Supporting Israeli Shministim

Statement by Shministim

By Payday men’s network

One of the movements that has recreated itself one generation to the next, has been the Shministim, a movement of high schools students who have pledged to refuse to do their military service.

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Oppose the Overseas Operations Bill

Scrap Overseas Operation Bill

By Payday men’s network

In 2021, with GWS and Women of Colour GWS we campaigned against the Overseas Operations Bill and with other anti-war and human rights organisations we defeated the government who conceded that prosecuting War Crimes should not be time limited.

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Children don’t need violent fathers

Michael Kalmanovitz speaks against violent men

Michael Kalmanovitz, Payday men’s network

Most family court cases involve domestic violence (70-90%), overwhelmingly against women. As a father, a former social worker and children’s home worker, I am horrified at the denial of domestic violence by the fathers’ lobby, and the harmful influence they have had over the family courts.

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Opposing rape in/by the military

By Payday men’s network

With Women Against Rape and Black Women Rape Action Project, we spoke out against rape in and out of the military, and supported the victims whatever the gender.

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Industrial agriculture is the main thief

Speech by Dean Kendall, subsistence farmer and member of Payday

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.

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Papers for All – An international movement

Women Sans-Papiers Belgium

By Payday men’s network

As the 2020 covid pandemic revealed how crucial was the ‘essential work’ done by immigrants, movements demanding Papers for all have risen in many countries. Since then, with Women of Colour GWS we have publicised and supported many initiatives in France, Belgium, Spain, Canada, Ireland and elsewhere.

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A trade-unionist, Payday member, speaks on the Care income

Sam Weinstein speaks on Care income

By Sam Weinstein, Payday men’s network

We don’t know what work is really necessary. The military is not. We know that care work is, and a care income is an invitation to do that work – and the beginning of finding out about all the rest … Pay the women properly and the men will come.

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Joining the Poor People Campaign

Poor People Campaign Logo

By Payday men’s network

The PPC brings people together in a cross-movement “fusion” coalition, against the “four evils” of systemic racism, poverty, the war economy and militarism, and ecological devastation.  Those most impacted are the voices that are front and center in the PPC.

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