{"id":9790,"date":"2019-06-18T09:06:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T09:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=9790"},"modified":"2019-06-16T20:06:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T20:06:48","slug":"global-womens-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=9790","title":{"rendered":"Global Women’s Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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International Women\u2019s Day\u00a0began as a socialist festival in New York in 1909 and was adopted more widely by the socialist movement in the following years. In 1914 it moved from the last day of February to May 8th and has since been celebrated on that date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Largely observed by communists in the early years, it was taken up more generally by feminists in the 1960s and 70s but remained a day of radical protests, calling for equal rights, equal pay and for women’s control of their own bodies in areas such as abortion, sexual preferences and consent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 1975 the UN celebrated the day as part of a year dedicated to women’s rights and two years later declared it as \u00a0UN Day\u00a0for\u00a0women’s rights\u00a0and\u00a0world peace. Although this gave it a much wider audience, it also extended the celebrations to include many less radical events and organisations, including some that seem to be more media beanfeasts than any real part of the fight for women. As Wikipedia comments:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the twenty\u2013first century, in the West, the day was increasingly sponsored by major corporations and used to promote feel\u2013good messages, rather than radical social reforms.[30]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0In 2009, the British marketing firm, Aurora Ventures, set up a “International Women’s Day” website with corporate sponsorship.[31]<\/a>[32]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0The website began to promote hashtags as themes for the day, which became used internationally.[33]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0The day was commemorated by business breakfasts and social media communications that were reminiscent of Mother’s Day greetings. <\/p><\/a>https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_Women%27s_Day<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

One organisation that has certainly kept its radical edge is Global Women’s Strike<\/em>, who I first met on a protest march on International Women’s Day\u00a0 back in 2002<\/a>, protesting at the offices of the World Bank, the Defence Ministry and elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This year they were at Royal Courts of Justice, outside the High Court to protest against destitution, detention, deportation, benefit cuts, sexism, racism and other discrimination, criminalisation, pollution and in particular the state use of Family Courts to take children from their mothers. And alongside them were others, including anti-fracking Nana from Nanshire\u00a0Tina Louise Rothery<\/em>, DPAC’s\u00a0Paula Peters<\/em>, a speaker from the English Collective of Prostitutes and two speakers from Extinction Rebellion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was a lively protest, and ended with a short road block on the pedestrian crossing in front of the courts. Many of those present were going on to meetings in the afternoon and another women’s protest in the evening which I was also intending to photograph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More pictures at Global Women’s Strike<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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