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A REMARKABLE exhibition displaying more than 200 banners of radical, progressive and protest movements has opened in Lancashire.
The Banner Culture exhibition covers more than a century of dissent, and 230 banners have been hung in the huge former weaving shed of disused Brierfield textile mill in Pendle.
The banners’ subjects range from the women’s suffrage movement of a century ago, through historical campaigns such as the Anti-Apartheid Movement and Free Nelson Mandela campaign, the Greenham Common Women, the Grunwick strike of 1976 involving Asian women led by Jayaben Desai, the miners’ strike of 1984-5, the Sheffield Hillsborough football stadium disaster of 1989, through to current campaigns for equality, Extinction Rebellion and against US President Donald Trump and fracking.
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