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Im farhana haider, at the Peoples History Museum in manchester, with more remarkable moments from the past, as told by people who were there. In this episode, we look back at five campaigns and Protest Movements led by women. Coming up, well hear about the fight for the equal right to pray for women at the western wall injerusalem, the argentinian forensic pioneer unearthing war crimes, the anti nuclear protest that was the biggest Women Led Movement in the uk since the suffragettes, and a watershed moment for canadas Indigenous People. But we start in london and a story about the strikers in saris, a group of south asian women employed in the grunwick film processing factory. Because of the poor working conditions there, they decided to take a stand for workers� rights and their action captured the imagination of many other trade unionists, as Lakshmi Patel told me. For housewife mrs Jayaben Desai, her 220th day on the picket line was marked by a presentation. I this is a presentation on behalfl of the North West London branch of usdaw, the shop workers union, |to mrs desai, who is the treasurer| of the Strike Committee. Thank you very much for coming along. Translation Jayaben Desai was a very strong woman. She had made up her mind to bring the union into the factory. Because our women were treated badly. We believed that if women have so many rights in this country, then why cant we have them too . Grunwick relied upon the new influx of asians from east africa to supply its workforce. Commonly thought passive and hard working, the tables were about to turn. In the grunwick factory, there was a big glass room, where the manager used to sit. He would observe us all from that room. He would keep an eye on us. If you were going to the toilet and it took too long, then he would ask why, what were you up to . The unlikely leader of the grunwick strike, Jayaben Desai, would challenge the stereotype of the submissive asian woman. I was on the picket line from the first day. We ladies came out with mrs desai. How long will you stay here . Unless, when we will finish this dispute. A year . Any time. Five years . Ten years. Unions from across england supported us. There were two such piles, around 70 sacks in all, and theyd been building up since the local branch of the postal union voted overwhelmingly tojoin the boycott. All the Workers United will never be defeated | all the unions were there, with big banners. There were a lot of policemen. You could see them all over the street. And in the middle of them was jayaben. Loud cheering. In spite of mass support, the Strike Committee found its power to act ever more circumscribed. Two years after it had begun, the strike was called off. Jayaben was not upset with the defeat at all. We felt that asian women in england had fought for two years for the union. And we were proud of that fact. The reason we were fighting, we have achieved. The treatment with the staff has already changed. It is a great victory. The wages was increased after that. Dont you think its a victory . I am so proud of myself that we fought for our rights. Lakshmi patel remembering the grunwick strike, which inspired widespread trade union support. Our next story is about mercedes doretti, a Forensic Anthropologist from argentina who founded a Team Dedicated to searching for the remains of the missing victims of War Atrocities and state violence. In their search for the truth, her team has exhumed remains in more than 30 countries, among them el salvador, the scene of a brutal civil war in the 1980s. We end up exhuming the remains of close to 140 kids that were all in this very small one room house. We were exhuming all these little dresses and whatever they have in their pockets. Those kind of details are actually the ones that kind of devastate you, theyre very hard, yeah. I started doing this forensic work on human rights cases since 1984 when democracy returned to argentina after quite brutal military government. I was a student. Most of us were, just finishing, very close to graduating. It wasnt something that we were thinking, 0h, lets form an International Organisation that will do this globally, or anything like that. It was more like, if we want to be consistent with what we think and believed, we thought we couldnt say no. In december 1981, the El Salvador Army entered into the hamlet of el mozote, as well as another five hamlets that were nearby, separated children, women and men, execute them, burn their houses and everything. Removing any possibility of civilian support of guerrillas. At the time when we arrived, you could still see human bones in different parts of the houses. Translation these red flags indicate where we found all the spent cartridges. This wall here was where the victims were probably lined up before being executed. We were just amazed by what we were finding. We had never worked on a case of that scale at that time. I see the work that we do in different parts of the world as a part of a reparation process. Where something horrible had happened, we cannot fix, obviously, what happened, but we can provide some solace by providing information, sometimes returning back the remains of missing people to their loved ones, which we have learned how important it is. These are crimes that often, you know, started as political crimes and part of a political situation. And so you learn to wait and push as much as you can, so that the evidence can be heard and have its day in court. But its a work that requires a lot of patience. Often, we felt a very strong feeling of frustration. It was a very small courtroom, very close to where the massacre had happened. And we were testifying, something we thought was never going to happen. We were all kind of like, ok, you know, now this is what we were supposed to have done 30 years ago. These processes never end, so we never feel complete, you know, closure, or. You know, rarely. The Forensic Anthropologist mercedes doretti. Next, we go back to the 1980s, when a group Ofjewish Feminists started campaigning for the right to pray as openly asjewish men at one ofjudaisms holiest sites, the western wall. Witness history spoke to anat hoffman, one