Dear Friends, You are aware that for the last eighteen years we have been commemorating International Women's Day on of around 8th March with various kinds of programmes which are both a sharing and learning process about the rights, concerns and struggles of women where emerging concerns and demands are consolidated. It was on 8th March many summers ago that working women went to town with a demand for just and proper wages under the leadership of Clara Zetkin.
Till today, women are yearning for justice, for freedom, for their voices to be heard. Women have been articulating their own visions, chalking their own paths. Women have a right to participate in deciding the course of their lives. Women's struggles are also linked to struggle of various other marginalized sections of society. So come another International Women's Day and let us meet again to talk about our struggles, our visions, our demands.Yes, about our steps, our paths. We begin with a rally which will commence at 9.30 p.m. on 7th March from Ambedkar Garden, near KTC Bus stand at Panaji and coverage at Azad Maidan where there will be a variety programme. Looking forward to meeting you. Yours sincerely, for Bailancho Saad
