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Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology
OMNI UNITED NATIONS FOR WOMEN ON UN International Women’s Day, #9
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Stand with us on International Women’s Day
| United Nations Foundation <mailings@unfoundation.org> 3-8-23 | 9:22 AM (1 hour ago) | ||
| Hi Dick, Today is International Women’s Day, a day to honor the achievements of women — while also recognizing there’s more work to be done to realize true gender equality. Our global gender equality movement, #EqualEverywhere, shines a light on women who are leading change at work, at school, and in their communities. From championing transgender rights in Pakistan to telling the stories of survivors of Boko Haram, these women are fierce advocates — and they’re not backing down. We aren’t backing down either. We won’t stop until girls and women are equal everywhere. Now it’s time for you to step up in the fight and raise your voice for gender equality. Hundreds of supporters have already pledged to stand for girls and women’s rights. Will you join us? Take the Pledge DONATE | BLOG | OUR ISSUES Stay Connected |
OMNI UNITED NATIONS International Women’s Day (UNIWD) NEWSLETTER #7, March 8, 2018.
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2018/03/un-2018-international-womens-day-march.html
OMNI UNITED NATIONS International Women’s Day (UNIWD) NEWSLETTER #8, March 8, 2021.
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Honor a woman you love this IWD. 💕
| UN Foundation equaleverywhere@unfoundation.org via uark.onmicrosoft.com | Mon, Mar 8, 2:26 PM (21 hours ago) | ||
| to James | |||
| Dear Dick — As we celebrate International Women’s Day, we’re honoring women on the frontlines of the fight for gender equality. They are moms, sisters, friends, daughters, cousins, and mentors. When you signed the #EqualEverywhere pledge, you honored all the strong women in your life by committing to equality for all girls and women. This IWD, you have the chance to make an even greater impact! When you donate to the UN Foundation, your gift supports our work to help girls and women by… ➕ And so much more! Will you give a donation in honor of your mom, sister, friend, daughter, cousin, and mentors today? We won’t stop until girls and women are equal everywhere — and we hope you won’t either. |
| ELECTING ARKANSAS WOMEN: Team Vortex team@vortexpac.com3-8-23 | 12:32 PM (1 hour ago) | ||
| Dick – Today is International Women’s Day, and we’re pausing to highlight a shocking fact: There are NO women representing Arkansas in Congress right now. Despite the fact that the current Congress boasts a record number of women (making up 28% of the body), that’s still nearly half what it would be if women were represented proportional to their population. Since the first Congress convened in 1789, a total of 12,506 individuals have been elected to serve as either members of the House of Representatives or the U.S. Senate. Only 374 have EVER been women. Right now, Arkansas women have NO ONE advocating for them in Congress. Our current representatives, all white men, routinely vote against issues that specifically and disproportionately impact women – matters such as reproductive rights, domestic violence, and equal pay for equal work. Since first becoming a state in 1836, only FIVE women have ever been elected to serve in Congress from Arkansas. Women represent more than half of the citizens and residents of our state, and deserve equal representation in the halls of power. We’re recruiting inspiring, energizing leaders to build a bright new future for Arkansas by challenging ALL FOUR of the congressional seats currently held by Republican men. You can help us make history next year by making a contribution to support the work of our candidate recruitment team. The four current Arkansas representatives have a long and not-so-distinguished record of voting against women’s rights. ALL FOUR voted against codifying reproductive rights. ALL FOUR voted against renewing the Violence Against Women Act, which Trump and the Republican controlled Congress shamelessly allowed to expire. ALL FOUR voted against the Paycheck Fairness Act, opposing equal pay for equal work. ALL FOUR opposed plans for federally funded childcare proposed under Build Back Better. Time and time again, Rick Crawford, French Hill, Steve Womack, and Bruce Westerman prove that they aren’t interested in addressing the material needs of their constituents. It’s time that Arkansas had representatives who fight for the people – ALL people, including women. If you know an inspiring woman leader in your community who you believe should represent Arkansas in Congress, we want to hear about her. Nominations just opened up this week, and you can submit yours here. Let’s make some history next year. The entire team at Vortex Support Vortex PAC >> Vortex PAC is a new grassroots movement to transform Arkansas politics away from the far-right. We are recruiting, training, and supporting Democratic candidates to flip all four of Arkansas’ U.S. congressional districts and help win back the House majority in 2024. DONATE >> Paid for by Vortex PAC ©2023 Vortex PAC, all rights reserved Our mailing address is: Vortex PAC PO Box 1141 Springdale, AR 72765 |
CONTACTING YOUR CONGRESSIONAL REPS
We need Congress to step up and put additional pressure on the Biden administration for a swift and decisive . . . . Call your members of Congress TODAY and urge them to take immediate action.
