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Post by pieter on Mar 17, 2015 17:25:23 GMT -7
Before the married couple in Amsterdam: " Do you also want a white slave woman? And do you (to the bride) want to stay a female slave? the action group Dolle Mina declares, it wants the abolition of the female slavery!" After that you see an action at a male public toilet outside. The radical feminists demand that women get also public toilets in public places like streets or boulevards. Typical for the Dolle Mina's were the naked bellies with the text ' Boss in my own belly', as a Pro-Choice message. Also in the movie you see how they disturb a Miss election. The young blond women with the short hair says. ' Those women are here to hear who will be elected as the cow of the year.' These Dolle Mina's were radical for their time, the Femen and Pussy riot of 1969 and 1970. The beautiful blond woman with the hat in the end says: " I also want to say something to the men of the Netherlands. Don't go out alone on the street tonight. Take the hand of your wife with you. That's the only thing we tolerate. Becasue tonight there will happen something terrible with the men." There terrible things that happened with men was that the Dolle Mina's switched roles and showed the men the sexism women have to face. They chased men, whistled at them, and to pinched their buttocks. Here a video about a Dolle Mina congress in Arnhem and demonstration on a sunday in 1970 The voice over says that the demonstrators met some church goers, and that the presence of the Amsterdam Provo Roel van Duijnhoven and a German female journalist from Berlin (the blond woman with the camera in the short movie) gave the event an international element. It is funny to see the city I live in 22 year before I came there in 1992. How different people looked back then.Old Dolle Mina's go into action for a public toilet in a Dutch Sprinter train which hasn't got any. (That's difficult for old people and disabled people and people in general)In the Netherlands Feminism has been one of the prominent leftwing movements of the 20th century, in which the advancement and emancipation of women and other minorities was the aim. Wilhelmina Drucker (née Wilhelmina Elizabeth Lensing; Amsterdam, 30 September 1847 - Amsterdam, 5 December 1925) was a Dutch politician and writer. One of the first Dutch feminists, she was also known under her pseudonyms Gipsy, Gitano, and E. Prezcier.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelmina_Druckerpl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelmina_Drucker (quite a large Polish text for a Dutch feminist. I am always surprised that there is so much Polish interest for Dutch subjects)
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Post by pieter on Mar 17, 2015 18:45:43 GMT -7
Pieter, you prepared amazing presentation about international Women Day. I am glad that women in Poland have special motto - disabled women this year. I loved the pictures. I read in the past about Rose Luxembourg, many places in Poland were named after her. She was disabled, but picture have sometimes more substance than the words. Dear Jaga, Disabled women is a good cause to fight for. They are often forgotten, abandoned by family, society and the politicians who should have social measures to protect them. Cut backs in spending hit people with disabilities hard in the Netherlands. The social security health Welfare state is gone. And that is very tough and painful for people with disabilities. The physical- and mental handicapped, the blind people and people with other disabilities who were used to care. Disabled Women are especially vulnerable. I didn't knew that Rosa Luxemburg was disabled. I know that she started as a Polish socialist in the same party as Pilsudski. After the Polish Socialist Party split in a rightwing (Pilsudski) and a leftwing branch, she joined the leftwing branch. Later she moved to Germany and became a German communist leader there and was murdered by German rightwing paramilitary forces during the leftwing Spartacus (council communist) uprising in Berlin. Rosa Luxemburg was a symbol for many social-democratic and communist parties and movements in Europe. I know that as a former West-European Dutch Social-democrat. During my short period as Labour activist in the Netherlands, I followed the national Rosa course, a basic training in Social-democratic ideology, party organisation, political marketing, tactics, strategy, action, propaganda and conflict control. The Course was named after Luxemburg. Luxemburg speaking to a crowd in 1907.PolandLuxemburg was born in Zamość on 5 March 1871, in Russian-controlled Congress Poland. She was the fifth child of timber trader Eliasz Luxemburg and Line Löwenstein. The family moved to Warsaw in 1873. After being bedridden with a hip ailment at the age of five, she was left with a permanent limp. Starting in 1880, Luxemburg attended a Gymnasium. From 1886, she belonged to the Polish, left-wing Proletariat party (founded in 1882, anticipating the Russian parties by 20 years). She began in politics by organizing a general strike; as a result, four of the party's leaders were put to death and the party was disbanded, though remaining members, including