RT @wendi_
One more year, GIRL POWER !!
For this year’s piece I’ve been thinking lots about sorority and how the women in our lives play an essential role on what we are today as a society and all the achievements we as humans have been able to accomplish 💜👏🏼✨

#WomensDay #March8

➡️ On the occasion of #InternationalWomensDay, the #YPJ held a military ceremony

📢 Newroz Ahmed (#SDF General Command) held a speech, saying: "Until there is a single women not free, none of us will be free."

#JinJiyanAzadi

#March8 #8MarchWomensDay
#8March #women #Feminism

@markus Offenbar halten Sie #march8 für den Tag, an dem man(m) den Frauen erzählt, sie müssen ungewollte Schwangerschaften austragen.

#internationalwomensday

Wishing all my great women friends and those who support them a very joyous #womensday! 💜

We must keep working so that all women around the world have rights and access to reproductive healthcare.

The human rights they deserve! 👊🏼

💜💜💜

#March8 #friendship #prochoice

"It was an uprising of 10s of 1000s of women that began on #March8 1979 in Tehran that posed the first challenge to the authoritarian turn of the Revolution"

-#ManijehMoradian, author & member of #Feminists4Jina network

#IranianWomen Continue Protests Amid Crackdown & Poisonings at Girls’ Schools

#Iran #IranProtests #IranProtests2022 #IranProtests2023 #IranRevolution2022 #IranRevolution2023 #WomanLifeFreedom

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/3/8/iwd_iran

"It was an uprising of 10s of 1000s of women that began on
#March8 1979 in Tehran that posed the first challenge to the authoritarian turn of the Revolution"

-#ManijehMoradian, author & member of #Feminists4Jina network

#IranianWomen Continue Protests Amid Crackdown & Poisonings at Girls’ Schools

#Iran #IranProtests #IranProtests2022 #IranProtests2023 #IranRevolution2022 #IranRevolution2023 #WomanLifeFreedom

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/3/8/iwd_iran

"It was an uprising of 10s of 1000s of women that began on
#March8 1979 in Tehran that posed the first challenge to the authoritarian turn of the Revolution"

-#ManijehMoradian, author & member of #Feminists4Jina network

#IranianWomen Continue Protests Amid Crackdown & Poisonings at Girls’ Schools

#Iran #IranProtests #IranProtests2022 #IranProtests2023 #IranRevolution2022 #IranRevolution2023 #WomanLifeFreedom

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/3/8/iwd_iran

And now, an International Women's Day 2023 video from the Internationalist Commune of Rojava.

Their publishing post was
"We wish all the women in the world a strong #March8

Let's level up the struggle against patriarchy and capitalism together 💪

Read the full letter at https://internationalistcommune.com/from-the-imrali-prison-island-to-the-women-of-the-world-abdullah-ocalans-message-for-the-8th-of-march/"

https://vjunity.tk/w/jft5zTBmdEv4Gk9QkWr9jj

And now, an International Women's Day 2023 video from the Internationalist Commune of Rojava.

Their publishing post was
"We wish all the women in the world a strong #March8

Let's level up the struggle against patriarchy and capitalism together 💪

Read the full letter at https://internationalistcommune.com/from-the-imrali-prison-island-to-the-women-of-the-world-abdullah-ocalans-message-for-the-8th-of-march/"

https://vjunity.tk/w/jft5zTBmdEv4Gk9QkWr9jj

AI translation, video link below:

Dear Ukrainians! Today is International Women's Day, the day of women's rights struggle.

Every year on this day I thank my mother. I call her. I thank her for always being in our family and having respect.

I thank my wife for being together, loving each other, and for having such wonderful children.

And I thank the women who work with me. It is very important that we are equal as colleagues.

Today we can say different words, pay attention to different aspects of this day. Everyone has their own opinion on what to do on this day, March 8.

This is our strength, this is freedom. We are equal, free, we are strong in Ukraine.

I think it is important to thank all the women who work, study, save, heal, fight for Ukraine.

Remember and think about it. And thank all the women who gave their lives for our country.

Thank mothers. Remember that while the mother is alive, you can feel like a child.
Thank our loved ones for their respect and strength.

Together we are strong, together we are invincible, together we are free.

And together we will definitely win.
Glory to Ukraine!

#InternationalWomensDay #WomensDay #March8 #Zelensky #Zelenskyy #Zelenskiy #Zelenskyi #Selenskyj #Ukraine
https://targum.video/v/2023/3/8/fad863d3296f4cc8b78f5b2746a94a09/?