Step 1: Find your house representative and your senators and pick a time before 5 p.m. ET to call.
Step 2: Dial 844-228-6422 to connect with the Capitol Switchboard and ask the operator to connect you to your representative’s office.
Step 3: When you connect with the office, whether it’s with a person or the voicemail, make sure to say your name and that you are a constituent and share your concern about . . . . Here’s a sample script:
“My name is [your name] I am a constituent from [your town] calling to ask [legislator] to support . . . .or . . . Can I count on [legislator] to urge President Biden to . . . .
Step 4: Email or text 5 of your friends or family members to ask them to make a call as well! The more calls we can generate, the more likely we are to win.
WOMEN HEROES
Kati Kariko Helped Shield the World From the Coronavirus. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/health/coronavirus-mrna-kariko.html
Collaborating with devoted colleagues, Dr. Kariko laid the groundwork for the mRNA vaccines turning the tide of the pandemic.
Katalin Kariko at her home in Jenkintown, Pa., in February. Dr. Kariko’s early research into mRNA eventually led to development of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines.Credit…Hannah Yoon
By Gina Kolata
Published April 8, 2021Updated April 9, 2021
She grew up in Hungary, daughter of a butcher. She decided she wanted to be a scientist, although she had never met one. She moved to the United States in her 20s, but for decades never found a permanent position, instead clinging to the fringes of academia.
Now Katalin Kariko, 66, known to colleagues as Kati, has emerged as one of the heroes of Covid-19 vaccine development. Her work, with her close collaborator, Dr. Drew Weissman of the University of Pennsylvania, laid the foundation for the stunningly successful vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna.
For her entire career, Dr. Kariko has focused on messenger RNA, or mRNA — the genetic script that carries DNA instructions to each cell’s protein-making machinery. She was convinced mRNA could be used to instruct cells to make their own medicines, including vaccines. MORE https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/health/coronavirus-mrna-kariko.html
Celebrating and Commemorating
| Nada at Eyewitness Palestine 3-8-21 | Mon, Mar 8, 1:20 PM (22 hours ago) | |||
| Celebrating Palestinian Women and Commemorating One Year of Changes Hi Dick, Today is International Women’s Day and I wanted to take a moment to honor all of the amazing women who are leading the movement for Palestinian liberation. As a Palestinian woman, I stand on the shoulders of giants – Palestinian women who have led revolutions, protests, boycotts, organized women’s committees, and keep our culture alive. I’m continually in awe of my contemporaries like Fayrouz Sharqawi, head of Grassroots al-Quds, who has led both in-person and virtual delegations for Eyewitness Palestine and provides such clarity in showing how gentrification in Palestine and the US is rooted in colonialism and racist practices. And Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi, who spoke at our Racial Justice Summit and whose open classrooms on revolutionary solidarity with Palestine we have co-sponsored. Dr. Rabab continues to enrich our understanding of the intersections between Palestinian liberation and racial justice. And Vivien Sansour, who gave us a tour of the Palestinian Heirloom Seed Library and cultivated our understanding of Palestinians’ connection to the land and agricultural apartheid practices of Israel. There aren’t enough hours in the day to highlight the incredible work, ideas, music, thoughts, or brilliance of Palestinian women – let alone all women across the globe. I’m honored to be in community with them – and you, Dick . You and I are part of the growing community fighting for Palestinian liberation and the liberation for all people. MORE In solidarity, Nada El-Eryan Managing Director | ||||
Nancy Hopkins From UAF News (3-9-21).
Most elite research universities did not admit women until the late 1960s, meaning the first generation of female scientists and engineers are just reaching retirement age.
Among the first was MIT’s Nancy Hopkins, who not only made major contributions to molecular biology but advanced a massive equity initiative for other women in science.
Today, women comprise 20 percent of MIT’s tenured faculty.
