March 8Th - A Day Without Women Strike

So?

It is? Or it is like one?

So any woman who joins this march is getting duped I reckon? I mean you already are certain they all have a superiority complex if they take this initiative seriously!

 

OUR MISSION

The rhetoric of the past election cycle has insulted, demonized, and threatened many of us - immigrants of all statuses, Muslims and those of diverse religious faiths, people who identify as LGBTQIA, Native people, Black and Brown people, people with disabilities, survivors of sexual assault - and our communities are hurting and scared. We are confronted with the question of how to move forward in the face of national and international concern and fear.

Wonder where I heard that before!?

 

It's an afro american conspiracy.

 

No, but it is a politically motivated divisive racist group.

 

Your opinion

 

Well no, it is not about women as a whole, that is the point. Their mission statement says it all, their priority. ... then when they tell you what to do... grab your wallet campaign. There are republican women ... working people who might attend this only to find it to be a smear campaign against the party they voted for, Grab your wallet is a group who are anti trump... against the right and that site promotes this. It is misleading, this march is,

I am not a conspiracy theorist or anything. But I did wonder why march 8th. The only significant thing I found was This day was the day the New York stock exchange was founded.

 

Wednesday 8 March is International Women's Day, an event held around the world to commemorate the struggle for women's rights.

Here are five facts about the day:

1. Originally called International Working Women’s Day, it was first celebrated on February 28, 1909, in New York in remembrance of a 1908 strike of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union when 15,000 workers, including many immigrants, marched through the city's lower east side to demand social and political rights.

2. The first modern International Women’s Day was held in 1914, five years after its inception, on March 8. The day was chosen because it was a Sunday, which the majority of women would have off work allowing them to participate in marches and other events, and has been celebrated on that date ever since.

3. The day was declared a national holiday in the Soviet Union in 1917, and was predominantly celebrated by the socialist movement and communist countries until it was adopted by the UN in 1977. Since 1996, the UN has assigned a theme to every IWD. This year’s theme is “Be bold for change”.

4. According to the UN, it is “a day when women are recognised for their achievements without regard to divisions, whether national, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic or political. It is an occasion for looking back on past struggles and accomplishments, and more importantly, for looking ahead to the untapped potential and opportunities that await future generations of women.”

5. The day is now an official holiday in several countries including Afghanistan, Cambodia, Mongolia, Vietnam and Zambia and for women only in countries including China, Madagascar and Nepal

 

That's what it's about, and why that date! Took me 2 minutes to find it..
I didn't put this in the above post, in case anyone wanted to copy it!

 

That is great morrow, I sincerely mean that... but it is not the UN who is leading this movement in the USA.

 

International Women's Day

Brought to you exclusively by women privileged enough to afford skipping work.

 

Yeah this is such a bad initiative because not any woman with a job can join... So wrong.

 

I will be celebrating women's day by showing up to work. Because as a woman, those before me fought hard to give me this right to have a career

 

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I'm transitioning into womanhood.

 

Great thread, 6-eyed. As usual So spot on with both your rhetorics and humor!

 

You should stay home. Your gender fluid co workers are probably female today... and tomorrow a man again.

Their site says, the woman's day organizers bringing it to the USA...

 

No, you are wrong, read rollings post

I guess your research prowess is not what you claim ....................

 

and I suspect has been around here before under a different account.

 

I'm a man and decided to stay at home as well in solidarity.

 

Well I work from home, so that's really unfair! But hey, an extra coffee break, my boss is cool