Happy International Women's day DU ladies

[malaise]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/03/08/statement-president-international-women-s-day
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Statement by the President on International Women’s Day

On International Women’s Day we celebrate the many milestones on the road to gender equality, and recommit ourselves to fight for the rights and opportunities of women and girls around the world.

Empowering women isn’t just the right thing to do – it’s the smart thing to do. When women succeed, nations are more safe, more secure, and more prosperous. Over the last year, we’ve seen women and girls inspiring communities and entire countries to stand up for freedom and justice, and I’m proud of my Administration’s efforts to promote gender equality worldwide.

As a nation, we’ve launched new efforts to promote women’s economic empowerment and political participation, to prevent and respond to gender-based violence, and to strengthen our commitment to helping more women participate in peacebuilding and conflict resolution. We are promoting food security initiatives that recognize the rights and needs of women farmers, and ensuring that women and girls are at the center of global health programs. And we will continue to focus on empowering women and girls at home and abroad.

We’ve also worked with a wide range of partners – from the United Nations and civil society groups to the private sector – to advance this important agenda. Because when it comes to creating a world in which our sons and daughters can reach their potential, we each have a role to play. And we can make even more progress together.

[yuiyoshida]

1. Proud to be the first to Kick and Rec this

mahalo Malaise! arigatou!

[malaise]

2. Hi there yuiyoshida

Have a great day

[yuiyoshida]

3. back attcha

Malaise!
(did you see my post? http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6330150 )

[Joe Johns]

4. Oops, I didn't know

Luckily for me, my wife is the forgiving sort. Durec.

[malaise]

6. I think it's celebrated way more overseas than in America

but folks are catching on.

[Bugenhagen]

5. Happy March 8th

This is a big holiday in our house. I bought my wife a card over a month ago (I have learned to shop early).

[barbtries]

7. the older i get

the more i think that it is patriarchy that is fucking up the world. and greed - greed's a biggie. racism - killing us. religion - the universal excuse. yada yada yada hell in a handbasket. i think if women were running the world it would be a better place though i don't know why we just cannot all be equal.
Happy Women's Day to you, too Malaise - but i prefer "woman" to lady (turned 18 in 1973)

[socialist_n_TN]

9. Hmm barbtries, I just noticed a common theme amongst all of that list.........

Capitalism encourages and abets ALL of them.

[Kath1]

19. You are so damn right, barbrtries!

Racism. sexism, greed and religion have to go for us to have lives of peace and equality.

Thank you for the excellent post. (Turned 18 in 1976!)

[socialist_n_TN]

8. I echo my comrade's sentiment.....

Happy IWD to my Mom, my sister, my wife and my daughters with love and to all my comrades in the continuing fight for gender equality.

My family was very matriarchal and I'm thankful for it every day. It made me who I am.

[barbtries]

14. that's a good thought

that i never until now put together with my family. we are more of a matriarchy too, more than once due to premature death or abandonment. i have 3 sons. my greatest desire as a mother has been to raise them to know that women are people. think i've done fairly well; but i failed too, because not a one of them voted in the last election.

[Kath1]

21. Matriarchy here,too.

Daughter is 25 and living with BF.

She is very politically involved. Encourage those guys to VOTE!

[Ichingcarpenter]

10. International Working Women’s Day was started by the Socialist Party of America

International Working Women’s Day was started by the Socialist Party of America to commemorate a wave of spontaneous strikes by first- and second-generation Jewish, Russian, and Italian immigrant teenage girls (as in like, they were 16 years old) in the textile mills of New York City. This was the “Uprising of 20,000” and was one of the most infectious displays of labor militancy in the 20th century. A couple years later Clara Zeitkin, a German Marxist who would be arrested several times for helping to incite the 1919 communist revolution in Germany, brought it to the floor of the Second International and the first Women’s Day celebrations in Europe were held by communist parties and communist women.


This isn’t even like “oh yeah well maybe it kinda had the phrase ‘working women’ in there originally.” It was started by socialists to commemorate daring strike actions led by newly-immigrated teenage girls and then formalized by the international communist movement.

[malaise]

11. I know the history - we celebrate it every year

and so do many countries but the ICM really spread the celebration.

[Ichingcarpenter]

13. Many don't know the history and if you notice

neither does the president acknowledge the history on who and why this day was recognized back then....... I thought you did know but others I'm sure did not.

[barbtries]

15. i didn't know it.

if it wasn't for a fb friend from Spain and Malaise, i would not have known it was International Women's Day.

[Kath1]

20. I know.

We celebtate war shit all the time in the United States - "Bombs bursting in air."

But we don't celebrate peace and women's equality.

That really is fucked up.

[malaise]

16. I'm just reading today's local paper and they have repeated the history

and you're right lots of folks don't know the history

[Jefferson23]

12. Celebrate and many more to come. K&R

[meow2u3]

17. Thank you very much

I just wish the US would celebrate International Women's Day, just like most of the world. If it weren't for the wacko fundies in charge, we would be celebrating gender equality.

[Kath1]

18. Happy International Women's Day!

Keep up the pressure for PEACE and EQUALITY!