Tonight in Salt Lake an event was held to celebrate International Women’s Day. Building Global Bridges was held at Westminster College. Tabling was for 1/2 hour prior to the film and panel.
Jen of Jen’s Green Journal has posted photos and an account of the event.
Here are photos from the tabling session:
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Today, March 8 marks International Women’s Day, the day of the Global Women’s Strike. IWD is a day that has been celebrated internationally by women and men and childrenm since 1945. (Scroll down for IWD history).
Locally, in Salt Lake City, there will be this event:
International Women’s Day – “Building Global Bridges”
Vieve Gore Concert Hall, Westminster College
FREE and open to the public
Reception: 6pm, Program: 6:45pm
Feature Film: “Women on the Frontlines” – Women in 5 countries strive to improve their lives and communities thorugh education, micro loans, democracy, and the search for peace and forgiveness. Discussion will follow.
Presented by:
Planned Parenthood, People for Peace and Justice of UTah, Mormons for Equality and Social Justice, National Council for Community and Justice, Tapestry Against Polygamy, Ten Thousand Villages, Westminster Students for Choice and Diversity Center, Rape REcovery Center, YWCA, SLC Film Center and City Weekly
Women at work in India
Ajit Solanki, Associated Press
Women break chili pepper stalks in Ahmadabad, India. The women earn 11 cents for more than 40 pounds of chilies. Today is International Women’s Day — an occasion where women’s groups worldwide are honoring women’s achievements and working for equality.
(published in today’s Deseret News)
Read these articles and accounts of women and women’s issues:
Statement from Women <a href="Housewives workers in the home to President Chavez – 4 February 2006
http://www.globalwomenstrike.net/English2005/WSFworkshops.htm”>Global Women’s Strike workshops at the World Social Forum, Caracas, Venezuela, Jan-Feb 2006
Venezuela: bringing the women’s revolution to Europe & US
Women under occupation – daily life and resistance: Three Palestinian women speak at Crossroads Women’s Centre
Refusing to kill, a website by Payday, a network of men working with the Global Women’s Strike
IWD History
1908
Thousands of workers in the New York needle trades (primarily women) demonstrated & began a strike for higher wages, a shorter workday and an end to child labor.
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….comes from Part of the Plan, which has a piece on Chris Buttars and his legislative positions. The piece is cleverly titled “Is He As Dumb As He Sounds ? (I’ve Lost Count)”
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The Utah Senate voted down a proposed amendment on abortion (proposed by Sen. Scott McCoy) that would have helped protect at risk minors. The senate gave preliminary approval to the original bill, required that physicians seek parental consent before performing abortions on minors. (The bill is on hold pending a funding measure.)
The current law in Utah, in place since 1974, requires parental notification prior to abortions being performed on minors. The proposed amendment would have waived that noficiation process to minors deemed at risk in the home by abuse.
Sen. Patrice Arent, D-South Cottonwood, proposed a similar amendment when HB85 was before the Senate Judiciary and Criminal Justice Committee. Monday, Arent said the change takes into account real-world situations.
“I think it makes sense for those narrow situations where you don’t want to have that girl harmed further,” she said.
Utah has an “abstinence only” curricula as part of the health classes that have sex ed as a unit in them. Only the issue of abstinence can be taught. Not even other birth control measures may be mentioned. This does not stop minors from having sex. This bill on abortion will not stop minors from seeking abortions. Just a few weeks ago Salt Lake City Weekly ran a feature on minors crossing borders to get abortions because of the laws in Utah. This bill, if passed, will only continue to exascerbate that issue and force minors in abusive situations to seek help out of state.
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