This is an informal discussion open to all, please bring your opinions and ideas!

Please bring any views and opinions as well as ideas for resistance!

All welcome!

There is a very important court case being held at Liverpool Crown Court which starts on Monday 15^th March when Peter Tierney an active BNP member faces charges of assault.

Again, a leading member of MCARF and two others are key witnesses.  All three are members of Unite – 2 with 6/522 and the other with the Clerical branch at University of Liverpool.

MCARF THEREFORE REQUEST ALL TRADE UNIONS AND ANTI RACISTS/FASCISTS TO ATTEND THE DEMO AGAINST THE BNP AND TO SUPPORT THE 3 WITNESSES FROM 9am ON MONDAY 15^TH MARCH.

This is the first time in Liverpool that a senior member of the BNP has been charged with violence and we therefore imagine that the BNP will organise a turnout to support their fascist member Peter Tierney.

Wirral Mteropolitan College

Conway Park

Birkenhead CH41 4NT

10am-3pm

Lots of FREE activities

SEe PDF flyer for more details

“Developing Women’s Entrepreneurial Talent”   Presented by Professor Colette Henry

and joining us for the Inauguration of Councillor Flo Clucas as WICED’s first President

Light refreshments will be served

Monday 8th March 2010 3:00pm – 5:00pm NOVAS Contemporary Urban Centre 41 Greenland Street, Liverpool, L1 OBS RSVP by Monday 1st March 2010

Email debbie@train2000.org.uk or call 0151 236 6601

Download PDF Flyer

A much-reported website out this week claimed that half of London’s women believe a rape victim should accept some responsibility for the crime if she goes back to a man’s house.
I’m on placement this week at a radio station and when I went out, mike in hand, to ask Liverpool’s shoppers ‘are women ever to blame for getting raped?’ the answer was usually a shocked ‘no’ followed by ‘oh, but if she dresses like a slut’ or ‘if she’s offering it on a plate.’
How many times do we have to repeat that women do not ask for rape? There should be no ‘oh, buts’ about it. Non-consensual sex is rape, no matter what the circumstances. Yes, sex can be confusing and fraught with ambiguity. In practice, consent is often implicit rather than stated outright. But in no other crime is the victim blamed. People are not suspected of lying about other crimes in the same way as women are routinely suspected to be lying about rape.
Apparently women are more suspicious than men are of rape victim’s stories. Check the figures for yourself, but I think this may come from growing up with repeated warnings about walking home alone, talking to strangers, dancing in short skirts. We are taught to fear the bogeyman, as if we could annul our chances of being raped simply by acting cautiously.
On Liverpool’s streets on Monday, it was a man who cheered me with the words ‘rape is always the perpetrator’s fault.’ I hope there are many more like him about. Survivors of rape have enough on their plate without needing to justify their allegations, least of all to other women.
This survey has left me a little disillusioned, so I’m looking forward to Germaine Greer’s talk tonight, for a good feminist pick-me-up.

Nalina Eggert

Saturday 6^th March 2010

2.30pm assemble St Georges Plateau, Liverpool

March leaves at 3pm

All women & their families welcome

This is an open event

Spread the word, feel free to print out posters/flyers etc!

Click poster for full size image.

Prompt start at 5.30pm, finished by 7pm

WHISC, 120 Bold Street

Agenda

Reclaim the Night/Day March Update – Cath & Becky

That Takes Ovaries Update – Nina

METAL Art Exhibition Update – Kaety & Jess

Am I Invisible? Theatre Production Update – Elaine

Women from Palestine visit to Liverpool Update – Gina

Women’s Poetry Night Update – Val

Symposium Update – Vicky

Film Night Update – Jackie & Kat

WHISC IWD Open Day – Carole

Sahir House Women’s Event – Cath & Nina

Publicity & Press Update – Chloe, Nalina & all

Website & finance Update – Carole, Jackie & Chloe

AOB

Date & time of next meeting: Tuesday 2^nd March 5.30pm

All women welcome

Tickets for Germaine Greer are selling fast so don’t
miss out. See below for details and to book online.

Writing on the Wall celebrates 10 years as a radical cutting Edge
Festival, with a ‘Rebel Rants’ series featuring some of the most
high profile, outspoken, controversial writers and campaigners in the UK today.

Equality is not Enough

with Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer’s 1969 international bestseller, The Female
Eunuch turned her into feminism’s best known and most controversial
names, bringing her both adulation and opposition. Greer has had a
distinguished academic career in Britain
and the USA, makes regular appearances in print and other media as a broadcaster,
journalist, columnist and reviewer, including
a controversial short-lived appearance as a contestant on Big Brother. In this
Rebel Rant, taking up the themes she introduced in The Female Eunuch, and
looking back on the both the legacy and the effect of her work and that of the
feminist movement, she will argue that ‘Equality is not Enough’

The Art & Design Academy
Liverpool John
Moores University,
Duckinfield Street,
Off Brownlow Hill,
Liverpool L3 5RD
Date:18th February 2010
7.30pm
The event
will be BSL signed and the venue is fully accessible.
Tickets: £8 & £5 concessions, available from the Philharmonic
Hall Box Office
Tel: 0151 709 3789
Online: www.writingonthewall.org.uk
For more details of Rebel Rants visit www.writingonthewall.org.uk
or call Madeline Heneghan on 0151 703 0020

Full info on flyer (click for full size version)

‘Rebel Muses’ Music and Poetry Evening

Celebrating the Creative Talent of the Women of Liverpool!

Friday 22nd Jan 7.30 The Casa, Hope St.