A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE STRUGGLE! WOMEN OF THE WORLD UNITE!
PARRAMATTA - Wednesday 8 November - 6pm at Cumberland Women's Health Centre,
Campbell St (behind Westfield)
TEL: Barbara 02 9630 3187 for more info
Since its beginnings, International Women's Day (IWD) has been a day of
unity, solidarity and action. The first Women's Day was declared on Feb
28, 1907 when women socialists in the Unites STates organised huge
demonstrations and meetings to demand political rights for working women.
In 1909, 30000 women garment workers in New York shut down the garment
industry with a 13 week strike to win shorter working hours, better wages
and conditions and the right to unionise. In 1910, the International
Conference of Socialist Working Women voted to organise an International
Working Women's Day to make the victory of the garment workers and to call
for the vote for women. On the 19th March 1911, one million women and men
marched in Denmark, Australia, Germany and Switzerland. Over the next 2
years, Holland, Sweden and Russia and the USA joined the international day
of action. In 1915, IWD was transferred to March 8 and by 120, IWD turned
from solely being a day of struggle for the franchise of women into a
international day of struggle for the full and absolute liberation of women.
Every year since, IWD has been a day when women have come together to
celebrate our achievements and plan future campaigns and actions. While
women's rights are under attack, we as women must unite in our struggle.
Join your local International Women's Day Collective and help organise
International Women's Day 2001.
A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE STRUGGLE! WOMEN OF THE WORLD UNITE!
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