Read the whole article Po. We sure have come a long way Baby!

We sure have Angel a chara, glad to see you on board too Queenie...and still another big journey in my lifetime I would hope. I am so glad I posted about 1.W.D this year and that some fun has occured and more information has been passed for next year. I mean...where better to have a celebration regarding all aspects of being a woman than in boomer land.

I was reading about the British suffragette movement and Emily Pankhurst in particular. It is facinating as it is reviling to read and know what all of those woman had to go through, imprisonment, force-feeding, enforced blood-letting etc.
One thing did lift my mood tho...it was in relation to EP's right hand woman and at one time when she was imprisoned in The London Tower. She was not searched before being put in her cell and had hidden a file of some description up the sleave of her coat. She was only a slip of a woman, very slight in demeanor. But this wee woman managed to escape from her cell and forced the door where the Crown Jewels were kept(under guard). The only person in the history of the monarchy to get within touching distance of such treasures!!! How cool was that...and all in the name of 'womens rights' I saw a photo of her with EP and other women of that era....boy they had some strength and guts.

Popea

Thanks for posting the history on this wonderful event.

QBall said that the US will one day recognize the day and we will get a Monday off. HAH! I say! Well, I would love the day off, but that would mean the US recognizing that women have a role in this country. Heck, it would mean recognizing that women exist!

The event was celebrated in a few places in the US. There was an event in my hometown, but unfortunately I was in Boston and there was nothing there. Imagine that, nothing in one of our most important cities.

I don't mean, by the way, to be hard on the US. I love this country, but also know that it has a long way to go in recognizing many groups of people, women included.

So let me get this straight...you mean that my Ex Husband doesn't really have the crown jewels? He kept telling me he did, but I swear I never saw them. Now I know why ...

What?

Teehehamamamaha....okay, okay, I'm outta here. Nite.

LADIES THIS MIGHT BE UNSEATLING TO SOME SO DECIDE IF YOU CAN LISTEN TO IT AND BE OK WITH ANYTHING YOU MIGHT HEER...

Women speak out: The Veil and Islamic and Religious Laws


International Women's Day speeches - Listen online


GHQ-Multimedia Presents:
The speeches from the seminar "Women's Right, the Veil and Islamic and
Religious Laws" held at the University of London Union in London on 8
March 2007 to mark International Women's Day.


Listen online or download the speeches in MP3 format by Sohaila
Sharifi, Taslima Nasreen, Maryam Namazie, Mina Ahadi, Sonja Eggerickx
and Ann Harrison.


http://www.gayhumanist.com/multimedia/iwd2007/


"This was a superb and exhilarating evening. I cannot say how much
admiration I have for these courageous women. They sense that they are
at the head of a growing movement and that the women of Iran are
aching to be freed from the confines of the 'medieval rag' and all it
represents," said Terry Sanderson, president of the National Secular
Society and the media spokesperson for the Gay & Lesbian Humanist
Association (which publishes GHQ).


The seminar was co-sponsored by the International Campaign in Defence
of Women's Right in Iran - UK, the National Secular Society and the
Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association.

I'm listening to it right now. Thank you for posting this Celtic.
This is just the beginning of the fight.
Power to these very brave women!

If you listen to only one of these women, listen to Taslima Nasreen.
It's incredible. She continues to fight, despite threats to hang her!

"Women were created as a pleasure for men...nothing more."
"Rapists are set free...it's not considered a crime."

These are just two quotes of the appalling things she tells.

i though of you funnie enough and rembered you had just watch an islamic movie....thought it add to what you had previousie learned.....
For some others mabie the first steap in learning the realitie for other woman in diffrent parts of the world..