Podcasts about international working women

In this episode, Aaron reflects on International Working Women's Day and its relevance to the recent abduction of Mahmoud Khalil by ICE and DHS. Then, tune in to a powerful conversation with CODEPINK staff members Jasmine, Makayla, Grace, and Danaka as they discuss the histories, principles, and practices of International Working Women's Day.

Our latest podcast episode coincides with International Working Women's Day (March 8) to take stock of popular feminist struggles under the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela.VA staff member Cira Pascual Marquina joins host José Luis Granados Ceja to discuss the impact of sanctions on women, the role of women in popular power, a recent conservative/religious offensive, and lots more!

 7:15AM // Annie McLoughlin spoke to CFMEU Organiser Lisa Zanatta and four union members.As part of 3CR's 24 hour International Working Women's Day coverage last Saturday, Annie McLoughlin spoke to women from the CFMEU. We listen back to that interview, starting with Lisa Zanatta, Women's Organiser for the union, and later, four rank & file members who talk about the work they do and how the CFMEU has made it possible. 7:30AM // Freja Leonard, Coordinator of No More Gas Campaign at Friends of the Earth joined us to talk to us about their national campaign that was launched last week to urge Grill'd to switch their business from polluting gas to all-electric cooking. Content warning: The following segment contains references to death and military violence. For support contact Lifeline on 13 11 14. 7:45AM // Debbie Stothard, Founder of ALTSEAN Burma in a panel discussion at the book launch of Women's Voices from the Revolution last Tuesday. Last week, we spoke to Debbie from ALTSEAN Burma about the upcoming book launch at Trades Hall. This is an excerpt from the panel discussion presented last Tuesday night, as part of Trades Hall Women's 'Women's Rights at Work' festival. Debbie begins with one of her favourite stories in the book, talks about increasing repression, and the key groups who have played a role in the civil disobedience movement in Burma. 8:00AM //  Yasmine Johnson from Students for Palestine, a nation wide advocacy group in solidarity with Palestine. Yasmine is the leader of Students for Palestine at the University of Technology Sydney and an organiser of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at the University of Sydney. Yasmine discussed recent changes to the definition of antisemitism adopted by 39 Australian universities and potential implications for freedom of speech and assembly, as well as recent bans to student protests enacted by the University of Melbourne. 8:15AM // Stephanie Sabrinskus, podcaster, producer, and educator joined longtime   programmer Stinky as part of this year's international women's day 24-hour broadcast at 3CR about the Hazelwood mine fire and some of their work around community building and education. Songs:  Peripheral Lover - Gordi

 Content warning: The following segment contains references to violence. For support contact Lifeline on 13 11 14. 7:15AM // Debbie Stothard, human rights advocate and founder of ALTSEAN Burma. ALTSEAN Burma is a human rights organisation which campaigns for a return to democratic and civilian rule for Myanmar. Debbie is here in Naarm to celebrate the release of ALTSEAN's latest publication Women's Voices from the Revolution (a collection of writings by first-time writers) with writing from women and gender-diverse people across Myanmar. You can find out more at https://altsean.org/ and book free tickets to tonight's book launch at https://www.weareunion.org.au/womensvoices.  7:30AM //  Jan Bartlett of Tuesday Hometime interviewed Dr Alison Broinowski, Australian academic, journalist, writer, and former public servant, on Tuesday Hometime 25th Feb.  We listen back to this interview, where Dr Alison shares her concerns of one-sided reportage from the public broadcaster, regarding Israel and Palestine since the 7th of October 2023.  Content warning: The following segment contains references to violence. For support contact Lifeline on 13 11 14. 7:45AM // Carolyn Dunbar, Women's Team Lead at Trades Hall Council. which supports women workers in Victoria and advocates for structural change for women in the workplace. This month Trades Hall is coordinating a number of events to celebrate International Women's Day as part of its WRAW Fest. Carolyn speaks to this month's WRAW Fest events, recent wins for women workers, and the history of International Working Women's Day. For more information about WRAW Fest's events, go to https://www.weareunion.org.au/wraw25. 8:00AM // Jess Lilley, Co-Director and curator of the Footscray West Writers Fest. She is a writer, broadcaster and creative director — co-hosting Spin Cycle every Thursday on 3RRR and is a founder of the creative company, The Open Arms. Jess has a memoir piece in the forthcoming Autumn edition of Meanjin magazine. 8:15 AM // Ness Garbanzo is from Gabriela Australia, Filipino women's grassroots organisation that advocates for women and children's rights. Its advocacy focuses on the prevention of domestic and family violence, and she spoke to us about the work her organisation does, as well as their upcoming event in conjunction with International Working Women's Day. Songs: Untangling - Angie McMahon Brand New - Mi-Kaisha Bapang Slisir - Gamelan DanAnda x Firetail