#March8 stencil spotted in Berlin

#8M #8März #8Marzo

Song of the Day March 8 2023

In remembrance of the birth of Dick Allen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Allen

Rich Allen and the Ebonistics - "Echo's Of November"

https://youtu.be/EJDDs7ohpJk

#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2023 #March8 #DickAllen #RichAllen #RichAllenAndTheEbonistics #EchosOfNovember #EchoesOfNovember #MLB #Baseball #SingingCareer

my daughter asked me this morning if March 8 marks anything important, and I tried telling her it's int'l women's day, but she couldn't hear me over the babies crying and my older son playing a toy accordion, and I ended up yelling at her to shut the door on her way out #March8

On march 8, Patti Smith said all that needs to be said, better than I ever could https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPR-HyGj2d0 #march8

RT @EUDefenceAgency@twitter.com

#IWD2023 | Women are key contributors to our peace and security 💪🪖

🎉Join us in supporting gender equality on this #InternationalWomensDay

#PowerOn #March8 #EmbraceEquity #InternationalWomensDay2023

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/EUDefenceAgency/status/1633392296606552064

Happy International Women's Day!

#March8 #WomensRights #EqualRights #HumanRights

On this day: “Because”. That’s what this word means. Because this day is about freedom, equality, education, respect. Every single day, everywhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwVOZwyLLJU

#march8 #women #internationalWomansDay #zanZendegiAzadi

Today #March8 let’s not forget the women who live without basic rights to be the persons they want to be, who cannot enjoy a civil life, dress as they want to, be politicians or police officers; in short, rule on their own lives. Let’s not think only about those who chose a #WomenInScience career. They are all unique. All of them.

RT @elephant_dd
Elephant in the Room recorded voices from Women and Queers fighting the Russian Invasion in Ukraine for #March8.

This voices were collected by @SolidarityColl1

Smash patriarchy!
Fight imperialism!

https://a-dresden.org/en/2023/03/07/march-8-voices-from-women-and-queers-fighting-and-resisting-in-ukraine/

