Stuff about the city where I live!
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Real Opportunities Hackney is a new project to help identify work and volunteering opportunities for autistic people and people with learning disabilities in Hackney, launched in September 2016.
Janine was the guest speaker at the launch event.
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Be inspired by over 100 years of east London women fighting for change (and winning!)
Join the East End Women's Museum and East End Sisters Uncut for an afternoon of short talks and conversations about the different ways east London women have challenged sexism, racism, exploitation, and injustice then and now. Share your ideas and learn some new ones.
Speakers include:
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Venue: Kingsland Hub
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Janine leads a guided walking tour of east London, tracing the life and struggles of Minnie Lansbury, Jewish socialist, suffragette, campaigner for war orphans, communist and rebel councillor.
Meet at Bow Road London Underground station at 6pm ... and finishing up with chillout and chat in Victoria Park.
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When remembering
Closed London Underground lines
Look back in Ongar
pic: Ongar station
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Don't give up your seat
For someone who needs it more
Pretend you're asleep
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Worshipping weather
Taken to stormy extreme
Hailing in Hackney
Shot by ice bullets
They shoot indignant indoors
All hail to the cats
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Brown replaces green
Letterboxes rustle as
Leaflets fall from trees
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Sylvia Pankhurst
Organised and believed in
Working-class women
