Socialist Outlook

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Signals of women's resistance

Socialist Outlook no. 69, September 24 1994 · 286 words

Inbar Tamari reviews the photo exhibition I won't give up or shut up' "I am dangerous because I won't give up or shut up Or put up with your version of reality" Thus says the "dangerous woman" in Joan of women photographers. to shut up. The exhibition provides a graphic history of current struggle against the Criminal Justice Act.

Though Caroline Austin is particularly interested in ated within a clear anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist framecaused by the same enemy. • I won't give up or shut up is at the London Women's Signals can be contacted on 071-267 7531. Cavanagh's poem dedicated to the Greenham women. This provides a fitting title to an impressive exhibition by photojournalist Caroline Austin under the title I won't give up or shut up', part of the Signals Festival The women photographed by Caroline Austin are not going women's resistance and grass roots politics in the last five years.

These warm and supportive pictures cast a fresh light on events in which many Socialist Outlook readers will have taken part.The themes include women and violence, travellers' rights, anti-war campaigning, support for a nuclear-free Pacific and the Ecofeminism, the photos and struggles they represent are situwork. The viewer is brought face to face with a realisation that, though the degree and type of oppression suffered by the poor and oppressed of different nationalities are very different, it is The Signals festival comprises over 30 exhibitions and events in venues from community centres to international galleries all over Britain during september and October. It concludes with an international conference hosted by the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford on October 28-30. Centre, 4 Wild Court, London WC2 until 12 November.

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