of the founders of the so called Women Of The Wall. Ive been the chauffeur more times than id like to think of, taking Women Of The Wall to emergency room. And of course, endless eggs, water, thrown at the Women Of The Wall. When israel took over eastjerusalem, they built a partition between men and women at the wall. The partition is not equal. Men are encouraged to explore alljewish expressions. What some people allow themselves to say about us and to us is quite shocking. Wrap them in their prayer shawl and bury them alive, and were being called nazis by other jewish people. And when we went to court, it would be 1a years later when we will receive a verdict. The court felt that our issue is so complex that it rocks thejewish world as we know it. We won three out of our four strategic goals. Women can wear a prayer shawl now at the wall. I wont say its a pleasure, but you can do it. I am waiting for the day where a young girls going to be reading the torah, wearing her tallit, her prayer shawl, praying out loud and shell say to me, hey, old lady, its always been this way. Anat hoffman, one of the founding members of the Women Of The Wall. Our next eyewitness story takes us to the 1980s and an anti nuclear protest outside an american air base in rural england that lasted 19 years. Ann pettitt from wales organised a womens march from the Welsh Capital cardiff to the Greenham Common air base, where Us Nuclear Missiles were being kept. A small group set up camp outside the base, but, as ann told witness history, as women from all over europe joined the protest, it grew into thousands. The First AmericanCruise Missiles are now in britain. It was earlier this morning at Greenham Common raf base in berkshire that a United States starlifter landed with its cargo of missiles. The womens peace camp at greenham also represents the disquieting voice of rebellious women, a sisterhood of dissent. Ann pettitt was one of the women whod started the whole thing. We decided to call it a peace camp and decided to stay, asking for a public debate between everybody in this country about the siting of Cruise Missiles. Decisions about Nuclear Weapons and about military things in general, theyre all taken by men, just seems right that it should be women. At that point in 1981, we had two children. We moved here to west wales because we wanted to run a smallholding, grow vegetables. The possibility that the cold war would escalate into a nuclear war began to seem more and more likely. The government was sending out leaflets called Protect And Survive and issued a film about what we should do. A cupboard under the stairs, that is another good place for a refuge. Put boxes of earth or sand on the stairs, start collecting them now. We were meant to make a makeshift little den in our house, or hide in the cupboard under the stairs with a few tins of food, and you thought, what . are they insane . so many protests have taken the form of walking. Think of the salt marches in india, the marches in selma in america, led by Martin Luther king. Itjust is a natural form of political protest. I began to have visions of women walking down the road with our banners and our placards. Id managed to get a little mention of the march in conventional womens magazines, like cosmopolitan, i seem to remember, and there were women who had seen these and jumped at it and thought, yes, this is for me. Most of them, women who had never done anything like this before. So we walked from cardiff, the capital of wales, to Greenham Common. The press were not interested. Trying to get on the front pages of newspapers was, well, you know, i was told to get lost i dont know how many times. We had to do something more dramatic and we decided to chain ourselves up to the gates of greenham. When we got there, we had to stay a night and another night, a week, two weeks. Gradually, the support did come in. Thousands of women surround the american air base at Greenham Common in a peaceful protest against the siting of american Cruise Missiles in britain. It was the biggest womens demonstration ever, i think, in this country. I think its a brilliant title, actually, embrace the base. Embrace the base sort of. Give love into the base we decorated the fence as well. I remember seeing a woman had hung her Wedding Dress on the fence. I suppose relations with the police had begun on quite a courteous basis, but they got quite violent, really. Security at Greenham Common has been substantially increased. At one time, a group of about 15 women struggled with soldiers i before being arrested. The Greenham Protest forced mrs thatcher to abandon her plan to let Ronald Reagan station Nuclear Missiles on british soil. The fact that it was a movement of women who made some leaders see sense, it did change things. Im very proud of what i did, really. Ann pettitt and the formidable Greenham Common women. For ourfinalfilm, we go to canada in the 1990s, where indigenous canadians objected to plans to develop a golf course on the sight of a Burial Ground in quebec. The dispute led to a summer long siege between Mohawk Demonstrators and canadian security forces. Witness history spoke to Mohawk Activist ellen katsitsa kwas gabriel. To see the tanks coming in, we even had the Fighterjets Fly over us. The mood was very tense. This is all for a golf course. This is all for some group of rich people, the elite, and their playground. Like many other Indigenous Peoples, we call the earth our mother. The place where our ancestors rest is extremely important. They wanted to extend their nine hole golf course into an 18 hole golf course, but at the same time, they also wanted to dig up our Burial Ground to extend their parking lot. We set up a blockade on a secondary dirt road. At that time, the majority of the people who were at the barricades were women. Our matrilineal, our clans come from our mothers, and we are the ones who are supposed to protect the land and its the duty of the men to protect the people. The women said we would go to the front, when the police arrived. The men said they would watch and protect us if anything happened. So on the morning ofjuly11th, we were interrupted at 5 15 in the morning by a swat team and so we went towards the front