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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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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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Sylvia Pankhurst
Organised and believed in
Working-class women
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Reclaim its real name
It is International
Working Women's Day
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Sylvia Pankhurst:
"Love and freedom are vital
To kids' upbringing"
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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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"Freedom is always
The freedom of dissenters"
Rosa Luxemburg
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My illustrated talk about Minnie Lansbury, followed by several poets, myself included.
At Kingsley Hall, Bow, East London.
Facebook event here.
