/) - [Morning Star: Campaigners demand end to ‘cruel and inhumane’ prison segregation units](https://globalwomenstrike.net/morning-star-campaigners-demand-end-to-cruel-and-inhumane-prison-segregation-units/) - CEREN SAGIR MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2020 CIVIL rights icon Angela Davis demanded that the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP) stop endorsing “cruel and inhumane” prison segregation units in a letter today. The letter from over 60 organisations and 200 campaigners was signed by Davis, journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, author Selma James, former chief inspector of prisons - [Ham & High: Camden civil rights activist Selma James remembers 'crucial' Mangrove 9 trial](https://globalwomenstrike.net/ham-high-camden-civil-rights-activist-selma-james-remembers-crucial-mangrove-9-trial/) - Sam Volpe COMMENTS Published: 4:36 PM December 10, 2020 Updated: 3:25 PM December 15, 2020 A still from the BBC's Small Axe episode about the trial of the Mangrove 9. Among the defendants was Altheia Jones-LeCointe, here played by Letitia Wright. - Credit: BBC/McQueen Limited/Kieron McCarron "What McQueen saw in it was what we experienced. it was a crucial - [BBC: Vanessa Bryant, her mother's lawsuit and the value of childcare](https://globalwomenstrike.net/bbc-vanessa-bryant-her-mothers-lawsuit-and-the-value-of-childcare/) - By Ashitha NageshBBC NewsPublished2 days agoShare Vanessa Bryant, wife of the late basketball star Kobe Bryant, has found herself at the centre of a torrid domestic drama, within a year of the death of her husband and daughter. She is being sued by her mother. In the lawsuit Sofia Laine argues that she should be - [Verso Books: “Real Theory Is in What You Do and How You Do It”](https://globalwomenstrike.net/verso-books-real-theory-is-in-what-you-do-and-how-you-do-it/) - Selma James11 January 20210 comments Camila Valle interviews Selma James about feminism, anti-imperialism, and a lifetime of international Marxist organizing. Photograph by Eamonn McCabe, courtesy The Guardian Camila Valle: I wanted to start with what most people know as the heart of your work: the recognition of unpaid care work, disproportionately done by women. You actually coined - [Message of support to Women Farmers Day, India](https://globalwomenstrike.net/womenfarmersdayindia/) - From: Care Income Now! A network coordinated by Global Women’s Strike and Women of Colour in GWS We stand in solidarity with the women farmers of India, whether they are farmers of small family holdings or farm labourers, who are demanding the scrapping of Modi’s three Farm Acts: The Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion - [Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod: Selma James On Biden-Harris Inauguration](https://globalwomenstrike.net/sojourner-truth-with-margaret-prescod-selma-james-on-biden-harris-inauguration/) - [Video: Rev. Barber Poor People's Campaign sermon after coup attempt](https://globalwomenstrike.net/video-rev-barber-poor-peoples-campaign-sermon-after-coup-attempt/) - Global Women's Strike and Women of Colour in the Global Women's Strike in the US are National partners of the Poor People's Campaign. Watch here: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=398457971219525 "If you really want to do something, transform our politics from control by the corporations to CARING for the least of us. That's what real repentance would look like. - [Message of support to Farmers in India on Republic Day](https://globalwomenstrike.net/message-of-support-to-farmers-in-india-on-republic-day/) - We send our solidarity to the millions of farmers, women and men, across India who are protesting against Modi’s horrendous farm laws. We know that 70% of agricultural workers in India are women and that these laws attack first of all women and girls, who are the primary caregivers in every country. Despite brutal police - [CNJ: Child poverty is government policy](https://globalwomenstrike.net/cnj-child-poverty-is-government-policy/) - It’s time the crisis of mothers’ and children’s poverty and the climate crisis were prioritised 28 January, 2021 — By Selma James and Nina López MARCUS Rashford, called “leader of the opposition” for his campaign against child poverty, speaks of the suffering of his mother when she couldn’t afford food for him and his siblings - [Statement: Remembering Maureen Colquhoun (1928-2021) with love and gratitude](https://globalwomenstrike.net/statement-remembering-maureen-colquhoun-1928-2021-with-love-and-gratitude-2/) - The Wages for Housework Campaign, Queer Strike & the English Collective of Prostitutes For more information contact: 0207 482 2496 or gws@globalwomenstrike.net We were upset to hear of the passing of Maureen Colquhoun. Many of us who knew her and had worked with her really loved her. She had no airs and graces though she - [Morning Star: During a pandemic, food is a feminist issue](https://globalwomenstrike.net/morning-star-during-a-pandemic-food-is-a-feminist-issue/) - The relationship between poverty and parenting is translated into an accusation, a shameful label of individual inadequacy. Ann Czernik discusses so-called ‘women’s work’ with feminist writer and activist SELMA JAMES ORCED to make the harsh choice between food or warmth, mum-of-one Laura burst into tears. It was the moment the 32-year-old single mum realised she - [Petition: Release organiser Nodeep Kaur from jail](https://globalwomenstrike.net/petition-release-organiser-nodeep-kaur-from-jail/) - We join Citizens for