Celebrating International Women's Day

[Sky]

[quote]International Women's Day (8 March) is an occasion marked by women's groups around the world. This date is also commemorated at the United Nations and is designated in many countries as a national holiday. When women on all continents, often divided by national boundaries and by ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic and political differences, come together to celebrate their Day, they can look back to a tradition that represents at least nine decades of struggle for equality, justice, peace and development.

International Women's Day is the story of ordinary women as makers of history; it is rooted in the centuries-old struggle of women to participate in society on an equal footing with men. In ancient Greece, Lysistrata initiated a sexual strike against men in order to end war; during the French Revolution, Parisian women calling for "liberty, equality, fraternity" marched on Versailles to demand women's suffrage.
http://www.ha.xinhuanet.com/fuwu/shenghuo/2008-03/06/content_12628255.htm

[Ele'ill]

International Women’s Day is a day of struggle for the rights of women and for social progress within the state’s specific conditions and situation. Working people in all countries hold March 8 as a day of solidarity in the struggle for peace in observance of the great contributions made by women to the strengthening of friendship between peoples and the struggle for peace.

The chief thing is to get women to take part in socially productive labor, to liberate them from domestic slavery, to free them from their stupefying and humiliating subjugation to the eternal drudgery of the kitchen and the nursery. This struggle will be a long one, and it demands a radical reconstruction both of social technique and of morals.

The participation of women in social production is progressive, inasmuch as it removes them from the restrictive circle of family interests, makes them economically independent of the family, introduces them to sociopolitical life, and awakens their class consciousness.

Oppressed masses of working women are the greatest reserve of the proletarian revolution. The proletariat cannot gain complete freedom without winning complete freedom for women.

You know, I've followed your posting and you remind me of the ever frantic indymedia news flashes.

[Joby]

Congratulations to women.

They've come a long way in not all that long.

BTW, what "Popular Democratic Front" are you refering to?

Both the PFLP and DFLP morphed into one? :confused:

[Maybe-not]

Generally Womens Day isn't as widely marked as it should be. (Not in Denmark anyway).
But congrats to them anyway, i hope the struggle of all feminists, male or female, will pay off.

[Bud Struggle]

I celebrated it at Hooters! :)

But then again I'm a Capitalist. :(

[Redmau5]

I celebrated it at Hooters! :)

But then again I'm a Capitalist. :(

Really? How much property do you own?

[Bud Struggle]

Really? How much property do you own?

I have a chemical factory and an industrial laundry. I also have quite a bit of rental property--mostly industrial and commercial.

It's a living. :)

[NWO]

When is International Mans day?

[Jazzratt]

When is International Mans day?

Generally it runs from the first of Janurary to to the thirty-first of December with a 24-hour break at the beginning of March.

[pusher robot]

When is International Mans day?

Originally it took place in early to mid-January. Over the years the date has progressed from the second Sunday in January, to the third, then the fourth Sunday in January; it is now on the first Sunday in February.

[Jazzratt]

Originally it took place in early to mid-January. Over the years the date has progressed from the second Sunday in January, to the third, then the fourth Sunday in January; it is now on the first Sunday in February.

Wait people feel the need for an International Men's Day? You're fucking kidding right? Tell me you're kidding?

[pusher robot]

Wait people feel the need for an International Men's Day? You're fucking kidding right? Tell me you're kidding?
Yes, in a "ha-ha, only serious" sort of way. I suppose it is a bit obtuse for non-USians here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl

[Jazzratt]

Yes, in a "ha-ha, only serious" sort of way. I suppose it is a bit obtuse for non-USians here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl

Heh, ah right. I thought there was some day in which men gather around and talk about how hard it is on them that they live in such a female-dominated society or something :lol:

[pusher robot]

Heh, ah right. I thought there was some day in which men gather around and talk about how hard it is on them that they live in such a female-dominated society or something :lol:
Feh. Such whining would be downright unmanly.

[Bud Struggle]

Feh. Such whining would be downright unmanly.

But definitely Marxist. :lol:

[NWO]

I might have my business celebrate international mans day.

[Redmau5]

I have a chemical factory and an industrial laundry. I also have quite a bit of rental property--mostly industrial and commercial.

It's a living. :)

Wow there's me thinking you'd be spending your time in a yacht off the south of France rather than spending a great deal of your time on a message board.

[Bud Struggle]

Wow there's me thinking you'd be spending your time in a yacht off the south of France rather than spending a great deal of your time on a message board.

Opressing the masses is hard work. :hammersickle: :lol: