International Women’s Day In Liverpool & The World
March 8, 2020
Today is International Women’s day. These photographs celebrate women the world over. I hope they challenge the idea that progress is largely brought about by men. We still have a long way to go before injustice based purely on a persons sex is eradicated.
Inspirational banner for International Women’s Day. Liverpool, March 2019.The resistance. Liverpool, March 2019.A woman’s place is in the resistance. Liverpool, March 2019.Speaking up on behalf of women’s rights. Liverpool, March 2019.International Women’s Day. Liverpool, March 2019.International Women’s Day. Liverpool, March 2019.Women of the Merseyside Pensioners Association. Liverpool, 2017.Local government workers on strike in Tower Hamlets. East London 1988.Women demonstrating against Racism. East London 1992.Women protesters against racist murderers. Newham, East London 1980s.
Protester at anti-nuclear rally. Brighton sea front early 1980s.Trade Union member, on strike. East London 2010.Junior Doctors on strike. Liverpool 2016.A member of the travelling public who supported the RMT strike. Lime Street station, Liverpool.Women in support of the miners, London 1984.East London women in support of the miners, Kent 1984.Trade Union banner. East London 2016.Trade Union Protest outside Bethnal Green Town Hall in Patriot Square. East London 1980s.Trade Union demonstration for a decent wage. Central London 2003.Climate change protest. Liverpool 2018.Trade Union banner at the TUC anti Racist Demo. East London 1994.Woman preparing herbs & spices in a village outside Dhaka. Bangladesh 1992.Protesting outside a BNP election meeting, John Scurr School. East London 1986.Protesting to save the NHS, Liverpool 2017.Protesting outside a BNP election meeting, John Scurr School. East London 1986.Protester. Manchester, October 2017.Demonstrators against the war in Iraq. London 2003.
Over a million people demonstrated on the streets of London to voice their opposition to military action against Iraq . There were also anti-war gatherings in Glasgow and Belfast – all part of a worldwide weekend of protest with hundreds of rallies and marches in up to 60 countries.The demonstration ended in Hyde Park where demonstrators listened to speakers from around the world. Women speakers included former minister Mo Mowlem, Vanessa Redgrave and Bianca Jagger. Playwright Harold Pinter made a rare public speech, saying America was “a country run by a bunch of criminal lunatics with Tony Blair as a hired Christian thug”.
Liverpool Pride 2016Anti fascist protester. London 1995.Three women at a TUC anti-racist demonstration. East London 1994.Three women with a message. Liverpool 2018.London Pride 2016.Women workers in a tea garden. Sylhet, Bangladesh 1992.Portrait of a centenerian woman. Sylhet, Bangladesh 1992.Zero Carbon. Liverpool, 2019.Mixed media collage of the picket line at Cammel Lairds. Birkenhead 2018.
