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Monthly Archives: July 2015
Stop,Look,Listen…my weekly selection of favourite films, books and events to get you out of the house
Watch The Salt of the Earth(Home). A documentary about my favourite photographer Sebastião Salgado. I have always been fascinated by his black and white photos and by the deep humanity that is expressed through them. Over forty years he has … Continue reading
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Tagged Bicycle, CND Northwest, Salgado, The Big Ride, The Salt of the Earth
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Manchester: a tale of two tents.
There are two sets of tents in Manchester city centre at the moment: white expensive ones for the Manchester International Festival and shabby ones for the homeless. The MIF tents are in Albert Square next to the Town Hall while … Continue reading
Stop,Look,Listen…my weekly selection of favourite films, books and events to get you out of the house
Watch Udita (Arise) a film about the garment industry in Dhaka in Bangladesh. It could be 19C Britain or 20C New York (Triangle Fire 1911). Poor impoverished, mainly women, who have left their villages to join the 4million in factories … Continue reading
Stop,Look,Listen…my weekly selection of favourite films, books and events to get you out of the house
Watch Dear White People (Home), a satire on American race relations, the emphasis being on “satire”. Set in a posh university (similar to Oxford and Cambridge) somewhere in the USA it is about the power struggle between privileged black (Afro … Continue reading
Headscarf not digital revolutionaries!
The Headscarf Revolutionaries Lillian Bilocca and the Hull Triple-Trawler Disaster by Brian W. Lavery Barbican Press £12.99 Today it is difficult to find protest groups run by working class women with northern accents. And if they do exist they are … Continue reading
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Tagged Brian W.Lavery, Headscarf revolutionaries, Lllian Bilocca
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Stop,Look,Listen…my weekly selection of favourite films, books and events to get you out of the house
Watch Now More than Ever the premiere screening of a new film about people, protest and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in Greater Manchester. CND has been one of the most important national organisations in the history of radical movements … Continue reading