Welcome the Monday Breakfast show for Monday the 3rd of March 2025. On today's show:Headlines covering:No automatic license loss for Victorian medicinal cannabis users6 new gas drilling approved in the Otway Basin40 hectares of precious native grassland has been bulldozed in the west of Melbourne Then:- Rob spoke with Wil Stracke, Assistant Secretary at the Victorian Trades Hall Council about International Working Women's Day, the legacy of Zelda D'Aprano and Helen Robertson, and capitalism's watering down of the motives behind IWD. Stay tuned to 3CR this Saturday the 8th of March aka IWD for a 24-hour broadcast dedicated to International Women's Day. - Last Friday Hannah had a conversation with Heidi Everett who started the organisation Schizy Inc, an organisation that makes art spaces for people with diverse and complex mental health, and their upcoming events. World Schizophrenia Day is on the Saturday 24 May, support their Mojo Gala Event at the Fringe Common Rooms (Trades Hall), Carlton. To find out more about their upcoming events go to https://www.schizy.org/- We heard a speech from the rally against Islamophobia on Sunday the 23rd of February which took place outside Labor MP Andrew Giles' office in Thomastown. The protest was called following the rise in Islamophobic attacks, including the February 13 attack of two Muslim women at an Epping shopping centre. We heard Dr Nasser al Ziyadut from Muslim Votes Matter speak at the rally. Thank you to Marisa Sposaro from the Doin' Time show for recording the audio! Catch the Doin' Time Show on Mondays from 4 to 5pm or listen to previous shows at 3cr.org.au/dointime- The show ends with Hannah's conversation with Violet Coco about the importance of protecting native forests, defending the right to protest and upcoming rallys. There's a march in March for Forests on the 23rd at 10.30am outside Peter Khalil's office in naarm which will join the free palestine rally, the march in March for Forests is also happening state-wide, calling for the protection of our ecosystems. On the 19th of March at 5.30pm at State Parliament there will be a rally defending the right to protest.  Songs played:Bread and Roses - Judy CollinsSisters Are Doin' It For Themselves - Aretha Franklin and the EurythmicsIm Sane - Heidi Everett [https://heidie.bandcamp.com/track/im-sane]

On the 29 April this year, our comrades in Bangladesh organised an international meeting called From Local to Global: Struggle and Solidarity. The purpose of the meeting was to talk about international organising and solidarity, in the context of major international workers events such as International Workers Memorial Day, International Working Women's Day and of course May Day.The speakers today are Dina Siddiqi,  Linda Gomaa, Nafisa Nipun Tanjeem.

Listen to the latest episode of Give The People What They Want! aired live on Friday March 8, International Working Women's Day. Prasanth and Zoe bring you updates from Gaza, elections in Venezuela and Senegal, and more. Follow us on all social media platforms @peoplesdispatch

March 8th was International Women's Day often called International Working Women's Day taking all work paid and unpaid into consideration. We will hear some speeches from rank-and-file CFMEU women who focused on wins and on-going struggles. We follow with a word from a rally held outside the ABC offices in Melbourne one of seven held around the country in support of Antionette Latouf sacked from the ABC after posting a comment on social media on the use of starvation as a weapon of war against Palestinian's in Gaza who ironically was facing a Fair work Commission hearing for unfair dismissal and discrimination on the basis of race and political opinion on International Women's Day.

