SAVING OUR EARTH'S WATER BEGINS WITH ENDING MISOGYNY -- HATE OF WOMAN = MISTREATMENT OF WATERS SERIES PART I

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

This goes with a recent [though long time in the making] PAINFUL AND TEARFUL decision of mine,  as to why I am and have dumped the entire religion of patri-gods of All kinds, and am now simply, looking to the feminine in mother earth...this has come with a lot of pain, struggle, and taking off the rose colored glasses of worshiping a god who advocates rape then says he will then destroy the rapist and the rape victim will love him forever [Zechariah] and numerous other scriptures that I no longer could ignore...this doesn't mean I have or will not believe in a God or in Jesus, just that I simply cannot any longer embrace or believe the texts [written by men and obviously with an extreme gender misogynist bias as well as very primitive lust for violence and sadomachism worship] as truth nor can I dismiss the soul murder the religions [including yes Christianity] has done to millions of females, therefore I no longer am willing to just simply accept by blind faith.  The evidence of the brutality and violence of such beliefs are everywhere, their fruit of toxic woman hate is so blatantly obvious that to worship without question is the equivalent of a woman worshiping [being forced to or brainwashed into] her rapist torturer in the dungeons of hell...something I am no longer willing to do.  Period, so,

until I see Otherwise, I will believe the truth evident...and that is, our Mother Earth, and Women, under ALL religions, have been demonized, raped, violated, soul destroyed, for the establishing and perpetuating the worship of a Phallic 'god' at the expense of killing and finality erasing of the female/WOMB.  I in no way, can believe, that this, is who GOD is, if there IS a GOD and GOD simply isn't a construct of primitive MEN who had to find a way to ease their conscience when raping, selling their daughters into sex slavery [which was what the Old Testament and ways of ancient civ DID] and if they eased their conscience by making an image of their Man self, into a 'god' to justify their

rapes, genocides, empire-nation state building, slavery, raping Mother Earth, and so forth.  Using guilt and enforcing that guilt through VIOLENCE, THE THREAT OF VIOLENCE, HIDEOUS LOVE OF TORTURE, RAPE, TEARING APART PIECE BY PIECE VIOLENCE AND THEIR ABSOLUTE LOVE AND LUST AND DRIVE TO DO VIOLENCE, PARTICULARLY TO FEMALES AND THEN ALSO TO BUILD A CULT THAT LOVES LETTING THE PHALLIC DO VIOLENCE/RAPE TO THEM AS A SIGN OF THEIR DEVOTION AND 'LOVE', to control and TERRORIZE WOMEN INTO SUBMISSION,  ESPECIALLY THROUGH THREAT OF RAPE/SOUL TEARING APART, ETERNAL RAPE, AND RAPING THEM /MOLESTING THEM AS CHILDREN TO INSTILL INTO THEM A LIFELONG-ETERNAL DEPENDENCY ON THE RAPIST/KILLER/TORTURER FOR SOUL SUSTAINING AND TO DENY/CHALLENGE THAT MEANT AN ETERNITY IN HELL RAPE TORTURE, THANK YOU CATHOLIC-ORTHODOX THEN PROTESTANT JUDAIC CHURCH FATHERS, AS WELL AS ANY WHO WERE WEAK, UNFIT BY THEIR 'STANDARDS' AND THOSE THE MEN FELT UNDESIRABLE...creating an Opiate, to dull the minds of the enslaved, to terrorize them into psychological submission through FEAR, and to assure that the 'man-gods' stayed in POWER for eternity.  I do not know the answers but I cannot ignore the question, So...

