IWD Events

We are starting to receive announcements of events for International Women’s Day (March 8th). While we no longer maintain a complete calendar, we will try to post announcements on the blog as space and time permit. For more information about the history of IWD and other calendars of events around the world, please visit the FPN IWD page.

Boston, MA/US:
***** CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY *****
with INCITE! Boston Women of Color Against Violence
Presenting, as part of our film series on Global South Women’s Movements,
A Fundraiser Film Screening & Discussion:
‘FIGHT WITHOUT FEAR!’
Filipinas Resist U.S. Imperialism
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WHEN: 4 pm – Sunday, March 11
WHERE: Encuentro 5, 33 Harrison Ave., 5th floor (Downtown Crossing T-stop)
Suggested donation: $7, based on ability (All proceeds will go to support GABRIELA’s work)

GABRIELA is a mass women’s organization in the Philippines working to free women from all forms of oppression, whether intimate violence, landlessness and economic exploitation, lack of reproductive healthcare – or foreign domination by the U.S.
* After 9/11, U.S. bases in the Philippines re-opened…
* Women were over half of the 800 people disappeared in recent political violence under the U.S.-backed Arroyo dictatorship…
* Decades of economic and military domination by the U.S. have resulted in the massive exportation of Filipinas as domestic workers and mail-order brides…

Come hear about this amazing movement’s work organizing peasant women, squatters, students, and the urban poor!
JOIN US for a discussion, and celebration of International Women’s Day — and women’s resistance!

With:
* Darlene Lombos, organizer/film-maker
* Representatives from GABRIELA Network
* members of INCITE! Boston Women of Color Against Violence
* and others!

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About the Film Series:
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Too often the roles of Global South women in struggles for economic
and social justice are ignored. Or they are mentioned in passing,
without a full look at the richness of their experiences, and lessons
they offer us all.
* What can we learn from women’s contributions?
* Why does colonization depend on sexism?
* What can Global South women teach us about how racism, patriarchy, & imperialism work, that we might otherwise miss?

For more info, please contact inciteboston@yahoo.com or 617-947-0759
INCITE! Boston Women of Color Against Violence inciteboston.blogspot.com

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The theme for this year’s Gather the Women IWD events is “Celebrating the Ways of Women. Here is a statement that you can feel free to use at your own events:

We invite women to demonstrate
their courage to risk leaving old conformities
by joining with millions of others throughout the world
to celebrate women’s true worth,
to express shared concern for our human family,
and to create and support actions
that will enable humanity to live together
in a balanced, harmonious and peaceful world.

Gather the Women is evoking at a profound level
an experience of our own woman’s worth to the world.

As women we bring life forward.
We are in touch with the cycles of life
and we function in a context that is deeply relational.
We have the capacity to generate
creative solutions that benefit
all life on the planet.

Gather the Women is creating
a rich exchange of cultural values
to dissolve the ties that bind us to the illusion
that one segment of our human family can win
while another loses.

Together we women are contributing
to a new collective wisdom
and we are lending our strength
to that which we wish to embrace.
From this emerging balance is being born
a new dimension of our humanity.

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From Australia:

International Women’s Day is a ‘red letter’ day in our calendar, one when
women celebrate the lives and achievements of all women around the
globe.This year, we are extremely fortunate to have Malalai Joya, the Afghan
parliamentarian, in Australia at the invitation of UNIFEM and Melbourne
supporters of Malalai are privileged to be able to host two events for her:
a lunch on Sunday March 11th and a speaking forum on Monday March
12th.

The youngest and arguably the most outspoken and courageous defender of
women’s human rights in the Afghan parliament, Malalai works under
constant threat of death. Melbourne events will provide a unique opportunity
for all to hear of Malalai’s courageous work, obtain firsthand information
of Afghan women’s lives today and meet Malalai, in person. She is a local
hero in Afghanistan and a champion amongst all women: not to be missed!

Please feel free to circulate this invitation far and wide.

With warm wishes
Onnie Wilson
RAWA Supporters Melbourne

1. Lunch with Malalai
WHEN?
Sunday, March 11, 12.00pm
WHAT?
Banquet lunch $40 per person ($30 concession)
WHERE?
Curry Masala
240 High Street, Northcote, Melbourne, Australia
Bookings: Onnie. Email: mok@…

2. Forum with Malalai
WHEN?
Monday March 12th, 7pm
WHAT?
An International Women’s Day forum, co-sponsored by Deakin University and
Yarrra Council: “Afghanistan Today: Women Striving for Human Rights in a
‘New Democracy’ ”
WHERE?
Richmond Town Hall
333 Bridge Road
Richmond, Melbourne, Australia

ENTRANCE By donation
For further information PH 9822 8858

*All proceeds will go to support Malalai’s work*

For more information on Malalai’s immense courage and work, visit her
website
http://www.malalaijoya.com/index1024.htm

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IWD for Women’s Web in Melbourne:
www.womensweb.com.au
Regards, Geraldine 9486 1808

Women’s Web Invites you to:
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY Thursday March 8
Women’s Web celebration: “CLAIM THE NAME – WOMAN”

When? 7pm March 8 2007
Where? The Old Homestead Inn, 170 Queens Parade,
Clifton Hill Tram 86

Cost? Donation – Food/drinks available at reasonable prices.

Join us and celebrate our identity as women; give us a 2 minute talk; share our
information table, find goodies to buy, and network.Feminist Peace Network › Edit — WordPress

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And from Louisville, Kentucky/US

“We Stand With The Women of the World� will be the theme for the 4th annual Louisville celebration of International Women’s Day on March 8. The event, which will be held at the Americana Community Center, 4801 Southside Dr., will begin at 5:30 pm with a rally. Entertainment will be provided by the Sudanese Community of Kentucky, Caminos Cultural Arts, River City Drum Corps and the Troubadours of Divine Bliss. There will also be an opportunity to participate in building a “Women’s Wall of Achievement with artist Gwendolyn Kelly as well as a Speakout and a chance to send IWD messages to women in Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran.

The event is free and open to the public. Free parking is available next door at St. John Vianney Church. For more information, please call 852-2663.