Celebrate International Women's Day

On Wednesday, March 8th, International Women's Day, at 4 p.m. on the Greenfield Town Common, we will hold our annual rally and speak-out, entitled "Stop the War in Iraq! Stop the War on Women!" Our special guest speaker will be Verónica Leyva, a women's rights and workers' rights activist from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, who is on tour on behalf of the nearly 400 women brutally murdered in that city over the past decade where femicide has gone virtually uninvestigated and unsolved. We also will be demonstrating in solidarity with Code Pink's "Women Say No to War" rally being held that day in Washington, D.C. Please bring signs, banners, song sheets, and instruments. And be ready to join the Raging Grannies for lively renditions of their great, topical songs. Last year our IWD celebration got blizzarded-out. This year we have a back-up location: the Greenfield Library just up Main Street from the Common.

The following day, Thursday, March 9, Greenfield Community College's Social Sciences Department and the Diversity Programming Committee is holding an Open House from 10 a.m until 4 p.m. to introduce the community to the new Social Sciences Studio (Room 115 in the East Building) and to honor International Women's Day. Verónica Leyva will be speaking at 12:30 p.m., another opportunity for us to get information about the situation in Ciudad Juarez and to think about the connections between the lives and cultures of women throughout the world.

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