We’re glad to attend and share this event highlighting disability — one of a series about Palestine at the P21 art gallery in Somers Town, London NW1. We want to find out more about the situation of disabled people there, especially children and women, and what they want supporters to do. Hope you can come or join online, details below. Theatre for Everybody (Gaza) and Az Theatre (London) present PALESTINE: REPAIR & RETURN – Stories of Disability and Rehabilitation. When: Thursday 20th February 6.30pm-8.30pm In person at P21, 21-27 Chalton St, London NW1 1JD. The … Read more
Wed 4 December 7pm — free Zoom event organised by our friends at the Bhopal Medical Appeal (Brighton) We’re glad to share this event — a chance to find out more about what happened, and get the latest news on the demands of the survivors. 7pm to 8.30pm UK time auto-captions available. Register here They say: Join the Bhopal Medical Appeal for an online webinar event via Zoom to mark the 40th anniversary of the world’s worst industrial disaster. The Bhopal Medical Appeal’s Executive Trustee, Tim Edwards, will speak on the 40-year struggle of survivors and the need for … Read more
3 December 2024 is the 40th anniversary of the Bhopal gas tragedy in India, the world’s deadliest industrial disaster, when a pesticide factory owned by Union Carbide exploded next to the community. It marks 40 years of women gas survivors confronting corporate crime and Dow Chemical — who took over the site but refuse to clean it up. WinVisible is women with disabilities of all nationalities, including Indian, African and from many other countries, supporting the struggle in Bhopal since 1984, the year we began. We have supported campaigns concerning Bhopali women’s situation, mothers and … Read more
On this 39th anniversary of the Bhopal gas disaster, and always, since 1984: We are with you, the women and community of Bhopal (India): demanding compensation, criminal justice, medical care, increased income to go to more survivors, meet housing needs, Dow Chemical to clean up the site. Here is their press release, shared from the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal. “OUR DEMANDS ON THE 39TH ANNIVERSARY” Demands of Survivors of Union Carbide Disaster & those poisoned by Dow Chemical in Bhopal on the 39th Anniversary of the disaster. 1. COMPENSATION Union Carbide / Dow Chemical must pay: … Read more
Tomorrow Friday 8 September from 12.30 lunchtime, please join the Disabled Mothers’ Rights Campaign at a Support Not Separation vigil outside the Indian High Commission WC2 4NA, to demand an end to children from the Global South being removed from their families and kept from them by social services in Global North countries. Press Release FROM SUPPORT NOT SEPARATION G20 summit: Global North stop taking & holding children from the Global South Friday 8 September, 12.30pm, India House, Aldwych, London WC2B 4NA Contacts: Delhi: Suranya Aiyar +919818886808 contact@saveyourchildren.in @thinkfirstindia London: SNS 0207 482 2496 sns@legalactionforwomen.net … Read more
Tues 7 March 1.30pm-2.30pm Women and care (support and assistance) East London Unite Community branch meeting. WinVisible guest speakers + discussion. Contact us for info/Zoom link. Wednesday 8 March – International Women’s Day #IWD2023 Discover Voices podcast Four WinVisible women talk with Dr Theo Blackmore, disAbility Cornwall Audio click here — and audio on Amazon music, Google Podcasts, Spotify YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@discovervoices/videos Wed 8 March 11am-12.30pm “How are gender issues shaped in society and how do these affect Disabled women?” Event by the Alliance for Inclusive Education (ALLFIE). WinVisible is a guest on a panel with women … Read more
Bhopali protesters, mainly women, stage a sit-in in New Delhi today 3 December 2022. Shared from Social News XYZ Today 3 December 2022, which is UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities, marks 38 years since the terrible gas tragedy in Bhopal (India) at the pesticide factory run by Union Carbide. We are with the Bhopali protesters who are in New Delhi to demand full compensation. Compensation must be based on true figures of how many people have died, and how many were injured by breathing the gas. Their demand for accurate figures of the … Read more
With you in spirit, Rashida, Champa and all: tonight, since 1984 and always. (2 December 2021) @WinVisibleWomen @woc_gws @WomenStrike @womenstrike_us Summed up by @RachnaDhingra: 37 years of Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal No punishment Less than $500 compensation for lifelong injuries No rehabilitation Dismal medical care Groundwater poisoned Children being born with disabilities Governments too busy protecting the killers Bhopalis refuse to give up or forget #Bhopal37
This Friday 12-2pm, please join us with the Global Women’s Strike, Indian Workers Association and Women of Colour GWS outside the India High Commission or on Twitter, to celebrate the victory of the Indian farmers and land workers, who are winning the repeal of Prime Minister Modi’s hated Farm Laws. Farmers will continue to protest until the Farm Laws are actually repealed (cancelled), until the government passes a legally binding guaranteed Minimum Support Price for all crops, repeals the repressive Labour Codes, and more…. (info below). We support the Bhopal gas survivors, who welcomed the … Read more
This Saturday, we’re delighted to be joining our friends in Scotland and Ontario, Canada for an online discussion organised by Action Against Austerity. WinVisible will be sharing news of how we are winning individual benefit cases, and our welfare demands under the pandemic as disabled women/of colour/mothers and family carers, immigrant and UK-born. Register free here. Email us if support needed. ** Read our conversation with John Clarke and his criticisms of the Basic Income pilot which was run in Ontario. ** Read about Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty‘s campaign to “Stop the Reviews” of disability … Read more