{"id":42162,"date":"2018-06-13T07:39:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T06:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=42162"},"modified":"2018-06-13T07:39:56","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T06:39:56","slug":"red-leicester-delivering-radical-politics-with-their-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/06\/13\/red-leicester-delivering-radical-politics-with-their-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Leicester &#8211; delivering radical politics with their music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a great time speaking at Leicester Secular Society last night with an audience much bigger than I think the organisers expected. Best of all, the talk started with two songs from the Red Leicester singing group:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/06\/13\/red-leicester-delivering-radical-politics-with-their-music\/screen-shot-2018-06-13-at-07-36-42\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42174\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-42174\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Screen-Shot-2018-06-13-at-07.36.42-550x390.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Screen-Shot-2018-06-13-at-07.36.42-550x390.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Screen-Shot-2018-06-13-at-07.36.42-423x300.png 423w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Screen-Shot-2018-06-13-at-07.36.42-768x545.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Screen-Shot-2018-06-13-at-07.36.42-564x400.png 564w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>People often ask me how they can get involved in political activism: here is one answer. These people are delivering a radical message through their music.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re appearing in a street choir contest in Brighton in a couple of weeks. If you\u2019re in the vicinity, look them out.<\/p>\n<p>And thanks to my hosts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a great time speaking at Leicester Secular Society last night with an audience much bigger than I think the organisers expected. Best of<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/06\/13\/red-leicester-delivering-radical-politics-with-their-music\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}