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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY
International
Women's Day 2006
"Women Watch Out"
International Women’s Day
2006
IWD MARCH - 11th March 10am
Victoria Square women and supporters marched through the city to Rymill Park.
This year's them was
"Women Watch Out"
and focused
on all the changes that have affected women's lives eg work,
welfare etc.
Have you ever been or know
someone who has been a participant of the Anna Stewart program?
Please email
back with your details so we can contact you as part of a very
special project to find and document 21 years of the Anna
Stewart project in SA.
IWD 2005
The IWD was held on Saturday March
12th, and the theme was '30 Years of Not Being Polite'. It's 30 years since
the UN International Year of the Woman so the focus was to make 2005 an
anniversary to remember!
The
rally and festival started at Victoria Square/Tardanyaga and moved
to the Barr Smith Lawns.
Many speakers and
entertainers performed for the crowd to celebrate the 30th anniversary.
Report from IWD
2002 from the Union of Australian Women SA
Since IWD 2001 we have witnessed an alarming
rise in violence and terrorism worldwide. In the spirit of IWD
founder, CLARA ZETKIN in 1910 we present her analysis of women's situation
and what IWD stood for.
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"If a woman is to have full social
equality with the man - in truth and in fact, not just with lifeless
laws on long suffering paper, and if she, like the man is to have
the chance
of free development and exercise of
total humanness, two main conditions have
to be given - private ownership of the
means of production must be replaced by social ownership, and the
activity of women has to be incorporated into the social
production of commodities in a system
free of exploitation and servitude. Only
the fulfilment of these two pre-
conditions guarantees that the woman can function
as a worker and creator with equal
duties and equal rights, and that vocational activity
and maternity can complement each other
to make a full life." |
This statement of Clara Zetkin, outstanding
leader of the German Socialist and Labor Movement, an ardent fighter for
peace and social equality for women helps to make the
Declaration
of the Women's International Democratic Federation, Paris 9th October
2001 show why we here in Australia need to look beyond the square.
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