Wait until you're invited to something and go, and regardless of whether this happens not moan about the fact that women want to organise events only for themselves. You could also use your own initiative and read some feminist texts and talk about them with men or something.

what can I do to support this day?

Kia Ora

What are you doing to support Maori women?

Women's day is a load of bollocks. Only elitest women dig it in 'first world' countries. Basically its a feel good ritual manufactured to disguise guilt. Most women in the world routinely suffer and die as a matter of course - IWD is now a load of liberal bullshit. To "A Man" - just be yourself and go and do something nice for someone - to make them happy; to "Ana" - agree absolutely - brown, poor and different women are totally excluded from this do-gooder waste of time; to "John" - don't be so harsh.

John, I've actually read quite a few feminist texts and have discussed feminist politics with a wide range of men and women over the years. My question was a sincere one and not as you imply an attack on women-only events.

But your suggestion of talking about gender politics with other men leads onto an idea I've had for a long time. I think it's high time more activist men formed consciousness raising groups about gender issues as woman did in the early days of feminist activism. I feel it could help men find a constructive and less defensive way to engage with feminist analysis. More importantly it could help us focus on a number of men's issues in society which are not getting dealt with and start generating solutions to them.

yes A man, i think that consiousness raising groups for men are a great idea. bell hooks has written a book that might help discussions, it's called "The will to change: Men, masculinity and love.

A Man:

Sorry to generalise, but I get tired of people moaning about this. I did mean to imply that you were, and I'm sorry I was wrong.

Good luck with the consciousness raising idea. I might be interested in it if it was in Wellington

Yes this does seem to be a lot of liberal bullshit. Screen Printing and Bracelet making - how the fuck does this help down trodden women. Sounds like middle class white women at university having a good time. Get fucked!

IWD only for "middle class white women"? Bollocks.
Go to
indymedia.org.nz/newswire/display/42134/index.php

What are YOU doing to support Maori womyn?

Ohh, it's liberal...ohhhh, it's not good enough...I won't support it...ohhh.

Fuck off.

A basic google search will reveal the events going on around the world. Do it your own lazy, critical, cynical, part-of-the-problem self.

Little Boy.

Oh dear. After 4 years of mostly avoiding it class-baiting has come to Aotearoa Indymedia.

Here's a clue or two people: endowing a culture with an class and then discriminating against people because of their involvement in that culture is self-rightous BULLSHIT. Class politics is about analysing imbalances in economic and political power across the population, not dissing people because they like screen-printing. In fact such behaviour actually reinforces or even creates the alienation that keeps class distinctions and thus class society in place. Word.

"Screen Printing and Bracelet making - how the fuck does this help down trodden women. Sounds like middle class white women at university having a good time. Get fucked!"

I quite like screen printing, and I don't particularly see that women at university shouldn't have a good time, particularly on International Women's Day. How does writing abusive e-messages help down trodden women?

"What are you doing to support Maori women?"

Not a lot at the moment - what do you think Pakeha men should be doing in this regard?

From an Irani on Line
(benevis-dige.blogspot.com/)

Thanks to sima's latest post, I now know the details of at least two events happening in Tehran in commemoration of International women's day. From 10-12 on Wednesday, there will be a film screening and roundtable discussion at the University of Tehran on the issue of violence against women. From 4-5 later that day, there will be a general gathering at a public park in tehran (park-e daneshjoo).

Right-wingish U.S. groups, newspapers, blogs, pundits, etc. will most likely try their best to co-opt the messages of these gatherings towards an agenda that pushes war and violence against the people of Iran. Expect the heavy circulation of photos from these events, and expect a lot of patronizing, patriarchical talk from a bunch of people who claim to want to free Iranian women from the claws of Iranian patriarchy.

Left-wingish U.S. groups, newspapers, blogs, pundits, etc. will most likely ignore these events because their message is not easily distilled into the hackneyed slogans that have been recycled for at least the last three decades. Don't expect to hear any of the women involved in these events on your local community radio, and don't expect to see them as international invitees to the demonstrations organized by supposedly progressive NGOs.

As for iranians currently or permanently abroad, i guess we too have a long way to go in learning how to support such gatherings without meddling in and/or manipulating their messages.

