million women rise march and rally - today (5th march), central london

[tufty79]

sorry for the very very short notice - i sort of assumed that someone'd have posted this already




12pm: Meet at Hyde Park (Speakers Corner End Nearest Tube: 1 Minute from Marble Arch)

1.30pm: March sets off – Marching through central London towards TSQ

3.30 – 5pm: Rally and Celebration in Trafalgar Square (Nearest Tubes: Piccadilly Circus, Leicester Square, and Charing Cross)

5pm – 1am: Food and Networking Party at The 52 Club, 52 Gower Street, WC1E6EB; a wheelchair accessible venue. ALL welcome. Food, performances, swimming pool, DJs and chill–out space. Entry fee on the door – donation if unwaged, £5 low–waged and £12 waged. There will be stewards escorting women to after–party after the Rally.

A woman’s right to live free from violence and / or the fear of violence has not been achieved. Women continue to be attacked and violated in many different ways, in our homes, on our streets, on our public transport, at our places of work. The government, the TV and newspapers do very little to address this issue; instead they often blame women for wearing the wrong clothes or being in the wrong place.

If you think this needs to change, then join us on a public demonstration to show those in power that it’s just not good enough! We need to show our mass dissatisfaction; we need to be strong together and in large numbers. Unity is strength; the voices of many are louder together than a single voice.

Together and united we are ending male violence against women and children.

The Million Women Rise Coalition is a diverse group of individual women and women representatives from the Voluntary and Community Sector who are united by our outrage at the continued daily, hourly, minute-by-minute individual and institutionalised male violence enacted against women worldwide. We believe that every woman and child has a right to live free from violence and that ongoing violence devastates not only the lives of the individuals directly affected but also the communities of which they are part. We have come together to organise a national demonstration against violence against women.

The Coalition has no formal or informal links to any particular or specific feminist or political networks. The Coalition is not partisan and brings together women who want to highlight the continuation of all forms of violence against women and demand that steps are taken to put an end to this.

"We are at a threshold. We are going to see change. If we can create the vision in our heart, it will spread. As women of wisdom we cannot be divided. As bringers of light, we have no choice but to join together." ~ Agness Baker Pilgrim

 

[Greebo]

Nice to know that it's happening.

Unfortunately you're likely to find that a lot of women need advance notice (at least a week, and preferably a month) if they are to have a chance of being able to turn up.

IMHO you can't just rely on somebody else doing what you think needs to be done - next time, get in there sooner, if possible!

 

[tufty79]

i know
it only occurred to me to look this morning to see if it was on here. tbf, my brain isn't functioning properly at the moment, and hasn't been for a few weeks.

 

[TopCat]

Are women not responsible for beating children more than men in the UK? Minute by minute, hour by hour?

 

[TopCat]

Enough children are putting across that they have been the victims of women sexually abusing them too. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-12157279

 

[tufty79]

fair points, topcat, and i'm not disputing them

 

[TopCat]

Why would you provide stewards to escort women from the rally up Oxford Street to the after party? Is it alleged that Oxford Street is a dangerous place to be? Or a scaremongering tactic or something else?

 

[TopCat]

If you have a demo like this, orgasnised by a group like that, that totally slags men off as a gender, expect a response.

I bet they don't get a million women either. More like 750.

 

[tufty79]

for me.. i'd quite like to be escorted because i've got issues with crowds and general outdoorsness at the moment. if i'm stupid enough to go to a rally that's going to have crowds in, i don't want to be navigating oxford fucking street on a saturday on my own.
i know that oxford street isn't dangerous.

are you trolling a little bit, tc?

 

[_angel_]

Of course women do shit things, but why are you so particularly threatened by this topcat?

 

[TopCat]

I find the OP a troll to be honest. Up there with Reclaim the Night. It's offensive.

 

[TopCat]

Of course women do shit things, but why are you so particularly threatened by this topcat?

Stop projecting angel. I am not threatened by this at all.

 

[_angel_]

Stop projecting angel. I am not threatened by this at all.

Yeah because that's really the way you're coming across on this thread. Tbh these marches are not my cup of tea, but you have made several posts on here sounding quite upset about the principle of them, that's all.

