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From: Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz>
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Subject: International Women's Day (8 March)
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 13:59:32 +1300
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It shows up on my master list as a national holiday only in Russia, 
Belarus and Ukraine. (Russia has a Mondayized-Saturday "IWD Holiday" on 
the 10th, which is also the day IWD is celebrated in Ukraine.)

Curious.

But this makes it all clear:

"Spurred by the universal female suffrage movement, International 
Women's Day originated from labor movements in Europe and North America 
during the early 20th century, with the modern holiday, March 8, being 
declared by Vladimir Lenin."

(Gasp!)

"The earliest version reported was a "Woman's Day" organized by the 
Socialist Party of America in New York City on February 28, 1909. This 
inspired German delegates at the 1910 International Socialist Women's 
Conference in Copenhagen to propose "a special Women's Day" be organized 
annually, albeit with no set date; the following year saw the first 
demonstrations and commemorations of International Women's Day across 
Europe. Vladimir Lenin declared March 8 as International Women's Day in 
1922 to honour the women's role in 1917 Russian Revolution; it was 
subsequently celebrated on that date by the socialist movement and 
communist countries."

"International Women's Day remained predominantly a communist holiday 
until circa 1967 when it was taken up by second-wave 
feminists....International Women's Day had been largely forgotten in the 
United States by the late 1960s, before an activist called Laura X 
organized a march in Berkeley, California, on International Women's Day 
in 1969....The holiday became a mainstream global holiday following its 
promotion by the United Nations in 1977."

Holy crap! How come Trump hasn't banned it yet?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Women%27s_Day

/Ob sci.lang:  The Wikipedia article features a dynamic poster for IWD 
in Germany, 1914. "This poster was banned in the German Empire."
One line on the poster reads: "Heraus mit dem Frauenwahlrecht."
I find it hard not to translate that as "Out with women's right to 
vote"; but in English that would give the opposite of what I'm sure was 
the intended meaning. So it's really something like "Come out and show 
your support for....". Am I right?