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Southall Black Sisters 
SBS was founded in 1979 to support Black and Asian women and campaign for their rights. Their campaigns focus on the needs of ethnic minority women in a racist society. Some of their campaigns include:

  • Campaign against 'virginity testing' of Asian women at airports, 1979
  • Campaign to ensure conviction of the husband of Balwant Kaur, who murdered his wife in Brent Asian Women's Refuge, 1985.
  • 'Free Kiranjit Ahluwalia' campaign, to protest the life sentence given to a woman who killed her violent husband
  • Campaign against the two/one year rule, which forces women whose immigration status is dependent on their husbands, to stay in violent relationships for fear of being deported
  • SBS have also successfully campaigned against their closure when Ealing council has tried to withdraw their funding (in 1988 and 2008)
  • For a more detailed list of their campaigns and work, visit the SBS website.

East Midlands Feminists (aka EM FEMS)
EM FEMS is a regional feminist activist group for Leics/Notts/Derbys/Lincs, which was formed October 2006. Their campaigns include:

  • Street demo protesting WH Smith's retailing of lad mags with North West Feminists. Part of Object lad mag campaign. Leicester, 21st April 2007.
  • Street demo protesting Marks and Spencer's retailing of Daily Star newspaper. Part of Object Daily Star/M & S campaign. Leicester, 1st September 2007.

Object

  • Led a 'lad's mags top shelf' campaign in 2006 including a protest outside Parliament. London, 27th June 2006.

North West Feminists

  • North West Feminists protested at Labour Party Conference in support of Object's lad's mag campaign, Manchester, 24 September 2006

Campaigns against sexual violence

  • North West Feminists demo against rape. Manchester, 9th December 2006.
  • The Purple Resistance: group of feminists from across the country marching to demand justice for rape victims. Three public demos in London on 23rd June, 14th July and 19th August 2007.

Campaigns against the opening of Playboy store on London Oxford Street

  • Anti-Porn London, Bin the Bunny campaign. Series of demos outside Playboy Store, London Oxford Street. First demo 29th September 2007.
  • Hef's Worst Nightmare, group of feminists protest outside Playboy Store, London Oxford Street, 29th September 2007

Other campaigns

  • Women's No Pay Day, a day of action protesting the gender pay gap led by the Fawcett Society. Nationwide, 30th October 2007.
  • Campaign to maintain the 24-week abortion time limit in light of proposed changes as part of Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill led by Abortion Rights. Lobby of Parliament, London, 7th May 2008 and protest outside Parliament, London, 20th May 2008

Other feminist activist groups

  • London Feminist Network
  • ReSisters: Internet-based Yahoo! group protesting normalisation of porn and raunch culture.
  • Sheffield Fems
  • South Coast Feminists
  • Feminist Fightback