Headlines// 7.15: Noura Mansour's speech at last week's International Working Women's Day rally in Naarm calling for an end to imperial feminism, an end to the silence about the genocide (particularly among women's organisations) and an end to the Zionist occupation of Palestine// 7.30: Environmental educator, campaigner and regenerative farmer Greta Carroll on the incredible community and grassroots organising that has been taking place to fight for an end to seismic blasting on Gunditjmara Sea Country// 7.45: Photographer and visual artist Pia Johnson on her upcoming exhibition Re-Orient showing at the Immigration Museum from 16 March - 11 August with a meet and greet session on 17 March. Follow @piajohnsonphotography on Instagram for updates// 8.00: Camp Sovereignty update 8.05: Melanie Joosten, author of the novels Berlin Syndrome and Gravity Well and the essay collection A Long Time Coming, on her most recent novel Like Fire-Hearted Suns// 8.15: Catherine Stong from Extinction Rebellion speaks to Annie McLoughlin on Solidarity Breakfast on climate activists disrupting traffic on the Westgate bridge last Tuesday 5th March, which began a week of disruptions// SongsSTANNA - Lana LubanySecret - Peach PRCSinner - The Last Dinner PartyLonely Love Affair - YARA

For International Working Womens Day --"At the Table and on the Menu: Respectability Politics and Tokenism in Genocidal Times," part one of a conversation between muslim, Arab and Palestinian Women about hollow inside strategies as Israel's genocide of Palestinians goes unabated. Moderated by Maha Hilal, an expert on institutionalized Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and counternarrative work. She is the author of the book Innocent Until Proven Muslim: Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and the Muslim Experience Since 9/11, and is the founding executive director of Muslim Counterpublics Lab.  Panelists include: Iman Abid, director of Advocacy and Organizing at the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR); Ramah Kudaimi, campaign director at the Action Center on Race & the Economy; Iman Hassan, director of the Stop the School to Prison Pipeline program at Massachusetts Advocates for Children; and Mariam Durrani, professorial lecturer at the School of International Service and a faculty affiliate with the Anti-Racism Research and Policy Center at American University. The show is made possible only by our volunteer energy, our resolve to keep the people's voices on the air, and by support from our listeners. In this new era of fake corporate news, we have to be and support our own media! Please click here or click on the Support-Donate tab on our website to subscribe for as little as $3 a month. We are so grateful for this small but growing amount of monthly crowdsource funding on Patreon. PATREON NOW HAS A ONE-TIME, ANNUAL DONATION FUNCTION! You can also give a one-time or recurring donation on PayPal. Thank you! Links: Muslim Counterpublics Lab

On today's show we talk Daylight Savings Time...We do International Working Women's Day Trivia. There is an Easter Egg Hunt coming up. we play Double-D's Thirsty Beaver Feud

Whilst the world is trying to grapple with the reality of yet another food price crisis and growing hunger, we speak to those on the frontline to find out why the food system keeps failing and what we can do about it. We kick off this new series on Food Justice with those who are growing the food that is on our plates: farmers. This episode features not one but two leaders of La Via Campesina – the worlds' biggest movement of peasants, indigenous peoples and rural workers. Anuka De Silva is a young peasant leader of the Sri Lankan Movement for Land and Agricultural Reform (MONLAR); and a member of the  International Coordination Committee of La Via Campesina. And Morgan Ody is a vegetable farmer from France with a long history in unionising, who recently took over as general coordinator of the global movement. Coming from different contexts, climates, and generations, they are uniting in their struggle for a more just and sustainable food and agricultural system. Tune in to hear how they are experiencing these challenging times, what food justice means to them and of course how they are organizing to be heard and make change happen. Resources and calls to action:Call for Solidarity with French Social Movements! Stop Police Violence NOW!Call to Action : 17 April – International Day of Peasant Struggles Call to Action : 08 March 2023 – International Working Women's Day *2023 | March News Wrap: Highlights from La Via Campesina Members WorldwideLa Via Campesina's promotional video for the 8th ConferenceLearn more about Anuka's organisation: Monlar websiteLearn more about Morgan's context: Confédération Paysanne websiteRead more about the food price crisis: FAO State of Food Insecurity 2022Civil society and Indigenous Peoples Mechanism (CISPM) call to governments 

