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STATUES are costly and, by their very nature, immobile. Yet they’ve become popular with some campaigners who believe they’re the way to celebrate women activists of the past.
There are plans to erect statues of Emmeline and Sylvia Pankhurst and Mary Wollstonecraft in Manchester and London but some activists — rather than heritagists — think that, given the harshness of the lives of women in Britain now, there are other ways to acknowledge the lives of women campaigners.
One is to promote their history and draw the links with young women activists on the front line of fighting the same battles over pay and conditions in the fast-food industry.
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