International Women's Day is March 8!

[Thea Schnase]

i'd be interested in helping if you let me know when meeting dates are.
thanks, thea schnase


>From: "'meesh' M Cobban" <meesh99 at u.washington.edu>
>Reply-To: asuw_women at u.washington.edu
>To: "Womens Action Coalition Message Board" <asuw_women at u.washington.edu>
>Subject: International Women's Day is March 8!
>Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 20:30:50 -0800 (PST)
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>Hi all,
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>Sorry for duplicates.  Please forward to interested parties.
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>March 8th is International Women's Day, and I hope that you will be
>interested in creating a celebration for the UW campus to raise awareness
>of the diversity of women in the world and locally.
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>International Women's Day has been celebrated many ways.  It originated as
>a strike by New York garment workers in the early 1900s; since then it has
>been commemorated by conferences, demonstrations, and other
>consciousness-raising efforts.  What should we do to mark this symbolic
>day?
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>Please contact me if you want to contribute your creative ideas and energy
>towards an event that calls attention to women across lines of race,
>class, sexuality:  our histories, our accomplishments, and our ties
>to and implications within the globalizing political economy.
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>Hopefully, we can meet sometime early next week to begin planning for
>March 8.  Please let me know what times are convenient for you to meet.
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>If you want to check out what's going on locally and elsewhere, check-out:
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>http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/v43/n25/wocday.html
>Website for March 1, Women of Color Day
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>http://www.scn.org/basecamp
>Website for Seattle Planning committee for International Women's Day
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>http://womenstrike8m.server101.com/
>Website based in Ireland calling for an international strike on Women's
>Day
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