Blessings to you on this International Women's Day! Who are the women in your life who have blessed you? Who have modeled love, compassion, strength, wisdom, perseverance, resilience and joy?
Did you know that the first National Woman's Day was observed here in the United Sates on 28 February, 1908 in honor of the garment workers' strike in New York where women protested against poor working conditions? But the movement began much earlier> In response to being barred from speaking at an anti-slavery convention, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott congregated a few hundred people at a women's rights convention in New York in 1908. Together they demanded civil, social, political and religious rights for women in a Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions.
I think it is no coincidence that both of these events centered around justice issues -- justice for garment workers, liberation for slaves, and the ability for women to speak publicly.
So today, on this International Women's Day, I'm including a link to Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman reading her poem "We Rise." Enjoy! It's well worth the watch! If you want to read the poem, you can do that HERE.
