Objector: a film on Israeli refuseniks
By Payday men’s network
In 2021, we co-hosted with many organisations the online showing of the film Objector organised by the Jewish Network for Palestine and others.
Read MoreSupporting Israeli 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.
Read MoreOppose the Overseas Operations 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.
Read MoreChildren don’t need violent fathers
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.
Read MoreOpposing 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.
Read MoreHalf of US Farmers had a income below zero’
By Payday
On 13 June 2020, Dean Kendall, subsistence farmer and member of Payday, spoke on the poverty of US farmers ‘half of whom had a farm income below zero’ in 2019.
Read MoreIndustrial 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.
Read MorePapers for All – An international movement
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.
Read MoreA trade-unionist, Payday member, speaks on the 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.
Read MoreJoining the Poor People Campaign
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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