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Mother Courage, International Women's Day and Human Rights.

Mar 05, 2010 22:01

Many will celebrate Mother's Day by getting flowers, cards and chocolates for their Mums. Yet in many countries Mother's will die due to what in the European Union would be easily preventable complications. Send a card to Brown, Cameron and Clegg to ensure that their electoral promises are upheld on improving health care work ( Read more... )

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8th March ww3_book_now March 6 2010, 05:56:15 UTC

International Women's Day is not only for mothers. It celebrates women in every walk of life. And women - especially in Russia, where March 8th is a huge national holiday, this year running 6th, 7th and 8th - are extemely pleased and proud with their holiday.

Of course, we could do that mealy-mouthed British thing, where you have "Bank Holidays" - which celebrate nothing whatsoever.

A country which cannot be bothered to celebrate events like Armistice Day, VE Day, VJ Day, Trafalgar Day etc has no business telling Russians what holidays to celebrate. Women would give you a punch on the nose for mocking their holiday - and quite right too!

Re: 8th March ron_broxted March 6 2010, 10:32:23 UTC

Don't be so thin skinned, anyone who has lived in Russia will aver it is a strikingly chauvinistic place. Yes you are correct about Ingerlund, the politicization of holidays, no Armistice Day but more crap about our "Heroes" and "gallant allies". As I said in a spoof it will be a short time before we get Thanksgiving & 4th July!

Re: 8th March ww3_book_now March 6 2010, 12:00:39 UTC

Probably if I had lived in Russia since 1999 like our Indy-contributing friend Neil, I might have "known" that ( ... )

Re: 8th March ron_broxted March 6 2010, 19:45:26 UTC

I saw on RT weather it was -40 on Omykyam thingy.

Re: 8th March ww3_book_now March 6 2010, 20:04:56 UTC

It's been one of the severest winters on record. The saddest stories are down in Southern Siberia, Tuva, and across the border in Mongolia. In Mongolia around 70-80% of the livestock has perished in sub -50C temperatures which are just unknown in living memory. For a society that ekes a living from wretched scrub desert and has no other resources, it's a national catastrophe :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04e_QAztUKU

Communities down there are so sparsely spread that the full scale of the disaster will only become clear in April, when the smowmelt begins, and remote communities are able to communicate with others in a country that closes-down under metres of impassable snow.

Re: 8th March ron_broxted March 6 2010, 20:15:40 UTC

There was a brief article on that too.

Re: 8th March ww3_book_now March 6 2010, 15:41:42 UTC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sltFpt9R9vI&feature=popt1dus15

Re: 8th March ron_broxted March 6 2010, 19:45:46 UTC

Bolshoi spasiba.

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