[van-announce] 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