Justice & Peace in India to urge you to please sign this petition & share it widely Petition: Release Dalit Trade Union Activist Nodeep Kaur On 12 January, organiser and factory worker, Ms Kaur, with other Kundli Industrial Area factory workers, was participating in the farmers’ protest near the Singhu border - [Fact Sheet: Support Indian Farmers](https://globalwomenstrike.net/fact-sheet-support-indian-farmers/) - 18 February – Support the Farmers “Rail Roko” (Railway Blockade) across India 12 pm to 4pm (local time). FACT SHEET Millions of farmers strike against laws that put corporations in charge of land and food production Watch 6-minute video why farmers are protesting The movement to repeal Modi’s three Farm Acts is growing in strength - [Event: Selma James speaking at Wages for Housework symposium](https://globalwomenstrike.net/event-selma-james-speaking-at-wages-for-housework-symposium/) - Dear friends, Please see below the e-poster for the Symposium “Debates For And Against Wages For Housework”, being held on-line, 4-6 March. Selma will be speaking on Saturday 6 March, 9-11am UK time (14.30-16.30 IST).Registration link is here. Details of the full programme for the three days are in the attached pdf. Please share and - [Jacobin: The Senate Just Took a Baby Step Toward the Feminist Goal of a Universal Child Benefit](https://globalwomenstrike.net/jacobin-the-senate-just-took-a-baby-step-toward-the-feminist-goal-of-a-universal-child-benefit/) - BY LIZA FEATHERSTONE On International Women's Day, the good news is that the new COVID-19 relief bill will include a kind-of, sort-of universal child benefit — a policy that feminists have long called for. But the overly complicated, burdensome way the policy is implemented means that on this issue, the Left still has its work - [March 18 National Welfare Rights Union Truth Commission - Poverty in All Its Forms is Violence](https://globalwomenstrike.net/march-18-national-welfare-rights-union-truth-commission-poverty-in-all-its-forms-is-violence/) - Register now for the Truth Commission: Poverty in all its forms is violence: Caregivers victimized by poverty speak out! (online). Thursday March 18 from 7-8:30pm (US Eastern Time). Convened by National Welfare Rights Union (NWRU). Testifiers include Global Women's Strike Benefits Working Group members. Registration link:https://actionnetwork.org/events/truth-commission-poverty-in-all-its-forms-is-violence-caregivers-victimized-by-poverty-speak-out - [Support All India Strike - 26 March](https://globalwomenstrike.net/support-all-india-strike-26-march/) - Victory to the famers and all workers! 26 March Bharat Bandh (All India Strike) We are with the millions of brave women, men and children striking nationwide in India tomorrow against unjust farm and labour laws being imposed on people in both the countryside and the cities. Farmers and farm workers, including mothers, grandmothers and - [Statement: Lawyers & organisations defend Malaysian lawyer Charles Hector](https://globalwomenstrike.net/statement-lawyers-organisations-defend-malaysian-lawyer-charles-hector/) - Lawyers and organizations from UK and a number of other countries write to Malaysian authorities condemning attempts to discredit and criminalize human rights lawyer Charles Hector. 22 March 2021 Eleven lawyers, including human rights QC Michael Mansfield, over 40 organisations and nearly 70 individuals from six countries, have signed an Open Letter distributed by Legal - [“I was at the farmers camps in Delhi’ – a first-hand account by a woman grassroots organiser of women from hundreds of villages who are farm workers and housewives](https://globalwomenstrike.net/i-was-at-the-farmers-camps-in-delhi-a-first-hand-account-by-a-woman-grassroots-organiser/) - A member of GWS in India, part of a women’s network of Dalit and Tribal women in rural Chhattisgarh, visited the three farmers’ camps around Delhi’s border: Singhu, Ghazipur and Tikri, during the Kisan Andolan strike actions 15-17 March. Thousands of farmers and farm workers, including women, went to the camps by busses, tractors and - [Important Legal Victory for Land Rights Defenders of Thailand](https://globalwomenstrike.net/important-legal-victory-for-land-rights-defenders-of-thailand/) - The Southern Peasants’ Federation finally wins court case after eight years of deliberations and delays. See information here. To Southern Peasant Federation of Thailand from Global Women’s Strike Congratulations to you all on your path breaking victory in court after 13 years of struggle! We are delighted and greatly enjoyed the pictures of you outside - [CNJ: The cancellation of Angela Davis’s university talk is a threat to freedom](https://globalwomenstrike.net/cnj-the-cancellation-of-angela-daviss-university-talk-is-a-threat-to-freedom/) - LETTERS, 15 April, 2021 • DR Angela Davis, distinguished academic and renowned anti-racist campaigner, had a recent talk at Butler university, Indianapolis, cancelled. Various reasons were given, but Butler university organisations and community groups said that the university had been “bombarded by pressure from Zionist students… because of Davis’s support for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions” - [Letter to NY Times: ‘Every Mother Is a Working Mother’](https://globalwomenstrike.net/letter-to-ny-times-every-mother-is-a-working-mother/) - To the Editor: Re “Why Are We Worrying About Women’s Work?” (Opinion, nytimes.com, March 19): As a former Arby’s employee, I was glad that Elizabeth Bruenig questioned those who promote the