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vigils have been held outside Brixton Prison by supporters of the Irish Political Hostages Campaign; in particular, they are protesting against the forcible feeding of the Price sisters, Echoes of the suffragettes.......Claire Price visited her sisters Dolours and Marion last Saturday 19 January. She told the Irish Times that Dolours 'seemed to be dragging her feet.... and like Marion, her skin was like wax. The girls' eyes were black looking and there were sores around their mouths because of the force-feeding." They are still suffering severe chest and stomach pains.
The struggle to end the torture of force-feeding and get the prisoners returned to the North of Ireland, is gaining momentum......On the 19th. the IPHC had staged a dramatic Dolours and Marion. demonstration outside Wormwood Scrubs, challenging the Women on Ireland Collective. Kingsgate Governor to show his faith in Home Office pronouncements Womens centre NW6 435 2057 about the beneficial effects of force-feeding by submitting Friday 8th Feb.-Sunday 10th Feb. 8pm to it himself. Womens hunger strike outside Brixton Prison Naturally there was no response, so three volunteers were Sunday 24th Feb. 5pm force-fed under medical supervision. All three vomited Women and the Irish struggle before the force-feeding tube had even got to the back of speaker Mairin Deburca their throats, and one of them, an elderly man, had to be Republican from Dublin. Member of Irish taken to hospital where he was kept overnight suffering Womens Liberation.
Coop Hall Sevensisters Road N7 From Bob Purdie's Report in Red Weekly, 25 Jan. I.P.H.C. Maureen Mcquire, 88 Roslyn Rd ,N8.
9392 WOMEN & SOCIALISM: NEXT CONFERENCE Phone Walsgrave 7365 This will be on The Campaigns of the Women's Movement. Accomadation: very limited. Place: South Oxford Primary School, St. Aldates, Oxford There will be a creche.
Time: March 23/24, 10.00 am each day,ends 4.00pm Sun Agenda: Sat. Workshops on 4 campaigns, plenary report LONDON SOCIALIST WOMAN FORUMS back. Sun. theoretical basis, future campaigns Details from Alison, Helen or Lucy at 2B Kingston Road, These are held monthly. Next one: showing of Oxford, or phone Jane or Jill at Oxford (0865) 46314. Salt of the Earth, a film made in 1953 by the American Creche & floor to sleep on. El registration. Papers Mineworkers Union, telling the story of the part played welcome. by the women in a strike. The 'actors" are the actual participants. Feb. 13, ULU, Malet Stree, 7.30 pm COVENTRY CONFERENCE For details of future forums, write to us at 97 Caledonian Subject: Structure & Organisation in the Womens Movement Road, N.1 Date: Saturday April 20 Feb. 8, 8.00pm General Picton, Caledonian Koad (nr. Place: University of Warwick, Coventry Kings X). Planning meeting for Conference on Women Agenda Includes discussion of "The Tyranny of Structureless: Against the Tories. This conference was scheduled for ness* - further papers & notes from groups welcome. Feb. 17 at ULU, but as we cannot now have ULU either Registration: 25p. (payable to Coventry Women's Group) the date, place or both will have to be changed; come to Details: write to 28 Keswick Walk, Wyken, Coventry. planning meeting and/or write for details.
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