March eighth – Girls Strike And Protest. Final yr on Worldwide Girls’s Day I revealed a protracted publish, Worldwide Girls’s Day Marches with photos from my protection of them from 2002 till 2020. This yr I look again 5 years to Thursday eighth March 2018 once I lined a variety of protests, most of which have been linked to Worldwide Girls’s Day
Shut Guantanamo at new US Embassy – US Embassy, 9 Elms
This was the primary protest exterior the brand new US Embassy the place they intend to proceed the common month-to-month protests which they’ve had exterior the outdated embassy in Grosvenor Sq. since 2007 till the unlawful and immoral US jail camp is shut down and all of the prisoners launched.
Usually these protests happen on the primary Thursday of each month, however in March 2018 the protest scheduled for March 1st was postponed for per week due to snow. Due to the change of date some common protesters have been unable to attend and the protest began a bit of later than normal as some had issues discovering the brand new location. This was the one occasion not linked with Worldwide Girls’s Day I lined on the day.
In March 2018, 41 prisoners remained held at Guantanamo. There was no proof in opposition to most of these held and tortured there that will arise in any courtroom of regulation, typically merely a matter of suspicion or rumour or determined statements made beneath excessive torture. Many have been merely foreigners within the area seized to achieve money rewards from the US forces.
Shut Guantanamo at new US Embassy
Household Courts placed on Trial – Outdated Palace Yard
International Girls’s Strike had organised a mock trial of the UK Household Courts in an Worldwide Girls’s Day protest in entrance of Parliament.
Amongst those that spoke have been moms whose kids had been unjustly taken away, and statements from others have been additionally learn out, together with some stunning feedback made in courtroom by judges.
The UK has the best price of adoptions in Europe, virtually all with out consent of their start household. Households of color, immigrants and disabled are all disproportionately affected and in some working class areas 50% of youngsters are referred to social providers.
Poverty, typically the results of profit cuts and sanctions and poor housing situations particularly in non permanent lodging is usually mistaken for neglect and the assistance mandated beneath the 1989 Childrens Act is seldom obtainable. Youngsters are sometimes merely taken into care after which put up for adoption though they’ve moms or grandmothers who’re able to good parenting and solely want assist.
The campaigners say that victims of home abuse are sometimes accused of ‘failing to guard’ their kids and imprecise expenses resembling placing kids vulnerable to future emotional hurt and neglect are utilized by the key courts to take away kids from moms and grandmothers. They need hearings with correct public scrutiny and an finish to the gagging of moms and familys, an amazing use of kinship carers and the correct implementation of the 1989 Youngsters Act, and the Care Act 2014 which entitles disabled moms to additional assist.
Parliamentary officer Black Rod despatched police to attempt to shut down the protest, however the organisers confirmed them paperwork to say they’d permission for the protest and to make use of a megaphone. They appeared puzzled however left.
Household Courts placed on Trial
London Girls’s Strike – Russell Sq.
This was the massive occasion of the day and included speeches about a variety of causes. Because the organisers mentioned the “Girls’s Strike is a strike for solidarity between ladies – ladies of color, indigenous, working class, disabled, migrant, Muslim, lesbian, queer and trans ladies” and “is about realising the ability we already maintain – activating and nourishing resistance.“
Most of the ladies current went on to different protests elsewhere together with a number of protests in assist of cleaners on the TopShop and The Royal Opera in Covent Backyard, and cinema employees at Picturehouse, calling for an finish to immigration detention an in solidarity with the Yarl’s Wooden starvation strikers, for Unilever to withdraw its funding in Myanmar the place its presence helps a authorities that has brutally raped, tortured and killed many Rohingya, and supporting intercourse employees by calling for the decriminalisation of prostitution and I additionally went to cowl a few of these
Way more about this occasion on My London Diary: London Girls’s Strike.
Solidarity with Yarl’s Wooden starvation strikers – Residence Workplace
On the Residence Workplace protesters confirmed solidarity with these held in Yarl’s Wooden on Worldwide Girls’s Day, specifically with those that had started a starvation strike 15 days in the past in opposition to their imprisonment and the situations and remedy by the detention centre employees and the Residence Workplace.
Since then the strike has gathered momentum and escalated into an all-out strike: work strikes, occupations, and a common refusal to cooperate, and lengthy lists of the detainees calls for have been revealed by Detained Voices.
Extra at Solidarity with Yarl’s Wooden.
Reinstate the Royal Opera Home 6 – Royal Opera, Covent Backyard
Six members of grassroots unbiased employees union CAIWU have been fired by cleansing providers firm Kier for his or her jobs on the Royal Opera Home, one other disciplined and a sixth was on closing written warning. They have been clearly being victimised folloing profitable commerce union motion which had compelled Kier to pay its employees there the London Dwelling Wage.
The big and loud motion with union members augmented by ladies from the Girls’s Strike blocked Drury Lane for some minutes. Police arrived, talked to the protesters after which went inside to speak to the managers inside earlier than rising, rigorously eradicating poster and fliers the protesters had left on their automobile earlier than driving off. The protesters later moved again into Covent Backyard Market leaving the street free.
Extra at Reinstate the Royal Opera Home 6.
& Myanmar’s Rohingya genocide – Unilever Home
Girls from the Girls’s Strike referred to as on Unilever to disinvest from Myanmar the place they’ve a $667 million funding.
The navy authorities there are committing systematic rape and different torture with complete impunity as a part of their genocide in opposition to the Rohingya folks. Unilever claims, particularly in its advertising for Dove merchandise to respect the dignity and rights of ladies and ladies and says it “goals to enhance security for girls and ladies within the communities the place they function.”
Extra at Unilever & Myanmar’s Rohingya genocide.
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