importance of “standing behind the counter at Arby’s” over being a stay-at-home mother. Does forcing mothers on welfare to leave infants as young as - [Event: Whistleblowing, Dissent, Accountability Int'l festival](https://globalwomenstrike.net/event-whistleblowing-dissent-accountability-intl-festival/) - WHISTLEBLOWING, DISSENT, ACCOUNTABILITY Saturday 8 May Join distinguished international speakers Sami Al-Arian, AcademicMichael Albert, Author and activistMads Andenæs, LawyerDiani Barreto, Painter and activistSomerset Bean, Graphic designerMax Blumenthal, Investigative journalist and authorJonathan Cook, Journalist and authorJohn Christensen, Tax justice campaignerEileen Chubb, Whistleblower and founder of Compassion in CareMarjorie Cohn, Lawyer, academic and writerMichel Collon, Author and journalistNaomi Colvin, Whistleblower - [INDIA: Farmers Unions and Central Unions Joint Statement](https://globalwomenstrike.net/india-farmers-unions-and-central-unions-joint-statement/) - [Action Alert: In support of Global Movement for Myanmar Democracy](https://globalwomenstrike.net/action-alert-in-support-of-global-movement-for-myanmar-democracy/) - URGENT ACTION ALERT in support of the Global Movement for Myanmar Democracy Sign, write, circulate as widely as possible Since the seizure of the London Myanmar embassy by the military, the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office has followed up with no further action. This is of great concern because it gives the impression of - [Please sign & circulate urgent petition in support of women in Burma/Myanmar](https://globalwomenstrike.net/please-sign-circulate-urgent-petition-in-support-of-women-in-burma-myanmar/) - Sign the petition: Ask Angelina Jolie and the UN Women to do more to help the women of Myanmar https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/ask-angelina-jolie-and-the-un-women-to-do-more-to-help-the-women-of-myanmar - [Message From Argentina’s Madres Of Plaze De Mayo, Linea Fundadora](https://globalwomenstrike.net/message-from-argentinas-madres-of-plaze-de-mayo-linea-fundadora/) - To our sisters the Mothers of Thailand: The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Founder Line highly value the vigil that Mrs. Sureerat Chiwarak and other Mothers are keeping in front of the jail where their dear children are, whom we consider unjustly detained. They are accused of having violated "the law of lese majesty", that - [Webinar: Solitary Confinement is a Crime](https://globalwomenstrike.net/webinar-solitary-confinement-is-a-crime/) - Solitary Confinement is a Crime International Webinar: 12 May 20212 – 3.30pm (US Eastern Time) / 7 – 8.30pm (UK) REGISTER HERE Hosted by Legal Action for Women, Payday men’s network,Women of Colour Global Women’s Strike Speakers include: · Kevan Thakrar, over 11 years in UK Close Supervision Centre – audio presentation Now in further - [Join protests in solidary with Palestine](https://globalwomenstrike.net/join-protests-in-solidary-with-palestine/) - This Saturday – Join protests in Solidarity with Palestine 15 May 12 noon Marble Arch Look out for Women of Colour banner near the tea hut nearest to Marble Arch. We’ll be marching with International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network Watch interview: Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAqxwzWI9tU Take part wherever you can. See UK list of protests - [Please sign this petition to save women’s and children’s lives in Palestine](https://globalwomenstrike.net/please-sign-this-petition-to-save-womens-and-childrens-lives-in-palestine/) - Introduce sanctions against Israel The Government should introduce sanctions against Israel, including blocking all trade, and in particular arms. Its disproportionate treatment of Palestinians and settlements that are regarded by the international community as illegal are an affront to civilised society. Sign this petition - [Farmers Unions call for protests across all India](https://globalwomenstrike.net/farmers-unions-call-for-protests-across-all-india/) - Update from Global Women’s Strike (GWS) Women of Colour GWS and Payday men’s network, (which include farmers and farmworkers in different countries). GWS & WOC have been working with grassroots Dalit and Adivasi women in our network in India since 1992. We have been spreading the word about this momentous strike of millions of farmers - [Selma James wins Sheila McKechnie Long-term Achievement Award](https://globalwomenstrike.net/selma-james-wins-sheila-mckechnie-long-term-achievement-award/) - See Selma's acceptance speech here: Occasionally, a person comes along whose experience, analysis and sheer fighting passion shift the way we think about the deepest systems of power. When they do, they are a gift without equal because they create new space to imagine a different, better way of living. Selma James is one of those people. Campaigning background Selma James is - [India: Farmers to observe 'Total Revolution Day' on 5th June](https://globalwomenstrike.net/india-farmers-to-observe-total-revolution-day-on-5th-june/) - Please see press statement below from the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), the umbrella body of over 40 farmers’ unions, India. Farmers and farm labourers, women and men, supported by people all over India, and internationally, are intensifying their campaign, demanding the repeal of Modi’s repressive and hated three Farm Laws. See our supporting statement 26thMay - [Press Statement: Child Tax Credits – Campaigners see our work bearing fruit, press for