Jeanette Winterson: 100 years after the suffragettes

Jeanette Winterson women who fought against injustice - and battles yet to be fought

Guardian Friday, April 4, 1913

Outrage

Manchester Art Gallery. Glass shattered many photos. Three women arrested.

The outrage was swift and well done. Shortly before nine o'clock in the evening of Thursday, April 3, 1913, when the Manchester Art Gallery is due to close and some were about a wizard heard "crackling crystal" comes from one of the galleries. Ran to the two assistants gallery and found three women, Lillian Forrester, Annie and Manesta Evelyn Briggs, running, breaking glass pictures largest and most valuable collections in the. It was well planned. Nowhere in the gallery of famous paintings all hung together . gallery doors were locked by the goalkeeper and three women were captured.

There was a hammer on the floor of the gallery. The hammer had a card tied with colored ribbons Union Women and Social Policies (UMPS). One side of the card with the message "Parliament honorable men, the women's prison honorable." The other side of the card read: "Stop eating."

Yesterday, the suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst founder was sentenced to three years imprisonment by "unknown persons who incite" violence.

The Manchester Art Gallery is celebrating the centenary of the image-crushing with a series of exhibitions and events called

Wonder Women

. This includes a fascinating interview, available online, recorded in 1978, Elizabeth Dean, a worker involved in Manchester suffragette active protest. She says she "danced with humor" when he learned of the proposed Asquith limited suffrage.

Since 1909, the WSPU became increasingly militant. Parliament did not listen to their arguments. Discussion and promises of reform has been broken several times. Women's suffrage was caricatured in the press as a joke or irritation. Anti-Suffrage League was established 26 offices across the country - mainly composed of women. Pankhurst called to arms acts not words. In the essay Manchester "malicious" damage women accused objected to the word "malicious". Annie Briggs told the judge: "This is not a personal matter, but a world of women protesting against it is intolerable for them.".

His voice is modern. It is modern. "Death to the prison, freedom of expression" is the version that landed two Riot pussy group members in prison. (In the judgment of the suffragettes judge told the women: "If the law allowed it to send everyone on a boat better for you.") The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, the party Putin, whose presidency he called "a miracle of God," to denounce Riot pussy as degenerate hooligans. He insisted that no one should get away with belonging to a sanctuary, forgetfulness, I suppose, that Christ did physical damage to erect tables in the temple of the money changers. The hypocrisy and moral indignation are useful in Drillbits Toolkit oppression. The best way to run a hole through the arguments about social justice activists denounced as enemies of the people. The Pankhursts Pussy Riot and the two have been accused of attacks against moral values ??and public goods: the museum and the church. The property is a physical symbol of the establishment.

Suffragette

composer Ethel Smyth - also imprisoned in Holloway - he saw things differently. "There's something hateful, disgusting in that pile of treasures of art, sentimentalization on beauty, while the desecration and destruction of the bodies of women and children by lust, disease and poverty are considered with indifference. "

Pankhurst said the judge in court that the legal system allows a maximum sentence of 14 years for the "crime" of incitement to violence. The maximum penalty for violation of two. Pussy Riot paper prosecution had more than 2800 pages, even if she had protested to an altar in less than a minute. Pussy Riot hunger strike to protest against his mock trial and mock justice. Suffragettes was on hunger strike since 1909. Note on the other side of the hammer, "Stop feeding" was an attempt to draw public attention to what was happening to women prisoners in Holloway.

Prisoner frozen for a rubber tube was pushed into the nose or throat and vomiting as a mixture of hot broth is poured into a funnel. Women with mashed potatoes smothered in mud, or vomiting. Longer a woman opened her mouth, panting against the suffocating pressure in your lungs disorder, is pushed over the tube in his throat. Broken jaws, teeth and nose bruising, swollen throat infections languages ??are commonplace. There was also the fear of infection from contaminated mucus tubes other prisoners were shared.

