What
can we learn from Pride & LGSM – No to Austerity
Here
is a thought what if Lesbian Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) were actively around now
and turned their attention to the brutal onslaught on our Libraries, Museums
and Galleries?
To
help understand where I am going here is an inspirational clip of the scene in
the Miners Club from Pride
when LGSM decided they needed to up the ante. The look on his face when he
decided they had to do more is something I can identify with. The scene ends
with a beautiful rendition of “Bread
& Roses” which I would like to arrange to be sung at the end of the
march on 5 November. If you know of a choir who would sing it on the march please let me know.
So
as Heineken do not do marches here
is my revised script of the above
scene but in this case it is the call to arms to defend our Libraries,
Museums and Galleries:
“Listen to me everyone I
just want to say something, we the unions have let you down, no we have, we haven’t
stopped the cuts, closures, the privatisation of our libraries our museums and
our galleries, we haven’t raised enough awareness, we know that, it’s not
enough to always be defending sometimes you have to attack push forward, and
that is exactly what we are going to do, we are organising a demonstration so spectacular
people will be talking about this demonstration for decades it will be so incredible
so effective to that the Tory government will come crawling on their hands and
knees in full drag to beg for forgiveness for the brutal cuts they unleashed on
our public services, Victory, Victory for our Libraries, Museums and Galleries.”
On Saturday 12 September 2015 I was proud to be able to march with a wonderful group of residents on our Kids4Libraries march and we were joined by Nicola Field one of the original members of LGSM and their iconic banner and also the late Davey Hopper with the Durham Miners banner. It was also the day Jeremy Corbyn was elected Leader.
If you have not seen
the film, please look at some of the trailers:
Pride 2014 Trailer here
Pride 2014 - Dance
scene
Pride Movie CLIP Imelda
Staunton, Bill Nighy
Pride Movie CLIP - LGSM
Meets Dai
Pride Movie CLIP - Bread
& Roses
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