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elizevanniekerk · 9 months

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Why We Celebrate Women's Day: A Tribute to Resilience and Revolution

Throughout history, women have been pillars of strength, resilience, and innovation, though their achievements and struggles have often been overlooked or underrepresented. International Women's Day is not just a celebration of women, but an acknowledgment of their profound impact on society and a call to action for gender parity.

The Historical Roots

International Women's Day traces its origins back to the early 20th century. On February 28, 1909, the first National Woman's Day was observed in the United States, organized by the Socialist Party of America. This marked the beginning of a global recognition of the challenges women faced and the rights they deserved.

In 1910, Clara Zetkin, the leader of the 'Women's Office' for Germany's Social Democratic Party, proposed an idea: a celebration every year in every country on the same day as a form of international solidarity in the struggle for equal rights. The very first International Women's Day was thus celebrated on March 19, 1911.

More Than Just a Day

The celebration of Women's Day isn't about offering women a single day of acknowledgment. Instead, it's a powerful reminder that every day, women are battling stereotypes, breaking barriers, and making strides in every field imaginable. From science and technology to arts and humanities, women continue to shatter glass ceilings.

Achievements and Challenges

While Women's Day is an opportunity to celebrate the numerous achievements of women globally, it is also a day to highlight the ongoing challenges women face. Gender disparity, wage gaps, limited access to education, health issues, and violence against women are just a few of the many challenges women face daily. The day reminds us of the importance of continuous advocacy for women's rights and gender equality.

A Universal Celebration

Today, International Women's Day is celebrated in various forms across the world. It's an official holiday in several countries where women receive gifts, and celebrations are held in their honor. Meanwhile, in other nations, the focus is on protest and political action.

Moving Forward

While we have come a long way since the first Women's Day was celebrated, there's still a considerable journey ahead. The day serves as an urgent reminder of the work that remains. Gender equality benefits us all, leading to more inclusive economies, societies, and holistic growth.

In celebrating Women's Day, we don't just recognize the struggles and accomplishments of women in the past but also spotlight the pioneers, innovators, mothers, daughters, thinkers, movers, and leaders of today. By doing so, we hope to inspire and empower the next generation to push the boundaries even further.

In the end, every day should be a day where we acknowledge, uplift, and stand in solidarity with women everywhere. International Women's Day is a clarion call to action, ensuring that the flames of change continue to burn bright.

#International Women's Day #Women's History #gender equality #women's rights #women empowerment #Gender Parity #Advocacy for Women #Women's Achievements #Celebrating Women #Female Pioneers #Women's Day Origin #Women in Society #breaking stereotypes #Women's Day Celebrations #Gender Challenges #Role of Women in History #Women's Day Significance #Call to Action for Women

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alexversenaberrie · 1 year

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Versé's last story

Versé once again made sure that Cordé's hair looked nice and presentable. She didn't have to do it, as Cordé's the whole costume was made to the limits of perfections a longer time ago and nobody would even think that the most important passenger on the ship was not the Senator Padmé Amidala, but her faithful handmaiden. The girl did it mostly to just camouflage her shaking hands. And Cordé didn't mind.

Versé wondered why she was so nervous, it was not the first time, when the life of Padmé was endangered. True, Cordé and Dormé, her fellow handmaidens, had been more often used as a decoys for Amidala, as they were much more similar to her than she and Versé was left to do what she did the best - being a slicer, gathering information or doing simple office/home tasks in the safety of her lady's apartment. Nevertheless, she also had been accompanying Amidala to the Senate, to various parties and meetings as much as other handmaidens. The threat could fall on them on each of those places! Moreover, Versé knew what to expect when she joined Senator's team. In her family, everybody was saying that she was the niece of her aunt (the captain of Royal Naboo Security Forces) more times that she could count.

Maybe Versé was trembling because the stakes weren't so high in the past like now? Her lady had to reach Coruscant and vote for what was good for the galaxy. She tried not to glance at an illuminator in the cabin to check on the female pilot in a smaller ship.

Dormé was ordered to come to Coruscant in other ship, also pretending to be Senator Amidala. There was even hired an additional girl as a handmaiden, Umé, to misguide a potential attacker. Versé managed to meet her and had a few hours conversation. Truth to be told... she had mixed feelings about the new co-employee. Umé was smart, but also... naive. Probably, because she was younger than Versé and grown up on the legends of Amidala's handmaidens during the invasion of Naboo. A few times when the topic came, Versé had to politely move the conversation in the right direction, as the younger girl couldn't stop talking about it. The handmaiden worried what would happen when (becasue it was certainly a case of 'when'), the girl would realise what was an illusion and what was not.

