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Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine

To President Lula re: UN forces occupation of Haiti

Message from former President Aristide

Amnesty International report. Vigil Weds, 5-6pm, Brazil Embassy, London. See letter to Embassy

Sign Petition for Lovinsky's safe return - print. More here.

 EVENTS

London 31 March
Picket Italian Embassy

Protest against Israel as “guest of honour” at the Turin Book Fair. Report

Oakland 29 March
Event focusing on resistance
by women and men against repression in Haiti and Oaxaca, Mexico. 

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Bolivia, 4 May: Sign with women against the division of Bolivia, stop separatist ambitions of the racist elite of Santa Cruz

San Francisco 22 March Speaker from the Strike at the Anarchist Bookfair.
Palestine: Responses to Occupation

Creating a Caring Economy Nora Castañeda & the Women's Development Bank of Venezuela

La Paz, Bolivia: 16 April, women protest against wealthy sectors obstructing change. (Spanish)

Philadelphia 22 March
Video showing of  BREAKING RANKS & community report back from Winter Soldier

HIGHLIGHTS


Mumia Abu-Jamal

After 25 years on death row, Mumia Abu-Jamal has an appeal currently before the US courts. If successful it could lead to a new trial – his first chance to put his account of events to a jury. Lawyers & Journalists support. New film In Prison My Whole Life. For more click here.

SELMA JAMES


Coordinator of the
Global Women's Strike

Women's housework must be paid, not the military: interview with Selma James, Queesch Magazine. "We want the money to come from areas of society which are destructive. Number one is the military."

And see Wikipedia

The Milk of Human Kindness:  Defending breastfeeding from the global market & the AIDS industry

Oaxaca, Mexico
Community-teacher struggle

Sign the statement:
End human rights abuses against teachers, women, community activists and others
!

to the women of Oaxaca. For more click here.

AUDIO-VISUAL


Margaret Prescod

Margaret Prescod on Sojourner Truth  Pacifica Radio, KPFK, Tuesdays. 

News on US domestic & foreign policy. Cutting-edge interviews with women, people of color & others around the world.


Selma James

The Power of Women & the Subversion

of the Community

Sex, Race and Class
by Selma James 

OAXACA:
Megamarch for Justice
Teachers, students, housewives, Indigenous & rural communities marched in their hundreds of thousands demanding the removal of state governor Ulises Ruiz.

Help Free Disappeared Human Rights Activist International support for Lovinsky Pierre Antoine. Watch a short film on Friction TV.


Juanita Romero

Gastón Murat

President Hugo Chavez

Venezuela

Venezuela Referendum Results - Letter to the Media

Touring Europe with Venezuelan organisers Juanita Romero and Gastón Murat - what we learnt

We took two activists from Venezuela on a speaking tour of (in chronological order) London, Venice, Galway, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Barcelona and London again...

Statement from Women Housewives workers in the home to President Chavez.

For more about Venezuela, click here.

Sex, Race & Class Selma James at the Clarke Forum, Nov 2007, listen here About the speech.

The Jewish Internationalist Tradition vs. Zionism Part 1 & Part 2 of a talk with Selma James.

JOURNAL 2006
Journals:
2003, 2002

ARCHIVES

2007 website

History of the GWS

International Photo exhibition

International Strike Actions 2007

Greetings for IWD 2007

GWS calls: 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000


Journey with the revolution

Meet the midwives, nurses, doctors, housewives, teachers, gay and disability activists, who are transforming Venezuela.