capital should be carbon neutral by 2030. it comes after a year of campaigning, but critics say the timeframe is unrealistic. you re watching bbc news. now it s time for witness history. hello and welcome to witness history. i m farhana haider at the people s 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, we ll 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 canada s 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, they decided to take a stand for work
have been left homeless by a tornado. at least 25 people have died in mississippi with one person killed in alabama. the two boats carrying migrants think of the coast of tunisia causing 29 people to die. others are still missing. and the uk government announces that possessing laughing gas will become a criminal offence for the first time. you are watching bbc news now it is time for witness history. hello and welcome to witness history. i m farhana haider at the people s 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, we ll 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 canada s indigenous people. but
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 people who were at the barricades were women. 0ur clans come from our mothers, and they were the ones who were supposed to protect the land, and is the duty of the men to protect the people. the women said they 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 ofjuly11, we were interrupted at 5:15am by a swat team, so we went towards the front of the barricade and towards the highway with our hands in the air to make sure they saw we had no weapons, but they still met us with a lot of aggression and force. what i said to them was this is our land and we have every right to be here. they weren t too happy with that.
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 people who are at the barricades were women. our clans come from our mothers, and they were the ones who were supposed to protect the land, and is the duty of the men to protect the people. the women said they 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 ofjuly11, we were interrupted at 5:15am by a swat team, so we went towards the front of the barricade and towards the highway
to extend their parking lot. we set up a blockade on a secondary dirt road. at that time, the majority of people who were at the barricades were women. 0ur clans come from our mothers, and we are the ones who were supposed to protect the land, and the duty of the men to protect the people. the women said they 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 ofjuly11, we were interrupted at 5:15am by a swat team, so we went towards the front of the barricade and towards the highway with our hands in the air to make sure they saw we had no weapons, but they still met us with a lot of aggression and force. what i said to them was this is our land and we have every right to be here.