Fundraiser for Crossroads Women - listen and buy the 'Wages Due' song!
Singer-song writer Gemma Rogers has re-imagined the song, “Wages Due”, written and originally sung by Boo Watson in 1975. Released on Bandcamp, people are asked to pay what you can todownload the song. All proceeds go to Crossroads Women.
Boo Watson was a founding member of Wages Due Lesbians in Toronto, Canada. A talented musician, she wrote “Wages Due” aged 17, reflecting her experiences as a young woman who had joined the International Wages for Housework Campaig. The song was an immediate hit.
Article in Camden New Journal here. Press Release from Gemma Rogers here.
Find out about the monthly Self-help meetings:
All African Women's Group open to all asylum seekers.
Support Not Separation for mothers facing forced separation from their children
WinVisible for women visible and invisible disabilities
Alll groups at the Centre can be found here.
Make Kentish Town tube step-free:
Our needs are not “too expensive”! We all need a lift! Don’t let us down!
On Friday 23 June, women from the Crossroads Women’s Centre including pensioners and wheelchair users, mums and babies, members of WinVisible (women with visible and invisible disabilities) joined with Inclusion London and other groups the protest co-ordinated by Camden Disability Action at Kentish Town tube. We are calling for a lift to be installed as part of the planned refurbishment. Transport for London have refused a lift as “too expensive”! This is unacceptable. A lift is essential for disabled and older people, mums/carers with buggies, and more …
No stations near our Women’s Centre have wheelchair access, and the north-bound Kentish Town bus stop is closed while flats are built. People are determined to protest until we win the lift - #KentishTownStepFree.
Hear heartfelt chants. Sign the petition here.
Eleanor Rathbone: the Mother of Child Benefit, an oral history project:
Click here to read the publication!
50 Years Old...
The first six years of the Women's Centre are featured in the newly launched archives of the Wages for Housework Campaign which celebrates its golden anniversary last year.
The archives can be viewed here at the Bishopsgate Institute.