International Women's Day - 8th March (1 Viewer)

[Shine]

ok - so i don't post - ahem - very often - but would like to bring this to yizzers attentions. last year rag and choice ireland got together to run a feminist walking tour of dublin city centre - was a great day out. this year lash back are on board helping out too. we're walking the north side - hurrah! finishes up in seomra spraoi for some food. it's all free so come along. here's the blurb....

Join Choice Ireland, the RAG collective and the Lashback collective to celebrate International Womens Day

What: Feminist Walking Tour 2009

When: 1pm Sunday March 8th 2009, International Women's Day

Where: The Custom House, Custom House Quay, Dublin 1​

On March 8th 2008 over 150 people took to the streets to take part in the first Feminist Walking Tour of Dublin to mark International Women's Day. Following the enormous success of last year's tour, we are once again stepping out to tell the often forgotten stories of the Dublin women who have shaped the world we live in.

"The tour will tell the stories of women throughout our history from Granuaile to the women of the Ladies Land League and Irish Women Workers’ Union to today's women activists who work to reduce poverty and exclusion in our city," comments Sinead Ahern

Commenting further Anne Lynott says "The walking tour is an educational and entertaining way to celebrate the courage and achievements of women past and present and an ideal way to mark International Women's Day."

The Feminist Walking Tour will follow a new route this year and will incorporate different aspects of women in Dublin’s history. The tour will finish with a social lunch where soup and sandwiches will be provided.

There will be a free booklet to accompany the tour with a map and information about each stop.

This event is free of charge and is open to all ages and genders. Please contact us if you have any accessibility or other needs.

For a report of last years tour see http://ie.indymedia.org/article/86643

For further information please contact

feministwalkingtour AT yahoo.ie

Sinead Ahern +353 (0)86 398 3189

Anne Lynott +353 (0)87 910 9147

 

[Shine]

there's other stuff going on too around IWD... here's two more events...

http://www.banulacht.ie/conferences/conferences_International_Womens_Day_Conference_Mar_09.htm

http://web.mac.com/greville1/AkiDwA/Events.html

 

[Shine]

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http://web.mac.com/greville1/AkiDwA/Events.html

 

[Lili Marlene]

What does Cormcolash think of all this?

 

[Squiggle]

What does Cormcolash think of all this?

I hear that he is already organising his "all-gender exculsion day" march

 

[Moods For Mallards]

"Women who live in the western world should move to Papua New Guinea if they don't want to be utter hypocrites and arseholes", said Cormcolash earlier today. Later, he attended the International Women's Day Feminist Walking Tour, and deemed the post-walk vegan cakes "scrumptious".

 

[magicbastarder]

are national women allowed to the international women's events?

 

[Lili Marlene]

oh wait, here we go

 

[sweetoblivion]

Aw feck I'll be in Cork that day. Would have loved to have gone
Good luck with it! Hope there's no potato-throwing at this one!! :O

 

[Cormcolash]

oh wait, here we go

Well found!

 

[Cormcolash]

By the way I'm organising a man-fest film marathon the next day.
We're gonna watch Total Recall, Rambo 4, The Punisher: War Zone, and a sneak preview of The Expendables all in one sitting.

 

[Reets]

By the way I'm organising a man-fest film marathon the next day.
We're gonna watch Total Recall, Rambo 4, The Punisher: War Zone, and a sneak preview of The Expendables all in one sitting.

you seem to be missing either Bloodsport or Universal Soldier, no point doing things half assed.

 

[Cormcolash]

Well I had to draw the line somewhere, I mean the list could go on forever otherwise, sure there's not even been any mention of Seagal, Norris, or John Woo up to now!

 

[Reets]

Well I had to draw the line somewhere, I mean the list could go on forever otherwise, sure there's not even been any mention of Seagal, Norris, or John Woo up to now!

you're not seriously putting Seagal up there with Van dam are you? he's a B+, Seagal is C at best.

 

[Cormcolash]

If they make amazing hilarious action films they all deserve to be on the list.

 

[robitusson]

Isn't Valentine's day women's day? No?

 

[nooleen]

By the way I'm organising a man-fest film marathon the next day.
We're gonna watch Total Recall, Rambo 4, The Punisher: War Zone, and a sneak preview of The Expendables all in one sitting.

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[Buzzo]

This was totally awesome last year. I learned shit loads of stuff that apparently wasn't important enough to be taught in school.

THis is what I said last year after the tour*:

"the question of women and history is a very problematic question. When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. It was not recognized; people didn't think that women had a history worth knowing. The professors that taught me thought that it was an exotic specialty and I was wasting my talents pursuing it. And for women, looking back to the past has usually been painful, because what we would learn would be an absence. We would learn that women had not done this, and they had not done that, and that essentially, according to the traditional view, women had contributed very little to the making of human society, and even less to the making of the intellectual product of Western civilization. Now, I know that not to be the case..."

*no I didn't... Gerda Lerner said it

 

[Cormcolash]

YouTube - 300: Now You're a Man!

Haha, that's gotta be a South Park song or something right? Pretty good Manowar impression.

 

[Froog]

threadjack! lots of good shit happening over at www.blackanddecker.com

i'm quite fond of the "alligator lopper":

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Heavy Duty Cutting Bar and Chain Deliver Fast Cutting of Thick Branches and Logs

4" cut capacity for cutting heavy branches too big for manual pruners and loppers