{"id":22393,"date":"2024-09-20T21:48:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T20:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/?post_type=pamphlets&#038;p=22393"},"modified":"2025-02-09T19:17:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T19:17:49","slug":"protests-petitions-and-persuasion","status":"publish","type":"pamphlets","link":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/pamphleteer\/protests-petitions-and-persuasion\/","title":{"rendered":"Protests, Petitions, and Persuasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Anatomy of a campaign<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of this century, residents of Hartcliffe and Withywood in Bristol were shocked to hear that the city council planned to close two of their local primary schools.<\/p>\n<p>Children, parents and teachers, including Mike Richardson, the author of this pamphlet, mobilised to oppose these closures.<\/p>\n<p>The ensuing campaign organised public meetings, wrote petitions and held demonstrations in the city centre, as well as adopting some less orthodox direct action in their bitter determination to save Whitehouse and Gay Elms schools.<\/p>\n<p>This is the story of their campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anatomy of a campaign At the beginning of this century, residents of Hartcliffe and Withywood in Bristol were shocked to hear that the city council planned to close two of their local primary schools. Children, parents and teachers, including Mike Richardson, the author of this pamphlet, mobilised to oppose these closures. The ensuing campaign organised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":22394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,1994],"tags":[1662,1663,1667],"class_list":["post-22393","pamphlets","type-pamphlets","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism","category-civic-environment-civic-amenities-housing","tag-hartcliffe","tag-schools","tag-withywood","pub_range-bristol-radical-pamphleteer"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Protests, Petitions, and Persuasion - Bristol Radical History Group<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/pamphleteer\/protests-petitions-and-persuasion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Protests, Petitions, and Persuasion - Bristol Radical History Group\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Anatomy of a campaign At the beginning of this century, residents of Hartcliffe and Withywood in Bristol were shocked to hear that the city council planned to close two of their local primary schools. Children, parents and teachers, including Mike Richardson, the author of this pamphlet, mobilised to oppose these closures. The ensuing campaign organised [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/pamphleteer\/protests-petitions-and-persuasion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Bristol Radical History Group\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/126960655805\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-02-09T19:17:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/64_covers_FRONT.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"707\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@BrisRadHis\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Protests, Petitions, and Persuasion - Bristol Radical History Group","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/pamphleteer\/protests-petitions-and-persuasion\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Protests, Petitions, and Persuasion - Bristol Radical History Group","og_description":"Anatomy of a campaign At the beginning of this century, residents of Hartcliffe and Withywood in Bristol were shocked to hear that the city council planned to close two of their local primary schools. Children, parents and teachers, including Mike Richardson, the author of this pamphlet, mobilised to oppose these closures. The ensuing campaign organised [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/pamphleteer\/protests-petitions-and-persuasion\/","og_site_name":"Bristol Radical History Group","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/126960655805\/","article_modified_time":"2025-02-09T19:17:49+00:00","og_image":[{"width":707,"height":1000,"url":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/64_covers_FRONT.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_site":"@BrisRadHis","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/pamphleteer\/protests-petitions-and-persuasion\/","url":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/pamphleteer\/protests-petitions-and-persuasion\/","name":"Protests, Petitions, and Persuasion - Bristol Radical History Group","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/pamphleteer\/protests-petitions-and-persuasion\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/pamphleteer\/protests-petitions-and-persuasion\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/64_covers_FRONT.jpg","datePublished":"2024-09-20T20:48:03+00:00","dateModified":"2025-02-09T19:17:49+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/pamphleteer\/protests-petitions-and-persuasion\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/pamphleteer\/protests-petitions-and-persuasion\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/pamphleteer\/protests-petitions-and-persuasion\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/64_covers_FRONT.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/64_covers_FRONT.jpg","width":707,"height":1000},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/pamphleteer\/protests-petitions-and-persuasion\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Pamphlets","item":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/pamphleteer\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Protests, Petitions, and Persuasion"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/","name":"Bristol Radical History Group","description":"History From Below","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/#organization","name":"Bristol Radical History Group","url":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/full-logo-small.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/full-logo-small.png","width":594,"height":500,"caption":"Bristol Radical History Group"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/126960655805\/","https:\/\/x.com\/BrisRadHis"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pamphlets\/22393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pamphlets"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/pamphlets"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22393"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pamphlets\/22393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22670,"href":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pamphlets\/22393\/revisions\/22670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}