By Jason Slotkin, NPR, March 8, 2020 https://www.npr.org/2020/03/08/813477367/international-womens-day-2020-clashes-coronavirus-and-women-prepare-to-strike Organizers and marchers have been out marking International Women’s Day. A holiday with its origins in the labor and socialist movements of the 20th century, the day now recognized by the United Nations occasions rallies and events from Caracas to Baghdad to spotlight issues facing women globally. […]
Mexican Women Try the Power of Silence
www.voiceoffreedom.ca In quiet protest of gender violence, many women plan a one-day retreat from public life March 9. Their temporary absence might bring permanent change. By the Monitor’s Editorial Board, Christian Science Monitor, February 27, 2020 https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2020/0227/Mexican-women-try-the-power-of-silence On March 9, much of Mexico will become very quiet. The silence, in fact, is meant to be […]
For the 1st Time, Architecture’s Most Prestigious Prize is Awarded to 2 Women
Yvonne Farrell: ” . . . how we imagine ourselves optimistically with all the potential that architecture inherently has — to make new worlds and to make new futures.” By Neda Ullaby, NPR News, March 3, 2020 https://www.npr.org/2020/03/03/811030441/in-a-first-architectures-most-prestigious-prize-is-awarded-to-two-women In a video released by the Pritzker Architecture Prize, commonly seen as the Nobel of the architecture […]
In World First, Scotland Moves to Make Tampons and Pads Free for All Women
By Emma Fiala, The Mind Unleashed, February 27, 2020 https://themindunleashed.com/2020/02/in-world-first-scotland-moves-to-make-tampons-and-pads-free-for-all-women Scotland is set to become the first country in the world to make period products free. (TMU) — Earlier this week, Scotland’s parliament approved plans to make sanitary products free for all women making it one step closer to becoming the first nation in the […]
💟 and ☮️ for International Women’s Day
www.voiceoffreedom.ca March 8th, 2020, is International Women’s Day. This year, leading up to the day, on the day of, and even the day after, we see planned protests around the world saying “Enough!” to violence and gender inequality. The passion for this change comes from escalating violence and a collective heart conscious desire for Love […]
International Women’s Day 2020 Campaign Theme: #EachforEqual
International Women’s Day 2020 Campaign Theme is #EachforEqual https://www.internationalwomensday.com/Theme An equal world is an enabled world. Individually, we’re all responsible for our own thoughts and actions – all day, every day. We can actively choose to broaden perceptions, improve situations and celebrate women’s achievements. Collectively, each one of us can help create a gender-equal world. […]
International Women’s Day 2020 — Red Hands, Shoes, Masks & Dresses — “Enough Violence!”
www.voice of freedom.ca Women in Mexico have been protesting gender violence and inequality for years. March 9th, the day after International Women’s Day, they are planning something new — mass withdrawal — not going to work for the day. This latest idea was spurred on by the violent death, February 9, of 25-year-old Ingrid Escamilla. […]
CBC Sports Commits to Gender-balanced Coverage Across All Platforms
Two articles on sport-wide and individual victories. CBC Sports Commits to Gender-balanced Coverage Across All Platforms By Signa Butler, CBC, March 06, 2020 https://www.cbc.ca/sports/iwd/cbc-sports-commits-to-gender-balanced-sports-coverage-1.5487976 ‘One of the critical pieces to keeping girls in sport is representation’ All it took for Olympic moguls champion Jennifer Heil to get into sports was a Sports Illustrated cover at […]
Afghan Mayor Honored as ‘Woman of Courage’ Implores Pompeo to Uphold Women’s Rights After Taliban Deal
By Kylie Atwood and Jennifer Hansler, CNN, March 4, 2020 https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/04/politics/afghan-women-us-taliban-deal/index.html Washington (CNN) One of the women honored for her courage at the US State Department on Wednesday made a personal appeal to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to safeguard women’s rights in Afghanistan amid an uncertain future in the wake of the US-Taliban agreement. […]
March 9th – Women in Mexico Withdraw for Gender Rights
“No women in offices or schools. No women in restaurants or stores. No women on public transportation, in cars or on the street. “A country without women, for one day. “An alliance of feminist groups in Mexico that — fueled by the rising violence against women and girls, including two horrific murders that appalled the […]
Indigenous Women Standing for Rights and Community
www.voiceoffreedom.ca From protesting to building tiny houses, Indigenous women are the on the front-lines of change. Below are 2 posts illustrating their courage. Women are the Face of Mohawk Resistance Christopher Curtis, Montreal Gazette, March 1, 2020 https://popularresistance.org/women-are-the-face-of-mohawk-resistance/ On the front lines of the Indigenous resistance movement, it is young women — born after the […]
Russian Advocates against Domestic Violence Branded ‘Enemies of the Family’
Warning: This story contains graphic details By Chris Brown, CBC News, February 25, 2020 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-domestic-violence-1.5437241 Given the savagery of what Margarita Gracheva’s husband did to her, you’d think Russian lawmakers would want to stop it from happening to other women. Instead, attitudes toward legislating tougher laws on domestic violence remain stuck in another century. Two […]
Citizen’s Basic Income: A Response to Poverty
By Citizens Basic Income Trust, February 27, 2020 https://citizensincome.org/news/citizens-basic-income-a-response-to-poverty ATD Fourth World has published the results of its Understanding Poverty in all its Forms research project: an international project that is asking people in poverty what for them are its most important dimensions. A report has now been published on findings for the UK: https://atd-uk.org/projects-campaigns/understanding-poverty. […]
Canadian Resource Projects on Two Continents Contested
Pipeline Dispute: Ministers, Wet’suwet’en Chiefs Reach Proposed Agreement The Canadian Press, March 1, 2020 https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/pipeline-rail-blockade-agreement SMITHERS, B.C. — A Wet’suwet’en hereditary chief and senior government ministers say they have reached a proposed arrangement in a pipeline dispute that has prompted solidarity protests across Canada in recent weeks. Federal Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett and British […]
Standing Up for Indigenous Land Rights in Canada, Brazil, and California
“On February 6, Unist’ot’en members watched on social media as the RCMP mounted a dramatic raid before dawn. . . arresting six people. “But rather than serving to quell the resistance, the arrests inspired a wave of solidarity protests and transportation blockades across Canada.” Elsewhere, the Pope and Greenpeace are pleading for protection of the […]
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