Evan Williams Poster Brunette

International Women's Day ...

Happy March 8, all women

Nude, oil on canvas

To those who dream in silence

To those who do not have the gift of a smile

To those who do not have a caress on the skin

; To those who do not know the sweetness

To those who suffer violence in silence

A those that can not dissolve the hair in the wind

Happy March 8, all women

To those who embrace it with love

To those who speak in over look

To those who smile with the colors of the rainbow

; To all those who give energy to the freedom of life.

;


Michael Luongo

In Italy commonly defined Women's Day, occurs on 8 March each year to commemorate the achievements and social, political and economic conditions of women, both discrimination and violence they are yet declared in many parts of the world. In Italy this celebration was held for the first time in 1911: in 2011 it held its first centenary.

In the United States and the first official Women's Day was celebrated on February 28, 1909.





1975 was designated as "International Year of Women" by the United Nations on 8 March, the celebrated women's organizations around the world precisely the International Women's Day, with events honoring the advancement of women and recalled the need for continued vigilance to ensure that their equality was achieved and maintained in all aspects of civic life.

The origins of the annual celebration of this event go back to the beginning of the century and what happened

in 1908, when New York, 129 workers of the textile industry Cotton went on strike to protest the terrible conditions in which they were forced to work.




The strike lasted for several days until, on March 8, the owner stopped all the doors of the factory to prevent workers leaving the factory.
There was an arson attack and the 129 workers trapped inside the factory burned by the flames. Since then, March 8 has been proposed as an international day of struggle in favor of women.


The commemoration, all-American, the victims has since been accepted worldwide as the symbol of female liberation day.

Mimosa

Trivia:

The choice of mimosa as a symbol of Women's Day dates back to 1946 when the organizers of the celebrations in Rome were looking for a blossom season at a good price.




Source: Various assembled by the author