This International Women’s Day we answer the call from Palestinian feminists to resist the British state’s collusion with Israel in the ongoing genocide. We take instruction from the rich history of the Palestinian women’s movement, a movement that exists despite settler colonial fragmentation through occupation of the West Bank, besiegement of Gaza, settlement of ’48 […]
The title of this piece is inspired by Sojourner Truth, and later bell hooks’, famous clapback: “Ain’t I a woman?”. Black feminists have always been asked to justify our tactics and sympathies to white women. An article about us in the Jewish Chronicle asks: Why does a feminist group care about Gaza? What has […]
HUNDREDS OF PRO-PALESTINE ACTIVISTS SHUT DOWN LIVERPOOL STREET TO DEMAND CEASEFIRE ON THE EVE OF THE BOMBING OF JABALIA REFUGEE CAMP. Over 500 people took action to shut down Liverpool St station to amplify urgent demands for a ceasefire in Gaza Sisters Uncut claim it ‘is not business as usual’ and call […]
The Women’s Building* that Peabody has promised to build on the site of Holloway Prison is at risk of housing probationary services. Formerly the largest women’s prison in Europe, Holloway prison was a site of intense violence and harm. The Women’s Building was demanded by the community, to be a space for healing and support […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 6pm Saturday 12 March 2022 The action marks the anniversary of the infamous Clapham Common vigil for Sarah Everard, where police beat and arrested women Patsy Stevenson, violently arrested by police at the vigil last year, gave a speech to crowds: “I was arrested on the floor for putting down a candle” […]
Feminist action group that launched Kill the Bill movement mark one year since Clapham Common vigil, where women were brutalised by police officers Hundreds expected to gather at New Scotland Yard to withdraw consent from British policing Sisters Uncut say when policing bill passes, “more police powers will lead to more police violence” Sisters Uncut […]