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The London Feminist Network (LFN) is a women-only networking and campaigning organisation, formed in 2004 to unite London UK-based feminist groups and individuals in action! We currently have more than 1300 members.
We work closely with other groups in London and elswhere in the UK, supporting various feminist campaigns in order that we can broaden our movement and work together for women's rights and against patriarchy in all its forms.
We aim to meet monthly to share news, listen to guest speakers, plan campaigns and demonstrations, network and support each other. We are a new and vibrant group, there is plenty of opportunity to get involved in direct campaigning and organising work - join us and make a difference! We keep in touch via a Yahoo group email. If you would like to join our email group and be part of the London Feminist Network, see our Join Us page.Membership of the LFN is free. We actively welcome women from all backgrounds and seek to fully reflect the diversity of our city.
We have organised pickets against porn cinemas and organise an annual conference called Feminism in London, we have taken our huge purple and white banner on demonstrations against the war on Iraq, against racism and for peace.
The London Feminist Network organises the annual Reclaim The Night march, which is held in central London every November to mark the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. In 2009 about 2000 women participated.
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We work with, and fully support, Object's tireless "Stripping the Illustion" campaign to get lap dancing clubs to be licensed in the same way as sex shops and sex cinemas, to reflect their status as part of the commercial sex industry. The photo below shows Object campaigners (many of whom are LFN members) at 10 Downing street, where they handed in petitions with 8,500 signatures in support of their campaign. They were accompanied by a woman formerly in lap dancing and MPs Lynda Waltho, Fiona Mactaggart, Roberta Blackman-Woods and Celia Barlow.
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