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What's happening for International Women's Day?
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Thursday March 05, 2009 22:33 by mechano/mechana
According to Wikipedia International Women's Day started in the States in 1909, spread to Copenhagen and other parts of Europe and by 1911 was being celebrated by over 1 million people. Its an official holiday in many countries throughout the world and though it doesn't have this status in Ireland it is being marked by a number of groups and events over the next few days. Heres a selection from the events listed on Indy's Events Calendar.
The Communist Party are hosting a talk by the General Secretary of the Federation of Cuban Women in Liberty Hall on the 5th.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9Angela Walsh, captain of Cork's 2008 All Ireland winning Ladies Football team adds her support to women human rights defenders for International Women's Day 2009. Pictured in Youghal at a photo op to promote an Amnesty Fundraiser in the Walter Raleigh Hotel on March 21, Angela endorsed Cork Amnesty branch's campaign to draw attention to the plight of women in Zimbabwe and elsewhere.
Angela Walsh, Captain of Cork's 2008 All Ireland winning ladies football team
More info on the Campaign to end FGM: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/91360
here's a short promo for the feminist walking tour - from last year's footage. come along on sunday at 1pm! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZTwcouSL0Y
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http://www.Amnesty.hu
Film by http://MundiRomani.com
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Mary White refers to International Women's Day
In her introduction to the party leader's address, the Green Party's Mary White made reference to International Women's Day and to women who are being persecuted in various countries.
She made no mention however of the Nigerian women deported in February and last December by the Fianna Fail/ Green Party government.
Their crime-seeking a better life in Ireland.
Would love to do the walk, looks and sounds great, relevant, educational, social and fun. A way to enable more bolder steps for women and supporting men to make a better world. I hope you all have a fresh dry sunny day in Dublin.
I remember my 2 grannies especially today, both independant strong women, 1 a west clare farmer who loved family and the earth with whom I messed, played, danced and laughed. The other a rebel Cork woman, socialist, Gaeilge activist, educator who worked for and with the Sheriff St community for all her working life, who took my to kilmaynhem as a nipper, who taught me the difficult word ag spaisdoireacht (wandering).
Regards from Barcelona, where our Latin American compañeras remember a women who has done much and still does much to assist in the struggle for a better world, the Argentinian folk singer and political activist, Mercedes Sosa, I embed her 2 most famous tunes here for ye.
Mercedes Sosa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_Sosa
http://www.mercedessosa.com.ar/
Gracias a La Vida (Thanks for the life)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyOJ-A5iv5I
Solo le Pido a Dios (only with the prayer to god)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIrot1Flczg
Listen to her music via the fine music tool SPOTIFY, https://www.spotify.com/en/get-started/
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De toda la vida.
http://video.google.es/videoplay?docid=-7630184195779199210
We will watch it tonight in Barcelona
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Thanks RAG bot, for that vid from last year, my compañeras from Galicia and Peru watched it before "Toda la Vida". We engaged in a good talk, then I cooked a nice omellette for my friends, leaving them space to chat themselves.
Hope you all had a great day in Dublin, heres the link for "an anarchists story", it seems only about 70 people have watched it through via youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6_X5m32jM0
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What happened on International Women's Day ?
Simple answer is that 95% of the worlds women followed their normal routine and WORKED not being allowed the luxury to do anything else.
Most of them being unaware of the speciality of the day, some even in Ireland are ignorant of the fact that the world's women only own 5% of the worlds wealth.