Today is Holocaust Memorial Day. It remembers victims of Holocausts, not just the one of the second world war but other genocides in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda and Darfur too. As such it is a time to pause and remember man and woman’s inhumanity over the last 70 years and the victims of that. The theme [...]
TOH and I have been off for a 21st century Christian mini break. That is to say on Friday afternoon we boarded a coach and headed off first to a Premier Inn in Stevenage and then onto London for a spot of protesting with a coachload of thoroughly nice, mainly Christian, people of different ages, [...]
Apparently a middle-aged Guardianista cannot pull off the Gandolf look. Rather I am relegated to wearing an anorak or fleece. Third Party said her poncho looked a bit, well, but I could probably just about get away with it. TOH, who I will be with, made clear that it may have been blue but no [...]
Yesterday was one of those rare days in church, or anywhere else for that matter. One of those days when you meet somebody truly inspirational who is humble and oozes integrity and has actually influenced real change rather than just talking about it. This guy was Inderjit Bhogal, who is according to his website an [...]
As a kid I used to sing Oranges and Lemons, it went like this:
“Oranges and lemons,
Say the bells of St. Clement’s
You owe me five farthings,
Say the bells of St. Martin’s
When will you pay me?
Say the bells of Old Bailey.
When I grow rich,
Say the bells of Shoreditch.
When will that be?
Say the bells of Stepney
I do not [...]
The entries so far have highlighted how to make protest family friendly and how it can be a leisure activity and a family event. However, and here is the thing, protesting is about supporting a cause. Protesting and demo’s are about showing what we are against or in favour of. They are not excuses for [...]
Lesson 2 – Make it Fun For Children
Protesting can be a pain for ickle people dragged around by their parents. To help you and them enjoy it here are a few simple ideas:
1) Design your own cause related t-shirts. For the Make Poverty History demo in Edinburgh Third Party designed her own t-shirt and helped [...]
The rather camp teddybear on my bookshelf, leaning on the Guiness stress pint, has a white band around it’s neck proclaiming “Make Poverty History Edinburgh 2 July 2005″, it’s jacket has a retro CND badge on one side saying “Well-Meaning Guardian Readers Against the Bomb”, on the other side are pinned “Not in my Name” [...]