Please enjoy International Women’s Day, and give respect and your compliments to all the women with whom you interact (I know that you do!) A history bit for the day is below. -A
| March 8, 1908 Thousands of workers in the New York needle trades (primarily women) demonstrated and began a strike for higher wages, a shorter workday and an end to child labor.   This event became the basis for International Women’s Day celebrated all over the world since March 8, 1945. IWD 2025 campaign theme is ‘Accelerate Action’ Searchable list of events for IWD planned around the world |
| March 8, 1965 About 3,500 U. S. Marines became the first American combat troops in Vietnam, landing near the coastal city of Da Nang. The ships USS Henrico, Union, and Vancouver, carrying the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade under Brigadier General Frederick J. Karch, took up stations 4,000 yards off Red Beach Two, north of Da Nang.  |
| March 8, 1983 40,000 in Tel Aviv, Israel, organized by Peace Now, rallied against the war in Lebanon. |
| March 8, 1995 Women in Black demonstrated in the center of Belgrade, Serbia, on International Women’s Day, expressing solidarity with Kosovar women: “The Albanian women from Kosovo are our sisters.”The women were both spit at and kicked, but didn’t give up, and stood there to the end of the usual hour. Though Kosovo is overwhelmingly (90%) ethnically Albanian, it is considered the national and religious birthplace of Serbians. Both Kosovo and Serbia had been part of the former Yugoslavia, which had granted partial autonomy to Kosovo in 1974. Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic (later tried for war crimes) in 1989 withdrew that autonomy and revoked the official status of the Albanian language in Kosovo.  |
https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistorymarch.htm#march8
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My wife organized a chapter of Women in Black in Half Moon Bay in California, and again here in Ashlandia. So proud of her. I stood with her about a dozen times. Hugs ‘n cheers, M
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Tell her thank you! There was a small chapter up in Wichita, but they had trouble with some members of the public who were, I’ll leave it at, rude. It was considered to be too dangerous.
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