With your permission and before we talk about tomorrow, we'll take a break and talk about today.
It's Thursday, the evening of the 8th of the third month of the year and today is World Reading Day. Yes, on March 7th, the creation of this world day arose from the initiative of the international organization Lit World in 2010, with the intention of promoting the habit of reading to create awareness that in the world there are more than 700 million illiterate people.
Let's go to what we're going to. Rain and No Rain. We'll let it fall when we have the missing rain.
The library door opens and I see 3 umbrellas. Enter 3 users with a reader's card for a handful of years. The teachers have ordered them to do a project on International Women's Day. March 8.
One, she is black, her mother is African; the other, is an emigrant, comes from Eastern European countries; and the third, is aboriginal (from the land). The three talk to each other in Valencian and ask me that they want to do a work on Women's Day that is a little different. Don't just copy and paste from google and wikipedia. As "almost always", the libraries respond to the questions they ask us and send them a handful of books from the "Purple Raconet" and help them search through the sea of information on internet search engines.
We find the following information on the page of the association of women journalists: March 8 is celebrated all over the world, except in Muslim countries, but the origin of International Women's Day is not clear. They are confused. If we look in Spanish historiography, it is linked to the commemoration of the fire of a textile factory (Cotton) in New York in 1857 or 1908, it depends on the sources you search. The factory workers had gone on strike because of the unbearable working conditions. The owner closed them and set fire to the factory. 129 female workers die. However, American historiography relates March 8 to a demonstration (low wages and 12 working hours per day) of textile workers in 1908. In neither of the two versions, according to several researchers (AI Álvarez, R .Côte, L. Kandel, F. Picq) have found evidence of the fire or the demonstration.
On the other hand, if there is evidence of the blouse workers' strike (Triangle) of the year 1909 in NY In the same, the international union of garment workers joins which lasts 3 months, but without any success. A year later, a fire destroyed part of the factory and 146 workers died. This fact was the first strike by working women in the United States of America asking for improvements in working conditions, but it would not be the origin of International Women's Day either.
The truth is that the origins are linked to labor movements and socialist parties in Europe and the USA. For example, "Woman's Day", a day of reflection and action, took place on May 3, 1908 in Chicago claiming women's suffrage and rejecting sexual slavery. In Europe, in Copenhagen in 1910, International Women's Day was established (right to vote, hold public office, end employment discrimination, right to work and study) which was celebrated on March 19, 1911 (Austria, Germany, Denmark, Sweden) where more than a million women participated (according to the UN). The day of celebration kept changing until 1914 when March 8 was instituted.
In short, International Women's Day cannot be linked to a single isolated event. It is the transformative process of a changing society. The United Nations proclaimed 1975 as International Women's Year and on December 16, 1977, the General Assembly approved and invited to celebrate Women's Day on March 8 every year.
It's one, or it's three, or it can be ten or it can be all the little girls in the world. You all have illusions and dreams, don't be afraid of Mr. NoHAM (NoHoAconseguirasMai) even if he fills your pockets with stones so you can't fly. Go find Mr. SVP (SiVolsPots) because he will make you wings that are not visible, and that all of you who have dreams and illusions have them hidden without knowing it to make them come true.
In https://www.albaida.es/va/pagina/guies-lectura you will find reading guides on the lilac corner, equality plan, social integration, women in science, etc.
Joseph Moll
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