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- Force-Feeding a Suffragette
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1915
A description of the brutal force-feeding of imprisoned suffragettes in England.
- International Women's Day Centenary sees largest ever activity
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
March 8 sees the highest level of global women's activity ever witnessed as groups celebrate the International Women's Day centenary.
- Literature as Pulpit
The Christian Social Activism of Nellie McClung
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 18, 2016
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
This issue of Other Voices features a wide range of issues. The topic of the week is homophobia, the hate that led to 49 deaths in Orlando last week, but which is present in greater or lesser form in every part of the world.
We are always concerned, not only with what is wrong with the world, but what to do about it.
This issue carries an excerpt from Umair Mohammed's book 'Confronting Injustice: Social Activism in the Age of Individualism' in which he warns against the pitfalls of individualist and consumer-oriented approaches and argues in favour of collective action to build an effective movement.
Derrick Jensen considers some of the arguments in favour of pacifism and finds them wanting. He agrees that creative approaches to social change can oftentimes make violence unnecessary, but that sometimes violence is a necessary response to violence.
Another article looks at the decline of liberation theology, targeted as a threat by both the Vatican and secular power structures.
Kenan Malik considers the issue of "cultural appropriation" and asks why so many on theso-called left are more interested in criticizing Justin Bieber's hairstyle than in fighting capitalism.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 25, 2018
Looking for Answers, Creating Alternatives
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2018
This issue of Other Voices features people who are questioning and challenging the way the world works and trying to create better alternatives.
- Pankhurst, Emmeline
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
English women's suffrage movement leader. (1858-1928).
- Pankhurst, Sylvia - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960).
- Suffrage (Voting Rights)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The civil right to vote, or the exercise of that right.
- Suffragette (film)
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2015
Suffragette is a 2015 British historical period drama directed by Sarah Gavron and written by Abi Morgan. The film stars Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Brendan Gleeson, Anne-Marie Duff, Ben Whishaw, and Meryl Streep.
- The Suffragettes, Black Friday and two types of window smashing
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Article on 'Black Friday' with refections on why the Suffragettes attacked property back in 1910 and whether the tactic helped the movement.
- The Weaker Sex? Violence and the Suffragette Movement
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Fern Riddell investigates the campaign of terror orchestrated by the Edwardian suffragette movement before the First World War and asks why it has been neglected by historians.
- Women's suffrage: Timeline of women's suffrage - Wikipedia
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Timeline of women's suffrage activities around the world from the 18th to 21st century.
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