{"id":9810,"date":"2019-06-26T08:52:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T08:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=9810"},"modified":"2019-06-24T14:53:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T14:53:47","slug":"million-women-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=9810","title":{"rendered":"Million Women March"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I photographed the first of these all-woman Million Women Rise<\/a> marches in London in 2008, and have covered the event in most or all years since, always on a Saturday close to International Women’s Day. It’s an event that is supported over a hundred human rights and women’s groups around the country and is “led and organised by a majority of black women<\/em>” and also includes many from other minority ethnic communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s an organisation that welcomes support from men in various ways, but on the day of the march asks them to “come and stand on the pavement and cheer us on.” And I do, though most of the time I’m too busy taking pictures to actually cheer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Their web site has a list of ten demands, beginning with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To acknowledge the continued discrimination faced by all women, the additional discrimination faced by Black women and women from other minority groups, and reflect this in all public policy in the UK and internationally <\/p>Million Women Rise web site- http:\/\/www.millionwomenrise.com\/demands.html<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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I took pictures in the side road where the march gathered, where the marchers spill over onto the pavement and I could mix a little with the marchers before the march began, but for the march itself I stayed on the side as requested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One slightly different aspect of this years march was the Pan Indian Dance Group<\/em> who danced their way along Oxford St at the rear of the march – and I think went on to dance at the rally in Trafalgar Square, but by then I had left the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More pictures: Million Women March against male violence<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I photographed the first of these all-woman Million Women Rise marches in London in 2008, and have covered the event in most or all years since, always on a Saturday close to International Women’s Day. It’s an event that is supported over a hundred human rights and women’s groups around the country and is “led … Continue reading Million Women March<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,7],"tags":[333,17,332,328,331,329,330],"class_list":["post-9810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-londonphotos","category-political-issues","tag-end-male-violence","tag-london","tag-male-violence","tag-million-women-rise","tag-violence-against-women","tag-women","tag-women-only-march"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9811,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9810\/revisions\/9811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}