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omen at the Douglas College

Women’s Centre are busy
preparing for International
Women’s Day.

Members of the College com-
munity are invited to attend the
2nd annual International Women’s
Day open house in the Douglas Col-
lege Women’s Centre from 3 p.m. to
6 p.m. on March 8.

The open house is co-spon-
sored by the Faculty Association’s
Status of Women Committee, the
Women’s Centre, and the Douglas
College Student Society’s Women’s

Women’s Centre spokesperson
Liz Wilson says International

 

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Women’s Day was established to

 

honour the efforts of women
workers. On March 8th, 1908, after
the death of 128 women trapped in
a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Fac-
tory in New York City, 15,000
women workers from the garment

 

and textile industry marched
through the city demanding shorter
working hours, safe working condi-
tions, equal pay and the right for
women to vote. The demonstrators
demanded "bread and roses." Bread
is the symbol of economic security,
and roses, the symbol for a better
life. Police violently attacked the
women in an attempt to break up
the demonstration.

International Women’s Day is
celebrated in countries around the
world, but it has only recently been
revived in North America with the
rise of the women’s movement in
the sixties. Each year, thousands of
women across Canada join in mar-
ches, meetings, celebrations, and a
re-dedication to the continuing
fight for "bread and roses."

Douglas College Women’s
Centre is located in Room 2720 on
the second floor of the New
Westminster campus, behind Stu-
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What do we women
have to celebrate on
International

Women’s Day?

(An excerpt from the International
Women's Day Committee of 1984)

On this day, we celebrate our
strength. We celebrate our strug-
gle for freedom. We celebrate our
unity. We celebrate our differen-
ces.

We celebrate our heroines of
the past. In the U.S., Harriet Tub-
man, the Black "Moses", led many
of her people from slavery to
freedom through the Under-
ground Railway; Margaret
Sanger brought birth control in-
formation to women who wanted
to choose when and where to be
mothers; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
began her career as a labour or-
ganizer at the age of fifteen when
she spoke about "What Socialism
Will Do For Women"; Crystal
Eastman fought for industrial
safety and labour laws.

In Canada, Nellie McClung,
Emily Murphy, Henrietta Muir
Edwards and Louise McKinney
successfully battled the law and
we became persons before the law
(the famous Person’s Case").

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