Golnessa (@flowernessa), Laree (@lareenolastname), and Hannah are back this International Working Women's Day to reflect on womanhood, feminism, and what these things mean to us today. How is Motherhood viewed today? Are men really trash? Has feminism ultimately failed us? From feminism's successes and failures, we contemplate how it fits into (or doesn't fit into) our worldview as Communists as we face the reality of what we've learned over the years. We DO NOT hold back in this honest and timely conversation. Support Probably Cancelled on Patreon to get early access to episodes or submit your questions to the new PC Pod advice column! Subscribe to PC Pod on Rumble & Telegram Follow on IG @probably.cancelled.pod & Twitter @CancellledPod

This week's episode of International Marxist Radio welcomes Ylva Vinberg, leading comrade of Revolution, the Swedish section of the International Marxist Tendency, and Fred Weston, co-author of Wellred Books' latest publication, Women, Family and the Russian Revolution – available to pre-order now: https://wellred-books.com/women-family-and-the-russian-revolution/ To mark International Working Women's Day, this episode focuses on the Marxist […]

In this episode, Aline Prata from the Whatcom Peace and Justice Center, Sage Jones with the Whatcom DSA, and Jill Mangaliman with Gabriela Seattle talk with Liz Darrow about the radical roots of International Working Women's Day and all the aspects of sensationalizing imperialism that have been brought to light with the war in Ukraine. As our good friend Jill says, "If you're an anti-capitalist, you're probably an anti-imperialist too." More on the Palestinian Feminist Collective here.A proposed solution to the Ukraine War here.Songs in this episode:War by Edwin StarrMama by alysariTrabajador, Trabajadora by Las CafeterasSupport the show (https://foodjustice.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=2)

Last week was International Working Women's Day. First up a little from Jess Hill, investigative reporter and author, who was speaking at a University of Technology Sydney IWD event, then an up close and personal experience of sexual harassment and fight back at a workplace with the Not Your Honey Campaign, a word from Sally McManus Secretary of the ACTU – the Australian Council of Trade Unions finishing with a story of a person who pushed for equality from the past.

Comrades laree (@inanolastname), golnessa, and Hannah join us to talk about IWD, reflect on the past year, and how we can support women's liberation every day. Happy International Working Women's Day!   Subscribe to be notified of new episodes! Our sex trade exit fundraiser may be found here Donate directly to AF3IRM here Follow the Probably Cancelled Podcast on twitter: @CancellledPod and IG: @probably.cancelled.pod  

To mark International Working Women's Day, we are publishing a three-part series on Marxism and the fight for women's liberation. This week, we are joined by Fiona Lali, who will discuss the different ways that women are oppressed and exploited in capitalist society, and why only a Marxist, class-based approach can guide the struggle for women's liberation - not the ideas of bourgeois feminism.

The Bolivarian Revolution has always worked to put social inclusion at the very center of its political program, focusing on attending to the needs of the most marginalized. In a capitalist patriarchal system this meant expanding the political participation of women; but this also doubled the social reproduction work of women, who found themselves working, taking care of their families and taking care of the community.Nonetheless, Venezuelan women today continue to organize and fight for equality, struggling to end machista violence and secure recognition of their sexual and reproductive rights.In honor of International Working Women's Day on March 8th, we're going to talk about the gains and the challenges facing the feminist movement in Venezuela and will speak with Daniela Inojosa, a long time feminist and founder of Tinta Violeta.Music:Embandolaos - Los Caimanes NegrosLa Chiche Manaure - La Mujer Bolivariana

In honor of International Working Women's Day, the Women Fight Back team discusses women's labor struggles, bourgeois vs. working-class feminism, international women's solidarity, and concrete examples of women's liberation in socialist countries. 

