An assortment of news and a meme
Oct. 30th, 2009 04:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susanreadsIn the UK
Amnesty International is organising a mass lobby of Parliament to end violence against women, next Wednesday - particularly against the No Recourse to Public Funds rule which prevents women with insecure immigration status from escaping abuse.
Friday 30th October is Equal Pay Day: the average pay gap between men and women in the UK is 17.1%, meaning that while men in work will be paid for the full year, women in work are effectively working for free from today until 2010.
From the Dreamwidth Herald
Yesterday,![[site community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/comm_staff.png)
dw_codesharing was changed to allow open posting. if you have spare invite codes, post to the community using the tag "codes available".
Also, free accounts now get 15 userpics instead of 6. Go out and proselytise!
Follow Friday
I don't do memes, but this meme seems like a good idea for making Dreamwidth more awesome. Here's the plan: every Friday, let's recommend some people and/or communities to follow on Dreamwidth. That's it. No complicated rules, no "pass this on to 7.328 friends or your cat will die." Just introduce us to some new things to read.
With recent linkspams in mind, some communities to follow relating to access issues:
dw_accessibility (about making the site accessible), ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
accessibility_fail (in RL, also features occasional accessibility win), access_fandom (canonically about making fandom more accessible; hosted the Feministing-fail linkspams). You can also follow the excellent new blog FWD/Forward via their Dwth feed, ![[syndicated profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png)
disabledfeminists_feed.
Amnesty International is organising a mass lobby of Parliament to end violence against women, next Wednesday - particularly against the No Recourse to Public Funds rule which prevents women with insecure immigration status from escaping abuse.
Friday 30th October is Equal Pay Day: the average pay gap between men and women in the UK is 17.1%, meaning that while men in work will be paid for the full year, women in work are effectively working for free from today until 2010.
From the Dreamwidth Herald
Yesterday,
dw_codesharing was changed to allow open posting. if you have spare invite codes, post to the community using the tag "codes available".Also, free accounts now get 15 userpics instead of 6. Go out and proselytise!
Follow Friday
I don't do memes, but this meme seems like a good idea for making Dreamwidth more awesome. Here's the plan: every Friday, let's recommend some people and/or communities to follow on Dreamwidth. That's it. No complicated rules, no "pass this on to 7.328 friends or your cat will die." Just introduce us to some new things to read.
With recent linkspams in mind, some communities to follow relating to access issues:
dw_accessibility (about making the site accessible), accessibility_fail (in RL, also features occasional accessibility win), access_fandom (canonically about making fandom more accessible; hosted the Feministing-fail linkspams). You can also follow the excellent new blog FWD/Forward via their Dwth feed, disabledfeminists_feed.