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
Category: Global Women’s Strike 2000-present
Kevan Thakrar – 8 years in solitary confinement! Send season’s 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 … Continue reading Kevan Thakrar – 8 years in solitary confinement! Send season’s greeting and Write to your MP
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 … Continue reading France: Mothers denounce police brutality
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 … Continue reading Statement from a Yellow Vests group in France
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 … Continue reading 11 Dec: Protecting Breastfeeding from state intervention
International Women’s Strike 2019 – “Stop the world and change it”
International Women’s Strike – 8 March 2019 STOP THE WORLD & CHANGE IT Next planning meeting Tue 11 Dec 2018, 6pm Crossroads Women's Centre, 25 Wolsey Mews, NW5 2DX The first Global Women’s Strike (coordinated by the Wages for Housework Campaign) was called for the new millennium on 8M00. We were inspired … Continue reading International Women’s Strike 2019 – “Stop the world and change it”
International Women’s 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 … Continue reading International Women’s Strike planning meeting Tues 20 Nov, 6pm
US Poor People’s 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 … Continue reading US Poor People’s Campaign launch 6 weeks of action
The Global Women’s 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 ‘As a result of Poland and Argentina coming together, the International Women’s Strike was formed.’ Women march in … Continue reading The Global Women’s Strike has evolved into a worldwide protest
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 … Continue reading 8 March: Protest Unilever, disinvest from Myanmar!