of the barricade, towards the highway, with our hands in the air to make sure that they saw we had no weapons. But they still met us with a lot of aggression and a lot of force. What i said to them was that this is our land and we have every right to be here. They were not too happy with that. Thats why they wanted to talk to a man, because the women were, i guess, being very unreasonable to them. Originally, people said there would be no weapons, but there were individuals who carried their weapons. We couldnt do anything about it. We said, its a peaceful barricade. Around 8 30, the police started Firing Tear Gas and Concussion Grenades at us. Concussion grenades, for those who dont know, sound like gunshots. Theyre quite a loud noise. I had to tell some of the people i was with to run, you know, lets run for cover. It was scary because we didnt know if anyone was killed. You know, on both sides. The police force continued to block the roads, people coming in or out. They prevented food, medicine. They were quite aggressive and always provoking. It was a siege. A 78 day siege. Well, we did decide to end it. We just had enough and we said, were going back to our homes. September 26 is when it was supposedly finished. A big melee happened. Some of the soldiers had their bayonets on, because they were afraid. They were totally, totally afraid of the people who were coming out. There were a lot of arrests on that day. And this aint a surrender either we were still not surrendering, because the land dispute is still in full force. Its not been settled. I mean, the golf course sparked a discussion about the real issues that Indigenous People have been fighting for for centuries, which is land dispossession, protection of our languages and culture, our way of life. So it woke up people, i would say. It woke up people. The Mohawk Activist ellen katsitsakwas. Well, thats all for this edition of witness history here at the Peoples History Museum in manchester. From me and the rest of the witness history team, goodbye. Hello. Sunday marks the start of british summertime, yet we have a couple of days of Colder Weather across the uk. The cold air thats currently across scotland will be digging its way further southwards as we head through sunday and into monday. This area of low pressure starts to pull away, but under this area of low pressure through sunday morning, well see cloud and rain across the southern half of the uk that will be moving away eastwards, leaving a legacy of cloud across much of england, wales and northern ireland. Some sunshine developing from the north, but also wintry showers across northern scotland, maybe north east england too. And well all notice the difference in the temperature. A colder feeling day. Mid to high single figures for many, perhaps 11 or 12 for south west england. So theres wintry showers piling into the north and east through the evening and overnight, but for many, increasingly clear skies. So a cold, frosty and in places icy start to monday. Then through the week ahead, it will turn increasingly wet and windy, but also once again becoming very mild. So on monday, High Pressure is the dominant feature. Its the only day of the week that will see this set up under High Pressure, light winds, plenty of sunshine through the morning after that cold, frosty start. Cloud building from the southwest. And also this Frontal System will bring some rain and potentially some snow into the northern ireland. But for many a dry, sunny, still cold feeling day. The winds will be light, but not for much longer because once again, well be looking to the west, to the atlantic for our next Frontal System, pushing in through monday night and into tuesday. Now, actually, on tuesday, across more eastern areas, it will start fairly quiet, but quite cloudy. But that rain will soon be piling in from the west and potentially for a time we could see some snow over the hills of scotland. Some eastern areas may not see that rain until later in the afternoon, but most of us will see a spell of rain and potentially heavy rain for a time on tuesday, the temperatures slowly starting to rise. But given the cloud and the rain, it will still feel on the cold side on tuesday. As we head into wednesday, notice the ice bars start to come closer together so the winds will be strengthening. Weve got yet another system to deal with pushing into Western Areas through through wednesday morning. Some heavy rain across northern ireland, into western scotland, southwest england, wales, north west england. Once again, the further east you are, you may not see that rain until later in the afternoon, but with south westerly winds, the temperatures will be starting to rise. Feeling milder midweek, low pressure still very much in charge as we head through wednesday and into thursday. And in fact, potentially quite a windy day on thursday. Notice how tightly packed those isobars. But what well see on thursday is perhaps more a day of sunshine and showers. Where we do see those showers, they could well be heavy, potentially even thundery, but it will be a much milder day. So where we have the sunshine, we could see temperatures up to 17, maybe even 18 celsius, which is well above average for this time of the year. Come friday, yet another Atlantic System to deal with once again bringing spells of rain north and east, which may not see quite so much rain across scotland on friday. But eventually some of that rain will be pushing its way through as we head through the afternoon and the temperatures actuallyjust starting to come down very slightly. So what happens as we head through the weekend . Notice this area of High Pressure is not too far away, but its low pressure which wins through as we head through the weekend. And once again, we could see some stronger winds and some heavier spells of rain. So to sum it up, really, weve got a cold, frosty, sunny start to the new week, but then things will turn increasingly wet and windy as the week wears on. Rain for most of us on most days. But for a time those temperatures will be feeling very mild. Thats all for me. Bye bye. This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. Vladimir putin says russia has struck a deal with neighbouring