For International Women's Day, the Habibti Team wanted to release one of our most cherished episodes to date. Nashwa and Ryan reflect on where they were this time last year as well as the origins of International Women's Day as a socialist and workers' celebration. The two watched Angela Davis in a packed audience at the University of Toronto; they saw people they loved and who inspired them and reminded them that change is possible. We urge people to remember that International (Working) Women's Day should go far beyond thanking women in your life (especially if you are a man). The origins are in feminist struggles that work to also disrupt, dismantle, and unpack how we define women while we also work to re-imagine social relations women have in society including the gendered paid and unpaid relations. Today and everyday we want to remember that women are vital to struggles globally. In Angela Davis' words “you have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world and you have to do it all the time.”We are honoured to have this episode, an interview with Member of Parliament for Nunavut, Mumilaaq Qaqqaq, be part of our International Women's Day at Habibti Please. Nashwa and Ryan had the honor to sit down with Mumilaaq and discuss a range of topics often ignored in Canadian media. In the episode, the three chat about Mumilaaq's riding and the unique challenges it faces in colonial Canada. Some of the challenges covered include access to healthcare, such as community members having to be flown out of their communities to give birth. As of 2017 approximately 40,000 women had to travel from rural and remote communities, mostly from the North, to give birth in hospitals.  The cost of food insecurity and egregious price gouging of food in the North, as well as, the continued systemic repression of local food networks and businesses is also touched on. This conversation also briefly discusses the subtle, insidious, and omnipresent nature of colonialism and the importance of all people living in what is known as Canada to pay attention to what the Federal government does not do and who they neglect. Media also plays a role in the romanticization of Canada through feeding manufactured discourses. Much of this is due to the focus on a Canada that is broadcasted to the world as one that is good to all of its people. Part of this discussion disrupts that idea and highlights the ways Inuit have intentionally been left behind in Canadian media coverage. The three also broach on how climate change specifically impacts the North and the devastating effect that COVID has on the ability to organize and protest around environmental issues. This includes how corporations have continued to impose themselves on Indigenous land without consultation, permission, and without repercussions for their actions, something more easily facilitated during the COVID pandemic. The three end off reflecting on Mumilaaq's housing tour of the region. Mumilaaq gives us insight on how it impacted her financially and mentally in ways that other MPs are unaffected. The conversation also discusses mental health in the North and the range of ways mental health can be supported throughout the country. The importance of culturally competent and multi-method supports is discussed as well as the social determinants of health, including housing.  We hope this episode makes people think about the North and the ongoing colonial neglect and intentional disinvestment in the region. Please check out resources that complement this episode to learn more. We also hope people check out Mumilaaq's show, Moments with Mumilaaq.We are grateful to have music from the North this week. This episode features music from Becky Han, a musician who grew up in Arctic Bay, Nunavut. You can find out more about Becky in the show credits. Mutual Aid & Community Support:This episode reflects on housing as a basic human right. The neglect of Inuit is egregious and we hope this episode illustrates the need for more people in Canada to be concerned and in solidarity with people in Nunavut who deserve housing. Mumilaaq and her team have focused on many issues this term, one cause they are strongly dedicated to is the right and guarantee to housing for people in the North.  