Comments on: Celebrating The Stepney School Strike

By: keithpeter

keithpeter — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 11:02:51 +0000

@Andy: have you thought of podcasting a selection of your work so school teachers could listen to a sample and decide how to base a lesson off the work? Just an idea.

By: Andy Strowman

Andy Strowman — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 08:56:06 +0000

Chris Searle was the ONLY person to help print a book of poems for me when I was a boy.
Thanks to Ron McCormick too for the front cover and Centreprise in Hackney for printing it.
I had tried so hard for over a year and scored one goal with a poem on the entire back page of “Loving” magazine.. No wonder 800 kids walked out in strike for him.

We need more teachers like Chris Searle. Thank you Mr Oldham too from Davenant for giving me the knowledge poetry existed.
Well done Dan Jones and Gentle Suthor for pribting this piece.

I have tried so many times to read my piems in schokls and I did it some of the tine.
Any school out there want to hear my poems then please let me know. No fee!
Thank you,
Andy

Andy

By: Achim

Achim — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 08:03:15 +0000

Wonderful how the students fought for their teacher Chris Searle back then. Respect. — Here in Germany, there were and still are protests from time to time. It was once proclaimed: ” Destroy what destroys you!”.

Strikes in England have a long tradition. Historically, the Welsh Miners’ strike in 1985. Here is the wonderful music for it:

https://achimthepooh.de/media/wales_striking_miners_choir_shoulder_to_shoulder_1985.mp4

Love & Peace
ACHIM