Global Womens Strike in US
US – Philadelphia:
Email: philly@globalwomenstrike.net
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US – Los Angeles:
Email: la@allwomencount.net
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US – San Francisco:
Email: sf@allwomencount.net
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Recent News from GWS US
Video: Rev. Barber Poor People’s 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.…
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
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
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.…
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…
Urgent Request! Support effort to get out the vote of millions of unpaid caregivers in the US!
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…
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…
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…
Event: June 20: Poor People’s 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…
Statement: Haiti’s Peasants Stand in Solidarity w US protesters
The Global Women’s Strike works with the Haiti Action Committee (HAC) in support of the grassroots movement for democracy in Haiti. HAC is distributing the important message below from Haitian peasant organizations who say: ‘We Stand In Solidarity to Demand an End to Police Terror’. Press Release fromPeasant Organizations in Haiti,Port-au-Prince May 31, 2020 Haiti…