Read more about Nancy Hopkins at MIT Technology Review »
— Sponsored by the Chancellor’s Commission on Women
“Bread and Roses”: International Women’s Day
| Rabbi Arthur Waskow 3-9-21 Awaskow@theshalomcenter.org via uark.onmicrosoft.com | 8:00 AM (2 hours ago) | ||
| to James |
The Shalom Report
In honor of International Women’s Day : The song of the women workers in the great textile workers strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912 – Organized as the Industrial Workers of the World — IWW, affectionately called the Wobblies. And in honor of the women of my own family, alive and dead (and still full of life), who taught me and keep teaching me courage and love; the women who have remade Judaism in a single generation; the women who were stalwart leaders of the Black-led Freedom Movement to redeem American democracy. — Arthur
Bread and Roses
Watch and hear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94mSln34ZwA
Lyrics
As we go marching, marching
In the beauty of the day
A million darkened kitchens
A thousand mill lofts grey
Are touched with all the radiance
That a sudden sun discloses
For the people hear us singing
Bread and roses, bread and roses
As we go marching, marching
We battle too for men
For they are in the struggle
And together we shall win.
Our lives shall not be sweated
>From birth until life closes
Hearts starve as well as bodies
Give us bread, but give us roses
As we go marching, marching
Unnumbered women dead
Go crying through our singing
Their ancient call for bread
For art and love, and beauty
Their drudging spirits knew
Yes, it is bread we fight for
But we fight for roses, too
As we go marching, marching
We are standing proud and tall,
The rising of the women
Means the rising of us all.
No more the drudge and idler
Ten that toil where one reposes
But the sharing of life’s glories
Bread and roses, bread and roses
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International Women’s Day: A militant celebration. Mronline.org (3-9-21). Women’s Day or Working Women’s Day is a day of international solidarity, and a day for reviewing the strength and organization of proletarian women. | more…
Originally published: Socialist Project – The Bullet on March 7, 2021 by Alexandra Kollontai (more by Socialist Project – The Bullet) | (Posted Mar 08, 2021)
Culture, Feminism, Ideology, LaborGlobalNewswire8th of March, Second International Women’s Conference at Copenhagen in 1910, Women’s Day, Working Women’s Day
This proposal for an International Women’s Day, made at the Second International Women’s Conference at Copenhagen in 1910, appeared in the women’s magazine of the German Social Democratic Party, Die Gleichheit. Authored by Clara Zetkin and others, it emphasized the need for attention to “Socialist precepts.”
Call for International Women’s Day, 1910.
“International Women’s Day in agreement with the class-conscious, political and trade union organizations of the proletariat of their respective countries, the Socialist women of all countries will hold each year a Women’s Day, whose foremost purpose it must be to aid the attainment of women’s suffrage. This demand must be handled in conjunction with the entire women’s question according to Socialist precepts. The Women’s Day must have an international character and is to be prepared carefully.”
– Source: Clara Zetkin, Kathe Duncker and Comrades, Copenhagen, 27 August 1910, “International Women’s Day,” Die Gleichheit, Stuttgart, 29 August 1910, reprinted in Philip S. Foner, ed., Clara Zetkin: Selected Writings (New York: International Publishers, 1984), p. 108. more…
ORGANIZATION OF WORK
Dr Sara Stevano, Dr Alessandra Mezzadri, Lorena Lombardozzi, and Hannah Bargawi. “Social reproduction and a just post-COVID world.” SOAS (University of London) . March 8, 2021.
Culture, Feminism, Health, InequalityGlobalNewswirecoronavirus, COVID-19, International Women’s Day, pandemic, Social Reproduction
After over a year of suffering, death, and profound transformations of everyday life, International Women’s Day 2021 is an opportunity to take stock of the COVID-19 crisis so far and craft visions for a future centred on the value of social reproduction. In our article ‘Hidden Abodes in Plain Sight’ recently published in the special issue on Gendered Perspectives on COVID-19 in Feminist Economics, a social reproduction lens is used to analyse the COVID-19 crisis.
What is social reproduction? Social reproduction is ‘the fleshy, messy, and indeterminate stuff of everyday life’, as well as ‘a set of structured practices’–as vividly put by Cindi Katz–that are needed for the reproduction of both life and capitalist relations. In other words, it encompasses all the work, unpaid and paid, and the socio-cultural practices, institutions, and sectors that are essential for the regeneration of our lives and society. As such, it speaks about the organisation of work both within and outside households. This is a key vantage point, we argue, to explore the impact of the COVID-19 crisis.
Social reproduction and a just post-COVID world. mronline.org (4-1-21). After over a year of suffering, death, and profound transformations of everyday life, International Women’s Day 2021 is an opportunity to take stock of the COVID-19 crisis so far and craft visions for a future centered on the value of social reproduction.
March 31, 2021 | Newswire