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A new banner 2011 |  |
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Media Banner May 2011 |  |
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This first banner was made for Greenham Common Womens Peace camp in the 1980s to counter their vilification by main stream media. It was used during the 1984 miners strike and the Poll tax Riots too. Its now in Malta used by their Labour party in a general election. In the 1980s before the Internet got going we had to use banners, post cards, posters and word of mouth ...
This Second banner was going to be a replica to use here in UK... but of course the message needed to be different . They had the media.We have got the Message.
And the message now uses the internet.
Banners by Thalia Campbell
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Banner in use at a VisiononTv training session Liverpool |  |
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Peace train banner from Helsinki to Bejing |  |
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I took this on the train from Helsinki to Bejing, we hung it out of the train windows to show we were British but not NF or football hooligans. I cut it up and gave one flag to each UK passport holder. I took lots of banners to Bejing ! Thalia
See more banners on the Sew to Say Blogspot Click to view |
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Oxford International Women's Day |  |
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| | Making the Oxford international Womens Day Banner - 1996 In Oxford Town Hall a group of women spent weekend, making fabric squares. They took them home to complete them . A month later we gathered all the squares with the letters we needed and a central panel. The Central panel depicts the Womens International League for Peace and Freedom Train To the UN Conference in Beijing in 1995 .I took it all back to Wales to put it together. Some of the squares were made by skilled needle women others by women with less experience.. but all full of ideas. They helped each other.One of the women from Oxford came to stay in Wales with us to help. The group were of all ages and with differing political views. Their focus was on Oxford and what they cared about , and the facilities Oxford offered women,.with some history included... The main focus was Cooperation and Community, with peace and the environment important issues. It was a sociable time. The Cooperative movement helped fund the project and it was organised by Ann Mobbs Thalia Started in 1990 as part of the City Council’s Events programme with ten events and a large historical 100 Years of Women’s Banners Exhibition from Mary Somerville to the Suffragettes and the anti-Poll Tax banners There will be a big international exhibition starting on March 10th 2011 on the History of International Womens Day in Erfurt Germany and Thalia has been asked to co-ordinate things from the UK Do you have any quotes ,thoughts , photos of artifacts , badges , posters and photos to contribute If so please contact Thalia via this site click for imore information |
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Banner on display |  |
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Petra Kelly Banner by Thalia |  |
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We met Petra Kelly on a few occasions when she was campaigning in the
UK. The silk banner was made to honour her life. After a few years of
using it in the UK I presented it to Ellen Diederich at the Art Exhibition /Conference in Schlaining
Castle the new Peace University on the Austrian Hungarian Border. My
banners were part of the womens section of the exhibition on the top
floor af the castle ...the small inset picture is Petra with her grandmother reading the international newspapers instead of bedtime stories. Her grandmother gave her chocolate apples and nuts to keep her amused. The border of the banner reflects her life and beliefs. Rosa was one of Petra's heroes. Ian helped and I had a German young woman on the European young workers Petra scheme stay and work with me for six weeks She brought material in German and I had material in english so we studied Petra's life as we sewed the banner. The conference was
interesting we found Haider, the Austrian leader had put a military man
in each strand of the conference . The young man stood out in our
womens strand and they wanted to throw him out . As a greenham woman I
suggested we kept him as he had much to learn from us . We found we had
much to learn from him too. |The male academics were comfortably
ensconced in the castle whilst the women activists were in tents outside
the castle. In the lectures and discussions Ellen translated the
Austrian academics for me which consisted of letting them speak and from
time to time whispering in my ear "cold war marsmallow" They attacked
us virulently as Ellen and I with women from Sweden and Holland defended
our feminist socialist views. The virulence extended to meal times too.
An 85 year old woman from N Germany was part of the exhibition she had
told her story of being in Berlin during the bombing including giving
birth during an air raid and running to the shelter down the street
carrying her new born baby cord still attached to the placenta still not
come away. She was very angry when she saw her life as part of the
exhibition . They had interviewed her at length but only included her
war time experiences . She got up on the platform and made a
passionate unscheduled speech . She said you have only included the part
of my life where things happened to me but not the most important part
of my life which has been as a peace campaigner when I made things
happen...
Our Soldier told us how as a 10 year old staying in a cosy cottage in
the south of England he had been awoken in the middle of the night by a
low rumbling and looked out of the window under the eaves and saw this
enormous Nuclear Cruise Missile Convoy creeping slowly through the
village almost touching the cottages on each side of the street. He told
us he had never been so frightened in his life. When we asked him why he
had joined the Military he told us it was to do Humanitarian aid . We
the age of his grandmother put him right and told him he was being
trained to be a killer.
Some of the German women came from the Faulder gap.They described the
Nuclear Missiles they had in their street under what looked like Dustbin
lids and how depressed it made them feel. These were the nuclear weapons
that the Greenham Cruise Missiles replaced. They were targeted on our
European ally Germany but that is another story. The Faulder Gap was
the historic place where the Military felt an invasion would come
through. We tied up a lot of loose ends at that conference.In our lunch
time we put together a banner for Ellen's Archive.
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Rosa Luxemburg was born in Zamosc, in Russian Poland, into a Jewish middle-class family
She was educated at the Warsaw Gimnazium and from the age of 16 participated in revolutionary activities. Luxemburg spent much of World War I in prison.
A German citizen by marriage Luxemburg became in 1898 a left wing leader of the German Social Democratic Party (SDP) and participated in the Second International and during the 1905 revolution in Russian Poland.
In the wake of the Spartacist uprising in Berlin against the government, in which she proved a reluctant participant, Luxemburg was arrested in 1919.