Mumilaaq currently has a petition on her website, we encourage listeners to sign. The petition,entitled Nunavummiut Deserve a Safe Place to Call Home, calls upon the Federal government to invest in quality housing in Nunavut. As described by Mumilaaq multiple times, moldy, overcrowded housing has been a reality for far too long in Nunavut. We again hope people visit and sign the petition on her website: https://mumilaaqqaqqaq.ndp.ca/nunavummiut-deserve-a-safe-place-to-call-homeAs discussed here and highlighted in the accompanying readings, housing in the North is in a crisis and adequate housing is long overdue for Nunavut. We must do more to address this issue in solidarity, collectively.Additional Resources:Some readings that complement this episode: MP Mumilaaq Qaqqaq On Burnout and Taking On Canada's Broken Promises as told to Carli WhitwellNunavut MP speaks about return to parliament after extended leave by CBC NewsNunavut housing crisis an example of systemic racism, MP says by Jim Bell The RCMP and Quebec's Provincial Police Nearly Killed Off the Inuit Sled Dog by Dave DeanTuberculosis rate among Inuit is 290 times higher than for non-Indigenous people in Canada. Here's why by Stephanie HoganForced to travel during pandemic, Nunavut women want birthing services at home by Emma TranterWhy many Northern Indigenous women are still relocated to deliver their babies by Bonnie Schiedel$20 hamburgers and $2 bananas: The cost of food insecurity in Canada's North by Ryan FlanaganRise Up!'s archives on International Women's Day Many IWD archival documents currently on the Rise Up! website are from the Toronto International Women's Day events. You will find these on the  March 8th Coalition/International Women's Day  page in the Organizations section.Rise Up! Has a collection that includes materials about the many  IWD celebrations organized across Canada in the past.The Socialist Origins of International Women's Day by Cintia Frencia and Daniel GaidoWhy the working-class, socialist history of International Women's Day matters today by Katherine Connelly The Lockdown Showed How the Economy Exploits Women. She Already Knew. Silvia Federici has been warning for decades of what happens when we undervalue domestic labor by Jordan Kisner Silvia Federici: Women, Reproduction, and the Construction of Commons by Art & Education Women, Race, and Class by Angela Y. DavisGuest Information:Guest of the week: Mumilaaq Qaqqaq Mumilaaq Qaqqaq (ᒧᒥᓛᖅ ᖃᖅᑲᖅ), is an Inuk woman, Member of Parliament, and human rights defender. Elected in 2019, she is one of the few people to have given a speech in the House of Commons before being elected. Originally from Baker Lake, she now lives in Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut. Mumilaaq has worked with Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., The Quality of Life Secretariat in the Government of Nunavut, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, and Qulliq Energy Corporation among other organizations.Mumilaaq is fighting for adequate housing, clean water, and food security in the North. ᐃᓕᓐᓄᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᕗᑦ Find Mumilaaq online! WebsiteFacebookTwitterInstagramMumilaaq's show: Moments with MumilaaqAdditional music provided by: Becky Han Music Becky Han grew up in Arctic Bay, Nunavut. She loves educating others about Inuit and Inuit culture through music and story-telling. This song, entitled 6-muarpat, provides a glimpse of her childhood when she had to be home by 6 pm for supper. The song reflects on how that time of day was a reprieve from loneliness for her because it was when she and her family would spend time catching up with one another. Find Becky on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Production Credits:Hosted by Nashwa Lina Khan Show Music by Johnny Zapras and postXamericaAdditional music provided by Becky Han—find Becky on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Art for Habibti Please by postXamericaProduction by Nashwa Lina Khan and Johnny ZaprasProduction Assistance by Raymond KhananoSocial Media & Support:Follow us on Twitter @habibtipleaseSupport us on PatreonSubscribe to us on SubstackHabibti Please is proud to be part of the Harbinger Media Network This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit habibtiplease.substack.com/subscribe

