DHS 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.

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Joe 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.

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Letter 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.

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Opposing the Armed Forces Bill

Armed Forces Bill meeting

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

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Refusing to Rape (2006)

statement to demand defunding the military

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.

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Protecting 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.

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