more](https://globalwomenstrike.net/press-statement-child-tax-credits-campaigners-see-our-work-bearing-fruit-press-for-more/) - Press Statement re Child Tax Credits issued by the Wages for Housework Campaign which coordinates the Global Women's Strike Child Tax Credits – children need it, mothers have earned it. Our international women’s network, which has been campaigning for nearly 50 years for payments for the vital unwaged caring work that mainly women do, welcomes ## Pages - [home](https://globalwomenstrike.net/) - Global Women's Strike is an international multiracial network campaigning for recognition and payment for all caring work for people and the planet - a Care Income. The Global Women's Strike is coordinated by the Wages for Housework Campaign, which started in 1972 by Selma James. We are an international grassroots network campaigning for recognition and - [(TRANS RIGHTS)](https://globalwomenstrike.net/trans-rights/) - TRANS RIGHTS Introduction Since Global Women's Strike issued our statement below, the UK Supreme Court judgment on 16 April 2025 ruled that the legal definition of a woman for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010 does not extend to trans women. The Equality and Human Rights Commission's (EHRC) draft Code of Practice has sought an interpretation of - [Caring for the land](https://globalwomenstrike.net/caringfortheland/) - CARING FOR THE LAND We call for a Care Income for all who do the work of protecting people, the land and the natural world... As mothers, farmers and farm workers, land and human rights' defenders, women do most of the work of feeding (starting with breastfeeding) and protecting families and communities, the soil and - [Mothers Survey](https://globalwomenstrike.net/mothers-survey/) - What Mothers and Other Caregivers Want Click here to view the report in full Click here to watch the launch of our survey findings Findings of international survey contradict widespread assumptions as mothers/caregivers say they need and want more time and a care income. In a survey of 1065 respondents from 50 countries, an overwhelming 84% - [About us](https://globalwomenstrike.net/aboutus/) - ABOUT US The Wages for Housework Campaign Wages for Housework was first formulated by Selma James in 1972. For over 50 years we have been campaigning for recognition and payment for all caring work. This reproductive work is unwaged and overwhelmingly carried out by women, starting with mothers. When done outside the home for pay, it - [Contact us](https://globalwomenstrike.net/contactus/) - CONTACT US There are Global Women's Strike groups in India, Ireland, Peru, Thailand, UK, US (Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco) and we work with people in many other countries. India: Read more Email: gws@globalwomenstrike.net Ireland: Read more Email: ireland@globalwomenstrike.net Peru: Read more Facebook. Thailand: Read more Email: gws@globalwomenstrike.net Women Human - [(no title)](https://globalwomenstrike.net/wagesforhouseworkarchive/) - ARCHIVES OUR ARCHIVES are now available to view at the Bishopsgate Institute, London. CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL CATALOGUE - [Wages for housework](https://globalwomenstrike.net/wagesforhousework/) - WAGES FOR HOUSEWORK Wages for Housework Campaign In March 1972, at the Women's Liberation conference in Manchester, England, Selma James put forward Wages for Housework (WFH) for the first time. It was one of six demands in the pamphlet Women, the Unions and Work…or What Is Not to Be Done, written for the conference. It - [Selma James](https://globalwomenstrike.net/selmajames/) - SELMA JAMES Selma James is an antisexist, antiracist campaigner and has fought for justice for over 50 years. Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1930 she became the wife of the internationally renowned West Indian Historian and political philsopher C.L.R James. In Britain during the 1960s, she became a leading activist in the movements for - [UK](https://globalwomenstrike.net/uk/) - Global Womens Strike UK About Us We are an international grassroots network campaigning for recognition and payment for all caring work, in the home and on the land. As part of a dynamic change of direction we demand a guaranteed income for all - of all genders and identities, beginning with mothers, Indigenous peoples and natural - [Countries](https://globalwomenstrike.net/countries/) - There are Global Women's Strike groups in India, Ireland, Peru, Thailand, UK, US (Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco) and we work with people in many other countries. India: Read more Email gws@globalwomenstrike.net Ireland: Read more Email: ireland@globalwomenstrike.net Peru: Read more Facebook. Thailand: Read more Email: gws@globalwomenstrike.net UK Email: gws@globalwomenstrike.net Facebook / Twitter / Instagram US - Philadelphia: Read more Email: philly@globalwomenstrike.net Facebook - [History](https://globalwomenstrike.net/history/) - HISTORY A brief history: from Wages for Housework to Global Women's Strike - [Ireland](https://globalwomenstrike.net/ireland/) - Ireland On 8 March, a government referendum proposed to change the Irish Constitution by extending the definition of the family (Amendment 39) and replacing Article 41.2 on the work of mothers in the home with wording that diminished the State's obligation to support caring in the home and outside (Amendment 40). The government suffered a - [(no title)](https://globalwomenstrike.net/3620-2/) - Founded in... - [(no title)](https://globalwomenstrike.net/no-title-2/) - The