Posts by Payday
Support prisoners in Alabama on strike against slavery
By Payday & Global Women’s Strike
We send greetings and solidarity to our sisters and brothers in the Alabama prison struggle, (…)
Your demand as workers who get no wages strengthens the struggle against slavery everywhere.
Supporting Prisoners: Mumia Abu Jamal
By Payday men’s network
Mumia Abu Jamal, an award-winning journalist was wrongly convicted of killing a police officer in 1982 in a trial ‘drenched with racism’. While pressure got Mumia off death row, he has never stopped fighting injustices inside and outside the prison walls.
Read MoreA 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 MoreSupporting Prisoners: Russell Maroon Shoatz
By Payday men’s network
Black Panthers member Russell Maroon Shoatz was jailed in 1972 in connection with the death of a police officer and spent 29 years in solitary confinement. Yet he never stopped opposing injustices inside and outside prison.
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 MoreDetainees win historic ruling on minimum wage
By Gene Johnson, Seattle Times
A US federal jury has determined that The GEO Group must pay minimum wage — rather than $1 a day — to immigration detainees who perform tasks like cooking and cleaning at its for-profit detention center in Washington state.
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
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