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http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/03/08/statement-president-international-women-s-day<snip>
Statement by the President on International Womens Day
On International Womens Day we celebrate the many milestones on the road to gender equality, and recommit ourselves to fight for the rights and opportunities of women and girls around the world.
Empowering women isnt just the right thing to do its the smart thing to do. When women succeed, nations are more safe, more secure, and more prosperous. Over the last year, weve seen women and girls inspiring communities and entire countries to stand up for freedom and justice, and Im proud of my Administrations efforts to promote gender equality worldwide.
As a nation, weve launched new efforts to promote womens economic empowerment and political participation, to prevent and respond to gender-based violence, and to strengthen our commitment to helping more women participate in peacebuilding and conflict resolution. We are promoting food security initiatives that recognize the rights and needs of women farmers, and ensuring that women and girls are at the center of global health programs. And we will continue to focus on empowering women and girls at home and abroad.
Weve also worked with a wide range of partners from the United Nations and civil society groups to the private sector to advance this important agenda. Because when it comes to creating a world in which our sons and daughters can reach their potential, we each have a role to play. And we can make even more progress together.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)mahalo Malaise! arigatou!
malaise
(269,020 posts)Have a great day
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)Malaise!
(did you see my post? http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6330150 )
Joe Johns
(91 posts)Luckily for me, my wife is the forgiving sort. Durec.
malaise
(269,020 posts)but folks are catching on.
Bugenhagen
(151 posts)This is a big holiday in our house. I bought my wife a card over a month ago (I have learned to shop early).
barbtries
(28,797 posts)the more i think that it is patriarchy that is fucking up the world. and greed - greed's a biggie. racism - killing us. religion - the universal excuse. yada yada yada hell in a handbasket. i think if women were running the world it would be a better place though i don't know why we just cannot all be equal.
Happy Women's Day to you, too Malaise - but i prefer "woman" to lady (turned 18 in 1973)
socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)Capitalism encourages and abets ALL of them.
Kath1
(4,309 posts)Racism. sexism, greed and religion have to go for us to have lives of peace and equality.
Thank you for the excellent post. (Turned 18 in 1976!)
socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)My family was very matriarchal and I'm thankful for it every day. It made me who I am.
barbtries
(28,797 posts)that i never until now put together with my family. we are more of a matriarchy too, more than once due to premature death or abandonment. i have 3 sons. my greatest desire as a mother has been to raise them to know that women are people. think i've done fairly well; but i failed too, because not a one of them voted in the last election.
Kath1
(4,309 posts)Daughter is 25 and living with BF.
She is very politically involved. Encourage those guys to VOTE!
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)International Working Womens Day was started by the Socialist Party of America to commemorate a wave of spontaneous strikes by first- and second-generation Jewish, Russian, and Italian immigrant teenage girls (as in like, they were 16 years old) in the textile mills of New York City. This was the Uprising of 20,000 and was one of the most infectious displays of labor militancy in the 20th century. A couple years later Clara Zeitkin, a German Marxist who would be arrested several times for helping to incite the 1919 communist revolution in Germany, brought it to the floor of the Second International and the first Womens Day celebrations in Europe were held by communist parties and communist women.
This isnt even like oh yeah well maybe it kinda had the phrase working women in there originally. It was started by socialists to commemorate daring strike actions led by newly-immigrated teenage girls and then formalized by the international communist movement.
malaise
(269,020 posts)and so do many countries but the ICM really spread the celebration.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)neither does the president acknowledge the history on who and why this day was recognized back then....... I thought you did know but others I'm sure did not.
barbtries
(28,797 posts)if it wasn't for a fb friend from Spain and Malaise, i would not have known it was International Women's Day.
We celebtate war shit all the time in the United States - "Bombs bursting in air."
But we don't celebrate peace and women's equality.
That really is fucked up.
malaise
(269,020 posts)and you're right lots of folks don't know the history
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)meow2u3
(24,764 posts)I just wish the US would celebrate International Women's Day, just like most of the world. If it weren't for the wacko fundies in charge, we would be celebrating gender equality.
Kath1
(4,309 posts)Keep up the pressure for PEACE and EQUALITY!