AAM diary:
Action. Dates and Cambridge for groups in the Nottingham for groups in the AAM local groups 'WHY DOES nobody like laundrettes? they're like toilets, says Omar, the young Pakistani on whom this film is centred. And anyone who's ever spent one and a half hours watching their socks go round will know what he means.
Reviewed by Rachael Gomme Omar takes over his uncle's bagwash and sets out to create his 'ritz of laundrettes. With the help consciousness of both women and of the men in the village. Two men argue about who is to have the use Ine communal hoover first. Men at the soup kitchen worry about whether it will rain while their washing on the Meanwhile the women organise, travel, speak : at many endlessly fund: feed the strikers and their families. Everybody pickets.
It must be remembered that all this went on in a Because the ruthless heroin smuggling gangster holds the: real bowel.
The family sees Omar's association with Johnny, who he hires to work in the village where two thirds of the miners worked during the strike. So there was little help or sympathy in the local community.
The activities of the police law highlighted all their chilling brutality. An account is given of the sieg arrest of Ken Petney and his subsequenatackinno Lynn the Australian, and came to Britain during the miners' spent many months in Blidworth sharing lne community's periences preparing this book.
She, Doreen Pauline spent endless hours recording these experiences. Lynn has succecucu brilliantly In pro ducing a memorable story, which the personalities Doreen comethrough tory des ly:
Shifting Horizons lustrates quickly women developed politically and in consciousness abilities strength during the year of struggle. Above all it is an exciting testament women of the mining communities which everyone should read Shifting Horizons, Lynn Beaton, Canary Press, £5.65.
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My beautiful laundrette