Skip to content or view mobile version

Home | Mobile | Editorial | Mission | Privacy | About | Contact | Help | Security | Support

A network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.

Women's Open Day at the ESF

r | 06.10.2004 15:11 | London

Global Women's Strike (see  http://www.globalwomenstrike.net/) are organising a Women's day on the Thursday the 14th of October.

Women's Open Day, Invisible Workers: Centre Stage

Speak-out, affordable food, videos, information on grassroots campaigns for justice and resources.

10am-10pm, Thursday 14th October 2004

Kings Cross Methodist Church, 57a Birkenhead St, WC1? Opposite Kings Cross Station, see blue and white signs

Wheelchair access on Crestfield St (toilets nearby)

All women and men who support women's autonomous organising welcome

Since November 2003, women from all over Europe have been calling for a women's day. Many signed the Global Women's Strike call and many men support it. The UK organising group actively opposed it. They claimed "poor attendance" at the Paris ESF women's day - yet over 3,000 women participated as well as men. With only a couple of weeks to go we decided to organise a women's day ourselves and in doing so won a partial victory - there will now be a three hour women's assembly at the main forum! Lets discuss what to bring to it from our women's day.

Why a women's day!

· Women do 2/3 of the world work. From breastfeeding, subsistence farming, healthcare, volunteering, fighting for justice . . . women and girls are the primary carers everywhere. Yet our contribution is invisible even at events like the ESF!

· The workers who do most of this survival work are unwaged or low waged. We refuse to be invisible!

· A Women's Day is women's insurance policy that there will be an autonomous space for the crucial issues that women are addressing. Grassroots women from different backgrounds and experiences can make our achievements more widely known - drawing out and strengthening the vital connections among us.

· A Women's Day enables non-party-political people to have a much needed voice at the Forum, starting with those who are being ignored. Like asylum seekers who are denied a platform while the asylum charities which implement the government's repressive anti-immigration policies are seminar speakers.

· The ESF should be an occasion to build the movement against US-led wars and militarisation, rape and other torture, prisons, repression and exploitation - starting with acknowledging how much we in Europe are dependent on the movement in countries of the South.

Sponsors: All African Women's Group (England), Centro las Mujeres Cuentan (Spain), Enfield Women's Centre (England), Femmes Urgences Droits et Logement (France), Frauenforum (Germany), Global Women's Strike (Ireland, Spain, England), Hillingdon Women's Centre (England), MiRA? Centre (Black, immigrant and refugee women, Norway), United Workers Association (domestic workers, England), Women of Colour in the Global Women's Strike


Programme: 12.30-2.30pm:

Open mic and Community Speak-Out (like the successful Global Women's Strike anti-war picket Wednesdays 5.30-7pm in Parliament Sqare, London)

1.30-10pm Videos: Global Women's Strike 2000 Exclusive footage of the first-ever global strike against no pay, low pay and overwork from countries round the world.

Refusing to Kill (30 mins) Payday men's network interviews refuseniks, women and men, from Eritrea, Jamaica, Israel, UK, US . . . and first-hand testimony on rape in the US military.

The Bolivarian Revolution: Enter the Oil Workers (34 mins) Riveting interviews with oil workers in Venezuela - women and men - organising to "put the oil industry at the service of humanity".

Interviews with sans papiers/es in Paris (20 mins)

Droits Devant and Femmes Urgences Droits et Logement

A Filipina Domestic Worker Speaks Out (United Workers Association)

Invest in Caring Not Killing Roughcuts of weekly anti-war pickets in Parliament Square by the Global Women's Strike

Ballad of the Sans Papiers (90 mins) Exclusive video footage of the historic church occupation in St Bernard, Paris

Salt of the Earth (94 mins) The 50th anniversary of this startling film - immigrant women holding the strike together by challenging the union, as relevant as ever!

Women of the Rhondda (20 mins)

Wives and daughters of strikers remember the Welsh Miners' Strikes of 1926.

Venezuela: A 21st Century Revolution (98 mins) What the revolution is winning for all of us

Drowned Out (1hr 15 mins) Indigenous women and men at the forefront of organising against the Narmada Dam in India

All Work and No Pay (20 mins) Why we deserve economic recognition for all our work

French, German, Italian, Spanish interpretation available.

