Women

A Feminist Economy

ussen2018-06-04T15:57:14-04:00Report on the Third RIPESS Webinar on Women and Social Solidarity Economy Four feminist speakers, all practitioners and experts in SSE from very different backgrounds shared their reflections with us on the feminist economy from a gender perspective on SSE in this third webinar of the RIPESS open...

The Factory in the Family

ussen2018-06-04T15:56:00-04:00The radical vision of Wages for Housework. By Sarah Jaffe via The Nation In 1975, women in Iceland went on strike, from their domestic responsibilities as well as their day jobs. The strike, organized by women’s councils across the country after the United Nations declared 1975 as International...

Zapatista’s Women in Struggle Summit

ussen2018-06-04T15:55:50-04:00The First International Gathering of Politics, Art, Sport, and Culture for Women in Struggle is hosted exclusively by rebel women for rebel women. via Telesur Thousands of women from around the world attended a meeting in Zapatistaterritory Thursday to hold the “First International Gathering of Politics, Art, Sport, and Culture...

The Women’s March and the Coming of Age of Feminism

Julie Matthaei2018-01-22T23:09:22-05:00by Julie Matthaei, via Common Dreams  

There is no Food Sovereignty Without Feminism

ussen2017-04-19T21:56:13-04:00Peasant women, unite!  Ask governments to support the UN Declaration on the rights of peasants. Peasants and others working in rural areas represent the largest group of people in the world suffering from hunger and malnutrition. These people have faced political and economic discriminations for decades.