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Janine will be speaking about the 1920s Poplar Rates Rebellion to introduce a session on Radical Councils. John Burgess from Barnet Unison will also speak, and there will be plenty of time for discussion.
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Emmeline Pankhurst
Started as a suffragette
Became a Tory
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"I had crossed the line
I was free but a stranger"
Harriet Tubman
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Janine will be giving a presentation about Minnie Lansbury at the Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives (277 Bancroft Road, London E1 4DQ) as part of Women’s History Month.
Also speaking (provisionally) will be Sarah Jackson about the East London Suffragettes.
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Frederick Douglass
Said power concedes nothing
Without a demand
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After two years marking the 30th anniversary of the Miners' Strike and the role of lesbians and gay men in supporting it, Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners is bidding a fond farewell.
Join hundreds of supporters for an evening of festivities, including some poems from Janine.
Venue: Amnesty, Shoreditch.
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UCL Roberts Building, Room G08, Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE
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"Freedom is always
The freedom of dissenters"
Rosa Luxemburg
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They've thresholds, scabs, and if you're rude
On pickets, then they'll jail you
Perhaps their Bill may still include
Transportation to Australia
This isn't fairness as they say
Look, we know what class war is
If Tolpuddle's Martyrs were here today
They'd be mostly hating Tories
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Down to Dorset for the annual three-day festival of leftiness in tribute to the Tolpuddle Martyrs.
Janine will be grabbing the mic at some point - more info to follow!
