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30 September 2017 14:00 ~ London March for Choice: #205kTravelled – London-Irish Abortion Rights Campaign

Until 16:00 @ Embassy of Ireland, London, 17 Grosvenor Place, SW1X 7HR

This is a solidarity event with the Abortion Rights Campaign‘s 6th Annual March for Choice 30th Sept in Dublin.

We will make 205,704 chalk markings on the pavement outside the Irish Embassy; making visible the 205,704 Irish and Northern Irish women who have travelled to Great Britain for an abortion since the 8th Amendment in 1983.

The main gathering with speeches will begin at 2pm sharp, so please arrive promptly. Banners and signs are very welcome. If you’re on Twitter, feel free to use the hashtags #205kTravelled and #TimeToAct.

We hope you can join us to stand in solidarity with the women* who have made this journey and to demand legislative change which guarantees choice.

*trans, and non-binary people

See last year’s solidarity action here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPTn1z_mhFY

Afterwards, join us at SKIRT a fundraiser for Abortion Support Network in Hackney Wick from 10pm. https://www.facebook.com/events/292015111272418/ in Hackney Wick

https://www.facebook.com/events/333023467110087/

September 27, 2017

Job Title: Trustee for Smallwood Trust

Job Title: Trustee for Smallwood Trust Closing Date: Sunday 8th October Interviews: 3rd November Website: www.smallwoodtrust.org.uk The Smallwood Trust helps women on low incomes to become financially resilient – overcoming adversity to build a confident, positive and secure future. They provide life-changing funds for individual women, women’s voluntary sector organisations and practical policy initiatives that aim to more »

September 25, 2017

Menopause Awareness Event – 2nd October

As part of their wider program to raise awareness, reduce stigma and support women experiencing menopause related psychological and physical symptoms, Hand Inc. have put together this event. Funded by City & Hackney CCG, the Menopause Project promotes well-being by empowering peri/menopausal women with practical tools to self-manage menopause health needs and the knowledge to more »

September 25, 2017

28 September 2017 17:00 ~ Chile: promoting the Women, Peace and Security agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean – Centre for Women, Peace and Security – London

Until 6:00pm @ TW2 9.04, Tower 2, Clement’s Inn, LSE

  • Speaker Marcela Vergara
  • Chair Dr Marsha Henry

In partnership with the Embassy of Chile in the UK.

Chile was the first Latin American country to have a National Action Plan for the delivery of its commitments under the UN Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda. WPS is a priority in Chile, a commitment that was reaffirmed in a second National Action Plan. In this event Marcela Vergara will talk about the Chilean approach to implementation of the WPS agenda, and why it is both a national and collective responsibility.

About the speaker

Marcela Vergara was the first Chilean female Officer deployed to the Haitian peacekeeping mission as part of the Chilean forces in the UN Haitian Stabilization Mission (MINUSTAH) during 2011, where she served as Legal Adviser to all Chilean forces in Haiti and as Deputy CIMIC (Civil and Military Coordination).

Since 2009, her work related to UN Security Council Resolution 1325 has been developed in two main areas: as professor in the Joint Peace Operations Center of Chile, in all pre-deployment training for the Chilean troops as peacekeepers in UNFICYP (Cyprus), MINUSTAH (Haiti) and EUFOR (Bosnia-Herzegovina); and as the representative of the Chilean Navy during the launching of the Second National Action Plan for the Implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325.

She also has participated in several multinational exercises: TEAM WORK SOUTH (2017), RIMPAC (2016), PANAMAX (2014-2015) and UNITAS (2015), and planning War Games held in Canada (2014-2015), Argentina (2016) and Peru, opportunity where her main role has been as Legal Adviser, to ensure the correct application of International Law in Armed Conflicts, International Humanitarian Law and the protection against gender violence and sexual abuse.

She currently serves as a professor and at the Chilean Navy War Academy, after she graduated in 2013, as the first woman Officer of the Armed Forces her country, and also as the Legal Fleet Advisor.

Dr Marsha Henry is Deputy Director of the Centre for Women, Peace and Security and Associate Professor at the Department of Gender Studies.

The event is free to attend.

http://www.lse.ac.uk/women-peace-security/upcoming-events/28-09-2017

September 22, 2017

23 September 2017 ~ Women’s workshops – The World Transformed – Brighton – Until 26 September 2017

We hope you can join us. Please share with friends & networks.
All events are wheelchair accessible.

