Category Archives: peace campaigns

Stop,Look,Listen…my weekly selection of favourite films, books and events to get you out of the house

Posted on May 4, 2014 by lipstick socialist

Watch.. Ilo Ilo,(Cornerhouse) a film set in 1997 in Singapore. The Lim family employ a Filipino maid, Teresa, to look after their son, and whilst the family (and society generally) are obsessed with money she provides their son with much … Continue reading →

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Stop,Look,Listen…my weekly selection of favourite films, books and events to get you out of the house

Posted on April 27, 2014 by lipstick socialist

Watch…We are the Best (Cornerhouse) punk music, in this country is associated with high levels of youth unemployment, a hatred of the establishment and the creation of an alternative culture so what can a film set in 1982 in socialist … Continue reading →

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Stop,Look,Listen…my weekly selection of favourite films, books and events to get you out of the house

Posted on April 6, 2014 by lipstick socialist

Watch…The Past (2013/ Cornerhouse)….Ahmad comes back to Paris to sign divorce papers so that Marie, his soon to be ex-wife, can marry Samir. But does she really want a divorce? As the film progresses Ahmad becomes intertwined in the complex … Continue reading →

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Book review; How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women by Lindsey German

Posted on December 5, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Published by Pluto Press. ISBN 976 0 7453 3250 5 Turning on the television it seems this country is obsessed with war. If its not past episodes of Allo, Allo or Dad’s Army there are constant documentaries about the Nazis. … Continue reading →

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Stop,Look,Listen…my weekly selection of favourite films, books and events to get you out of the house

Posted on November 17, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Watch… a documentary – the Stuart Hall Project. Hall created what we now know as cultural studies. No, not about studying Coronation Street, but about the way in which culture influences and shapes society. It is not easy nowadays to … Continue reading →

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Stop,Look,Listen…my weekly selection of favourite films, books and events to get you out of the house

Posted on July 14, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Watch…..Budrus at 7pm on 18 July organised by the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign. Written and directed by Julia Bacha the documentary has won many awards. Ayed Morrar is a Palestinian community organiser who brings together local Fatah and Hamas members with … Continue reading →

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Stop,Look,Listen…my weekly selection of favourite films, books and events to get you out of the house

Posted on April 28, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Watch…and support Moston Small Cinema….Post Tenebras Lux Juan and his family live in the Mexican countryside and the film explores their lives, their marriage, poverty, gender and our relationship to the natural world. Maybe not the kind of film you … Continue reading →

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Stop,Look,Listen…my weekly selection of favourite films, books and events to get you out of the house

Posted on November 4, 2012 by lipstick socialist

Watch Ginger and Rosa (2012) a film directed by Sally Potter. Ginger and Rosa are two young women growing up in London in the 60s. The script catches the intensity of relationships between young women; sharing clothes, emotions and that … Continue reading →

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Political Women (5) Rae Street

Posted on October 4, 2012 by lipstick socialist

Feminist, peace activist, environmentalist….. Rae has been active in the peace movement for over 30 years. Born in Yorkshire, she didn’t come from a political family: My mother was a working class conservative, due to growing up in dire poverty, … Continue reading →

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