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<p class="EC_MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial;">What the Other Feminists Look Like…</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">What: </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">An
evening of making trouble, sharing ideas and planning ways for women to fight
back against the crisis, hosted by Feminist Fightback.</span></p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">When: </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Tuesday
30<sup>th</sup> June, 5pm, and 6.30pm</span></p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">Where: </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Paying
a visit to Harriet Harman, Southwark Townhall (5pm), followed by film showing
(6.30pm) at Studio 96, The Galleria, Pennack
Road, SE16 6PW</span></p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">All genders welcome!</span></b></p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal"><i style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">This is a fundraiser for Lambeth Women’s Project <a href="http://www.lambethwomen.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">www.lambethwomen.wordpress.com</a>
</span></i></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Harriet Harman, Minister for
Women, thinks that a ‘feminist’ response to the recession would be to place
more women in top city jobs, putting them ‘in charge of the banks’. Meanwhile
Harman supports the Welfare Reform Bill, which proposes to introduce US-style ‘workfare’
practices, forcing mothers of young children into minimum wage jobs or risk
losing their benefits. </span></p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Harriet Harman likes to talk
up her feminist credentials, but what kind of feminist only looks out for the
interests of rich women during times of economic crisis? In fact, Harman has a
long track record of selling out the majority of women she claims to represent
– most recently playing a key role in blocking a Bill to legalise abortion in Northern Ireland.
If this is how the Minister for Women is going to act on our behalf, then we
can do without her!</span></p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Fortunately, Harriet
Harman’s feminism isn’t the only kind on offer. Many women in London
are organising to resist the iniquities of capitalism – from the parents
occupying Lewisham
Bridge Primary
School to protest against its privatisation; to hostel
residents demanding decent housing in Hackney; to the Visteon workers who
occupied their factory and finally won their redundancy.</span></p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Feminist Fightback has also
been organising grass roots resistance to some of Harman’s biggest sell-outs
during her time as Minister for Women – occupying the Department for Work and
Pensions in protest against the Welfare Reform Bill, and taking direct action
in solidarity with Northern Irish women who continue to be denied the right to
control their own bodies.</span></p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Feminist Fightback invites
you to join us outside Southwark
Town Hall to show Harriet
Harman that women have been fighting back in ways very different to those she
proposes. We’ll be ‘decorating’ the Town Hall, asking women to chalk the
pavements with the changes they would like to see Harman introduce, and
inviting our Minister for Women to come out and take a look!</span></p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">This will be followed by a film
showing introducing a number of women-led struggles taking place at the moment.
We want this to be an opportunity to find out what’s going on in London; to make links
with other women’s groups; and to find inspiration for how we can act
collectively to take control of our workplaces, our communities and our
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