March eighth – Girls Strike And Protest. In 2021 on Worldwide Girls’s Day I revealed an extended put up, 8 March: Worldwide Girls’s Day with some photographs from my protection of the day from 2002 till 2020, and in 2022 I posted Worldwide Girls’s Day Marches with a little bit historical past and extra of my photos from earlier years.
This 12 months I look again seven years to Thursday eighth March 2017 after I coated a variety of occasions on Worldwide Girls’s Day.
From Russia With Love – Parliament Sq.
Once I arrived to {photograph} a few protests about to happen in Parliament Sq. I discovered round a dozen younger Russian males in white caps andjackers with an odd heart-based emblem clutching massive bunches of purple roses being briefed earlier than they went across the sq. stopping ladies an handing them roses.
Apparently this was a stunt for Rusian TV by the ‘Make Her Smile Motion’ and was happening in numerous capitals all over the world. Some ladies refused the flowers, however most took them and appeared happy if somewhat confused by the gesture.
Extra photos at From Russia With Love
Worldwide Girls’s Strike – Parliament Sq.
World Girls’s Strike had come to the sq. to have a good time the resistance of girls worldwide and maintain a protest in solidarity with the Worldwide Girls’s Strike happening in 46 nations.
They held a rally reverse Parliament because the Finances was being delivered inside, with audio system from a variety of teams supporting ladies together with the victims of home violence, the disabled and the victims of household courts.
Among the many audio system have been ladies from the Scottish Kinship Care Mission, Dr Philippa Whitford SNP MP for Central Ayrshire, Denise McKenna, co-founder of Psychological Well being Resistance Community and Paula Peters of DPAC. Police initially tried to stop the audio system utilizing a microphone however have been persuaded to allow them to go forward.
The occasion ended with a brief play by the All African Girls’s Group about sexism and racism of the immigration system by the Borders Company courts and in immigrations detention centres reminiscent of Yarl’s Wooden Detention Centre.
Extra photos at Worldwide Girls’s Strike.
WASPI at Parliament – Outdated Palace Yard
A number of yards away in Outdated Palace Yard Girls In opposition to State Pension Inequality – WASPI – have been holding a rally in opposition to the modifications within the state pension scheme that are unfair to ladies born within the Nineteen Fifties.
The 1995 Pensions Act included plans to extend the pension age for girls to 65 however it was solely 14 years later that letters have been despatched to many ladies born in 1951-3 Their scenario was worsened by the accelerated elevating of girls’s pension age underneath the 2011 Pension Act, additionally made with out correctly informing these affected, with the age for each women and men rising to 66 by 2020. Many bought as little as one 12 months’s warning of the as much as a six-year improve to their State Pension age and it was not doable for them to make different plans. For women and men born in 1959 the state pension age is now 66 years.
The ladies affected are nonetheless awaiting the results of an unbiased investigation by the Parliamentary and Well being Service Ombudsman which was began in 2019.
Extra photos at WASPI at Parliament.
Vigil for Thai Farmers – St Martin-in-the-Fields
World Girls’s Strike went on to carry a silent vigil on the steps of St Martin-in-the-Fields in solidarity with the farmers of Thailand. Lots of them are ladies within the Southern Peasant Federation of Thailand and the vigil was additionally in assist of others all all over the world risking their lives to defend land and water from company land grabs.
Extra photos at Vigil for Thai Farmers.
Dying By A Thousand Cuts – Downing Road
Fourth Wave London Feminist Activists held a protest at Downing St on Worldwide Girls’s Day, drawing consideration to the impression that cuts have had on ladies.
The unjust, ideologically-driven cuts to public providers are disproportionately felt by ladies. Their protest contrasted to the extra extremely publicised company occasions on the day that are given a excessive diploma of protection within the media and focus on getting extra ladies in boardrooms and different extremely paid jobs. Although necessary points, these are clearly irrelevant to the large majority of girls who must take care of the realities of low pay, costly housing, and caring for youngsters and different members of the family.
Extra photos Dying By A Thousand Cuts.
Worldwide Girls’s Strike Flash Mob – St Pancras Worldwide
Lastly I went to St Pancras Worldwide station the place London Polish Feminists have been joined by World Girls’s Strike in a flash mob celebrating the struggles of girls all over the world .
Carrying black and purple clothes, after practising their routine with umbrellas with messages on them and a big banner on the entrance to St Pancras Worldwide they went right down to the principle concourse to carry out it there.
Police got here to see what was occurring and made certain they didn’t block the concourse however remained pleasant, and the ready passengers applauded and took pictures.
Extra at Worldwide Girls’s Strike Flash Mob.
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