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Revelatory Radical Acts
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Radical Acts
The Bradford Club
WOMEN from across the world have created social change throughout history, from suffragettes setting fire to pillar boxes to India's Gulabi Gang taking a stand against those who abuse women.
Common Wealth's Radical Acts celebrates such acts of civil disobedience, while reminding the audience that “radical” is a subjective word and that it’s within everyone’s power to take a stand.
The show is the culmination of three months of activism. Common Wealth has already staged a mass wedding, where 38 women married themselves, performed Food, Glorious Food on a train to protest against the benefit cap and initiated the #peaceophobia campaign to challenge Islamophobia.
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