International Women's Day 2006 - A Woman's Place is in the Struggle.

Historic and current struggles for women's rights were celebrated at an International Women's Day Forum attended by around eighty men and women at Trades Hall in Auckland on March the 8th. The Auckland International Woman's Day Committee chose the theme "A Woman's Place is in the Struggle" to highlight the campaigns underway for low women workers and campaigns against injustices against women both at home and abroad, including the ongoing occupation of Iraq.

NZ Idol Rosita Vai got the evening off to a great start by performing a couple of characteristically soulful and beautfully sung tracks, and speaking passionately about her understanding of the issues Pacific Island women still face in New Zealand.

Union campaigner Jill Ovens expanded on this theme in her keynote address on "Making the Invisible Visible", focusing on valuing the paid and unpaid work of women, particularly the low wage work done by service workers around New Zealand. Jill, from the Service and Food Workers Union, spoke about Pacific Island and Maori women, who often work in the women-dominated service or caregiving industries, earning between 67 and 71 cents of every $1 earned by Pakeha men.

Jill's address sparked some animated discussion by contrasting the bourgeois feminism of some popular writers with the daily concerns of working class women. She spoke about conditions for low-paid women in New Zealand, and about the need for social change through campaigns such as the SFWU 'Healthy Hospitals' Campaign, launched on IWD this year.

A panel of speakers talked about current campaigns for working class women. Ingrid from Unite's SuperSizeMyPay.com campaign talked about the injustice of youth wages and about the empowerment of young women involved in the campaign, which has successfully linked the union and activist communities in Auckland. Shila, from the Shakti Asian Women's Centre spoke about the abuse suffered by migrant women at the hands of partners, bosses, and New Zealand immigration policy. Shila updated forum participants on Shakti's 'Say No to Domestic Violence' Campaign, launched last year on International Women's Day. Fala and Kirsty from the Service and Food Workers Union spoke about the global campaign for cleaners' rights and the importance of both a militant minority and international solidarity in winning workers' struggles.

After another discussion break, Daphna from the Workers Party spoke about women in revolutionary struggles and encouraged us all to remember the situation for women and men in countries under imperialist occupation. The third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq is being commemorated with a rally at the US Consulate (Customs St East) at 12 noon in Auckland on March 18th.

Toko, a woman visiting from South Africa, spoke about terminator gene technology and its threat to agriculture in her country, where 80% of those working on farms are women. Long time activist Margaret Jones finished off with a rousing and still relevant poem written nearly a hundred years ago by a member of the Wobblies, or Industrial Workers of the World, and the speaches and discussion were conluded with a toast and salute to workers of the world.

The musical styles of the Stewart Sisters and The Romanovas finished off a great evening.

As someone who has been involved in co-ordinating IWD for a few years, IWD 2006 was one of the most successful to date. It was most heartening to see the willingness of participants to get involved in the grass roots struggles of women in this country and to engage wih the issues being presented.

This year's IWD bulletin contains articles about beneficiaries rights, current campaigns, the advances of women in Venzuela, and violence against women in Aotearoa. For a copy, email: euphemiak (at) yahoo.com

For more information or to get involved in any of the campaigns mentioned, please email nickijonas (at) hotmail.com

Solidarity Sisters!

www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0602/S00213.htm

A women's right not to be forced feed drugs!

I would like to see things back track and for women's groups to take a good look at what is actually happening to women in NZ rather than keep trying to compete with men or keep putting men in prison when women are also at fault or are filing false rape complaints. Our prisons are busting at the seams with men. This is not competing with men this is torturing men. Men wouldn't be putting women in prison at the rate we are.

I am sick and tired of the pressure being put on women to work from the feminists in politics.

Families are the best people to look after children but mothers continually get abused from WINZ for wanting to help to give their time to save their children's lives.

Single mothers are struggling to keep up with women's rights to be men. They work all day, study to fit in with feminists wants of education and then on top of that raise their children.

And you wonder why single parent mothers are the highest rate of child abuse and why single mothers have the most childern in prison.

Enough already of following gender feminists in the UN. What about the real women here in NZ?

Single Mother

I think it is a fantastic idea that we have a womans day i never knew until now wow people should respect us more

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