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IWD in Guatemala
IWD in Guatemala By Chantal Wynter GUATEMALA CITY — On March 8, a lively gathering of some 3000 ...
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IWD live to air on 2SER-FM
IWD live to air on 2SER-FM SYDNEY — As women take to the streets of Sydney on Saturday, March ...
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Political prisoner sends greetings on IWD
Political prisoner sends greetings on IWD Following is the text of an International Women's ... I miss being at the IWD rally with sisters in Perth and Sydney. Thank you for all the solidarity you have ...
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IWD forums debate feminist issues
IWD forums debate feminist issues In preparation for International Women's Day, forums on ... addressed by Ruth Ellis of the Australian Services Union and Ana Kalis and Angela Luvera from the IWD ...
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CHILE: President-elect addresses IWD rally
Chilean capital to celebrate International Women s Day (IWD). Contingents of students and members of the ... president had addressed an IWD rally in Chile. Bachelet pledged support for women, and promised to make life ...
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Western Sydney IWD fighting for global justice
bigger IWD action on March 8 with the theme, "Women fighting for global justice". Kobra ... prison in Windsor, on the western outskirts of Sydney. The western Sydney IWD rally will assemble at 4pm, ...
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IWD Collective debates men's support
the IWD rally and march on March 10. The IWD collective meeting on February 5, attended by members of ... including men, would be welcome at the rally and march. It was agreed that the IWD march should be as large ... of women who had not previously been involved in organising this year's IWD activities turned up ...
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IWD: 'no sexism, no war!'
IWD: 'no sexism, no war!' Erin Cameron, Melbourne On March 6, 250 people attended an ... the Philippines, told the rally that women would be marching in the Philippines on IWD to demand ...
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Sydney IWD debates men's participation
chosen for this year's IWD march be won — abolish all anti-abortion laws, for free child-care, ... discussing men's participation in IWD. After much debate, a motion to include supportive men in the ... included: that IWD is primarily a day for women to feel empowered by marching together; lthat the demands ...
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INDONESIA: IWD rallies champion women workers' rights
of Bogor, Bekasi and Tangerang commemorated International Women's Day (IWD) with a march from ... land evictions in Jakarta participated in the IWD rally and march. The coordinators of the Jakarta IWD ... be held on April 5 and this was reflected in the rallies this year. At an IWD rally in the central ...
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IWD kickstarted in north coast
feminists from NSW's north coast were disappointed that no IWD march occurred last year, the day only ... initiated a new IWD collective. Student activists, workers from women's services, radical feminists and ... socialist feminists from the DSP and Resistance have come together to ensure IWD 2001 makes a strong stand ...
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IWD actions to oppose war and racism
(IWD) collectives around Australia are organising actions, on or around March 8, which include among ... find out what is being planned. Jane Armanasco reported that the Perth IWD collective has planned ... process to provide the services it already provides. "IWD is keen to support the DVRC if it decides ...
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IWD collectives launched
January 31, and in conjunction with the Committee in Defence of Iraqi Women's Rights, the IWD ... Hobart IWD collective is also planning political discussions in the lead-up to the march and rally. At ... of IWD and on the effects of globalisation on women. The next meeting of the Hobart collective is on ...
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3CR: on air and in the street for IWD
Throughout the day, environment, arts, Pacific issues, prison and recovery programs will mark IWD. As usual, ... station's IWD programs. March 7, 2001 439 Culture ...
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Feminists march for IWD
the march's main demand, that anti-abortion laws be abolished. At Victoria Square, IWD Collective ... backyard abortions. Melanie Sjoberg from Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor read an IWD ... space in Indonesia, but noted that in the past week, 200 IWD marchers were arrested in Indonesia. ...
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IWD around the world
Cristobal de las Casas on March 8 for the International Women's Day (IWD) activities. Wearing ... of women and men, organised by the Worker Communist Party of Iran, joined the first ever IWD march in ... s Soho red light district staged a one-day strike to coincide with IWD to protest against attempts to ...
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An IWD message from Indonesia
Surabaya prison on the occasion of this year's IWD. I write this letter in a narrow and miserable cell ...
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Women take to the streets on IWD
"Feminism is not a dirty word". There they heard speakers from East Timor, the YWCA, the IWD collective ... organisation, the Democratic Socialists, the IWD Collective and Women in Industry and Community Health who ... launched a campaign around the contraceptive Depo Provera on IWD. Forced to change the traditional time of ...
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NZ IWD marchers call for changes to rape laws
Bronwen Beechey International Women's Day (IWD) — March 8 — was marked by marches protesting ... through the city centre in the largest IWD action for several years. A number of speakers, including ...
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A woman's place is in the struggle: IWD and the birth of women workers' struggle
International Women's Day, it is a day with very different origins. The birth of IWD almost 100 years ago ... concede to, but which the strikers eventually won. The first IWD was held on March 19, 1911, the date ... he failed to keep. Kollontai noted in 1920 that the first IWD "succeeded all expectation. ...
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PAKISTAN: IWD celebrated in Lahore
council, explained that IWD is a day to remember the heroic struggle of women to demand the right to vote ...
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BRITAIN: IWD marches oppose Iraq war
Iraq. There were IWD anti-war protests across Britain organised by the Stop the War Coalition. The ...
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IWD celebrated in Cambodia
of activities to celebrate IWD, including a bicycle ride, an arts and crafts exhibition and a charity ...
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Abortion picket marks IWD
Abortion picket marks IWD By Freya Pinney BRISBANE — "This demonstrates how so-called ...
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IWD marches show feminism is far from over
Jabiluka Action Group, Sunni Dawson (IWD Collective and Amnesty International), Danny Coulson (ASIET), and ... of gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders. IWD Collective member and DSP activist Karen ... women's services and the abolition of anti-abortion laws. Speakers included the IWD Collective's Jen ...