International Women’s Day Celebration

DAWBranch                          Branch Program for March 2015

International Women’s Day Celebration
“Bread and Roses”

Please join us for an entertaining and informative morning to celebrate Women’s
Movements around the World. Four cultures spanning Africa, Chile-South America,
Iran and India will be featured.

Saturday March 7th, 2015
9:30am—12pm

Shadow Hills Cabana Club
1001 El Capitan
Danville CA

Light Refreshments provided

RSVP: ashakiran@gmail.com

WomenUniteSpeakers:

  • Africa…………………………..Alicia Jones and Bev Nidick
  • Chile………………………………………………..Luisa Hansen
  • Iran………………………………………………………Fari Falaki
  • India…………………………………………………….Asha Bajaj

Bread and Roses
— John Oppenheim

As we come marching, marching in the beauty of the day,
A million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill lofts gray,
Are touched with all the radiance that a sudden sun discloses,
For the people hear us singing: “Bread and roses! Bread and roses!”

As we come marching, marching, we battle too for men,
For they are women’s children, and we mother them again.
Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;
Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses!

As we come marching, marching, unnumbered women dead
Go crying through our singing their ancient cry for bread.
Small art and love and beauty their drudging spirits knew.
Yes, it is bread we fight for—but we fight for roses, too!

As we come marching, marching, we bring the greater days.
The rising of the women means the rising of the race.
No more the drudge and idler—ten that toil where one reposes,
But a sharing of life’s glories: Bread and roses! Bread and roses!

—Inspired in the political slogan “Bread and Roses” of Rose Schneiderman,
associated with the 1912 textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts