OMNI
UN
International Women’s Day Anthology, March 8, 2023
Compiled
by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology
Contents
OMNI UNITED NATIONS FOR WOMEN ON UN International
Women’s Day, #9
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UNITED NATIONS International Women's Day (UNIWD) NEWSLETTER #7, March 8, 2018.
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2018/03/un-2018-international-womens-day-march.html
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UNITED NATIONS International Women's Day (UNIWD) NEWSLETTER #8, March 8, 2021.
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/
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CONTACTING YOUR CONGRESSIONAL REPS
We need Congress to step up and put additional pressure on the
Biden administration for a swift and decisive . . . . Call your
members of Congress TODAY and urge them to take immediate action.
Step 1: Find your house representative and
your senators and pick a
time before 5 p.m. ET to call.
Step 2: Dial 844-228-6422 to connect with
the Capitol Switchboard and ask the operator to connect you to your
representative’s office.
Step 3: When you connect with the office,
whether it’s with a person or the voicemail, make sure to say your name and
that you are a constituent and share your concern about . . . . Here’s a sample
script:
“My name is [your name] I am a constituent from [your town]
calling to ask [legislator] to support . . . .or . . . Can I count on [legislator] to urge
President Biden to . . . .
Step 4: Email or text 5 of your friends or
family members to ask them to make a call as well! The more calls we can
generate, the more likely we are to win.
WOMEN HEROES
Kati
Kariko Helped Shield the World From the Coronavirus. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/health/coronavirus-mrna-kariko.html
Collaborating with devoted colleagues, Dr. Kariko laid the
groundwork for the mRNA vaccines turning the tide of the pandemic.
Katalin Kariko at her home in
Jenkintown, Pa., in February. Dr. Kariko’s early research into mRNA eventually
led to development of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines.Credit...Hannah Yoon
By Gina
Kolata
Published April 8, 2021Updated April
9, 2021
She
grew up in Hungary, daughter of a butcher. She decided she wanted to be a
scientist, although she had never met one. She moved to the United States in
her 20s, but for decades never found a permanent position, instead clinging to
the fringes of academia.
Now
Katalin Kariko, 66, known to colleagues as Kati, has emerged as one of the
heroes of Covid-19 vaccine development.
Her work, with her close collaborator, Dr. Drew Weissman of the University of
Pennsylvania, laid the foundation for the stunningly successful vaccines made
by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna.
For
her entire career, Dr. Kariko has focused on messenger RNA, or mRNA — the
genetic script that carries DNA instructions to each cell’s protein-making machinery.
She was convinced mRNA could be used to instruct cells to make their own
medicines, including vaccines. MORE https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/health/coronavirus-mrna-kariko.html
Celebrating
and Commemorating
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Celebrating Palestinian Women and Hi
Dick, Today
is International Women’s Day and I wanted to take a moment to honor all of
the amazing women who are leading the movement for Palestinian liberation. As a
Palestinian woman, I stand on the shoulders of giants –
Palestinian women who have led revolutions, protests, boycotts, organized
women’s committees, and keep our culture alive. I’m
continually in awe of my contemporaries like Fayrouz
Sharqawi, head of Grassroots al-Quds,
who has led both in-person and virtual delegations for Eyewitness Palestine
and provides such clarity in showing how gentrification in Palestine and the
US is rooted in colonialism and racist practices. And Dr.
Rabab Abdulhadi, who spoke at our Racial Justice Summit and whose open classrooms on revolutionary
solidarity with Palestine we have co-sponsored. Dr. Rabab
continues to enrich our understanding of the intersections between
Palestinian liberation and racial justice. And Vivien
Sansour, who gave us a tour of the Palestinian Heirloom Seed Library and
cultivated our understanding of Palestinians’ connection to the land and
agricultural apartheid practices of Israel. There
aren’t enough hours in the day to highlight the incredible work, ideas,
music, thoughts, or brilliance of Palestinian women – let alone all women
across the globe. I’m honored to be in community with them – and you,
Dick . You and
I are part of the growing community fighting for Palestinian liberation and
the liberation for all people. Our
community has seen a lot of changes in the past year. One year ago
this week, Eyewitness Palestine staff started working from home to
quarantine. When it became apparent that travel to Palestine was going to be
impossible because of the pandemic, my incredible colleague Emily quickly
jumped to action and connected with our Palestinian partners with a new idea:
would they be interested in leading virtual delegations with us? Would
anyone join them? Dick ,
your response has been amazing and we’re trying hard to keep up with the
demand for virtual delegations! Over the past 8 months, over 1,000 people
joined our virtual delegations! Here’s
a few more programs and initiatives we’d love to have you involved with: · Virtual
delegations – we’ll be leading 5 different virtual delegations over
the next 2 months! Keep an eye out for an announcement coming this week! · Community
Racial Justice & Equity trainings – we're starting a new
program with community organizations in support of the Palestine solidarity
movement who want to work together on increasing their understanding and
practices toward racial justice and equity. If you want more information on
how your community organization can get involved, please email Omar. · World
Water Day Webinar – Join us on March 22 with the Alliance
for Water Justice in Palestine for a webinar featuring Rashida
Tlaib, Jehad Abdulsalim, and
others. Register online to
save your spot! Thank
you for supporting the pivot and our programs in the pandemic. Thank you for
honoring the incredible women in your community on this special day. In
solidarity, Nada
El-Eryan |
Nancy Hopkins From UAF News (3-9-21).
Most elite research universities did not admit women until the
late 1960s, meaning the first generation of female scientists and engineers are
just reaching retirement age.
Among the first was MIT’s Nancy Hopkins, who not only made major
contributions to molecular biology but advanced a massive equity initiative for
other women in science.
Today, women comprise 20 percent of MIT’s tenured faculty.
Read more about Nancy Hopkins
at MIT Technology Review »
— Sponsored by the Chancellor's Commission on Women
Social reproduction and a just post-COVID world. mronline.org
(4-1-21). After
over a year of suffering, death, and profound transformations of everyday life,
International Women’s Day 2021 is an opportunity to take stock of the COVID-19
crisis so far and craft visions for a future centered on the value of social reproduction.
March 31, 2021 | Newswire
"Bread
and Roses": International Women’s Day
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The Shalom Report
In honor of
International Women’s Day : The song of the women workers in the great textile
workers strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912 – Organized as the
Industrial Workers of the World --- IWW, affectionately called the Wobblies.
And in honor of the women of my own family, alive and dead (and still full of
life), who taught me and keep teaching me courage and love; the women who
have remade Judaism in a single generation; the women who were stalwart leaders
of the Black-led Freedom Movement to redeem American democracy.
-- Arthur
Bread and
Roses
Watch and
hear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94mSln34ZwA
Lyrics
As we go marching, marching
In the beauty of the day
A million darkened kitchens
A thousand mill lofts grey
Are touched with all the radiance
That a sudden sun discloses
For the people hear us singing
Bread and roses, bread and roses
As we go marching, marching
We battle too for men
For they are in the struggle
And together we shall win.
Our lives shall not be sweated
From birth until life closes
Hearts starve as well as bodies
Give us bread, but give us roses
As we go marching, marching
Unnumbered women dead
Go crying through our singing
Their ancient call for bread
For art and love, and beauty
Their drudging spirits knew
Yes, it is bread we fight for
But we fight for roses, too
As we go marching, marching
We are standing proud and tall,
The rising of the women
Means the rising of us all.
No more the drudge and idler
Ten that toil where one reposes
But the sharing of life's glories
Bread and roses, bread and roses
The Shalom Center
6711 Lincoln Drive
Philadelphia, PA 19119
International Women’s Day: A militant celebration. Mronline.org
(3-9-21). Women’s Day or Working Women’s Day is a day of
international solidarity, and a day for reviewing the strength and organization
of proletarian women. | more…
Originally published: Socialist Project – The
Bullet on March 7, 2021 by
Alexandra Kollontai (more by Socialist Project – The
Bullet) | (Posted Mar 08, 2021)
Culture,
Feminism, Ideology, LaborGlobalNewswire8th of March, Second
International Women’s Conference at Copenhagen in 1910, Women's Day, Working Women's Day
This
proposal for an International Women’s Day, made at the Second International
Women’s Conference at Copenhagen in 1910, appeared in the women’s magazine of
the German Social Democratic Party, Die Gleichheit.
Authored by Clara Zetkin and others, it emphasized the need for attention to
“Socialist precepts.”
Call for International Women’s Day, 1910.
“International Women’s Day in agreement with the
class-conscious, political and trade union organizations of the proletariat of
their respective countries, the Socialist women of all countries will hold each
year a Women’s Day, whose foremost purpose it must be to aid the attainment of
women’s suffrage. This demand must be handled in conjunction with the entire
women’s question according to Socialist precepts. The Women’s Day must have an
international character and is to be prepared carefully.”
– Source:
Clara Zetkin, Kathe Duncker and Comrades, Copenhagen, 27 August 1910, “International
Women’s Day,” Die Gleichheit, Stuttgart, 29
August 1910, reprinted in Philip S. Foner, ed., Clara
Zetkin: Selected Writings (New York: International Publishers,
1984), p. 108. more…
ORGANIZATION
OF WORK
Dr Sara Stevano, Dr Alessandra
Mezzadri, Lorena Lombardozzi, and Hannah Bargawi. “Social reproduction and a just post-COVID world.” SOAS (University of
London) . March
8, 2021.
Culture,
Feminism, Health, InequalityGlobalNewswirecoronavirus, COVID-19, International
Women's Day, pandemic,
Social Reproduction
After
over a year of suffering, death, and profound transformations of everyday life,
International Women’s Day 2021 is an opportunity to take stock of the COVID-19
crisis so far and craft visions for a future centred on the value of social
reproduction. In our article ‘Hidden Abodes in Plain Sight’ recently
published in the special issue on Gendered Perspectives on COVID-19 in Feminist
Economics, a social reproduction lens is used to analyse the
COVID-19 crisis.
What is social reproduction? Social
reproduction is ‘the fleshy, messy, and indeterminate stuff of everyday life’,
as well as ‘a set of structured practices’–as vividly put by Cindi Katz–that are needed for the reproduction of both life
and capitalist relations. In other words, it encompasses all the work, unpaid
and paid, and the socio-cultural practices, institutions, and sectors that are
essential for the regeneration of our lives and society. As such, it speaks
about the organisation of work both within and outside households. This is a
key vantage point, we argue, to explore the impact of the COVID-19 crisis.
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