Campaign to make the Child Tax Credit permanent
By Payday
In 2021, Payday joined the Global Women’s Strike and others’ campaign to make the CTC permanent and for the money to be paid directly to mothers or other primary caregivers.
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 MoreA caregivers’ delegation for Child Tax Credit
By Payday
In December 2021, we joined a caregivers’ delegation to the PPC Moral Monday action in Washington, DC to press for passage of the Build Back Better Act, in particular the continuation of the extended Child Tax Credit (CTC).
Read MoreSupport Daniel Hale, drone whistleblower in prison
Jesselyn Radack, Whistleblower & Source Protection Program (WHISPeR)
Daniel’s journey took him to the dark heart of the War on Terror abroad, and as reward for blowing the whistle, he has been sent to its darkest corner on American soil, a facility that has been dubbed “Guantanamo North”.
Read MoreMillions farm workers defeat unjust laws in India
By Payday
With the Global Women’s Strike and Women of Colour GWS, Payday has supported the Indian farm workers whose struggles brought the repeal of the hated Farm Laws in India in 2021.
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
Read MoreNo to solitary confinement: Free Kevan Thakrar
Payday men’s network
Kevan Thakrar was wrongly convicted of murder and attempted murder in 2008 under “joint enterprise”, the legal rule by which a member of a group can be convicted of a crime even if he/she didn’t commit it. In 2010, he was was put in solitary confinement in Close Supervision Centres (CSC), locked in his cell 23 h/day.
Read MoreSolitary confinement is a crime Webinar
By 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 inhumane solitary confinement.
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