Or wasn't Versé calm, as Cordé was nervous as well? Even if her older friend was much better schooled in hiding it than her. Furthermore, Cordé got worried only when the situation was really bad.

As if hearing Versé's thoughts, the older handmaiden briefly squeezed her palm. The girl smiled back and for the first time she didn't have to hide her trembling hands under her long black robe (of which she was grateful anyway). Versé knew why she was there, she chose it by herself, she was hers aunt's niece and she would stand where she was until her last breath.

Soon they would be landing. Soon Padmé will be safe, that was all what was important.

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causticcontemplation · 2 months

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I am, once again, shaking with anger at work 🙃

#boomers try not to make sexist jokes on international women's day challenge failed #had to calm down bestie who was crying in the bathroom #every day I get closer to saying fuck it and doing something that would get me fired

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its-poojagupta-shree · 2 months

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Happy International Women's Day! Today, we commemorate the achievements, progress, and resilience of women around the world. International Women's Day serves as a call to action and a reminder of the continuous fight for gender equality in addition to being a day of celebration. In this blog, we will delve into the history of Women's Day, the importance of empowering women, and the strides made towards a more equitable world.

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saffronsplace · 1 year

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We’re gonna dance a little bolder

"That devil box tells you nothing but lies!!"

Day 8: Women of Pixar - International Women's Day

Mama Imelda

pose @ foxcity - devilish

necklace @ hot fuss - be still bag @ zenith - leather bone handbag in choco hair @ wasabi - oakley dress @ kaithleen's - kappee dress boots @ hilly haalan - mia laser cut boots

#second life #second life blog #second life fashion #second life disneybound #march disneybound challenge #disneybound march challenge #pixar #international women's day #mama imelda #coco #foxcity #hot fuss #zenith #wasabi #kaithleen's #hilly haalan

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dancingsunflowers-ocs · 2 months

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𝙄𝙉𝙏𝙀𝙍𝙉𝘼𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉𝘼𝙇 𝙒𝙊𝙈𝙀𝙉𝙎 𝘿𝘼𝙔 𝘾𝙃𝘼𝙇𝙇𝙀𝙉𝙂𝙀! 𝘋𝘢𝘺 𝘖𝘯𝘦: “𝘐’𝘮 𝘢 𝘥𝘢𝘮𝘴𝘦𝘭, 𝘐’𝘮 𝘪𝘯 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴, 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴.”

Everyone had someone they looked up to growing up, for lots of us, that was someone in the media, and for lots of girls across the country, they came in the shapes of Disney characters. For this day, we want you to show which female media icon your OC looked up to as a little girl. Whether that be Megara, Princess Leia or even Katniss Everdeen.

On January 29, 1959, eight year old twins August and Feyra Sherwood visited the local cinema to watch the eventual Disney classic, and it was from that first viewing that Feyra would grow up looking up to Aurora, also known as Sleeping Beauty or Briar Rose. As an adult, Feyra would be inspired by the character’s kindness and grace, when she discovers her father’s heritage to Narnia, and would continue to use those traits throughout her reign.

✨ Taglist: @ginger-grimm@eddysocs@faerieroyal@daughter-of-melpomene @megandaisy9@misshiraethsworld @arrthurpendragon ✨

#owc2024 #ocappreciation #ocapp #ocfairygodmother #the chronicles of narnia #oc challenge #the chronicles of narnia oc #oc: feyra sherwood #fd: the chronicles of narnia #international womens day challenge

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cottoncandyringmaster · 2 months

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Day 8-Samus

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Day 8 and we have the Protector of the Galaxy🪐

March 8th is International Women’s Day and who better to represent than the first female protagonists of a Nintendo game?

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Keep Clownin’

#traditional art #art #artist #nintendo #metroid #samus aran #zero suit samus #metroid samus #samus #fanart #art challenge #women’s history #womens history month #international women's day

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ladies-of-fiction · 1 year

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Happy International Women’s Day 2022-2023

A-Z Challenge: I will be posting two letters on the 8th of every month, the final two letters will be posted on next year’s International Women’s Day.