Global Women's Strike is coordinated by the Wages for Housework Campaign, which started in 1972 by Selma James. We are an international grassroots network campaigning for recognition and payment for all caring work, in the home and outside. Mothers and other carers, of every gender, are entitled to a living wage, a Care Income - - [(no title)](https://globalwomenstrike.net/no-title/) - [Invest in caring not killing - Palestine](https://globalwomenstrike.net/investincaringnotkilling-palestine/) - MOTHERS & CHILDREN OF PALESTINE WE ARE WITH YOU. Stop this genocide! Ceasefire now!Invest in caring, not killing. Like millions of people around the world we are horrified and outraged at Israel's bombing and siege of Gaza, cutting off water, food, electricity, fuel and medical supplies, the destruction of homes, schools and hospitals, and the - [Book Launch: Wages for Housework](https://globalwomenstrike.net/book-launch-wages-for-housework/) - * BOOK LAUNCH, February 2025 Wages for Housework - The Story of a Movement, an Idea, a Promise. A fascinating new book by Emily Callaci about the history of the International Wages for Housework Campaign is being launched in the UK next week (US launch to follow). Wages for Housework The Story of a Movement, - [Copy of home page november](https://globalwomenstrike.net/4247-2-copy/) - 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. Co-ordinated by the International Wages for Housework Campaign which was launched by Selma James in 1972 >>> Selma James Selma James is an antisexist, antiracist campaigner. In 1972 she put forward - [Home](https://globalwomenstrike.net/home/) - 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. Co-ordinated by the International Wages for Housework Campaign which was launched by Selma James in 1972 >>> Selma James Selma James is an antisexist, antiracist campaigner. In 1972 she put forward - [GWS in Thailand](https://globalwomenstrike.net/thailand/) - Thailand GWS Thailand, the Community Women Human Rights Defenders Collective in Thailand, is comprised of grassroots women currently representing nineteen different sectors who are defending family, community and the environment. These sectors include indigenous women, migrant and refugee women, disabled women, urban women from the slums, rural women farmers and women from the conflict zone in - [Wages Due Lesbians](https://globalwomenstrike.net/wagesduelesbians/) - Wages Due Lesbians Stop the Clause march, London January 1988 Contact details Address: Crossroads Women's Centre, 25 Wolsey Mews, London NW5 2DX. Email: queerstrike@queerstrike.net Phone: +44 20 7482 2496 Wages Due Lesbians (WDL) was formed in 1975 as the first of several autonomous organisations in the International Wages for Housework Campaign, with bases in London, Philadelphia - [Burma](https://globalwomenstrike.net/burma/) - Burma Urgent appeal for the Karen Women Organisation: Against the oppression of women and of children Karen Women Organisation (KWO) is the long-established women's organization which has worked for decades to ensure the survival of people in the Karen area. KWO is now also providing direct help to many thousands of refugees and people from - [Peru](https://globalwomenstrike.net/peru/) - Peru Somos una red Internacional que hacemos campaña por el reconocimiento del trabajo de cuidado remunerado y no remunerado. Banner: a living wage for caring work, in your home and the home of others. GWS's point of reference, Leddy Mozombite Linares (third from left), is also the general secretary of the domestic workers' federation FENTTRAHOP - [Autonomous Organisations](https://globalwomenstrike.net/autonomousorganisations/) - Autonomous organisations in the Global Women's Strike. . . >>> Each has its own constituency and campaigns... Each can count on the collective power of all. Black Women for Wages for Housework. Read more here. English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) is a grassroots organisation of sex workers and supporters campaigning for the decriminalisation of prostitution, - [US](https://globalwomenstrike.net/us/) - US US - Philadelphia: Email: philly@globalwomenstrike.net Facebook / Twitter. US - Los Angeles: Email: la@allwomencount.net Facebook / Twitter. US - San Francisco: Email: sf@allwomencount.net Twitter. Recent News from GWS US - [](https://globalwomenstrike.net/careincomenow/) - CARE INCOME NOW A care income for all caring work for people and planet Caring for others is the foundation of every society. Yet this work, done mostly by women, in the home, on the land and in the community, is devalued, unwaged or low waged, leading to poverty, dependence and endless work. The pandemic - [](https://globalwomenstrike.net/blackwomenforwagesforhousework/) - Black Women for Wages for Housework Recent news from Black Women for Wages for Housework - [Single Mothers Self-Defense HOME](https://globalwomenstrike.net/singlemothersselfdefense/) - Single Mothers' Self Defence Network of single mothers and other women caring for children alone. Campaigning for entitlements to welfare/housing/services & other resources. Follow us on social media: On Facebook Contact us directly: Our contact details We are based at Crossroads Women's Centre, London. Telephone: 0207 482 2496 Recent News for Women of - [Queer Strike](https://globalwomenstrike.net/queerstrike/) - Queer Strike Queer Strike, Grassroots, multi-racial, lesbian, bi, trans, queer women's group campaigning for our economic, legal and human rights; for payment for caring work, taking the money away