{"id":3271,"date":"2013-09-09T23:42:12","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T23:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bothness.uber.space\/?p=3271"},"modified":"2013-09-24T19:59:19","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T19:59:19","slug":"una-lunchbox-talk-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/?p=3271","title":{"rendered":"UNA Lunchbox Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Dear Friends,<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"yiv5341005651\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_83_1379546408697_136\">\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">This is just a last minute reminder of our\u00a0UNA  &#8216;LunchBox&#8217; talk at 1pm on Friday 20 September in the Friends Meeting House in  Upper Goat Lane, Norwich.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">This month our speaker is Ian Sinclair who has just  written a book about &#8220;The March That Shook Blair &#8211; an oral history of 15  February 2013&#8221;\u00a0. This is a popular topic\u00a0now, especially as a result  of the recent anti-war vote in Parliament.\u00a0 Ian will examine the  effectiveness (or otherwise) of protest marches. As he says in the introduction  to his book: &#8220;In writing <em>The March That Shook Blair<\/em> my intention is to  address and refute these two popular arguments: &#8211; that the march was an  unimportant and inconsequential historical event and that it achieved  &#8220;absolutely nothing&#8221;.\u00a0 My aim is to document, celebrate, investigate and  critically analyse the largest political march in British history and the wider  anti-war movement.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span class=\"yui_3_7_2_83_1379546408697_76\" style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 10.5pt;\">&#8220;Ian  Sinclair is a freelance writer living in London. He writes regularly for a  number of progressive publications such as Tribune, Peace News, the Morning Star  and Red Pepper. His first book <em>The march the shook Blair: An oral history of  15 February 2003 <\/em>will be published by Peace News Press in February  2013.&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">This should be a very interesting talk and I urge  you not to miss it.\u00a0 Posters are attached, please display if  possible.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">best wishes,<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Marguerite<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends, This is just a last minute reminder of our\u00a0UNA &#8216;LunchBox&#8217; talk at 1pm on Friday 20 September in the Friends Meeting House in Upper Goat Lane, Norwich. This month our speaker is Ian Sinclair who has just written a book about &#8220;The March That Shook Blair &#8211; an oral history of 15 February [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3287,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271\/revisions\/3287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}