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Remembering Resistance: A Century of Women's Protest in the North of England. Funded by @HeritageFundUK Based @LancasterUni

 Lancaster, England
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We put together a little video of some our favourite images of the women's movements we've been luck enough to learn from over the last 2 years of the project. Enjoy! #IWD2020 youtube.com/watch?v=mKf08pQ0…
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Check out this amazing video on the women Chartists of Sheffield, created by the wonderful Denise Annett youtube.com/watch?v=PdrpG04T…
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What do we want? The right to noisy protests. When do we want it? Now! | Deborah Frances-White

What do we want? The right to noisy protests. When do we want it? Now! | Deborah Frances-White

To be loud and annoying is the definition of a protest, so it’s shocking that the new Police Crackdown bill would criminalise this. Time to raise our voices while we can

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We had our final, Mobilise! 2 workshops using #Jamboard with asylum seekers, refugees and volunteers yesterday. Thank you everyone! Your insights will help improve our Active Citizenship course. You also said that you feel more confident about being active citizens- yeah! #impact
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Thank you also to @ElisavetC, @CallMePi and @adriangradinar for your awesome guidance in helping us develop #evaluation activities for the workshops!
Spotlight on Statues: Manchester’s Forgotten Suffragette manchestersfinest.com/articl…

Spotlight on Statues: Manchester’s Forgotten Suffragette

Responsible for one of the most memorable political slogans of all time, meet Manchester’s most forgotten suffragette.

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Is the Sarah Everard vigil ban part of creeping curbs on the right to protest?

Is the Sarah Everard vigil ban part of creeping curbs on the right to protest?

Mounting concern that ministers are using pandemic to curtail freedoms in the UK

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Fantastic news: we've just been funded to run a small #evaluation of the Active Citizenship course we created for the Mobilise! project 🎉 More information to follow! rememberingresistance.com/ac…
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ICYMI: here's a link to our Active Citizenship course launch this Tuesday: fb.watch/1qi4sQYrSL/ It was great to see so many of you and to share what we've been working on, as part of the Mobilise! project. Thank you to everyone for your support 😊
REMINDER: We're launching the Mobilise! project's Active Citizenship Course this afternoon from 4-5pm on #zoom! Please click on the link to check out the course: rememberingresistance.com/ac… #citizenship #engagement #civic #political
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The Guerrilla Girls: 'We upend the art world's notion of what's good and what's right'

The Guerrilla Girls: 'We upend the art world's notion of what's good and what's right'

The art world rebels have spent 35 years fighting against sexism and inequality in the art world and they have only just begun

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📢NEWS: We are launching the Mobilise! project's Active Citizenship Course on 27 October, 4-5pm on #zoom! Join us to celebrate our work, designed to enable active #citizenship and #engagement in UK #political and #civic life. Please RSVP by 23 October to [email protected]
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Charity warns Laurence Fox's new 'free speech' party not to use its name

Group that gives opportunities to working-class children threatens legal action over plans by controversial actor to set up party called Reclaim

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Sob! The last @ESRC @LancasterUni IAA-funded Mobilise! meeting with our amazing #volunteers. Thanks so much for your positivity, adaptability and creativity in the face of #covid adversity. What's in store next for this #resilient bunch of people?🙂
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Hello! We are looking for (non)academic #references about staying #safe while being an #active #citizen for a project we're working on. Any suggestions, please reply to this tweet. Thanks! P.S. We'll reveal more soon 🙂
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It's done! I've submitted my thesis! Now for a celebratory nap...🥳 #phdlife #thesissubmission
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Who's joining Peggy Seeger and Frankie Armstrong for an evening of Greenham Singing on Saturday 29th August? 🙋 E-mail [email protected] to sign up!
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Join us Friday 7th August at 3pm when @CoalfieldWomen will be sharing research into the lived experiences of Women during the 1984-5 coal strikes. Book your place now by emailing [email protected] image: copyright Martin Shakeshaft
Black and white photo of Women marching arm in arm along a road lined with terrace houses holding a banner reading "The Maerdy Women's Support Group"

ALT Black and white photo of Women marching arm in arm along a road lined with terrace houses holding a banner reading "The Maerdy Women's Support Group"

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#OnThisDay, 21 June 1957, Ellen Fairclough becomes the first Canadian federal cabinet minister. She advocates for equal pay for equal work. #WomenInPolitics #WomenInPower
photo of Ellen Fairclough in her office

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#OnThisDay, 23 June 1972, US President Nixon signs into law Title IX, prohibiting sexual discrimination in federally funded education programs/activities. [image is from 1979]
photo of woman holding a placard reading 'women athletes play with balls too'

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“I’m a feminist. I’ve been a female for a long time now. It’d be stupid not to be on my own side.” - Maya Angelou
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