from military budgets (over one trillion a year) for the essentials of life, and so that women everywhere can afford to make the sexual and other - [Womenofcolour](https://globalwomenstrike.net/womenofcolour/) - Women of colour in GWS We are a network of African, Asian, Caribbean, Latina and Indigenous women in the Global Women Strike, campaigning against sexism, racism, poverty, war, ecological devastation, police violence, militarism, and justice for all beginning with asylum seekers, immigrants and women of colour. We are part of the global BLM movement, focusing on Haiti, India, Palestine, - [home original](https://globalwomenstrike.net/home-original/) - 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. Take part in our international survey: What do Mothers and Caregivers want? - [Donate](https://globalwomenstrike.net/donate/) - Please support our work by making a donation. . . - [Support Us](https://globalwomenstrike.net/support-us/) - Volunteer with us Donate funds Join our campaigns - [Resources](https://globalwomenstrike.net/resources/) - Further Resources & links Events Campaigns Books Films Our YouTube channel - [End Women's Poverty](https://globalwomenstrike.net/endwomenspoverty2023/) - Our new Crossroads Women's Center in Philadelphia is well and truly launched! On June 9-11, 2023, the Global Women's Strike held an international and community gathering there, putting our multiracial Center on the map, strengthening the connections between struggles, and making new ones. >>> It started with a reception and Wages for Housework archives highlighting - [Copy of Queer Strike](https://globalwomenstrike.net/queerstrike-2/) - Queer Strike Queer Strike, Grassroots, multi-racial, lesbian, bi, trans, queer women's group campaigning for our economic, legal and human rights; for payment for caring work, taking the money away from military budgets (over one trillion a year) for the essentials of life, and so that women everywhere can afford to make the sexual and other - [English Collective](https://globalwomenstrike.net/english-collective/) - The English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) is a network of sex workers working both on the streets and indoors campaigning for decriminalisation and safety. We fight against being treated like criminals. We've helped sex workers win against charges of soliciting, brothel-keeping & controlling - the last two most often used against women who are working - [Our YouTube channel](https://globalwomenstrike.net/our-youtube-channel/) - [Books](https://globalwomenstrike.net/books/) - Click here for Crossroads Books & Films We publish and distribute anti-racist anti-sexist written and audio-visual materials from the point of view of grassroots women, their families and their communities, starting with those who are most often unrepresented and overlooked, and with a focus on caring work, waged and unwaged, which often includes justice work, - [Films](https://globalwomenstrike.net/films/) - Films made / co produced by Wages for Housework / Global Womens Strike Our Time Is Coming Now, 1970: Selma James explores the beginnings of the women's liberation movement in Britain of 1970. For the last half-century she has continued leading its search for equality and justice. All Work and No Pay, 1976: Made by - [GWS at XR's The Big One](https://globalwomenstrike.net/gws-at-xrs-the-big-one/) - The Big One Together with 60,000, we took part in XR's The Big One, four days of action 21-24 April, around Parliament to force the UK government to act on the climate emergency. Day One: Unite to Survive - "Women Care" Speak Out Diverse networks of mothers, grandmothers, other carers and people with disabilities spoke - [Events](https://globalwomenstrike.net/events/) - Upcoming and recent events - [Why women oppose the Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Bill](https://globalwomenstrike.net/why-women-oppose-the-police-crime-sentencing-courts-bill/) - WAR-WOC-statement-vs-Police-Bill-illustrated-1Download - [Women of colour vs Immigration Bill](https://globalwomenstrike.net/women-of-colour-vs-immigration-bill/) - Asylum rights and immigration bill Background: Our demands: Close detention centres. Restore the right to work, welfare benefits and housing for asylum seekers and immigrants. Abolish No Recourse to Public Funds & NHS & visa charges. We demand Papers for All. Immediate and permanent leave to remain for all asylum seekers and immigrants. - [End Environmental Racism](https://globalwomenstrike.net/end-environmental-racism/) - Environmental Racism Working class/communities of colour everywhere are used as dumping grounds for industrial pollutants, poisoning water, air and soil, and causing illness and premature death, and destroying the environment and the climate. Our communities, particularly women, are also at the forefront of movements for social change and climate justice. A Care Income addresses that. - [Women's Demands for Black Lives Matter Movement (2020)](https://globalwomenstrike.net/womens-demands-for-black-lives-matter-movement-2020/) - WoCDemandsBLMDownload - [](https://globalwomenstrike.net/india/) - Global Women's Strike in India Email : gws@globalwomenstrike.net - [About Us](https://globalwomenstrike.net/about/) - Contact History Archives Wages for Housework and the Global Women's Strike. We are an international grassroots network campaigning for recognition and payment for all caring work, in the home and outside. Mothers and other carers are entitled to a living wage - in cash, land, non-polluting