{"id":5084,"date":"2022-10-26T12:56:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T12:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=5084"},"modified":"2022-10-26T13:00:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T13:00:24","slug":"dont-mourn-organise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2022\/10\/26\/dont-mourn-organise\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Mourn, Organise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">The School of Politics and The POLIR Society present &#8216;Manifesto&#8217;, a feature length documentary about Walton CLP giving a first-hand account of grassroots community activism, depicting the work and effort that goes into party politics away from Westminster.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Over three pivotal years in UK politics, Manifesto follows activists in the safest Labour seat in the country as they campaign for change.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Followed by an on line Q &amp; A with Alan Gibbons, a Councillor who features the film.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>Alan an independent Councillor, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/news\/liverpool-news\/labour-party-kicks-out-rebel-23713028\">expelled from the Labour party<\/a> for being part of a group of rebel members who voted against local budget cuts. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/2599\/turner-ben\">Dr Ben Tuner<\/a> suggests,\u00a0<a id=\"LPNoLPOWALinkPreview\" title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/news\/liverpool-news\/labour-party-kicks-out-rebel-23713028. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.liverpoolecho.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fliverpool-news%2Flabour-party-kicks-out-rebel-23713028&amp;data=05%7C01%7CG.Shore-Banks%40kent.ac.uk%7C9415f4868c174a8ae4ee08dab7364e5b%7C51a9fa563f32449aa7213e3f49aa5e9a%7C0%7C0%7C638023741113250751%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=ssG%2Fvrumx51uIPL5G00aK0qWJsrtxWiQzZTebFZEBCg%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"Verified\" data-linkindex=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>&#8216;An interesting figure for anyone interested in the legacy of Corbynism or the divisions within the Labour party.&#8217;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Thursday 3rd November<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>17:00\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>Templeman Lecture Theatre<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>No Booking Necessary, all welcome!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shutoutthelight.co.uk\/manifesto\">More about Manifesto.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The School of Politics and The POLIR Society present &#8216;Manifesto&#8217;, a feature length documentary about Walton CLP giving a first-hand account of grassroots community activism, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2022\/10\/26\/dont-mourn-organise\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66395,"featured_media":5150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5084"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5300,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5084\/revisions\/5300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}