This 16 August 2015 video from Manchester, England is called Maxine Peake Reads Shelley‘s Masque of Anarchy for Peterloo Massacre Memorial.
From daily The Morning Star in Britain:
Hundreds gather to mark 1819 Peterloo Massacre
Monday 17th August 2015
HUNDREDS of people gathered in central Manchester yesterday to mark the 196th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre.
On August 16 1819, 60,000 people from Manchester and its surrounding towns gathered in St Peter’s Square in the city to hear radical speakers calling for democracy.
The crowd was charged by sabre-wielding cavalry who slaughtered 15 people and injured between 400 and 700.
The outrage sparked protests across Britain, resulting in a vicious and draconian clampdown on pubic gatherings, which were outlawed.
In 2009 five friends got together to walk into Manchester to commemorate the anniversary of the event. It has been held ever since.
Sixty people were present in 2011…
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