technology… Corporate greed and military conquest are impoverishing us, destroying the climate - [50th anniversary](https://globalwomenstrike.net/50years/) - Starting in March and for the whole of 2022, the International Wages for Housework Campaign, which co-ordinates the Global Women's Strike, will celebrate its golden anniversary. We are holding a series of events and launching our 1972-2022 archives. See programme for March and further information about these events and how to register for them below. - [What do Women & Carers Want ?](https://globalwomenstrike.net/what-do-women-carers-want/) - What Mothers and Other Caregivers Want - an International Survey On 8 March 2022, as part of the Wages for Housework 50th anniversary events series, the Global Women's Strike launched an International Survey - What Do Mothers and other Carers Want? Fill in the survey here: ไทย (Thai) https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/L7SZJV5?lang=th Español (Spanish) https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/L7SZJV5?lang=es Italiano (Italian) - [Archive](https://globalwomenstrike.net/archive/) - Global Women's Strike and Wages for Housework: Archiving 50 years of campaigning... Our archives now live at the Bishopsgate Institute, London. Gathering material for this archive is a work in progress. The archive has been launched to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Wages For Housework Campaign. It begins with its first decade:1972-1981. Each subsequent decade - [Volunteer](https://globalwomenstrike.net/volunteer/) - If you would like to volunteer to help with any of the GWS organisations across the world, please get in touch. Whether you have a little or a lot of time (ideally weekdays), volunteers are always welcome to help with: general admin, research and fact sheets, meetings, stalls, publicity, transcribing, video-editing, self-help activities, our activities, cooking, and - [Copy of Countries](https://globalwomenstrike.net/contact-us-2/) - There are Global Women's Strike groups in India, Ireland, Peru, Thailand, UK, US (Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco) and we work with people in many other countries. Ireland: Read more Email: ireland@globalwomenstrike.net Peru: Read more Facebook. Thailand: Read more Email: gws@globalwomenstrike.net Women Human Rights Defenders in Thailand: Website. UK Address: Crossroads Women's Centre, 25 Wolsey Mews, London - [](https://globalwomenstrike.net/singlemothersselfdefence/) - Network of single mothers and other women caring for children alone. Campaigning for entitlements to welfare/housing/services & other resources. - [](https://globalwomenstrike.net/wages-for-housework/) - Wages for Housework International Campaign Wages for Housework begins with those of us with least power internationally - unwaged workers in the home (mothers, housewives, domestic workers denied pay), and unwaged workers on the land and in the community. Wages for Housework is a demand, it is also a perspective, a way of organising from - [](https://globalwomenstrike.net/global-women-strike/) - 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. - [](https://globalwomenstrike.net/black-women-for-wages-for-housework-2/) - Black Women for Wages for Housework - [Contact us](https://globalwomenstrike.net/contact-us/) - Contact us: Peru: Via Facebook. UK: Address: Crossroads Women's Centre, 25 Wolsey Mews, London NW5 2DX. Phone: +44 20 7482 2496 Email gws@globalwomenstrike.net (Please email us to sign-up to our mailing list) Facebook./Twitter US - Los Angeles: Address: GWS PO Box 86681, Los Angeles, CA 90086. Email: la@allwomencount.net Facebook / Twitter US - Philadelphia: Address: P.O. Box 11795 Philadelphia PA 19101. - [](https://globalwomenstrike.net/3631-2/) - WinVisible is a multi-racial community group of women with visible and invisible disabilities: polio, sickle cell anaemia, osteo-arthritis, mental health issues, cancer . . . from different backgrounds: asylum seekers, refugees, other immigrants, UK-born. Through WinVisible, disabled women meet and support each other, overcome isolation and discrimination, and often win what we are entitled to. - [](https://globalwomenstrike.net/womenhumanrightsdefendersthailand/) - Women-led Kahao Yai Pha Dai Community Forest Conservation Group has been fighting to close down a limestone quarry mine which has harmed the Dong Mafai community’s health and wellbeing for over 26 years. They are determined to return the land to lush mountain forests which served as the community’s source of food and livelihoods. They - [Reports](https://globalwomenstrike.net/reports/) - Report: The Perspective of Caring Why Mothers and All Carers Should Get a Living Wage for their Caring Work Available to purchase here in English and Spanish - [GWS Philadelphia](https://globalwomenstrike.net/philadelphia/) - [Join our campaigns](https://globalwomenstrike.net/join-our-campaigns/) - [Petition](https://globalwomenstrike.net/petition/) - Petition to all Governments: A living wage for mothers and other carers. Sign on Go Petition here. Petition to US Congress: End poverty of mothers & children. Recognize caregiving work. Support the RISE Act and Reintroduction of the WORK Act. 