Blogposts tagged 'Suffragettes'

Well-behaved women rarely make history

Posted by Lotti Rutter - 7 April 2011 at 2:31pm - 13 Comments

Lotti prepares for her landmark orang-utan performance

Lotti Rutter, Greenpeace and Climate Rush activist, reflects on the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, and the vital role the female of our species play in activism today.

This year on the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, it was with disappointment that I saw Leona Lewis had been voted "the most influential woman to live or work in London in the past century". Seriously?

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The Climate Rush heads for Heathrow

Posted by jossc - 6 January 2009 at 10:21am - 4 Comments

Climate Rush Heathrow With the government's long-delayed decision on a third runway at Heathrow rumoured to be imminent, the intrepid women and men of the Climate Rush will be making their suffragette-inspired opposition felt at the airport next week.

MPs return from their winter holiday on Monday 12 January, so that evening at 7pm the Climate Rushers will hit Heathrow Terminal 1 for a peaceful picnic. Terminal 1, for those not familiar with the airport, deals principally with domestic flights, the sort of short-haul journeys which could easily be made by other, less climate-wrecking forms of transport. And they are inviting all of us who are fed up with the obvious lack of action on this most serious of issues to join them.

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The Climate Rush is coming to suffragette city

Posted by jamie - 1 October 2008 at 11:05am - 0 Comments

While the preservation of civil liberties is an ongoing struggle (the government's ID database plan is one I think is definitely worth challenging), we've still come a long way in the last 100 years.

Back then in the days of empire, Britain might have straddled the world but women had no voting rights and it was only thanks to a group of determined women waging a persistent (and sometimes violent) campaign of direct action that, in 1928, the government finally passed a bill granting equal voting rights to both sexes.

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