‘Here We Stand : Women Changing the World’ with Helena Earnshaw, Angharad Penrhyn Jones and Helen St

Our guests present this unique anthology about contemporary women campaigners and how they were changed by the process of changing the world.

Synopsis

‘Here We Stand : Women Changing the World’ (Honno Press, 2014) is a fascinating and unique anthology about contemporary women campaigners and how they were changed by the process of changing the world.

Through a series of interviews and articles, 17 key British women campaigners talk intimately about the difficult and exhilarating nature of their work.

These women are dreaming of a better world. But they are not just dreamers. They have organised, marched on the streets, joined protest camps, opened refuges, logged from war zones, and smashed up military equipment. They have gone undercover, lived in trees, stormed Parliament, and taken on the world's largest corporations. They have been sacked, attacked, psychologically abused, jailed, shot at, sued, deceived by police spies, and even disowned by their families. But still they keep dreaming; still they march on. And they are changing history.

To discuss the collection we welcome the books editors, Helena Earnshaw and Angharad Penrhyn Jones, alongside contributor and campaigner Helen Steel.

About the speakers

Angharad Penrhyn Jones is a campaigner, writer, and BAFTA-award-winning filmmaker.

Helena Earnshaw was an editor at OneWorld.net, wrote for Big Issue Cymru and was involved in McSpotlight and other campaigns.

Helen Steel was one of the ‘McLibel Two’, who took on the might of McDonalds in what became the longest-running legal case in English history, and for the most part won. She is also involved in the campaign group Police Spies Out of Lives.

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