Posts by Payday
A Family Caregiver Speaks Out Against War at Poor People’s Campaign rally in Lancaster, PA
I’m Eric Gjertsen, I am on the coordinating committee of the PA Poor People’s Campaign and work with Payday, an international network of men working with the Global Women’s Strike. We are proud national partners of the PPC and excited to come together with everyone in 2 short weeks in DC! I live in Reading…
Read MorePayday statements against rape
Payday men’s network
Read statements issued by Payday in 1977, 1991, 1999 and 2006 discussing why we oppose rape in marriage, rape by and in the military, rape everywhere.
Read MoreJustice for Undocumented wins major victory after 11 year campaign
Migrants Rights Centre Ireland
Today (Friday 3rd Dec), Minister for Justice Helen McEntee officially announced a historic and life-changing scheme to regularise undocumented people in Ireland.
Read MoreSupport Daniel Hale, drone whistleblower in prison
Jesselyn Radack, Whistleblower & Source Protection Program (WHISPeR)
Drone whistleblower Daniel Hale was finally transferred to a federal prison facility. In most respects, this was a significant upgrade in living conditions. But it also meant that Daniel was placed in the restrictive “Communications Management Unit” (CMU) — one of the lesser-known Kafkaesque legacies of the Bush administration’s War on Terror.
Read MoreThe Military: KILLING PEOPLE & PLANET
Payday men’s network
The military, one of the worst polluters on Earth, its carbon and other pollution excluded from international agreement. Arguments abound over welfare spending and nurses’ pay, but there is virtually no opposition to the nearly £2 billion cost for each of eight Trident submarines.
Read MoreProtesting Royal College of Psychiatrists endorsement of abuse and cruelty
By Payday men’s network
On Monday 28 June, Legal Action for Women, Payday men’s network and Women of Colour Global Women’s Strike coordinated a protest against the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) supported by Prisoner Solidarity Network, Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association, Community Action on Prison Expansion and Figh
Read MoreSolitary confinement is a crime Webinar
Legal Action for Women, Women of Colour Global Women’s Strike, Payday men’s network
Watch a wide-ranging panel of speakers from around the world as well as so many justice campaigners making their case against cruel and in
Read MoreA father & former social worker speaks out: “Children don’t need violent fathers.”
Michael Kalmanovitz, Payday men’s network It is horrific that on average two women every week are murdered by partners and ex partners in the UK and that this doubled in the first three weeks of the Covid-19 lockdown. Most family court cases involve domestic violence (70-90%), overwhelmingly against women. As a father, a former social…
Read MoreIndustrial agriculture is the main thief
Speech by Dean Kendall, subsistence farmer and member of Payday, 13 June 2020
By subsistence farmer I just mean I grow for own use, letting me scrape by on a pittance of social security and meager wages from odd jobs. I don’t make an income from the farming.
Read MoreA trade-unionist, Payday member, speaks on the Care income
Sam Weinstein, Payday men’s network We would like you to see Sam Weinstein’s speech on work and the Care Income at the Care Income Now! Webinar (3 Apr 2020). Sam is a trade unionist and a member of Payday (his speech is at 30m 10s); the text is below. And please endorse (as an individual…
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