AN EIGHT SPECIAL
March Pia Locatelli
President 's Socialist International Women
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| Clara Zetkin |
The March 8 this year is special because it marks the hundredth anniversary of the first International Women's Day. In 1910, 58 delegates who came mainly from Austria, Switzerland, Germany and Denmark met in Copenhagen in the second Congress of Socialist Women and on the initiative of the German Clara Zetkin , they launched the proposal to indicate a day in March each year during which all the women at the same time in different countries to reclaim their rights and demonstrate international solidarity. The proposal was immediately not only approved but also convinced implementation: 19 March the following year a million women took to the streets in demonstrations to demand political rights and right to work.
often to coincide with the March 8 fire at a shirt factory in New York that killed 146 people, mostly young immigrant women from Italy and the Eastern European shtetl. In reality, the fire occurred on March 25, just days after the first international event for women, and the two facts were so interconnected that binds them both through eight in March.
E 'right to maintain the link between the two events because the one and the other gave start to the law at work: the first with an action request and express protest, the second because of the scandal that caused the tragedy. A tragedy that should have been more properly define the massacre, because due to lack of minimum security measures that a factory, located on the upper floors of a building, it had forecast.
Washington Place, New York , is the square where the building is still della tragedia, e ci vado ogni anno in una sorta di pellegrinaggio tra fine febbraio e i primi di marzo, in occasione della sessione della Commissione sulla Condizione delle Donne delle Nazioni Unite, a cui partecipo da sedici sessioni consecutive, come presidente dell'Internazionale Socialista Donne.
Quest'anno il mio “pellegrinaggio” ha avuto una meta diversa, il c imitero di Evergreen, al confine tra Brooklyn e i Queens , dove i Newyorkesi hanno eretto un monumento di pietra, un bassorilievo raffigurante una donna inginocchiata, dedicato alle ultime sei vittime dell'incendio, mai identificate e sepolte in una bara comune a causa dello strazio dei corpi causato dalle fiamme.
After a hundred years, thanks to the dedication of a researcher, Michael Hirsch, the victims have been identified and so, on the occasion of the centenary, the name of each of them will be read at the ceremony of commemoration.
Following this identification, ie maybe the New Yorkers, always efficient, or even change the monument dedication. The memory, however, the origins of the struggle for labor rights and political rights of women and the sacrifices that have allowed subsequent generations to have a better quality of life should not be forgotten. Although this is the eighth of March.
often to coincide with the March 8 fire at a shirt factory in New York that killed 146 people, mostly young immigrant women from Italy and the Eastern European shtetl. In reality, the fire occurred on March 25, just days after the first international event for women, and the two facts were so interconnected that binds them both through eight in March.
E 'right to maintain the link between the two events because the one and the other gave start to the law at work: the first with an action request and express protest, the second because of the scandal that caused the tragedy. A tragedy that should have been more properly define the massacre, because due to lack of minimum security measures that a factory, located on the upper floors of a building, it had forecast.
Washington Place, New York , is the square where the building is still della tragedia, e ci vado ogni anno in una sorta di pellegrinaggio tra fine febbraio e i primi di marzo, in occasione della sessione della Commissione sulla Condizione delle Donne delle Nazioni Unite, a cui partecipo da sedici sessioni consecutive, come presidente dell'Internazionale Socialista Donne.
Quest'anno il mio “pellegrinaggio” ha avuto una meta diversa, il c imitero di Evergreen, al confine tra Brooklyn e i Queens , dove i Newyorkesi hanno eretto un monumento di pietra, un bassorilievo raffigurante una donna inginocchiata, dedicato alle ultime sei vittime dell'incendio, mai identificate e sepolte in una bara comune a causa dello strazio dei corpi causato dalle fiamme.
After a hundred years, thanks to the dedication of a researcher, Michael Hirsch, the victims have been identified and so, on the occasion of the centenary, the name of each of them will be read at the ceremony of commemoration.
Following this identification, ie maybe the New Yorkers, always efficient, or even change the monument dedication. The memory, however, the origins of the struggle for labor rights and political rights of women and the sacrifices that have allowed subsequent generations to have a better quality of life should not be forgotten. Although this is the eighth of March.
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