• Pankhurst wrote of his time in Holloway "disgusting scenes violence took place almost every hour of the day, the doctors from one cell to the exercise of their functions hideous as I live, I will never forget. I have known suffering. "
In 1914, the writer Djuna Barnes, author of the classic 20th century

Nightwood

wrote an article entitled "How does it feel to be force-fed. "It was introduced to the practice so that it can write to support the suffragettes.

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Evolution - student film competition winner

Winner: The Sally Page impressed the judges with his film about evolution. The biology student at Oxford, said: ".. Most people know what evolution is, but what is important is what I wanted to convey in my video"

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Manning plea statement: Americans had a right to know 'true cost of war'

After admitting guilt in 10 of the 22 counts, soldier reveals how she came to share classified documents to Wikileaks and speaks of the "bloodlust" U.S. helicopter crew

• Glenn Greenwald: Bradley Manning - the face of heroism

Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of the largest unauthorized disclosure of state secrets in American history, pleaded guilty to being the source of the leak, said a military court which passed the information to a site to denounce because he believed that the American people have the right to know the "real costs of the war."

In a preliminary hearing in a military base in Maryland, Manning, 25, who faces spending the rest of his life in military custody, read a statement on 35 pages realized that his passion for motivations for the transmission of classified documents and videos that were obtained while working as an intelligence analyst in the suburbs of Baghdad.

Sitting on the edge of the defense in a quiet courtyard, Manning said he was disgusted by the apparent "bloodlust" of the helicopter crew involved in the attack group in Baghdad, which resulted Reuters correspondents include children.

thought of Afghanistan and Iraq war logs published by WikiLeaks, first in collaboration with a consortium of international media organizations, including The Guardian, "one of the most important documents of our time reveal the true costs of war. "The decision to transmit classified information to a public website was motivated, he told the court, his depression about the state of the military conflict in which the United States was profound.

Manning said: "We were obsessed with the capture and killing of human targets in lists and ignoring the objectives and missions that I thought if the public, especially the American public could see what which could cause a debate on the army., and our foreign policy in general [which] could cause the company to reconsider the need to engage in the fight against terrorism regardless of the situation of people involved everyday . "

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In a move unusual for an accused in a criminal case serious, Manning pleaded guilty to 10 charges of mischief out of his own free will - not in the context of a plea agreement with prosecutors . He admitted that he had and voluntarily disclosed to an unauthorized person - probably Julian Assange -. All major elements of the revelation of WikiLeaks

covering called "Collateral Murder" video of an Apache attack helicopter in Iraq, some U.S. diplomatic cables as one of the first publications of WikiLeaks cable Reykjavik parts of Iraq and folders the war in Afghanistan, some of the cases of Guantanamo detainees., and two MOUs

The charges he pleaded guilty soldier carries a maximum penalty of two years each, making Manning an upper limit possible 20 years in military prison.

But why not avoid a long and complex process for the soldier, who must start June 3 Manning pleaded not guilty to 12 charges relating to offenses largest alleged by the U.S. government.

Specifically, he denied having been involved in "intelligence with the enemy" - the idea that he knowingly gave aid to Al-Qaeda and caused the secret intelligence to be published on the Internet, knowing that in doing so, and would be available to the enemy.

• reading his speech, Manning was accompanied by his civilian lawyer, David Coombs, on one side, and two military defense lawyers on the other. Using uniform, the soldier reading a document at high speed, sometimes stumbled over the words and laughing at other points of their own comments.
• He told how he had first become aware of WikiLeaks in 2009. He was particularly impressed by its launch in November this year of more than 500,000 text messages sent on the day of the attacks of 9/11 terrorists.
• He copied the war initially registered as a housekeeping measure for quick access to information. But the more I read in the data, he said, more concerned with what I discovered.

He decided to take a copy of the data in a memory device after returning from Iraq to the United States in January 2010 authorization. There, after losing all interest in the Washington Post and the New York Times in the cache information, turned to WikiLeaks.

his return to Iraq, he found a video that shows an Apache attack helicopter from 2007, in which a group of people in Baghdad was attacked United States. The group was subsequently convicted of included civilians, children and two Reuters correspondents who have died.

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