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GUYANA: Mothers Meeting & March
To mark the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day
Sat 19 March 2011 - All welcome
Organised by Red Thread, co-ordinator of the Global Women’s Strike in Guyana, and endorsed by Grassroots Women across Race and the Red Thread Domestic Violence & Rape Survivors Self-Help Group
“A Mothers’ March” - Poem by Eusi Kwayana
It is North and it is South
The Global Women’s strike
The Mothers’ march
March twelve, twenty one-one
This is not a poem: it is a salute
to the world’s Women and the Mothers among them.
In my native Guyana I would be in their ranks
With a few other men
Like the manly Payday Brothers of Ingland “the Bitch”
That once saw a strong woman as a witch.
Report on the Mothers March held in Mahdia, Guyana, March 8, 2010
On International Women’s Day, March 8th 2010, women from the Guyana coastlands joined women from the interior in a powerful Mothers March marking the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day. The march, called by Red Thread and its network Grassroots Women Across Race, was held in the interior region of Mahdia, and organized on the ground by GWAR organisers Marbell, an Indigenous woman subsistence farmer and Marcie, an Afro-Guyanese woman small vendor.
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