The March 8th Women's Day Strike

I really hope that this gains the same traction as the last women's day march. The last one was the first ever march I have ever participated in. My only regret was not actively participating prior to the event or making a pink hat. The last day was so amazing, let's do it again!

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Please refresh my memory...

Feb 21, 2017 at 2:08pm

what exactly was accomplished from the prior march ?

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Energy is good

Feb 21, 2017 at 2:31pm

Getting power and then having an ability to enact your agenda, like Trump, is best.

But as a precursor to that, getting organized and staying energized makes a lot of sense. Stick together please. Don't get split or distracted or hijacked.

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it would be rad for sure

Feb 22, 2017 at 7:09am

The pessimist in me thinks that we are still way too capitalistic in this part of the world for people to risk their livelihoods in a protest. Losing a days pay and possibly your job just doesn't have the same appeal to the masses as a weekend march when many people aren't scheduled to work and I feel a lot of people who were involved in the first march are likely not nearly that political.

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Organize

Feb 22, 2017 at 11:58am

Great that you've taken the first step in political involvement, but it is simply that, the first of many other steps and organizing that needs to be done to create a better world.

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Felix

Feb 22, 2017 at 2:38pm

You have to be pretty ignorant if not out and out stupid to be unaware of IWD.

International Women's Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity.

International Women's Day (IWD) has been observed since in the early 1900's - a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world that saw booming population growth and the rise of radical ideologies. International Women's Day is a collective day of global celebration and a call for gender parity. No one government, NGO, charity, corporation, academic institution, women's network or media hub is solely responsible for International Women's Day. Many organizations declare an annual IWD theme that supports their specific agenda or cause, and some of these are adopted more widely with relevance than others.

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Women's march

Feb 22, 2017 at 2:58pm

I'm with you, Protests do accomplish something, most people who say otherwise have as little power as we do, and they're not a part of a team. Protests accomplish something, both personally, as far a s being healing, hopeful, uniting with people and standing for your ethics with comrades, as well as informational to others and myself, and the government. They provide information to the policy makers and show them about the things that members of this community care about and that they are solvable problems. If marches were so ineffective, then why would cities always try to shut them down, whether with cops, running multiple fire trucks through them, and whatever else?
plus look at other communities. The womens' march in France was the curtail of the french revolution, LGBTQ rights, Martin Luther King; Europe has protests and marches all the time, and alot more people dedicated to the sport. Maybe Trump won't get ousted, but whatever, inactivity (a voter rate of 48%) is what got him in, I am happy that people do care and take notice.

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