[WSF-Discuss] Fwd: EN: World March of Women activists take to the streets in 51 countries

Sat Mar 6 05:04:35 UTC 2010

Saturday, 6 March 2010

A posting, and information / news, that I’m sure that you’d all like  
to know about !  51 countries !  Congratulations, all of you at the  
World March of Women !  All power to you !

             JS

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Begin forwarded message:

> From: Alessandra Ceregatti - MMM <alessandra at marchemondiale.org>
> Date: March 6 2010 7:24:22 am GMT+05:30
> To: Info MMM <info at marchemondiale.org>
> Subject: EN: World March of Women activists take to the streets in  
> 51  countries
>
> Dear friends,
>
> We are starting in this weekend already in some countries the first  
> moment of our World March of Women Third International Action. We  
> will be on the streets in 51 countries! We are sending attached the  
> press release and I ask you all to help to spread in your websites  
> and among your email lists and media contacts (attached in English,  
> Spanish, French and Portuguese). All the info is also available in  
> our website www.wmw2010.info. I also would like to inform you that  
> we have the following additional audiovisual materials:
>
> 1. 7 min video: "Women on the March until we are al Free!" (for now  
> available only in Spanish) in:
> Mujeres en la Minga - http://www.movimientos.org/mujeres/
>
> WSFTV.net - http://www.wsftv.net/Members/edorizzi/videos/Mujeres_en_Marcha.mp4/view
>
> Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXIoAfV6BEM
>
>
> 2. Special report on 8th of March "Voz de los  
> Movimientos" (available only in Spanish in http://www.radioteca.net/result.php?id=13030098) 
>  and audios on the origin of the International Women's Day (in  
> Spanish, English and French) will be available soon in the website  
> Minga Mujeres (www.movimientos.org/mujeres)
>
> In solidarity and struggle,
>
> Alessandra Ceregatti
> WMW - IS
> =============
> From this weekend onwards, World March of Women activists take to  
> the streets in 51 countries
> Activists in various countries will denounce the situation of women  
> in the world and present their demands with regards to the common  
> good and public services, peace and demilitarisation, women’s  
> economic autonomy and violence against women. They will also  
> celebrate the 100th anniversary of the declaration of International  
> Women’s Day.
> 5th March 2010 – Under the slogan “Women on the March until we are  
> All Free!” the World March of Women will take to the streets in all  
> four corners of the world where the movement is present – Africa,  
> Americas, Asia-Oceania and Europe – in the first key moment of its  
> 3rd International Action. According to the WMW International  
> Secretariat, currently based in São Paulo, Brazil, 51 countries have  
> already confirmed that they will be carrying out actions (see table  
> below). In many countries, mobilisations begin this Saturday, the  
> 6th March. And in New Caledonia, the 1st WMW action took place on  
> the 27th February. But the majority of countries have organised  
> their actions to take place on the 8th  March.
> Inaugurating the 3rd International Action, there are countries  
> preparing marches and mobilisations during the whole 8th to 18th  
> March period, or during some days in between, in this way drawing  
> society’s attention to women’s situations and demands for justice.  
> It is the case of Brazil, for example, where around 2,000 women from  
> the WMW will march together during 10 days, from Campinas to the  
> capital of São Paulo state. Or in Pakistan, where rural and urban  
> women will march and will hold decentralised seminars and other  
> activities from the 12th to 18th in Toba Tek Singh, Gojra,  
> Gujranwala, Shaikhupora, Kasur and Lahore. In Sri Lanka, a march  
> will take place during 2 moments between the cities of Thalahena y  
> Marawila: between the 8th and the 11th, and between the 15th and the  
> 18th. In Mali, decentralised marches will take place in six  
> districts of the capital, Bamako, from the 8th to the 15th March.  
> These actions will culminate in the carrying out of a march on the  
> 18th, in the North of the country, a region in conflict. In Kenya,  
> activities will start on the 8th and will finish on the 18th and  
> will include marches and cultural events, such as theatrical  
> performances, vigils and visits to communities.
>
> Countries organising activities as part of the WMW’s 3rd  
> International Action
> Africa
> Algeria
> Burkina Faso
> Cameroon
> Central African Republic
> Democratic Republic of Congo
> Kenya
> Mali
> Morocco
> Mozambique
> South Africa
> Sudan
> Western Sahara
>
> Americas
> Argentina
> Bolivia
> Brazil
> Canada
> Chile
> Colombia
> Cuba
> Ecuador
> El Salvador
> Guatemala
> Haiti
> Honduras
> Martinique
> Mexico
> Peru
> Quebec
> United States
>
> Asia-Oceania
> Bangladesh
> India
> Japan
> Nepal
> New Caledonia
> Pakistan
> Philippines
> Republic of Korea
> Sri Lanka
>
> Europe
> Albania
> Bask Country
> Belgium
> Catalonia
> England
> France
> Galicia
> Greece
> Italy
> Macedonia
> Portugal
> Switzerland
> Turkey
>
>
> How the WMW 3rd International Action is organised
> The 3rd International Action is being launched on International  
> Women’s Day (8th March), and will continue throughout the year until  
> the 17th October (the International Day for the Eradication  
> Poverty). The International Action includes decentralised activities  
> (at the country level) and regional activities (in Asia-Oceania,  
> Europe and the Americas). It also includes an international event,  
> focusing on peace and demilitarisation, the mobilisation in Bukavu  
> (South Kivu province), in the Democratic Republic of Congo, that  
> will bring the International Action to an end. Around 500 women will  
> participate in this mobilisation, the majority from the African  
> continent, but also from other countries in conflict in the world.
> For details of country level actions, visit the website of the 3rd  
> International Action: http://www.wmw2010.info
>
> International Women’s Day: In search of lost history
> In this first key moment of the 3rd International Action, WMW  
> activists will also highlight the history of International Women’s  
> Day (today commemorated on the 8th March) whose true meaning – the  
> struggle for women’s rights and the transformation of society – is  
> lost in the commercialisation that takes place around this day.  
> Traditionally, this history is linked to a strike and / or fire that  
> are supposed to have taken place in a women’s textile factory in New  
> York, either in 1857 or in 1908, but in a deeper research into its  
> origins, a whole period of feminist struggle for economic and  
> workers rights, as well as the right to vote, in the USA and  
> elsewhere is discovered.
> It was in 1910, at the 2nd International Socialist Women’s  
> Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, that Clara Zetkin – German  
> socialist and feminist – proposed the creation of an annual  
> International Women’s Day, following the example of North American  
> socialist women who, since 1908, had been organising a national  
> annual Woman’s Day (to demand economic and political equality for  
> women, to denounce exploitation of women workers, to demand the  
> right to vote, etc).
> To read more about the history of International Women’s Day, please  
> go to: http://www.marchemondiale.org/actions/2010action/origen8marzo/en
>
> For interviews and further information
>
> 1. Alessandra Ceregatti (World March of Women International  
> Secretariat), for contacts with the WMW International Committee and  
> National Coordinating Bodies in various countries: Tel. +55 11  
> 3032-3243 or +55 11 8316-3664 / Email: communication at marchemondiale.org 
> .
> 2. World March of Women websites: www.wmw2010.info and WMW: www.marchemondiale.org
>

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