LES PENELOPES

Dear Friends,
The feminist group. Les Penelopes (http://www.penelopes.org/) are looking for somewhere to meet on the 13th of October. They are going to be working in the Camden centre during the ESF, but this does not open until the 14th. I was wondering if there is space in Conway hall or the LSE on the 13th. There will be about 12 people and they want to be there from 1 or 2pm for about 4 hours. It would also be good if there was space to plug in laptops,
Take care,
Rachel (from Cambridge Indymedia)
Rachel Beechinor <rachelbeechinor@yahoo.co.uk>

'The first thing we must change is the relations between the sexes....I admit that man, too, suffers in this accursed society, but no sadness can compare to a woman's. In the street she is merchandise. In the convents, where she hides as if in a tomb, ignorance binds her, and rules take up in their machine like gears and pulverise her heart and brain. In the world she bends under mortification. In her home, her burdens crush her. And men want to keep her that way. They do not want her to encroach upon either their funcion or their titles." She noted this tendency also in the movement; 'At the meetings of the Rights of Women group, and at other meetings the most advanced men applauded the idea of equality. I noticed - I had seen it before, and I saw it later - that men, their declartations notwithstanding, although they appeared to help us, were always content with just the appearance... convinved me that we women must simply take our place without begging for it.'
--Louise Michel