[antiwar-van] Invitation to a Rally to Celebrate International Women's Day

[Stephanie Smith]

Invitation to a Rally to Celebrate International Women's Day

We are a group of women's rights activists who have been actively organizing 
the International Women's Day (IWD) in Vancouver for the last 15 years. In 
2008, the present organizers of IWD have denied us the right to criticize the 
reactionary and misogynist governments of the world. The IWD 2008 organizers 
are censoring us under the pretext of anti-war and anti-imperialism. We are 
against war and imperialism but also against fundamentalist religious 
governments and the oppression they impose on millions of women around the 
world. It's these reactionary ruling classes that we want to speak out against.

We walked out of the last organizing meeting of the IWD 2008 in protest. The 
remaining members of IWD 2008 are all affiliated with MAWO and its subsidiary 
groups. MAWO is a group well known for its disruptive behavior and policies 
that defend reactionary governments such as the Islamic Republic of Iran.

We invite you to join us in an alternative rally to celebrate March 8th, the 
International Women's Day, one without silencing women.

March 8th, 100th Anniversary of International Women Day (IWD)
No to Sexual Apartheid Against Women
Freedom, Equality and Socialism

On the 100th anniversary of International Women Day, A rally is organized at 
Vancouver Art Gallery to protest the sexual apartheid imposed on women and to 
demand Freedom, Equality and Socialism.

Date: Saturday March 8th, 2008, at 12:00 p.m.

Place: In front of Vancouver Art Gallery, corner of Howe and Robson Street in 
Downtown Vancouver

With: Music, Speakers and Information Tables

IWD for Freedom, Equality and Socialism

Contact: 604-727-8986

Email: iwd2008vancouver at gmail.com