What's happening for International Women's Day?

by Eric Blair Fri Mar 06, 2009 10:34

Angela 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

by redjade Fri Mar 06, 2009 12:44

More info on the Campaign to end FGM: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/91360

by bot - RAG Fri Mar 06, 2009 23:47

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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by redjade Sat Mar 07, 2009 11:39

http://www.Amnesty.hu
Film by http://MundiRomani.com

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by Joe Moore - Cork Anti Racism Network Sat Mar 07, 2009 21:30 mapuche at eircom dot net

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.

by dunk Sun Mar 08, 2009 13:55

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.

The driving force behind the nueva canción movement, singer Mercedes Sosa was born and raised in Tucumán, Argentina, beginning her performing career at age 15 after taking top honors in a radio station amateur competition. A rich, expressive vocalist and a gifted interpreter, Sosa was dubbed "the voice of the silent majority" for her choice of overtly political material, and alongside artists including Violetta Parra and Atahualpa Yupanqui she spearheaded the rise of the so-called "nueva canción" movement, which heralded the emergence of protest music across Argentina and Chile during the 1960s. The movement was crippled in 1973 by the CIA-sponsored coup which ousted democratically-elected Chilean President Salvador Allende; with her repertoire of songs championing human rights and democracy, Sosa was viewed as a serious threat by the military regime which assumed power, and in 1975 she was arrested during a live performance which also resulted in the incarceration of many audience members. Death threats forced her to leave Argentina in 1979, and she remained in exile for three years, finally returning with a triumphant comeback performance in February 1982. Sosa recorded prolifically in the years to follow.

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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by dunk Sun Mar 08, 2009 14:20

De toda la vida.
http://video.google.es/videoplay?docid=-7630184195779199210

De toda la vida (For all of the life) is a documentary (Lisa Berger and Carol Mazer, 1986) on the organization Mujeres Libres (Free Women) It tells, through interviews, the participation in the Spanish civil war and struggle day to day as anarchists and women in war and revolution. The women talk about how they engaged in war, their relations with anarchists and other organizations about their life since then. Decades later, a free woman is still a model of revolutionary feminism

We will watch it tonight in Barcelona

by dunk Sun Mar 08, 2009 22:38

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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by Laois Man Wed Mar 11, 2009 14:48

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.