Luxemburg, met in secret. In 1887, she passed her Matura examinations. After fleeing to Switzerland to escape detention in 1889, she attended the University of Zürich (as did the socialists Anatoly Lunacharsky and Leo Jogiches), studying philosophy, history, politics, economics, and mathematics. She specialized in Staatswissenschaft ( the science of forms of state), the Middle Ages, and economic- and stock exchange crises. Her doctoral dissertation, The Industrial Development of Poland, was officially presented in spring 1897 to the University of Zurich, which awarded her a Doctor of Law degree. Her dissertation under the title Die Industrielle Entwicklung Polens was published by Duncker and Humblot in Leipzig in 1898. In 1893, with Leo Jogiches and Julian Marchlewski (alias Julius Karski), Luxemburg founded the newspaper Sprawa Robotnicza (" The Workers' Cause"), to oppose the nationalist policies of the Polish Socialist Party, believing that only through socialist revolution in Germany, Austria, and Russia could an independent Poland exist. She maintained that the struggle should be against capitalism, not just for an independent Poland. Her position of denying a national right of self-determination under socialism provoked philosophic tension with Vladimir Lenin. She and Leo Jogiches co-founded the Social Democratic Party of the Kingdom of Poland ( Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, SDKPiL, after merging with Lithuania's social democratic organization). Despite living in Germany for most of her adult life, Luxemburg was the principal theoretician of the Polish Social Democrats, and led the party in a partnership with Jogiches, its principal organizer. Róża Luksemburg (1907)
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Post by pieter on Mar 18, 2015 14:43:30 GMT -7
Aletta JacobsAletta Henriëtte Jacobs, better known as Aletta Jacobs (9 February 1854 – 10 August 1929) was the first woman to complete a university course in the Netherlands and the first female physician. She was born to a Jewish doctor's family in Sappemeer. She left the local school when she was 13 to study at a ladies' school but did not enjoy the experience, returning home after just two weeks where she was taught housework by her Dutch mother, Anna de Jong, but also learned French and German in the evenings, and later Latin and Greek from her father. In 1871 she began studying at the University of Groningen, initially on a one year basis, but her request for permanent admission was granted after that year. In 1876 she continued her studies at Amsterdam University, receiving a medical degree in 1878 and a medical doctorate a year later. In her time at university she became increasingly concerned with social injustice and decided to travel to England to see how women's attempts to study medicine were being sabotaged. On her return a few months later she began to practice as a doctor and psychologist. She began to associate with members of the Dutch General Trade Union and Dutch government officials. In the winter of 1880 Bernardus Hermanus Heldt, the leader of the Union, allowed her to use rooms in the Union's building to run a class to teach women about hygiene and caring for infants. In response to what she found she began to run a free clinic for destitute women and children, which she continued until she retired from practice. She made pessaries available to these women in order to help them limit the size of their families; some consider this the first birth control clinic. In 1883 Jacobs became technically eligible to vote, but it was ruled that it was not within the spirit of the law to allow women to vote, despite her appeal. The law was then altered to specify ' male citizen' wherever enfranchisement was mentioned. Jacobs joined the Dutch Association for Woman's Suffrage ( De Nederlandsche Vereeniging van Staatsburgeressen), becoming its leader in 1903. She helped initiate the Hague Congress of 1915 that led to the formation of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom ( WILPF) and also worked to support the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, travelling widely. In 2013 the first moving images of Aletta Jacobs (a film of 20 seconds) are found in the archives of Critical Past. The film is shot in 1915 in Berlin where she walks with Jane Addams in front of the Brandenburger Tor.
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Post by pieter on Mar 18, 2015 15:06:14 GMT -7
Also the largest Dutch Union NVV issued the female issue.
In 1970 there was a meeting with the subject: "The male is the boss, why actually? (1970)"
Emancipation-actiegroup Man-Female-Society (1973)
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Post by kaima on May 18, 2019 0:39:25 GMT -7
This is the start of another women's movement in America. They have their basic rights at stake. There is great danger today in this land, on may fronts. Kai This symbol goes back to the founding of America. IF you have seen the 'original' it has been co-opted (taken over) by the TEA Party (Taxed Enough Already). It is good to see a good graphic artist has taken it and modernized it to women's purpose. Here is an original version ...
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