Sat 23, 1-2.45pm RADICAL DEMANDS FROM THE GRASSROOTS
Synergy Centre, 78 West St, 7 Middle St, Brighton BN1 2RA

From the vote to wages for housework, women have always been getting organised and making radical demands on society as well as in their own movements. These demands often shine light on areas long-ignored by otherwise progressive movements and, most importantly, force radical change. What demands should women be making today, and how do we realise these demands? In answering these questions, we’ll be taking inspiration from movements past and present, including the Black Panthers.

Shami Chakrabarti (Shadow Attorney General); Cari Mitchell (English Collective of Prostitutes), Maya Goodfellow (Labour List), Helen Hester (Feminist Academic), Nadine Houghton (Mums4Corbyn), Vanessa Olorenshaw (Liberating Motherhood). Organised by Mums4Corbyn.

Sat 23, 3-5pm WHOSE JOB IS IT ANYWAY? RADICAL CHILDCARE
Synergy Centre, 78 West St, 7 Middle St, Brighton BN1 2RA

Finding childcare that fits around the reality of women’s lives is increasingly difficult and the quality of childcare and state subsidies is piecemeal. Worse still, childcare costs in the UK are the highest in the world and yet childcare professionals are some of the lowest paid. Parents and carers know there has to be something better than what is currently on offer. Let’s discuss what that might look like, and how we get it.

Tracy Brabin (Shadow Minister for Early Years), Andrea Marie (New Socialist), Selma James (Global Women’s Strike) and Camille Barbagallo (Plan C). Chaired by Natasha Josette (Momentum Kids).Organised by Mums4Corbyn.

Mon 25, 6.30-8.30pm LIVING ON THE EDGE

Claimants, asylum seekers, pensioners, zero hour workers, sex workers . . . refusing Dickensian destitution and other social murder
The Cowley Club, 12 London Road, Brighton BN1 4JA

Austerity on top of pay cuts, benefit sanctions, zero hour contracts, the wages cap . . . have put millions below the breadline. Over 1.25m people, including 300,000 children, are destitute in UK. You don’t eat regularly, can’t afford clothes and toiletries, have your children taken from you, risk rape or worse sleeping in parks or being dependent on others for a roof over your head. Destitute and undocumented, you live under the radar. Women, austerity’s primary target, are often the most invisible. Grenfell survivors say that many more people died than is known because fear of deportation keeps people away from the authorities. This deliberate policy of disregard and destitution is ‘social murder’.

Our struggle against destitution is part of the new social movement that has formed around the Labour Party led by Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell. Strengthening it will help ensure that Labour’s manifesto pledges to end austerity, zero hour contracts, benefit sanctions, and reform a cruel and discriminatory asylum process, become reality.

Mary Baako (All African Women’s Group), Shen Batmaz (McDonalds striker), Brighton Migrant Solidarity (BMS), Sian Evans (Women Against Rape, Refuge from Rape and Destitution Campaign), Claire Glasman (WinVisible, ‘A Chronology of Destitution’), Jenny Pearl (ECP), Gill Thompson (justice campaigner whose brother David Clapson was –‘sanctioned to death’). Chaired by Cristel Amiss, Black Women’s Rape Action Project (BWRAP). Organised by BWRAP, BMS and ECP.

Tues 26, 3-5pm ANOTHER HANDMAID’S TALE
Komedia Studio, 44-47 Gardner St, Brighton BN1 1UN

In poor communities, as many as 50% of children are reported to social services. Poverty is used to allege ‘neglect,’ treat mothers as surrogates for fostering and adoption without consent, inflicting lifelong trauma on thousands of children. Single mothers are most at risk, especially if they report rape or domestic violence, are of colour, or have a disability. A growing movement is breaking the silence and picketing secretive family courts. It is reflected in Labour’s manifesto. Mothers, women’s organisations, professionals, MPs – and you – speak out.

Cristel Amiss (Black Women’s Rape Action Project), Selma James (Global Women’s Strike), Micheleine Kane (Scottish Kinship Care Alliance), Abbie Kirby (Friends, Families and Travellers), Emma Lewell-Buck MP (Shadow Minister for Children & Families), Anne Neale (Legal Action for Women – LAW). Clip of John McDonnell MP at launch of Support not Separation Coalition (SnS). Others TBC. Chaired by Nina Lopez (SnS). Organised by LAW.

For more information on these workshops: gws@globalwomenstrike.net or law@allwomencount.net

Full programme: www.theworldtransformed.org

September 22, 2017