#Frauentag #Ukraine #Feminism

Women’s village: Jinwar
On autonomous spaces, the connection of struggles and women’s revolution in Rojava
[excerpts - article: 5 years ago]
We came to Rojava as women and feminist internationalists, eager to learn from the Kurdish Women’s Movement, to live and to work with our Kurdish friends and comrades and to be part of the revolutionary process of building up and defending vivid alternatives of social organizing – here and elsewhere in this world. We want to share and discuss our experiences, this time we want to write about our reflections on Jinwar.
In between wheat fields a small village is being built up. The houses are made of mud in the traditional and most sustainable way, just as they have been built here in the region for thousands of years. The newly planted garden makes a change in the landscape; little fruit trees, olive trees, tomato plants, cucumber, watermelon, paprika, aubergine and a lot of wildly growing parpar (portulac) all around, needing just a little water and earth to grow without ever consciously being planted. Women work with their bare hands in the mud, creating bricks with which they will build up the houses of this village. The village is called Jinwar, and it will be a women’s village.
‘Jin’ itself is a meaningful expression in the Kurdish language: It means ‘woman’ but at the same time it is close to the word ‘jîn’ which means ‘life’. The Kurdish word ‘war’ means ‘space’, ‘land’, ‘home’. Jinwar will become a women’s space, a space where women will gather, live and work together, based on the vision of a free and communal life. It is a pioneering project that is deeply attached to the three basic principles of the democratic confederalist paradigm: democracy, ecology and women’s liberation.
In the last years the women in Rojava/Northern Syria have built up a base of self-organization in all areas of society that inspires women all over the world. Still women are facing a lot of difficulties while struggling for an autonomous life. Breaking away from patriarchal structures is challenging, here as everywhere. Indeed Jinwar teaches us to see the revolution from a holistic perspective. The women that struggle with rifles in their hands and the women that work with their hands full of mud are part of the same revolution, struggling on different fronts for the same vision of a free society.
The idea to create a womens village in Rojava has been a dream of women in the women’s movement for many years. One year ago several women and autonomous women’s organizations finally gathered and founded a committee for the creation of Jinwar. Afterwards half a year was spent on discussions, planning and making infrastructural preparations.
As Jinwar will be organized as a commune, the center of the village will be shaped by the place of the assemblies, as well as a tea garden and other places to meet, to live and to work together.
With the planting of the communal garden the women are aiming to create a base of self-sufficiency for the village, but also to maintain the connection to the earth and the food which nourishes as a fundamental part of life. In an area of quasi-desert and wheat mono-culture, being result of the Syrian regimes policy to industrialize agriculture since the 1970s, as well as the Turkish states warfare against the Rojava region (aiming to dry it out slowly by cutting off its water supplies), growing a big ecological garden and an orchard of fruit trees itself is an act of vivid resistance. It will change the territory, revive the ground and create an example of how a commune can live and work with the land in a sustainable way.
Women can never be free if they do not disconnect themselves from men and the patriarchal system in every aspect: mentally, physically and emotionally.Abdullah Öcalan
The village will be an autonomous space, a space of women to live freely and to regain the confidence, strength and creativity that have been undermined in the long historical process of an ever deeper and broader systematization of state, capitalism and patriarchy. Such an autonomous space can become a space to breathe, a space to overcome the destructive influence of the patriarchal system and to develop and practice a liberating approach towards life together. This actually applies an idea which Abdullah Ocalan calls theory of separation: Women can never be free if they do not disconnect themselves from men and the patriarchal system in every aspect: mentally, physically and emotionally. Consequently, only free and emancipated women, having a strong and meaningful base apart from patriarchal structures of power and oppression, can push men as well to challenge their privilege, their oppressiveness and oppression within the patriarchal structures and call them to take their responsibility in the struggle for gender liberation. For changing society we need spaces and structures of organizing ourselves. Jinwar can be one of these autonomous spaces a safe space and a brave space, a space of regaining and deepening knowledge and confidence without a patriarchal eye evaluating every move one makes. A space to connect the life of women today with the heritage of womens culture and wisdom of all times. A space of practicing alternative forms of communal living and working, reflecting on them, developing them further and defending them together.
Indeed Jinwar is a place where the socio-political ideals of the Rojava revolution, known as being a women’s revolution, can be realized in a small scale. Still Jinwar does not make the mistake to see itself as a closed community, aiming to realize a whole big social vision in a locked up space. The women of Jinwar see themselves as part of the revolution, being connected in the growing vision of democratic confederalism, sharing common ethical principles and basic methods of social organizing. As a women’s commune Jinwar will be part of the network of communes, cooperatives and councils organizing under the umbrella of Kongreya Star. In this way the autonomous women’s spaces and structures are connected to each other, being able to organize according to their needs. Furthermore there is a lot of exchange with the people from the villages around and women from different cantons and even countries come to join in the work and discussion.
Jineoloji seeks to formulate alternatives in all fields of society and bring them to live – namely in the fields of ethics/aesthetics, economy, demography, ecology, history, health, education and politics.
Jineoloji is not cut off society and perceives knowledge and truth as something that goes together with the practice of an ethical life. Based on the rich history of women’s knowledge and resistance in all times of history, Jineoloji seeks to formulate alternatives in all fields of society and bring them to live – namely in the fields of ethics/aesthetics, economy, demography, ecology, history, health, education and politics. These fields are no abstract categories, but they are all connected to a broader understanding and social practice. If there will be an education on economy and ecology in Jinwar, it will be connected to the reflection of the practice in the communal gardens and the network of cooperatives. If the topic is politics, the central question is how people interact with each other and how problems can be solved and decisions can be taken – be it in a womens commune, in a village council or on the level of the whole society. Jineoloji has been developed by the Kurdish Womens Movement, but it is being more and more discussed in other parts of the world, inspiring women and feminists from different backgrounds and bringing them together. In all these ways the experiences that are made in Jinwar can be given back to the whole society, becoming part of the transformation process towards a free and ethical society.
You deal with these contradictions, you see them with all their roots and layers, you do not avoid conflicts and every day you find solutions together.
Another impressive aspect about Jinwar: the absence of fear to deal with the contradictions and difficulties a revolutionary social process brings about. The struggle with patriarchal mentalities starts already in the planning and construction of the village. What do you do if you are about to build a wall out of kerpîç stones with a group of experienced women, but the first man passing by takes the stones out of your hand with the attitude of an expert, even if he has no idea of kerpîç work? What do you do if a gender mixed group comes to help with the work for the first time, but only the men appear for the collective lunch, because tradition says that women and men do not eat together, so it is not the men but the women who will stay in their place to eat the rests afterwards? it is based on the connection to the growing structures and vision of democratic confederalism, with women’s liberation as a common base for that women have fought a lot. the revolution and its values are under attack every day. There are attacks driven by deeply patriarchal and fascist mentalities, aiming to erase the revolutionary gainings and control womens strength and resistance; and there are attacks through the liberal forces of capitalist modernity, tending to slowly undermine the revolutionary ethic and substance. Jinwar is one of the representations of the global resistance and creation of alternatives, connected to all those who are struggling against patriarchal structures and mindsets; to those who have the will to live and defend a meaningful revolutionary life, culture and ethics. The struggle is the same. It is our aim to make this connection real, to learn from the experiences our friends make here, to join in the revolution and to connect, support, defend each other on a common base.
Jin Jiyan Azadi! #JinJiyanAzadi #Jinwar #Rojava #AANES #democraticconfederalism #March8 #IWD #internationalwomensday
https://internationalistcommune.com/jinwar/