While being transported to prison she was murdered on the night of 15/16 on January 1919 by German Freikorps soldiers. Luxemburg's body was thrown into the Landwehr canal and found several months later in May. She was buried on June 13 in Friedrichsfeld cemetery where Liebknecht and other revolutionaries were similalrly buried.
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The Flowering of Second wave Feminism |  |
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This is a replica of a banner from the sixties/seventies a little enhanced...I went to two of those Emotionally explosive Conferences. It might get women interested in the exhibition........
During these women's conferences International Womens Day was reclaimed.
The small fist against the blue sky is a symbol of the reaching out to groups of women, women of Colour and Disabled women etc as the movement grew.
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Banner made for Labour Party Conference soon after Mrs Thatcher came
to power in 1979. She decided that trade union members should all hold
ballots to see if they wanted to keep their political funds .The
result was not what she anticipated. Instead of a vote against they
voted over whelmingly to keep their political funds and unions which
did not have political funds decided to put political funds in place.
This banner was put up at Labour Party Conference and union members
used it as a back drop in many photos. This is the gold slogan and the
heart.
The pink slogan was added later in 1988 to commemorate the first equal
pay resolution put to the Trade Union Congress, not passed.
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Thalia's Valium Banner |  |
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This Banner was made in the 1980s when a medical professional told me
how the drug companies used the Labour poster from after the second
world war to promote tranquillisers to the Medical professionals . The
1940's poster consisted of a group of homes with searchlights making
the victory V saying Win with Labour. The Drug companies used a warped
version of the poster to promote Tranquillisers saying in effect Dole
out the Tranquilisers and you won't need Social workers, nurseries etc.
On the medcine bottle on my banner it says "keep out of the reach of
children!" The effect on mothers had dangerous consequences for their
children, One pill falling from the bottle is labelled Chemical Warfare,
another pill says , "Mothers little helper" from the Rolling Stones song
that was banned on the BBC,
VALIUM AVOIDS The text starts in the grey fog of a valium patient,
rEVOLUTION with a hollow R take your pick revolution and evolution to
me are seamless.
fOR EVER AND EVER in the black of Facism
AMEN the final solutution bring in the military!
The Net of valium clouds the homes and brains of the rich and the poor, especially women
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Mandela Banner |  |
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The Nelson Mandela Banner was made for the Celebrations of his 70th
birthday for the Anti Apartheid movement...It was made by Thalia and Ian
at Glangors in Borth Nr Aberystwyth, partly out in the garden as it was
so huge...It was used at the head of the march through London every red
tab along to the top was carried by a world figure including Neil
Kinnock and Bishop Tu Tu ....It was also used out side Aberystwyth Town
Hall where we had speakers and sang the ANC national anthem in one of
their languages. The banner then went on tour around UK as part of the
Exhibition 100 years of Womens banners, it was then lost for 20 years
until found in Tom's garage when he moved house recently. We are working
to find an appropriate institution to give it a home....
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The big Banner was made in several pieces and put together in our Garden
as it was too big to finish in the house.
The big long one was used at the front of an enormous March Thro London
On Nelson Mandela's 70th birthday each red tab was held by a world leader.
It then travelled around the country in a big Exhibition of Banners for
13 years.
The big banner was also used with the smaller Aberystwyth one outside
Aberystwyth Town hall where as group of local people sang what became
the National Anthem of S Africa when Nelson Mandela became President.
They sang it in one of the Languages of Black S Africans.
The Welsh dragon on the back of the Small banner is melting the chains
of Apartheid with his fiery breath. It is a banner made in Welsh and English .
The seaside town is Aberystwyth and the black and white girls are
walking together on the beach. This was Not allowed In Apartheid S
Africa.. We are hoping to find a home in a museum for the banners.
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This banner was made by Thalia Campbell. Founded in 1978, Welsh Women's Aid campaigns and lobby at a national and international level on issues relating to domestic violence and abuse.
This item comes from: Thalia and Ian Campbell (Private Collection)
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This banner was made by Thalia, Lucy and Ian Campbell for a branch of agricultural workers on the Welsh Borders. Made out of a simple brocade fabric, it has been used locally and nationally. It is in the style of the old trade union banners with the central picture and text scrolls at the top and bottom.
This item comes from: Thalia and Ian Campbell (Private Collection)
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Thalia has two banners in the Robert Owen Museum on the River Clyde in Scotland and many more distributed in venues around the world. She has sent banners as gifts to New Zealand and Oregon and Chicago in the US. Many have been loaned to cathedrals, colleges, town halls and art galleries plus travelling exhibitions.
In 2008 Thalia donated a large number of her banners to the Bradford Peace Musuem which has doubled their collection.
The replica of the Liverpool suffrage banner is in the Liverpool Museum It was one we are really proud of... All the photos of it are in the National Library of Wales
I met a descendent of Robert Southey when I did a banner workshop for Battersea Labour Party as well a an old Jamaican Grandfather (with his Grandson) who came across after the war on the ship THE WINDRUSH.That banner work shop was an interesting experience for all kind of links..two proudcers for the BBC and ITV. John Farrell, Lord Alf Dubs and other interesting people... |
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| Women's Banners by Thalia Campbell, 19 pages, paperback, illustrated with line drawings, short overview of early banner making, suffragette banners and banners for peace |
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Thalia & Ian with banners 1992 |  |
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This banner is made of flag bunting with appliqué. The Trade Councils are made up of representatives of trade unions who meet regularly to discuss, share and act on issues that concern their members. This bilingual banner was made by Thalia and Ian Campbell. It was used locally and at national rallies and meetings, such as the annual rally to support the GCHQ trade unionists in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. It was also carried on the marches at Tolpuddle in Dorset to remember the early agricultural trade unionists that were transported to Australia as punishment for their trade union activities.
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More historical banners |  |
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