International Working Women’s Day

Sat 6 Mar 2021
AT 1 PM IWWD RALLY ACTION:
Poverty is a war on women, stop the LNP attacks
King George Square, Brisbane

Paradgm Shift 4ZZZ fm 102.1 Friday 5 Mar 21

Listen at https://www.4zzzfm.org.au/program/paradigm-shift

Sian and Ian discuss International Working Women’s Day organised by Feminist Action and Qld Anti-Poverty Network. 
Issues discussed were:

1. What is international working women’s day IWWD?

2. Why do we need to celebrate IWWD in 2021?

3. What are your plans for Saturday?

4. Are there any specific issues you wish to raise at the rally tomorrow? 5. Anything else you wish to raise?

5. From the outset working women set up their own unions in industries like Textiles, Nursing, Teaching, Public Service and Telephony.

What do you see as the role of unions?

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  Snr Cnst John Watt arrests a woman at IWD in 1978 in Brisbane

Playlist
Jumping Fences – Brisbane Barrio                            
Kamikase Theatre Troup – Bjelke Blues                               
Allie Sherlock – Can’t Breathe                                   
Jumping Fences – I Never Sing                                 
Annie Holcombe – Grace Revolution
AUS – The Second Rape

Please note that this show was made in memory of Eurydice Dixon brutally murdered in Melbourne in 2019.