March 2019, 12-2pm

ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
WOMEN SPEAK OUT AT THE ROYAL COURTS OF JUSTICE

Hosted by Global Women’s Strike.  Contact for interviews: 0207 482 2496/07958152171 @WomenStrike   Co-hosted by: women in Extinction Rebellion

Women from a wide range of groups and issues will be speaking outside the Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand to bring all the injustices out of the shadows. 

All women, children and non-binary people welcome.

They include: All African Women’s Group; Black Women’s Rape Action Project; Disabled People Against Cuts; End Deportations; English Collective of Prostitutes; women in Decolonising Our Minds; women in Extinction Rebellion; Fiightback; Kensington Labour Women’s Forum; Legal Action for Women; Lesbians & Gays Support the Migrants; Mental Health Resistance Network; Movement for an Adoption Apology; Nanas Against Fracking; Psychotherapy & Counselling Union; Queer Strike; Save Our Hospitals; Scottish Kinship Carers Alliance; Single Mothers’ Self Defence; Support Not Separation Coalition; Windrush Action member; Vital Forces; WinVisible (women with disabilities); Women Against Rape; Women of Colour in the Global Women’s Strike; Women for Justice & Peace in Sri Lanka.

Organiser Nina Lopez says:

Together we oppose the hostile environment against mothers, especially single mothers, and our children, and against all who are being devalued, impoverished, made destitute, evicted, “socially cleansed” out of our cities, denied justice and resources against rape and domestic violence, criminalised, exploited, detained, deported, poisoned and killed by pollution and climate change.  We are tired of being discriminated against because we are women of colour, disabled, immigrant, asylum seekers, or do not conform with our gender or what is expected of us. We are tired of caring for everyone but getting no respect and no reward.  

Ian Hodson, president of the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers' Union, has sent a powerful message of support to our event:

The BFAWU sends congratulations to those who have organised today’s events …standing up for those whose voices would not be heard…to say racism in all its forms must never be tolerated.

…you let those who have been deported or are under the threat of deportation know that it was not done in our name and that we stand with you.  We will not allow thecriminalisation of those seeking asylum … We will shine a light and expose the cruelty that is being perpetrated on human beings in our name.

Like everyone standing here today we demand an end to the state taking children from their mothers. We stand in support with you today against poverty and agree with the call of Global Women’s Strike that all carers should be paid a real living wage, and that the insecurity that comes from zero-hour contracts and the precarious nature that forces so many into destitution must be ended.

Payday men’s network and Decolonising Our Minds are supporting the women’s strike withSNACKS & FILMS at SOAS Junior Common Room, WC1H OXG from 2.30 to 5.30pm. Films include Journey with the Revolution and Enter the Oil Workers which the GWS made about the Bolivarian Revolution, and The Revolution Will not be Televised.   All welcome.