 

[Guineveretoo]

http://www.millionwomenrise.com/

This has been going for a few years, and is an international event, so that the million are not supposed to be all in London!

It's raising the profile of male violence against women, across the world, and about empowering women.

It has a facebook page as well.

 

[TopCat]

I am not upset at all angel. This is a forum for debate. The OP has huge offensive contradictions present that I challenged. Why do you not address the points, enter a debate rather than projecting onto me your feelings?

 

[tufty79]

I find the OP a troll to be honest.

i apologies, it wasn't meant to be. it was supposed to simply be a post about an event, and that was it. i think maybe a separate thread might be suitable for discussing the wrong/right/offensiveness/otherwise of this sort of march?
i'm leaving this thread alone now, i think.

 

[emma goldman]

Stewards will be escorting women from traflagar square to the venue because women will be coming from all over the country to attend this march and may not know where gower st is.
And as an aside oxford st is a dangerous place sometimes, depending who you are, what time it is and whats going on in oxford st at that patricular time.

 

[emanymton]

And as an aside oxford st is a dangerous place sometimes, depending who you are, what time it is and whats going on in oxford st at that patricular time.

Not to side with TC but this claim is general it could be made about anywhere

 

[stethoscope]

i apologies, it wasn't meant to be. it was supposed to simply be a post about an event, and that was it. i think maybe a separate thread might be suitable for discussing the wrong/right/offensiveness/otherwise of this sort of march?

i'm leaving this thread alone now, i think.

You shouldn't have to, tufty.


Personally, well Million Women Rise isn't really my thing, although I've been on RTN's in the past.

 

[newbie]

Stewards will be escorting women from traflagar square to the venue because women will be coming from all over the country to attend this march and may not know where gower st is.
And as an aside oxford st is a dangerous place sometimes, depending who you are, what time it is and whats going on in oxford st at that patricular time.

Traf Sq to Gower St via Oxford St? Good luck with that

 

[London_Calling]

LOL at women going on a march along Oxford Street on a Sat afternoon.

 

[stethoscope]

Personally, well Million Women Rise isn't really my thing, although I've been on RTN's in the past.

That said, the reason why I stopped going to RTN's was not only because of their middle-class centricity, but also because of the attitudes in the past expressed towards sex workers and trans women.

 

[emma goldman]

Not to side with TC but this claim is general it could be made about anywhere

Exactly.

 

[emma goldman]

That said, the reason why I stopped going to RTN's was not only because of their middle-class centricity, but also because of the attitudes in the past expressed towards sex workers and trans women.

I agree totally with you about RTN, but in defence of MWR there is nothing middle class about it. It is organised by a collective of predominantly working class black women and women of all ethnicities, nationalities and sexualities are well represented on the march.
There has been issues around trans inclusion and sex work though.

 

[Greebo]

(BTW welcome for coming out of the shadows.) Okay, emma goldman, if you know so much about this march, how come you didn't get around to mentioning it early enough to enable a few more women to choose whether to show up for it?

 

[emma goldman]

i havent had any internet for a few months. i am currently using the internet at work, which is why i cant go on the march today. i do usually go on the mwr march and will go to the benefit tonight. Because my saturday job is so boring i usually spend my time surfing and lurking on political forums. i saw the post about mwr and thought i'd bite the bullet and get involved.

 

[trashpony]

(BTW welcome for coming out of the shadows.) Okay, emma goldman, if you know so much about this march, how come you didn't get around to mentioning it early enough to enable a few more women to choose whether to show up for it?

I didn't mention it on this board because I get sick to death of TopCat's posts on the subject of violence against women tbh. I have spoken to a lot of women about it on other boards though

 

[stethoscope]

I didn't mention it on this board because I get sick to death of TopCat's posts on the subject of violence against women tbh. I have spoken to a lot of women about it on other boards though

Yeah, know what you mean.

 

[ViolentPanda]

I didn't mention it on this board because I get sick to death of TopCat's posts on the subject of violence against women tbh. I have spoken to a lot of women about it on other boards though

He is a bit predictable on the subject.

 

[emma goldman]

theres this feminist festival http://www.qmsu.org/ents/event/674/?skin=TesterHome&template=Home in a few weeks if people are interested.