Mine, and occasionally others'.
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Bring out the braziers on Ramsay Street,
close down the kitchen and turn up the heat
No more exploitation of the workers' labours -
the staff are going on strike in Neighbours!
The ranks of the workers' movement swell
as the comrades at Lassiters Hotel
flex their muscles and show some clout
by downing tools and walking out
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Details to be confirmed, but save the date for the online launch of the Football is Poetry anthology, featuring one of Janine's odes to the beautiful game.
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The Labour Grassroots touring performance truck hits Hastings, and Janine will be poeting, alongside performances from comedians and a speech from Jeremy Corbyn.
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Blocking folk from getting jabs
Harassing working people
Spouting endless bafflegab
While calling others sheeple
Sharing psychobabble memes
Spurning free protection
This is off so many beams
This isn't insurrection
I too don't trust authority
I want to smash the system
But this is not a just minority
This is not resisting
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Her cover drive and how she ran
are now haram
under the rule of the Taliban
Can she stay in? For sure she can
She can't be out without a man
in ancient, new Afghanistan
She'd tackle assumptions and she'd score
but won't be playing any more
She's fallen foul of holy law
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Janine will be poeting and compering and the annual spectacular from the fabulous funky punky feminists at Loud Women.
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If England is an island
Is Wales an offshore reef?
Is Scotland an Atlantic bay?
What's Ian Botham's beef?
Is Hadrian's Wall a seaside prom?
Is Offa's Dyke a coast?
Does Botham know where the boundaries are?
Or has he missed the post?
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Janine provides the poetry at this fundraising event for Grantham Labour Party's community hub.
Other attractions include a barbecue, speakers and horses.
Venue: Dunkirk Fram, NG33 5DU
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A nature lover, mushroom finder,
activist and fighter
against oppression, for our future,
thinker, speaker, writer
Always radical, always left,
sometime Green and Labour,
A friend, a comrade, partner, mum,
a new-found Scottish neighbour
An organiser, platform builder,
amplifier of others
There's light at the end of the attention tunnel
thanks to your endeavours
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A century ago, in August 1921, Labour Councillor Jack Wooster told crowds demonstrating in support of Poplar's rebel councillors that "Sympathy without relief [the name back then for welfare benefits] is like mustard without beef".
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Sympathy without relief
is like mustard without beef
or lettuce without leaf