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z

#international women's day #velvet crowe #a-z challenge #tales of series #tales of berseria

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icedciderr · 2 months

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Freya Redburry / Yellow Gen Heir - For International Women’s Day

#sims 4 #sims #not so berry #nsb challenge #sims 4 legacy #sims 4 screenshots #ts4 #international women's day

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mostlysignssomeportents · 7 months

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"Efficiency" left the Big Three vulnerable to smart UAW tactics

Tomorrow (September 22), I'm (virtually) presenting at the DIG Festival in Modena, Italy. Tomorrow night, I'll be in person at LA's Book Soup for the launch of Justin C Key's "The World Wasn’t Ready for You." On September 27, I'll be at Chevalier's Books in Los Angeles with Brian Merchant for a joint launch for my new book The Internet Con and his new book, Blood in the Machine.

It's been 143 days since the WGA went on strike against the Hollywood studios. While early tactical leaks from the studios had studio execs chortling and twirling their mustaches about writers caving once they started losing their homes, the strikers aren't wavering – they're still out there, pounding the picket lines, every weekday:

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/09/how-hollywood-writers-make-ends-meet-100-days-into-the-writers-guild-strike.html

The studios obviously need writers. That gleeful, anonymous studio exec who got such an obvious erotic charge at the thought of workers being rendered homeless as punishment for challenging his corporate power completely misread the room, and his comments didn't demoralize the writers. Instead, they inspired the actors to go on strike, too.

But how have the writers stayed out since May Day? How have the actors stayed out for 69 days since their strike started on Bastille Day? We can thank the studios for that! As it turns out, the studios have devoted so much energy to rendering creative workers as precarious as possible, hiring as little as they can getting away with and using punishing overtime as a substitute for adequate staffing that they've eliminated all the workers who can't survive on side-hustles and savings for six or seven months at a time.

But even for those layoff-hardened workers, long strikes are brutal, and of course, all the affiliated trades, from costumers to grips, are feeling the pain. The strike fund only goes so far, and non-striking, affected workers don't even get that. That's why I've been donating regularly to the Entertainment Community Fund, which helps all affected workers out with cash transfers (I just gave them another $500):

https://secure2.convio.net/afa/site/Donation2?df_id=8117&8117.donation=form1&mfc_pref=T

As hot labor summer is revealed as a turning point – not just a season – long strikes will become the norm. Bosses still don't believe in worker power, and until they get their minds right, they're going to keep on trying to starve their workforces back inside. To get a sense of how long workers will have to hold out, just consider the Warrior Met strike, where Alabama coal-miners stayed out for 23 months:

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/warrior-met-strike-union/

As Kim Kelly explained to Adam Conover in the latest Factually podcast, the Alabama coal strikers didn't get anywhere near the attention that the Hollywood strikers have enjoyed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvyMHf7Yg0Q

(To learn more about the untold story of worker organizing, from prison unions to the key role that people of color and women played in labor history, check out Kelly's book, "Fight Like Hell," now in paperback:)

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Fight-Like-Hell/Kim-Kelly/9781982171063

Which brings me to the UAW strike. This is an historic strike, the first time that the UAW has struck all of the Big Three automakers at once. Past autoworkers' strikes have marked turning points for all American workers. The 1945/46 GM strike established employers' duty to cover worker pensions, health care, and cost of living allowances. The GM strike created the American middle-class:

https://prospect.org/labor/2023-09-18-uaw-strikes-built-american-middle-class/

The Big Three are fighting for all the marbles here. They are refusing to allow unions to organize EV factories. Given that no more internal combustion cars will be in production in just a few short years, that's tantamount to eliminating auto unions altogether. The automakers are flush with cash, including billions in public subsidies from multiple bailouts, along with billions more from greedflation price-gouging. A long siege is inevitable, as the decimillionaires running these companies earn their pay by starving out their workers:

https://www.businessinsider.com/general-motors-ceo-mary-barra-salary-auto-workers-strike-uaw-2023-9

The UAW knows this, of course, and their new leadership – helmed by the union's radical president Shawn Fain – has a plan. UAW workers are engaged in tactical striking, shutting down key parts of the supply chain on a rolling basis, making the 90-day strike fund stretch much farther:

https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2023-09-18-labors-militant-creativity/

In this project, they are greatly aided by Big Car's own relentless pursuit of profit. The automakers – like every monopolized, financialized sector – have stripped all the buffers and slack out of their operations. Inventory on hand is kept to a bare minimum. Inputs are sourced from the cheapest bidder, and they're brought to the factory by the lowest-cost option. Resiliency – spare parts, backup machinery – is forever at war with profits, and profits have won and won and won, leaving auto production in a brittle, and easily shattered state.

