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Co-ordinating organisation: Red Thread
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USA, Florida: From the Working People's Alliance of Guyana to the Global Women's Strike- Caribbean Perspectives on Self-Emancipation A lecture from Andaiye

  MORE MONEY, LESS WORK, LESS VIOLENCE! Grassroots women form a campaigning network of and for women from interior and coast
  One heart. One fist. One voice: A call to women to come together to refuse the violence Statement by grassroots women organizers of all races, Georgetown, Guyana
 
  Report on our visit to Venezuela
Our participation in the World Social Forum
Meetings of the Strike network
Meeting grassroots Venezuelan women and men organisers
Anti-war statements
Imagine the hard days and nights that women have to spend in bringing up their children, only to have them (mostly poor) join the army to be slaughtered like pigs.
  How women ensured Guyana survived the Great Flood (Journal 2006)
  "The Global women's Strike", excerpt by Andaiye from Guyana from The Global Women’s Movement: origins, issues and strategies, a book by Peggy Antrobus, 2004, Zed Books
  Call for solidarity of Caribbean women with countries threatened by US (2003)
  Open letter to Guyanese women and men (May 2003)
A time to break the silence: "At 11.30 a.m. on Wednesday, April 30, 2003, Red Thread ended the round-the-clock vigil which it started 312 hours earlier, at 11.30 a.m. on Thursday, April 17...  the immediate impetus for the vigil was the kidnapping, torture, and murder of 16-year-old Joshua Bell."
  Report of first women's picket October 2001

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