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In GBA 185 we get better acquainted with Mike Jackson. I met Mike at theFocus E15 Mothers Occupation earlier this year and he is one of the real people who are fictionalised in the film Pride. We talk about the personal and the political, going through class experience and class struggle, LGBT rights, solidarity between differently oppressed groups, consciousness raising, activist and trade union history and so much more.

Mike plugs: 

The reformed LGSM who can be found here: http://www.twitter.com/LGSMpride

And in the future they'll be on facebook too here: LGSM 2014 

We mention:

GBA 179 Focus E15 Mothers (feat Mike Jackson): https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-179-focus-e15-mothers

Focus e15 Mothers:

https://twitter.com/FocusE15

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Focus-E15-Mothers/602860129757343

http://focuse15.org/

Spark London: http://sparklondon.com/

Pride: http://www.pridemovie.co.uk/

Billy Elliot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Elliot
Brassed Off: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassed_Off
The Full Monty: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Full_Monty
Stephen Beresford: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Beresford
Marc Ashton: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ashton
Joe Gilgun: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Gilgun
This Is England: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_England
The Miner's Strike: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_miners%27_strike_(1984%E2%80%9385)
Margaret Thatcher: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher
Pricewaterhouse Coopers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PricewaterhouseCoopers
Neoliberal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism
Neoconservative: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism
Von Hayek:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek
Milton Friedman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Friedman
Tony Benn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Benn
Naomi Klein: This Changes Everything: http://www.amazon.co.uk/This-Changes-Everything-Capitalism-Climate/dp/1451697384
Freddie Fox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Fox_(actor)
Pink Triangle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_triangle
Print Workers Strike: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wapping_dispute
Still the Enemy Within: http://the-enemy-within.org.uk/
Women Against Pit Closures: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_Against_Pit_Closures
Clement Attlee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Attlee
Accrington: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accrington
1967 Sexual Offences Act: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_Offences_Act_1967
Johnathan Harvey: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Harvey_(playwright)
Beautiful Thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beautiful_Thing_(play)
Canary: http://www.amazon.co.uk/22Canary-22-Modern-Plays-Jonathan-Harvey/dp/1408131048
"Equal" Marriage Bill: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_(Same_Sex_Couples)_Act_2013
Mark Ashton's Fund: https://www.facebook.com/markashtontrust
Soma Mining Disaster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma_mine_disaster




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GBA 185 Mike Jackson

In GBA 189 we get better acquainted with Heather. She talks about how faith and theatre has influenced her passion for working with young people and in getting involved with LGBT rights, her methodist upbringing and personal relationship with God, the experience of being pregnant and how she first knew me as "Pajama Boy".

Heather Plugs: Speaking up for other people's rights.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

We mention:

Tim: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-188-tim
Mencap: https://www.mencap.org.uk/
PGCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postgraduate_Certificate_in_Education
I Have 2 Mummys books: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Has_Two_Mommies
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Some-people-have-Mums-SomeFamilies-net/dp/1484097122
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tale-Two-Mommies-Vanita-Oelschlager/dp/0982636679
Central Park Penguins book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Tango_Makes_Three
Heteronormativity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteronormativity
Methodism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodism
Rowan Williams (The Archbishop of Canterbury at the time of recording): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowan_Williams




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