Occupy & Ladies’s Equality – On Saturday 19 November 2011 Occupy London was in full swing in St Paul’s Churchyard and elsewhere and the Fawcett Society have been protesting towards authorities cuts that have been reversing the motion to higher equality for ladies.
Don’t Flip The Clock Again – Temple to Westminster
The Fawcett Society have been angered by authorities’s cuts which they mentioned have been placing the clock again on the advances which girls have made in the direction of equality for the reason that Fifties, and had organised a march in protest with a Fifties theme.
Lots of the marchers, primarily girls, had come wearing Fifties types “starting from essentially the most elegant of Paris style of the day to aprons, hairnets and curlers. Others carried brushes or brooms, picket spoons or different kitchen implements as symbols of what they felt was the one position our authorities can envisage for ladies, the ‘good little spouse’.”
Many ladies had been significantly angered by the sexist and patronising putdown in parliament made by then Prime Minister David Cameron, a person who a number of days in the past made a stunning return to a number one position in UK politics. Most likely insulated as he has been from regular life by an schooling at Eton and Oxford and wealth he thought little about his sexist and patronising put-down ‘Calm Down Expensive!’ to Labour’s Angela Eagle within the Home of Commons, nevertheless it enraged a minimum of half the nation.
On the march individuals chanted ‘Calm Down Expensive!’ adopted by the deafening response ‘No We Received’t!‘ The marchers additionally had some caustic feedback directed on the press (although not us journalists protecting the march) for his or her “belittlling labelling of some teams of girls in public life – similar to ‘Blair’s Babes‘ – in addition to the overall predominance of semi-pornographic imagery and demeaning attitudes to girls.”
Nevertheless it was the cuts that actually have been the main target of the march, significantly the cuts in public providers. A majority of those that will lose their jobs are girls, employed within the NHS and elsewhere. And ladies rely extra on the assorted providers that might be lower, and also will have disproportionally to supply unpaid providers similar to care to make up for these lower. Lastly the cuts in pensions may also have a bigger impact on girls who have been already seeing a increase of their pension age.
The Fawcett Society was based in 1866 to marketing campaign peacefully for votes for ladies and stays a strong campaigning organisation for equal rights. It had known as on a variety of audio system for its rally together with journalist Tanya Gold, Estelle Hart, NUS Ladies’s Officer, comedians Kate Smurthwaite and Josie Lond, Heather Wakefield of Unison, Vivienne Hayes from the Ladies’s Useful resource Centre, Chitra Nagarajan of Southall Black sisters. Aisha Mirza from UK Uncut and a spokesperson for the Turkish and Kurdish Refugee Ladies’s group.
Extra at Don’t Flip The Clock Again.
At Occupy London
I’d visited Occupy in St Paul’s Churchyard briefly earlier than going to {photograph} the Fawcett Society march and returned later within the day to go to the ‘Financial institution of Concepts’ in Solar Avenue and Occupy Finsbury Circus earlier than returning to St Pauls to listen to a variety of audio system on different campaigns each in London and world wide, together with information of the Occupy motion from the USA and Bristol, the place the occupation appears to not have attracted the opposition proven by the Metropolis authorities and sections of the church in London.
The Financial institution of Concepts was an empty former UBS financial institution constructing in Solar Avenue that was occupied and used for a variety of conferences and discussions.
Later a gaggle who had taken half within the non-Cease Picket of South Africa Home began by the Metropolis of London Anti-Apartheid Group on 19 April 1986 shared a few of their songs and their expertise.
That they had defied defied the makes an attempt of British police, the British authorities and the South African embassy to take away them for nearly 4 years till Mandela was launched in 1990. There had been round a thousand arrests, however 96% of the circumstances delivered to court docket have been dismissed. Earlier than this they’d organised a lot of shorter continuous protests exterior the embassy, the primary of which in 1981 lasted 86 days and resulted in South African political prisoners together with David Kitson being moved to raised situations.
The official Anti-Apartheid Motion opposed their actions and expelled them from the motion, warned commerce union and native anti-apartheid teams to not have something to do with them and requested Westminster Council to take away them. It wished to keep away from any confrontation with the British Authorities and opposed the Metropolis of London group’s help for different African liberation actions in addition to the African Nationwide Congress.
Extra from the day at Occupy on My London Diary:
Metropolis of London Anti-Apartheid Group
Audio system At Occupy London
Financial institution of Concepts & Finsbury Sq.
Saturday Morning Occupy London
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