Elijah's First Movie
Elijah recently discovered some Windows software which enables him to make films together from music, photo and videos we have on the computer. Here is his first video - made off his own back, without any help. Not bad, eh?
A Radical Army - Marching with the Strikers for Justice
Here's a quote from an article by Lord Glasman on "Labour as Radical Tradition". I wonder if anyone knows anymore about this? And I wonder what challenges it might bring to our understanding of the adjective "radical" when talking about the Salvation Army? "The London Dock strike of 1899 is a classic expression of the Labour Movement in action, built on the assumption that only organised people could resist exploitation, and the forging of an alliance between Catholic Irish and local workers, brokered by the Catholic and Methodist churches. The local Labour Representation Committees were the new institutions within which the previously unrelated forces met and within which leaders were elected, strategy discussed and actions planned. It is here that the third grandparent of the labour movement, the ‘labour aristocracy’ of skilled workers who had lost their status and small holders who had lost their land make their appearance drawing upon customary pract...
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