Yasha kicks off this special by mansplaining the history of International Working Women's Day. But we did it, folks; we discussed, & even critiqued, Marxist Feminism without recourse to the phrase “making class primary”. Check out the Ain't I a Woman campaign https://www.aintiawoman.org/ to see how you can help end the 24hr workday! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/aila-jimenez/support

Today Is Fun Facts About Names Day, Day for Women's Rights & International Peace, Girls Write Now Day, International Women's Day, International Working Women's Day, National Proofreading Day, National Peanut Cluster Day, National Retro Video Game Day, The Commonwealth Day and Volunteers of America DaySupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/Itstoday)

In the 1st episode of #genO by YAS (Youth Against Sweatshops), Sarah chats with Samantha and Yolanda about what young people have learned from the organized home care workers of the Ain't I a Woman?! Campaign. The episode ends with a special announcement of call to action on March 8, 2021, the International Working Women's Day. Join them to celebrate the revolutionary spirits and working women leadership on a day like this, by demanding the NYS Gov. Andrew Cuomo to stop the systemic abuse of immigrant women workers & end the grueling 24-hour workday condition! A rally (in-person & virtual) will gather at the historical site of Triangle Shirtwaist Factory at 12:00 PM (EST). Sign up for our newsletter.

Petra chats with diversity and inclusion public speaker/coach and CEO/co-founder of Businesswiz, Priyanka Banerjee. Priyanka's work helps Finnish companies transition to a more internationally-minded environment through hands-on cooperation and trainings. She believes that the successful inclusion of foreigners in the workforce is essential as Finland inevitably moves towards a more diverse society and faces an increase in workforce demands. Don't miss this insightful and refreshing perspective on a hot topic!  LINKS:  https://businesswiz.fi/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/priyankabanerjee07/ | International Working Women of Finland: www.iwwof.com

This has been an important week for workers internationally and locally. In Victoria and Tasmania we celebrate the first eight hour day victory as our Labour Day on Monday March 9th. This was a world first and as legend has it stone masons working on Melbourne University in 1856 downed tools and walked from from work site to the next advocating and gaining support for the idea of eight hours work eight hours recreation and eight hours rest. It was also about sharing out the work not just over working some. Great idea. A reasonable idea. A workers idea. Having won it so long ago Employers, Governments, business have been chipping chipping away until now we have insecure work, casualisation, under employment and a predatory privatised social security system all over again. But workers are studying the issues within Unions remembering the victories of the past. During the past week was International Women’s Day or as we like to call it International Working Women’s Day because it was in fact working women coming together to fight low wages and nasty conditions that struck the first blow for International woman’s day. But just like the roll back on the eight hour day charter the fight for Safety, Respect and Equality for women at work is still on and we report from last week’s WRAW Women’s Rights at Work Conference.

Weekly update from the CFMEU Construction & General Division (Vic/Tas). The Women's edition for International Working Women's Day. Trade licensing, women in politics and a special scallywag.

Muualta Suomeen muuttaneiden naisten on vaikeampi saada töitä kuin kantasuomalaisten maisterisnaisten. Suomeen muutetaan ulkomailta etenkin perheen, työn tai opiskelun takia. Kulttuuritulkki Chiara Costa-Virtanen tuli Suomeen kuusi vuotta sitten. Italiassa hän oli toiminut johtotehtävissä, mutta Suomessa ovet työelämään eivät tahtoneet avautua. Nykyään hän on puheenjohtajana International Working Women of Finland -järjestössä. “Jaamme tietoa suomalaisesta työelämästä ja luomme verkostoja yhdessä”, kertoo Costa-Virtanen. Havaintoja ihmisestä -ohjelmassa korkeasti koulutettujen ulkomaalaistaustaisten naisten työllistymisestä keskustelevat kulttuuritulkki Ciara Costa-Virtanen, tutkijatohtori Tytti Steel ja toimittaja Satu Kivelä. Ohjelmassa kuullaan myös ihmisten lähettämiä henkilökohtaisia kokemuksia. Ohjelman toteuttanut työryhmä: Toimittaminen ja käsikirjoitus: Satu Kivelä Äänisuunnittelu: Laura Koso Tuottaja: Anna Simojoki Kuvat: Tuuli Laukkanen Työryhmään kuuluvat myös Rainer Korhonen ja Teemu Sipilä. Lukijat: Denise Wall, Jari Rantschukoff, Marja Vehkanen ja Anniina Wallius

We’re back for Season 2 to talk about the strike fever that’s sweeping the nation’s teachers – from West Virginia to Oklahoma. We talk about Teamsters United’s recent steward victories in Jacksonville, FL, and International Working Women’s Day. We take a look at the looming economic crash coming in the near future, roast scabs like […]

We honour the passing of equal pay activist Zelda D’Prano. Alana Dave International Transport Federation’s Public Transport Programme Leader gives us an insight into her journey from grass roots activism in South Africa to her role in the International Transport Federation (ITF).

On the program today we replay some of the speeches from this year's International Women's Day march in Melbourne Australia.International Women's Day has an extraordinary history, and one very much routed in the labour movement. In fact, it's original name is International Working Women's Day.

Anne Summers gave a call to action speech during WRAW (Women's Rights at Work) at Victorian Trades Hall on International Working Women's Day.March 3 outside Melbourne Town Hall people spoke to us about the #Nohomelessban campaign and Dr David Giles talkes about a seminar March 17, 6-8pm at the Multicultural Hub in Elizabeth St, City.Kevin rounded up the week with This is the Week that Was.Humphrey McQueen reminds us that the 150 anniversary of Das Capital is coming in Sept. Get reading because in Sept Humphry has commited himself to a talk back on the subject.

