FOr International Women’s Day, which comes annually on March 8, people around the world are celebrating with different types of tones. Some festivals are celebrating women’s achievements, others are protesting in an attempt to end gender inequalities and gender -based violence.
In Bangkok, women, like activists in Berlin, went to the streets and marched, equipped with banners. Meanwhile, in the UK, some women marked the day by participating Sunrise.
In the US, women March – dedicated from Trump’s first president and dedicated to the basis of feminist activism – and the affiliates organized a march to collect and celebrate them.Unite and resist“Call on the action.
According to Rachel O’Lary Carmona, the executive director of the woman March, the goal of the day is to help people in “study of democracy” and “study of democracy”, especially at a time when President Donald Trump’s administration as a fracture of democratic resistance to the administration.
This Tuesday was clearly seen on Trump’s Congress address, during which Democrats’ various answers, including some Congress women, in which Trump’s policies affected women and families, other members of Congress, unity with Ukraine, and some of the yellow.
Karmo says that because of the different priorities and goals on the left, it does not mean that they describe as “dictatorialism” cannot be united “in the fight against it. And to practice this unity of Karma, this international women view the day’s actions as a moment.
“Just because different people are making different things, it doesn’t mean that not everyone runs in the same direction.” “I think the country is fragmented throughout the board … some people are focused on feminism, some are focused on immigration rights. But when [people] Just say, ‘Oh, there is a fracture on the left.’ I think they prevent people from making power in this way. “
Women March – who staged a worldwide protest in 2017 the day after Trump’s first inauguration day – was seen as a huge uniform force by bringing a one during Trump’s early tenure. Estimation Vashington Shington, DC and the United States more than 4 million Marches. Carmo’s first March is called “Historic Tihasik” and “Top of Spears”. Original March iconography and their message live.
However, this is a different time.
“We are eight years later. Later the terms of the two presidential. We are post-a-weave. 6, [2021]Post-Box“He says. “[We have] Struggled to meet the moment, as the moment has changed. ”
Women March has worked to rebrand with Times. In the years since 2017, the network faced an internal fracture with anxiety that participants were “extravagant white” and anti -Semitism allegations.
Now, the woman is eager to revive her integrated X-factor in the midst of March Trump’s second tenure, trying to meet the moment with multi-icon, intersection and multifested activation.
This means that the previous workers and participants come back, but also breathe life in the reason with new voices. Ashley Paris and Kailani Rodriguez are two first -time organizers who led the programs of International Women’s Day 2025 in their respective cities.
For Paris, planning has been a hurricane in the Boston area, but it says that women who have led March in the past have helped find their feet. She says she has grown to someone from “Baby Activist” who will continue to show for women March in the future. In front of the big day, Women March Boston Action Website Page 1,500 is located near the RSVP.
“People [emailed me] Saying that they will bring the buses of women of all ages to protest, “says Paris.
19 -year -old Rodriguez graduated at a high school in 2023 and organized the first woman March in its small city port Angeles in Vashington Shington. When she invented women’s day actions to participate, she was in a seat nearby, which is a few hours away.
She began organizing more local action just a few days before the big day, and received hundreds of messages of potential attendees and other people organizing similar activism sessions.
“I didn’t expect that. I didn’t expect it to be in charge … he just fell into my lap, “Rodriguez says she has received a lot of support from the old pay -generations.
For Carmona, International Women’s Day 2025 helps to practice democracy of their community, and helps their community practice democracy.
“What we are trying to do is help people create a community. People offer something in their communities to organize something at a time that is not a trigger moment, because within a moment of the Supreme Court’s decision, things that do not go in our way, or it has been stripped, “he says.” We want to make relationships 1741520206 So when the time comes, we will be able to stay with each other in the Acharya conflict. “
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