Updated on 3/9/2015 at 12:30pm
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Sunday, March 8th, 2015. New York City – Today, the International Working Women’s Day Coalition celebrated the International Working Women’s Day. Hundreds of people attended the rally and march.
Photo by Javier Soriano/http://www.JavierSoriano.com/
The march started at Herald Square Plaza (34th Street and Broadway) and ended at the International Action Center (IAC), located at 147 West 24th Street on the second floor in Manhattan.
Photo by Javier Soriano/http://www.JavierSoriano.com/
“The International Working Women’s Day, is celebrated on March 8 every year. In different regions the focus of the celebrations ranges from general celebration of respect, appreciation, and love towards women to a celebration for women’s economic, political, and social achievements. Started as a Socialist political event, the holiday blended the culture of many countries, primarily in Europe, especially those in the Soviet Bloc. In some regions, the day lost its political flavor, and became simply an occasion for people to express their love for women in a way somewhat similar to a mixture of Mother’s Day and Valentine’s Day. In other regions, however, the political and human rights theme designated by the United Nations runs strong, and political and social awareness of the struggles of women worldwide are brought out and examined in a hopeful manner. Some people celebrate the day by wearing purple ribbons.”_Wikipedia.org
Photo by Javier Soriano/http://www.JavierSoriano.com/
The International Working Woman’s Day Coalition, said on Facebook “This year we are calling on all women, trans women, allied organizations and communities at large to join us on March 8, the day celebrated around the world, to march and speak out against police brutality and terror, state repression and militarization.
We march to honor the mothers, sisters and daughters of the black lives we have lost. We march to honor the Black women : both cis-gendered and transwomen – we have lost. We march to oppose the current and historical state sanctioned violence and repression that is intensifying both locally, nationally and around the world.
This is a call for action to end this systemic state violence that is killing our communities. We continue to speak out against the domestic violence, economic violence and media violence. Though from different communities, classes, generations and cultures, together we march in unity.”
Photo by Javier Soriano/http://www.JavierSoriano.com/
Photo by Javier Soriano/http://www.JavierSoriano.com/
Photo by Javier Soriano/http://www.JavierSoriano.com/
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Candice Sering of Gabriela USA said, “Women, women of color, trans women, are largely affected and marginalized and we need to continue raising those issues to the forefront.”
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