A woman's place is in the revolution

[dcsmart]

Women picketing during the Bread and Roses strike in Lawrence

IT'S THE 100th anniversary of the first International Women's Day, and Newsweek is celebrating "150 Women Who Shake the World."

While it includes a small selection of women rights activists, the list of shakers is weighted down by the likes of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice and German Chancellor Angela Merkel--women whose foreign policy decisions only make the lives of women in most of the world worse.

And if the definition of "powerful women" is their ability to amass wealth and influence at the expense of others, then the Newsweek list does its job--it includes billionaire Melinda Gates, former Washington, D.C., school "reform" guru Michelle Rhee and former First Lady Laura Bush.

But if you're looking for powerful women who oppose exploitation, Newsweek is probably the wrong place to look. Because the source of women's power--and the real legacy of International Women's Day--is in protests and strikes that are part of a long and rich history of the women workers' movement internationally.

FULL ARTICLE
http://socialistworker.org/2011/03/08/womens-place-in-the-revolution

[Canuckistanian]

1. My wife has a campaign button

"Women Belong in the House.... and Senate"

[swilton]

2. I don't know about Angela

But Billary and Condosleezea are not feminists.

[handmade34]

3. relevant

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/fword-must-be-refreshed-and-reclaimed-by-a-new-generation-20110307-1bl4g.html

by Annie Lennox

"It shocks, disappoints and angers me that in a world where man has travelled to the moon and where we can connect to people anywhere on earth instantly online, men and women are still not equal.

The statistics are sobering. Across the globe, gender-based violence causes more deaths and disabilities among women of child-bearing age than cancer, malaria, traffic accidents and war combined. Even in the war-ravaged Democratic Republic of Congo, it's safer to be a soldier than a woman."

[ellenrr]

4. fantastic! every day is women's day

we won't be ghettoized to one day or one month.