Phoebe Jones, co-coordinator of the Global Women’s Strike in the US, has been involved in efforts to get unwaged work recognized, valued and compensated since she joined the Wages for Housework Campaign as a college student in the 1970s. She was involved in winning the 1995 UN resolution to measure and value unwaged work in the home, on the land and in the community and include that value in economic statistics.

She was co-producer with Eric Gjertsen of the video, DHS Give Us Back Our Children, challenging unjust child removals by the child welfare/family policing system. The film came out of the work that the group of the same name as the film had been doing to bring mothers, grandmothers and supporters together to fight cases and change policy in the very early days of the movement against family policing. The film makes the case that if mothers had resources, their children would not be removed. She’s herself a mother and grandmother.