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 … Continue reading Women say: reorient benefits to support us and recognise care work
Category: Global Women’s Strike 2000-present
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- … Continue reading Mothers’ Climate March, Sunday 12 May, 12 noon Hyde Park Corner – join us
Statement: End Discrimination: Respect Human Rights And Restore Shamina Begum’s 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 … Continue reading Statement: End Discrimination: Respect Human Rights And Restore Shamina Begum’s UK Nationality
Video: Defending our children & our world
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 … Continue reading New Zealand: Women of Colour condemn Mosque Shootings
GWS on the 1st UK-wide Youth Strike 4 Climate #FFF
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 … Continue reading GWS on the 1st UK-wide Youth Strike 4 Climate #FFF
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 ● … Continue reading 8 March: picket Royal Courts of Justice 12-2 pm
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 … Continue reading Please sign: Unison petition to repeal two child limit to Universal Credit +Tax Credits
Thur 21 Feb: Another kind of Question Time w Leanne Wood & Natalie Bennett
Another kind of Question Time We welcome to London who will be joined by LEANNE WOOD former leader of Plaid Cymru (Party of Wales) NATALIE BENNETT former leader of the Green Party Chaired by Selma James 7-9 pm Thursday 21 February Crossroads Women’s Centre 25 Wolsey Mews, London … Continue reading Thur 21 Feb: Another kind of Question Time w Leanne Wood & Natalie Bennett
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 … Continue reading Screening Mangrove 9 film, Sat 2 Feb