If you would like to sponsor this Women's Day with a donation or help in any other way,

please contact us: Global Women's Strike, Crossroads Women's Centre, 230a Kentish Town Road, London, NW5? 2AB. +44 (0)20 7482 2496/fax +44(0)20 7209 4761

 Womenstrike8m@server101.com  http://www.globalwomenstrike.net

r

Upcoming Coverage
View and post events
Upcoming Events UK
24th October, London: 2015 London Anarchist Bookfair
2nd - 8th November: Wrexham, Wales, UK & Everywhere: Week of Action Against the North Wales Prison & the Prison Industrial Complex. Cymraeg: Wythnos o Weithredu yn Erbyn Carchar Gogledd Cymru

Ongoing UK
Every Tuesday 6pm-8pm, Yorkshire: Demo/vigil at NSA/NRO Menwith Hill US Spy Base More info: CAAB.

Every Tuesday, UK & worldwide: Counter Terror Tuesdays. Call the US Embassy nearest to you to protest Obama's Terror Tuesdays. More info here

Every day, London: Vigil for Julian Assange outside Ecuadorian Embassy

Parliament Sq Protest: see topic page
Ongoing Global
Rossport, Ireland: see topic page
Israel-Palestine: Israel Indymedia | Palestine Indymedia
Oaxaca: Chiapas Indymedia
Regions
All Regions
Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World
Other Local IMCs
Bristol/South West
Nottingham
Scotland
Social Media
You can follow @ukindymedia on indy.im and Twitter. We are working on a Twitter policy. We do not use Facebook, and advise you not to either.
Support Us
We need help paying the bills for hosting this site, please consider supporting us financially.
Other Media Projects
Schnews
Dissident Island Radio
Corporate Watch
Media Lens
VisionOnTV
Earth First! Action Update
Earth First! Action Reports
Topics
All Topics
Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Fracking
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista
Major Reports
NATO 2014
G8 2013
Workfare
2011 Census Resistance
Occupy Everywhere
August Riots
Dale Farm
J30 Strike
Flotilla to Gaza
Mayday 2010
Tar Sands
G20 London Summit
University Occupations for Gaza
Guantanamo
Indymedia Server Seizure
COP15 Climate Summit 2009
Carmel Agrexco
G8 Japan 2008
SHAC
Stop Sequani
Stop RWB
Climate Camp 2008
Oaxaca Uprising
Rossport Solidarity
Smash EDO
SOCPA
Past Major Reports
Encrypted Page
You are viewing this page using an encrypted connection. If you bookmark this page or send its address in an email you might want to use the un-encrypted address of this page.
If you recieved a warning about an untrusted root certificate please install the CAcert root certificate, for more information see the security page.

Global IMC Network


www.indymedia.org

Projects
print
radio
satellite tv
video

Africa

Europe
antwerpen
armenia
athens
austria
barcelona
belarus
belgium
belgrade
brussels
bulgaria
calabria
croatia
cyprus
emilia-romagna
estrecho / madiaq
galiza
germany
grenoble
hungary
ireland
istanbul
italy
la plana
liege
liguria
lille
linksunten
lombardia
madrid
malta
marseille
nantes
napoli
netherlands
northern england
nottingham imc
paris/île-de-france
patras
piemonte
poland
portugal
roma
romania
russia
sardegna
scotland
sverige
switzerland
torun
toscana
ukraine
united kingdom
valencia

Latin America
argentina
bolivia
chiapas
chile
chile sur
cmi brasil
cmi sucre
colombia
ecuador
mexico
peru
puerto rico
qollasuyu
rosario
santiago
tijuana
uruguay
valparaiso
venezuela

Oceania
aotearoa
brisbane
burma
darwin
jakarta
manila
melbourne
perth
qc
sydney

South Asia
india


United States
arizona
arkansas
asheville
atlanta
Austin
binghamton
boston
buffalo
chicago
cleveland
colorado
columbus
dc
hawaii
houston
hudson mohawk
kansas city
la
madison
maine
miami
michigan
milwaukee
minneapolis/st. paul
new hampshire
new jersey
new mexico
new orleans
north carolina
north texas
nyc
oklahoma
philadelphia
pittsburgh
portland
richmond
rochester
rogue valley
saint louis
san diego
san francisco
san francisco bay area
santa barbara
santa cruz, ca
sarasota
seattle
tampa bay
united states
urbana-champaign
vermont
western mass
worcester

West Asia
Armenia
Beirut
Israel
Palestine

Topics
biotech

Process
fbi/legal updates
mailing lists
process & imc docs
tech