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Thread #79162 Message #1432653
Posted By: hilda fish
11-Mar-05 - 06:38 PM
Thread Name: Songs for International Womens Day March 8
Subject: RE: for International Womens Day
"For freedom is everyone's fight" is the last line of the song. Attended a conf last year in Brussels where women from the Sudan, Tunisia and Darfour told me of the murders and rapes they went through - while their fathers sons brothers etc. had been murdered they suffered that and as well the living death of rape and humiliation as women and once arriving in Europe as 'non papiers' they suffered further rape and forced into prostitution etc.- while often supporting elderly mothers and their young children. In my country my people, particularly my sistas are suffering that and worse - imprisonment increased by 400% since 1998 and over 60% of our young women, those between 12-17 are in institutions. Jobs aren't hard to get, they are impossible as is education, housing, basic health care and food. Go brothers - do it for yourselves. I'm right behind that but your sistas need your support because they are dying on this globe at a far greater rate than men and they are living in terror - and it is being done by fearsome oppressors. I send you this with a grin :-) because that is the way we do it in the 'civilised' world isn't it? Apologies for being so serious but it is for me. Don't have any sense of humour about what is happening to my sistas. On another tack - do you know that in most circumstances when I try and bring up rape of women as a discussion, men say 'what about all the men who are raped, eh?" Åh, we'll all get there my brother!