support to the demonstration, which was called jointly by the National Union of Students and the Defence Committee for the Hallowe'en march.
On Hallowe'en (31 October) last year a Reclaim the Night demonstration through Soho was violently attacked by porn ASSEMBLY POINTS:
EVENING: 6.00 LAST SATURDAY night 2,000 women marched through London's Soho, centre of porn shops and strip shows, to demand an end to rape and violence; for a woman's right to be out on the streets at night without escort; to Reclaim the Night for women.
shop owners and by the police.
This time there violence - except of the verbal kind. And the women on the march gave better than they got.
We assembled in Leicester Square as darkness fell, and by torchlight moved through the narrow streets of Soho.
The police were being very CARNERS STEAK HOUSES STRIKE COMMITTE want to sang Army' and a few new songs made up especially for the occasion, and chanted slogans: *Whatever we wear, wherever was no we go, yes means yes and no means no!' As the march went past porn shops sex chorus of hoots and hisses went up from the crowd - showing what we think of those who off make money exploitation bodies.
Pornography shows women as passive sexual objects, often degrading poses with implicit or explicit violence women as a frequent element.
In presenting women in this way, pornography encourages men to see all women as no more than available for their gratification and CHOYICH they've already been claimed by another man.
Women are seen entirely as housewives and mothers - the only other possibility in many men's eyes is that they "loose women' or 'tarts', and so not worthy of respect.
A woman out on the streets alone at night, even if she is just walking home from work, is obviously CaLCEOLY.
Women aren't just housewives. They are workers and polite — they obviously didn't | individuals too.
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sexual objects, this by Saturday women's independence.
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Marching through Soho is way for women to say loudly and clearly that they're fed up with being treated as second class citizens, of no having the same rights as men, want to be accepted as full and equal But this will be difficult to establish as long as women work primarily in the home; as domestic labour, and emotional are seen as entirely women's responsibilities.
Women themselves can their own worst enemies _ like the Housewives Against Strikes in the North West last weekend This reinforces role as being We can begin to overcome women together as they did in Soho on bringing other women to question their role in the family and to demand that men support the struggle for opportunity continue this fight will be the Violence Against Women from 3 March.
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