Edna’s Law to protect whistleblowers
By Compassion in Care
EDNA’S LAW Would make it a criminal offence to fail to act on the genuine concerns of a whistle-blower and would hold individuals accountable.
Read MoreConnecting the movements against war & against prisons
By Eric Gjertsen, Payday men’s network
A speech on Anti-capitalism Behind Bars workshop at the Left Forum.
Read MoreSupporting Prisoners: Troy Davis
By Payday men’s network
Troy Davis was executed in 2011 in the US, but became an international cause célèbre against the death penalty.
Read MoreDHS Give Us Back Our Children
By Payday & Every Mother is a Working Mother Network
In 2010, Payday contributed to the production of a video exposing the unfair treatment of mothers by the US Department of Human Services (DHS), who very often has taken their children away because they were poor.
Read MoreJoe Glenton, UK refusenik
By Payday men’s network
British soldier Joe Glenton was convicted to 9 months in jail in 2010 for refusing to return to Afghanistan. We joined the international campaign for his release.
Read MoreLetter to refusenik Adas Amit
Payday men’s network
In 2007, Israeli refusenik Adas Amit was imprisoned five times for her ongoing refusal to join the Israeli military. Payday wrote to her, thanked her for her brave action and let her know the support she had.
Read MoreOpposing the Armed Forces Bill
By Payday men’s network
In 2006, with the Global Women’s Strike (GWS), vets and peace organisations we opposed the Armed Forces Bill which threatened soldiers who desert or refuse to occupy a foreign territory with life emprisonment
Read MoreRefusing to Rape (2006)
By Payday
We highlight how the military train men to rape and protect them afterwards. Supporting refuseniks also includes protecting those who refuse to rape. In demanding to “redirect military budgets to carers,” we stenghten women’s economic power to refuse rape.
Read MoreProtecting a Payday member’s farm from ‘developers’
By Dean Kendall, Payday men’s network
Payday men’s network along with Global Women’s Strike supported Payday member Dean Kendall’s successful 7-year fight to win protection for his late mother’s farm – the fields and woodland which nurtured him as a child and where he still resides as their caregiver.
Read MoreVIDEO Refuseniks from around the world speak out
by Payday men’s network
Watch testimonies of refuseniks and supporters, often mothers and partners, from the UK, US, Israel, Jamaica, Sudan.
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