International Working Women's Day with a focus on #WRAW and #Stopping Gendered Violence At Workplaces.

Today, March 8th, is International Women’s Day (originally called International Working Women’s Day) and who better to honor on this day than Rosa Luxemburg? A giant of the political left, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the foremost minds in the canon of revolutionary socialist thought. To quote Nickel and Dimed author Barbara Ehrenreich, Luxemburg was …

For International Women’s Day SOAS radio interviewed three women from Latin America who share their experiences as migrant workers in London. Their stories are a powerful reminder that women’s experiences are shot through with differences of nationality, social status, age, race and class. Consuela Moreno from Columbia recounts some of the difficulties she has experienced at London workplaces including SOAS and shares her determination to organise to resist these pressures. Berena Contreras Perez shares her personal experiences as a migrant worker in London and reminds us that the legacy of International Working Women’s Day (the precursor of today’s International Women’s Day) has not lost any of its relevance. Marlene Jimenez tells us about her experiences of discrimination and the pressures on women workers in London. She shares her experience supporting other workers as well as her vision of empowering workers to change their situation through unionisation and educational work.

http://harlemtalkradio.com HARLEM ROOTS AND BEYOND Host: Lydgia Pass Guest: Bettina Wilkerson aka Gold (poet writer) Your listening to segment 1of 2. Be sure to listen to the 2nd part of this segment. Gold has shared the stage with such esteemed acts as recording artist Noel Gourdin (R&B/Soul singer) and has opened for Jermaine Paul (winner of the 2012 NBC hit series “The Voice”), Rudy Francisco (Individual World Poetry Slam Champion) and Janine Simone (3rd place Knick Poetry Slam winner 2009).  She has performed at Hofstra University, Vassar College, and Dutchess Community College just to name a few stops on her performance journey. Gold is the creator, Co –Executive Producer & Co Host for the radio show “The Sweet Suite-Music from the Unsigned” which aired 2010/2011 on WBAI 99.5 fm Pacifica Radio in New York City for International Working Women’s Day. To fill her passion of mentoring and fostering young talented minds, Gold created a poetry group under the moniker of “The Evolving Word-Smiths”.  Giving local young poets the opportunity to perform alongside her enabling them to be exposed to audiences they may have never reached; the experience has been transformative for some of these younger poets. Presently Gold is filming a reality project which she is the featured poet.  For more information on Gold contact bgoldwpoetry@gmail.com or follow her on face book at https://www.facebook.com/bettinagold.wilkerson?ref=tn_tnmn#!/pages/Bettina-Gold-Wilkerson/408311444664?fref=ts as well as on twitter at https://twitter.com/bGOLDw

http://harlemtalkradio.com HARLEM ROOTS AND BEYOND Host: Lydgia Pass Guest: Bettina Wilkerson aka Gold (poet writer) Your listening to segment 1of 2. Be sure to listen to the 2nd part of this segment. Gold has shared the stage with such esteemed acts as recording artist Noel Gourdin (R&B/Soul singer) and has opened for Jermaine Paul (winner of the 2012 NBC hit series “The Voice”), Rudy Francisco (Individual World Poetry Slam Champion) and Janine Simone (3rd place Knick Poetry Slam winner 2009).  She has performed at Hofstra University, Vassar College, and Dutchess Community College just to name a few stops on her performance journey. Gold is the creator, Co –Executive Producer & Co Host for the radio show “The Sweet Suite-Music from the Unsigned” which aired 2010/2011 on WBAI 99.5 fm Pacifica Radio in New York City for International Working Women’s Day. To fill her passion of mentoring and fostering young talented minds, Gold created a poetry group under the moniker of “The Evolving Word-Smiths”.  Giving local young poets the opportunity to perform alongside her enabling them to be exposed to audiences they may have never reached; the experience has been transformative for some of these younger poets. Presently Gold is filming a reality project which she is the featured poet.  For more information on Gold contact bgoldwpoetry@gmail.com or follow her on face book at https://www.facebook.com/bettinagold.wilkerson?ref=tn_tnmn#!/pages/Bettina-Gold-Wilkerson/408311444664?fref=ts as well as on twitter at https://twitter.com/bGOLDw