Comments on: International Women’s Day 2009: Pictures From The Million Women Rise IWD Event In London http://www.feministpeacenetwork.org/2009/03/09/international-womens-day-2009-pictures-from-the-million-women-rise-iwd-event-in-london/ UrGently Fierce Feminism In Perilous Times Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:02:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: JENNIFER DREW http://www.feministpeacenetwork.org/2009/03/09/international-womens-day-2009-pictures-from-the-million-women-rise-iwd-event-in-london/comment-page-1/#comment-197970 JENNIFER DREW Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:56:25 +0000 http://www.feministpeacenetwork.org/2009/03/09/international-womens-day-2009-pictures-from-the-million-women-rise-iwd-event-in-london/#comment-197970 Thank you Lucinda for adding Ghosts and Shadows' video of Million Women Rise march. I was one of many women and children marching and the atmosphere was electric. Yes women stopped the traffic and yes women marched in Central London's premier shopping centre, but did the media acknowledge this? Of course not - instead there was a deathly silence from the male-dominated and male owned media. The only news media reported was either male on male violence (wars of course), the continuing recession (which is due to deliberate male capitalist motivated mismanagement) or else trivial articles unceasingly telling women how they do not measure up compared to men. But women's voices will not be silenced and it was wonderful seeing so many women of differing ages, backgrounds, ethnicities and also hearing the messages of support from women not living in the UK. Thank you Lucinda for adding Ghosts and Shadows’ video of Million Women Rise march. I was one of many women and children marching and the atmosphere was electric. Yes women stopped the traffic and yes women marched in Central London’s premier shopping centre, but did the media acknowledge this? Of course not – instead there was a deathly silence from the male-dominated and male owned media. The only news media reported was either male on male violence (wars of course), the continuing recession (which is due to deliberate male capitalist motivated mismanagement) or else trivial articles unceasingly telling women how they do not measure up compared to men.

But women’s voices will not be silenced and it was wonderful seeing so many women of differing ages, backgrounds, ethnicities and also hearing the messages of support from women not living in the UK.

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