This is especially true for staffing. Automakers are violently allergic to hiring workers, because new workers get benefits and workplace protection. Instead, the car companies routinely offer "voluntary" overtime to their existing workforce. By refusing this overtime, workers can kneecap production, without striking.

Enter "Eight and Skate," a campaign among UAW workers to clock out after their eight hour shift. As Keith Brower Brown writes for Labor Notes, the UAW organizers are telling workers that "It’s crossing an unofficial picket line to work overtime. It’s helping out the company":

https://labornotes.org/2023/09/work-extra-during-strike-auto-workers-say-eight-and-skate

Eight and Skate has already started to work; the Buffalo Ford plant can no longer run its normal weekend shifts because workers are refusing to put in voluntary overtime. Of course, bosses will strike back: the next step will be forced overtime, which will lead to the unsafe conditions that unionized workers are contractually obliged to call paid work-stoppages over, shutting down operations without touching the strike fund.

What's more, car bosses can't just halt safety stoppages or change the rules on overtime; per the UAW's last contract, bosses are required to bargain on changes to overtime rules:

https://uaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Working-Without-Contract-FAQ-FINAL-2.pdf

Car bosses have become lazily dependent on overtime. At GM's "highly profitable" SUV factory in Arlington, TX, normal production runs a six-days, 24 hours per day. Workers typically work five eight-hour days and nine hours on Saturdays. That's been the status quo for 11 years, but when bosses circulated the usual overtime signup sheet last week, every worker wrote "a big fat NO" next to their names.

Writing for The American Prospect, David Dayen points out that this overtime addiction puts a new complexion on the much-hyped workerpocalypse that EVs will supposedly bring about. EVs are much simpler to build than conventional cars, the argument goes, so a US transition to EVs will throw many autoworkers out of work:

https://prospect.org/labor/2023-09-20-big-threes-labor-shortages-uaw/

But the reality is that most autoworkers are doing one and a half jobs already. Reducing the "workforce" by a third could leave all these workers with their existing jobs, and the 40-hour workweek that their forebears fought for at GM inn 1945/46. Add to that the additional workers needed to make batteries, build and maintain charging infrastructure, and so on, and there's no reason to think that EVs will weaken autoworker power.

And as Dayen points out, this overtime addiction isn't limited to cars. It's also endemic to the entertainment industry, where writers' "mini rooms" and other forms of chronic understaffing are used to keep workforces at a skeleton crew, even when the overtime costs more than hiring new workers.

Bosses call themselves job creators, but they have a relentless drive to destroy jobs. If there's one thing bosses hate, it's paying workers – hence all the hype about AI and automation. The stories about looming AI-driven mass unemployment are fairy tales, but they're tailor made for financiers who get alarming, life-threatening priapism at the though of firing us all and replacing us with shell-scripts:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/09/autocomplete-worshippers/#the-real-ai-was-the-corporations-that-we-fought-along-the-way

This is why Republican "workerism" rings so hollow. Trump's GOP talks a big game about protecting "workers" (by which they mean anglo men) from immigrants and "woke captialism," but they have nothing to say about protecting workers from bosses and bankers who see every dime a worker gets as misappropriated from their dividend.

Unsurprisingly, conservative message-discipline sucks. As Luke Savage writes in Jacobin, for every mealymouthed Josh Hawley mouthing talking points that "support workers" by blaming China and Joe Biden for the Big Three's greed, there's a Tim Scott, saying the quiet part aloud:

https://jacobin.com/2023/09/republicans-uaw-strike-hawley-trump-scott/

Quoth Senator Scott: "I think Ronald Reagan gave us a great example when federal employees decided they were going to strike. He said, you strike, you’re fired. Simple concept to me. To the extent that we can use that once again, absolutely":

https://twitter.com/American_Bridge/status/1704136706574741988

The GOP's workerism is a tissue-thin fake. They can never and will never support real worker power. That creates an opportunity for Biden and Democrats to seize:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/18/co-determination/#now-make-me-do-it

Reversing two generations of anti-worker politics is a marathon, not a sprint. The strikes are going to run for months, even years. Every worker will be called upon to support their striking siblings, every day. We can do it. Solidarity now. Solidarity forever.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/21/eight-and-skate/#strike-to-rule

#pluralistic #strikes #uaw #labor #automakers #big three #big car #eight and skate #work to rule #tactics

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