“WPUK have managed to run a successful and growing campaign for women’s rights on a small budget sourced almost entirely from individual women and men who support us in what we do.
“We are determined to prove that a democracy works best when it is driven by its own people, not when it is in yoke to biased funders or dodgy donors.
“We are grateful to everyone who has supported our campaign either financially or with the volunteering of time and expertise.
“It is hard work speaking truth to power, and we know that it is often done at great personal cost, but it must be done if we are to build a society in which everyone’s rights are respected and upheld.
“As Margaret Mead famously said:
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has”.
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From the start, WPUK has faced smears, slurs, lies intended to discredit us. Our rebuttal to Pink News on the subject of the Lush grant womansplaceuk.org/2020/12/02/wpu…
We will not respond to all the half-baked claims and insinuations masquerading as journalism. Many errors could be avoided by diligent journalistic research. However, there are some falsehoods which must be corrected and we do so in this rebuttal. womansplaceuk.org/2020/12/02/wpu…
WPUK welcomed the statement made by Lush on 30 November about its grant to our campaign and we share the concerns expressed in that statement about the toxicity of debate. We have been on the receiving end of that toxicity since our inception.
We are pleased to see that Edinburgh Labour Students have removed the statement they published yesterday which we believe defamed both our campaign and Ann Henderson.
We are disappointed that Edinburgh Labour Students have not responded to our email or our response or apologised for the false claims they have made about us.
We also note that the statement from 2018 which made the orginal defamatory allegations is still on the Edinburgh Labour Students Facebook page. This should be withdrawn as well.
A reminder to Edinburgh, Cambridge, all other universities:HE providers - “freedom of speech in HE should be upheld at every opportunity & should only be limited where there are genuine safety concerns or it constitutes unlawful behaviour.' equalityhumanrights.com/en/our-work/ne…
Thank you to Northumbria University for hosting our meeting in May 2018: A Woman’s Place is Standing Her Ground.
Thank you to Oxford University for hosting our meeting in October 2019: A Woman’s Place is at the lectern
Our response to the statement from Edinburgh Labour Students. We wrote last night to ask them to withdraw the statement. We have had no response. womansplaceuk.org/2020/10/26/edi…
“A stalwart of the labour movement, Ann has spent her whole adult life campaigning for equality and social justice. Repeated attempts to silence women who merely wish to debate the potential impact of a proposed change to the law are Orwellian...
The story so far - 319,700 YouTube views, 40,000 Twitter followers, 10,000 Facebook followers, 26 meetings in 21 locations, 1 conference, 4 webinars, 0 meetings shut down. Thank you for your solidarity and support. #SexMatters
As an introduction @selina_todd explains how counting females shows how expectations change and how women and men experience life differently because of our sex. #WPUKCensus