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Women count, count women's work.](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/united-nations-un-decade-for-women-1980-1995-women-count-count-womens-work/) - [Valuing Women's Unwaged Work](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/valuing-womens-unwaged-work/) - [Wages for Housework Campaign Bulletins](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/wages-for-housework-campaign-bulletins/) - [Wages for Housework in the press](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/wages-for-housework-in-the-press/) - [Women of Colour in the Global Women's Strike](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/women-of-colour-in-the-global-womens-strike/) - [Women the Unions and Work What is to be Done 1973](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/women-the-unions-and-work-what-is-to-be-done-1973/) - [Black Women for Wages For Housework](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/black-women-for-wages-for-housework/) - [Wages Due Lesbians](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/wages-due-lesbians/) - [Queer Strike](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/queer-strike/) - [Tanzania](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/tanzania/) - [Venezuela](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/venezuela/) - [Ireland](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/ireland/) - [#CareIncomeNow](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/careincomenow/) - [Every Mother is a Working Mother Network](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/every-mother-is-a-working-mother-network/) - [Disability](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/disability/) - [WinVisible - Women with Visible and Invisible disabilities](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/winvisible-women-with-visible-and-invisible-disabilities/) - [Philadelphia](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/philadelphia/) - [Peru](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/peru/) - [Thailand](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/thailand/) - [San Francisco](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/san-francisco/) - [Los Angeles](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/los-angeles/) - [Vital Forces](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/vital-forces/) - [India](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/india/) - [#papersforall](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/papersforall/) - [Global Women's Strike US](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/global-womens-strike-us/) - [#BlackLivesMatter](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/blacklivesmatter/) - [Domestic workers](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/domestic-workers/) - [Climate Justice](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/climate-justice/) - [Palestine](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/palestine/) - [Mangrove 9](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/mangrove-9/) - [Spy Cops](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/spy-cops/) - [Chelsea Manning](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/chelsea-manning/) - [Women Farmers Day](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/women-farmers-day/) - [International Women Count Network](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/international-women-count-network/) - [Spanish](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/spanish/) - [International Women’s Day](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/international-womens-day/) - [Burma](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/burma/) - [Wales](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/wales/) - [Legal Action for Women](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/legal-action-for-women/) - [Malaysia](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/malaysia/) - [Myanmar](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/myanmar/) - [Argentina](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/argentina/) - [50yearspress](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/50yearspress/) - [Single Mothers' Self-Defence](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/single-mothers-self-defence/) - [Brazil](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/brazil/) - [child tax credit campaign](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/child-tax-credit-campaign/) - [Events](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/events/) - [police](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/polixw/) - [racism](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/racism/) - [rac](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/rac/) - [MUMIA ABU-JAMAL](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/mumia-abu-jamal/) - [Prisoners rights](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/prisoners-rights/) - [prison](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/prison/) - [IMMIGRATION / ASYLUM RIGHTS:](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/immigration-asylum-rights/) - [Environmental racism](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/environmental-racism/) - [Women of Colour International struggle](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/women-of-colour-international-struggle/) - [global women against deportation](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/global-women-against-deportation/) - [Ireland Referendum 2024](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/ireland-referendum-2024/) - [Guaranteed Care Income](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/guaranteed-care-income/) - [Women Against Rape](https://globalwomenstrike.net/tag/women-against-rape/)