Merseyside Women's Movement

Please join us at the Nerve Centre Renshaw st; Thu 26th Aug 3-5 pm for an informal discussion on lap dancing / billboards / advertising as sexual exploitation / as the wrap-around, all pervasive and accelerating, misogynist visual culture that provides the backdrop to all our lives and relationships in the city-region. This is an [...]

LIVERPOOL CROWN COURT CASE RE BNP MEMBER PETER TIERNY  -  MONDAY 15thMARCH 9am There is a very important court case being held at Liverpool Crown Court which starts on Monday 15th March when Peter Tierney an active BNP member faces charges of assault. Again, a leading member of MCARF and two others are key witnesses.  [...]

A much-reported website out this week claimed that half of London’s women believe a rape victim should accept some responsibility for the crime if she goes back to a man’s house. I’m on placement this week at a radio station and when I went out, mike in hand, to ask Liverpool’s shoppers ‘are women ever [...]

Merseyside Women’s Movement Meeting    Tuesday 16th February 2010 Prompt start at 5.30pm, finished by 7pm WHISC, 120 Bold Street Agenda Reclaim the Night/Day March Update – Cath & Becky That Takes Ovaries Update – Nina METAL Art Exhibition Update – Kaety & Jess Am I Invisible? Theatre Production Update – Elaine Women from Palestine [...]

In this week’s edition of The New Statesman In this week’s edition of The New Statesman magazine, Samira Shackle argues the British immigration system does little to help vulnerable asylum-seeking women. Using the cases of Esther from Kenya, and Salma from Pakistan, and in discussion with Asylum Aid’s Debora Singer, she looks at the persecution [...]

A huge thank you to everyone who turned up on Saturday to march! It was a great day and we got our message across loud and clear! 

March against gender inequality! Sat 10th oct 12 noon, Williamson Sq, all welcome! Why we need gender equality: In the UK:  • Each year, more women die from domestic violence and rape than  die from cancer.  Two women a week are killed by a current or   former partner.   • More than half a million [...]

Unaidi Jaime, Oxfam Gender Coordinator from Mozambique, will discuss her role as a gender co-ordinator for Oxfam, and the effects climate change is having on gender in Mozambique. 3.00 pm Tue 29th oct LJMU’s School of Social Sciences, 68 Hope Street   Click thumbnail for larger image!

Come and Join us on Thu 24th Sept 5-7 at WHISC Bold Street for our next meeting. We have lots of things planned and are always gald to see new faces and hear new ideas!