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Women of Color in GWS statement in support of those arrested at Occupy Oakland actions
Women of Color in the Global Women’s Strike statement in support of those arrested at Occupy Oakland actions
Stop the Eton looters. Stop Welfare Reform.
Dear friends
Help us to defeat the Welfare Reform Bill in its last stages this week. The MPs will vote on Lords’ amendments on Wednesday 1 February.
The movement against the Bill is full of purpose and creativity. The disability/UK Uncut blockade at Oxford Circus on Saturday was fantastic: see video here!
Write/call Lords and MPs now as they debate and vote on the Welfare Reform Bill.
Flood all MPs before Wed 1 Feb vote on Welfare Reform Bill. Show them most people don't support attack on welfare!
To lobby your MP; contact them to make an appointment or write to them about your personal situation – find your MP here.
Vigils and Lobbies against Welfare Reform Bill
Date:
Tuesday, 31 January 2012 - 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Location:
Meet opposite Parliament – Lords’ entrance Abingdon St SW1 – Westminster tube
Welfare Reform Bill -- no going back to Dickensian days
* Defend Child Benefit for all * Oppose all benefit caps and sanctions* Cap greedy landlords, not low-income people!*
Next Vigil & Lobby: 1pm-3pm, TUESDAY 31 JAN & WEDNESDAY 1 FEB.
called by Single Mothers’ Self-Defence, WinVisible, Zacchaeus 2000 Trust
Selma James and others interviewed on OccupyLSX livestream
Watch the video of Selma James and others being interviewed by Occupy LSX here
Briefing: Welfare Reform Bill 2011 – Report stage
Mothers and grandmothers writing to the Lords have made a difference to their discussion about the Welfare Reform Bill. We have just sent a new letter to them (below), highlighting some key points for the debate which is continuing this week and then after the holidays, from 11 January 2012. If you would like to write to them about your personal situation and how the Bill will affect you or your loved ones, that would be invaluable.
Selma James speaks on Sex, Race and Class at Occupy LSX
Watch video here
Friday, 25 November 2011
Tent City University, Occupy London
Speaker:
Selma James, Global Women’s Strike.
Co-author of the women’s movement classic, Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community, Marx and Feminism and Sex, Race and Class.
Protect children, not profits! Occupy@DHS!
Tuesday Dec 6, 12noon
Outside Dept of Human Services (DHS)
1515 Arch St, Phila
State child rape and sex abuse scandal & cover up ... Luzerne County judges’ kickbacks for imprisoning youth ... Attacks vs LGBT youth whipped up by detention staff ... Kids taken from loving families for cash incentives to non-profits/NGOs ... Forced drugging ... 30% of former foster youth were abused by an adult in foster care ...
Report of book launch - Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners vs the USA
A new book by death row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal was launched to great acclaim at an event hosted by Lord Ramsbotham, former Chief Inspector of Prisons, in the House of Lords last week. The book describes the work of prisoners who litigate against their jailers to win justice for themselves and other prisoners. “This is the story”, Mumia writes, “of law learned not in the ivory towers . . . [but] in the hidden, dank dungeons of America.”
Selma James
Co-ordinator of Global Women's Strike
Selma James’s North American speaking tour on the publication of her new book Sex, Race and Class—The Perspective of Winning; A Selection of Writings 1952-2011
Selma James and others interviewed on OccupyLSX livestream
Sojourner Truth Radio
Margaret Prescod on Sojourner Truth Pacifica Radio, KPFK, Tuesdays.
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