I was really inspired by Greta Thunberg the Swedish activist and I was wondering why… you know why isn’t this happening in the UK? And then… kind of that converged with me, I was on Facebook… and social media has…
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Jenny Lloyd
‘We were very embedded in Exeter Labour Party and there were obviously these big national rallies, so we went up and then Kate… Becca was in a pushchair. When I was in the Labour party, I organised… I was a…
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Moira Macdonald
Recorded on 20.05.2019 by Carmen Talbot. Transcript by Jayde Stevenson All I knew was that there were women, first of all at school that I felt attracted to, and then at university. And it wasn’t until a long time afterwards……
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Rose Gander
Recorded 07.01.2019 Transcript by Jayde Stevenson I’d been a Unison – or before that a NALGO (National and Local Government Officers Association) trade union member since the age of 18 when I first started work, and my father said to…
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Penny Avant
Record on 07.01.2019 by Carmen Talbot. Transcript by Jayde Stevenson Um my daughter – I’ve got three daughters and two of them have been really active with refugees, um actually going to north France and building things and shelters and…
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Zion Lights
Recorded 08.05.2019 by Carmen Talbot. Transcript by Jayde Stevenson It was kind of a few days before London I just thought I’ve gotta go, this is really important and it’s gonna be big and I knew, you know, there’s a…
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Diana Derioz
Transcript by Jayde Stevenson My mother was an activist you see and she just passed it down. They were talking about breast feeding on the radio and I was thinking, yeah my mum gave me that and I gave it…
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Rosemary Schonfeld
Recorded by Carmen Talbot on 24.10.2018 Transcript by Jayde Stevenson I probably need to go back a little bit, um, in terms of how I got into the… I suppose the activism anyway, which was through the gay liberation movement,…
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Rosemarie Cawson
So I have now ended up in a care home and I’m very old, but I remember, and we have just worked out how old I was when I attended Greenham (Greenham Common), well visited Greenham and I was a…
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Fiona Green
Transcript by Jayde Stevenson It was 1980… or ’81 – I can’t remember exactly… um, my mother had gone on ahead – she’d gone on in 1980. Um, and she rang and told me the whole story about the women…
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Alison Williams
Transcript by Jayde Stevenson From Dartington… um… I’d joined Dartington College Women’s Group and… we… basically organised buses to go up to Greenham Common… and we’d stay there, umm… we’d stay there in a little caravan, sort of four of…
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Alix Harris
When I started working with the Barbican Theatre, um, we — I was involved in quite a lot of projects which were around social, social justice. I’m very responsive so I feel like I create work, create theatre pieces, that’s…
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Anon 2
I don’t think activism came into my life until probably [pause, sighs] 2010 or beyond, so over the last eight years. Um, I’d, fled a very abusive – relationship. I say very, it wasn’t physical. Um – apart from the…
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Nicci Wonnacott
I was at art college and I thought I would come out painting Devon landscapes [laughs], was my pre-conceived idea of being an art student, and actually I came out as a performance artist interested in art action so art…
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Linda Regan MBE
I think I would say that I’ve been involved in some form of activism since I was 16/17 years of age which is a long time ago now as I’m just about to hit 65 and I would say that…
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