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We fight for roses too!
Lotte Reimer
How wonderful to be part of this
vibrant and vital International
Women's Day march in London
for something we all demand: the
unconditional, non–negotiable
end to violence against women.
As so well expressed by the
speakers, such violence takes
many forms: the direct violence
of beatings, rape, mutilation; the
fear of what may follow; governments denying equal status;
withholding the right to an existence as an individual woman;
war, poverty, trafficking, slavery,
threats, injustices... and advertising. One speaker, "an ordinary
woman", stressed the relentless
bombardment of how to be, who
to be, what to wear, what to play
with: pink Playboy Bunny logo
clothes aimed at her four–year–old!
Women met up with old
friends, made new friends. We
Aberystwyth women, mostly
from Cor Gobaith, met Bridgend
Women's Aid and Swansea
friends and sang Calon Lan for
all the women back in Wales. We
continued to raise our voices on
the march to Trafalgar Square,
singing and remembering always
Bread and Roses:
As we come marching,
marching, unnumbered
women dead / Go crying
through our singing their
ancient cry for bread. /
Small art and love and
beauty their drudging
spirits knew. / Yes it is
bread we fight for but we
fight for roses too.
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