I was interested to see how the news media covered International Women's Day yesterday, so naturally I google-newsed it. The articles that came up reveals snapshots of women's lives around the world. While the stories showed vast differences in women's experiences, they were all linked by a common theme of activism and the fight for justice.
Here in DC, the Examiner profiled a Code Pink vigil, while in New Delhi protests condemned recent "moral policing" attacks on women. In Nepal, women called for more substantive work on the part of the government to promote women as equal members of society, and in Toronto, Scotiabank hosted a "Women's Expo" with several nonprofit health and women's organizations.
Unfortunately, this year I spend International Women's Day writing a paper, but it was a paper for my Women's Studies Practicum class on what a feminist organizational culture looks like, so I like to this that counts as activism, even in the smallest of ways. How did you celebrate International Women's Day?
(hint, hint, you can sign our petition asking Congress to give $1 billion in funding to international family planning!)
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