~sigh~  I have decided to follow what IS and CAN be seen, the fruits, that IF there is GOD, even HE cannot deny, the horrors, of the HELL OF RELIGION and IT'S RAPING, SOUL DESTROYING, MEN.  And to do so, I say NO to the voice, reasoning, and EXCUSES of MALES, including their male gods, male saviors, and all other male phallic philosophies and constructs, and am following the Feminine Voice inside...as well as what I see and hear from Mother Earth, HERSELF.  She, has never violated me, raped me, condoned my rape or other women's rapes, SHE has never demanded I worship her, sacrifice to Her, hate myself for Her, destroy myself for Her...I can't say that about male gods [or GOD] but I can say that about HER, HER who my body is shaped like [not some Clone of Adam with no female Heavenly Mother], HER who my WOMB works like, HER who my nurture follows by Instinct, HER who Heals me, Feeds me, Waters me and Clothes me....

HER.

End of argument, ha ha, well, no, not exactly...now, Onto--

why, that also I will not be following any 'goddess' religions [mention this because usually to walk away from the worship of the benevolant [spelling?] yet will rape/destroy you master often is lumped into turning to the goddess/new age religions, of which I am not and why that is...]because they are all constructs [particularly the new age] of patri-beliefs as well...we see this particularly in the pantheons where all goddesses are divided up into 'whore that loves to be raped', vestas-the dowdy run down house wife, the goddess with the evil snake mind because a woman cannot think nor create without being evil, the war goddess who thrives on blood lust, and so forth...in all my research, the 'image' of goddess is the demonization of woman.  Therefore, as far as I am concerned, it's just as misogynist as the patri-gods beliefs.

It is for this reason that I chose to listen and observe nature, which is obviously to any who open their eyes, hugely feminine, nurturing, powerful, sometimes violent but that violence is often triggered spiritually I believe by the violence of men and raping of mother earth, as well as spilling the blood of her children onto her via violence,

and therefore SHE is now who I follow.  I believe SHE may possibly be 'god' and that god is both in Earth, male and female, fe-male, and that 'LIFE' rather than power hierarchies is the flow of both, and the nurture of that life.  I find it interesting that in many animal and plant kingdoms the male takes just as big of a role, sometimes more [certain frogs] in the nurture of the young than what humans do...and to depict a gender hierarchy based on observations of nature is short sighted simply because nature herself/himself is just so diverse...

in Zoology, the study of, I find it interesting that numerous animals and plants are what they term as asexual, meaning that they create life from their own self--they can divide theirself into one individual separate from OR an entire colony of individuals, either separated from the self or attached, depending.  And from that, I made my decision, that gender hierarchies are simply, anti-nature, period.  As for those animal kingdoms that DO have a very violent or class system hierarchy, like some monkey groups--one baboon that is very hierarchal/male patri that rapes the females and abuses them, and one female matriarchal in Japan that is classist and leaves the less than to die in the cold...I have to wonder,

is that how they were originally or is that how they emulated what the human environment around them has done?  In other words, became corrupted?  We know animals evolve, we also know animals, such as monkeys, emulate humans, so to take those examples as men so love to do [patriarchs] as some proof evident that this is the course of nature, is an oxymoron to say the least...it leaves out the very strong possibility that animals, which we know do evolve to adapt/survive, and many animals that we know that DO copy the behaviors of humans around them, can actually simply be evolving and adapting to the human environments in which they are surrounded by, in the case of the baboons and the monkeys, I believe they are snow monkeys, BOTH live in environments that are hugely patriarchal and yes, classist.  We do not know if they were Always this way, but we Do know, that animals, especially those who emulate human behavior, do evolve and adapt to what they SEE.  So...though I'm in no way an expert or even a student of these types of sciences, I can't help but wonder, just how much, MEN and RELIGIONS have taken case examples of certain animal groups and have used those to justify their 'gods' and their 'rapes, abuses, pillaging of earth, class-pyramid systems, and so forth' and genocides and the like.

Not only that, but this one analysis, I found to be confirming, of much of what I have observed, though I am in no way a support of Any kind of occult or cult belief system [hate them all], what she had to say, I thought, left some interesting questions that I think, should be investigated.

an excerpt:  All life comes from woman.  To call a man an equal participant in the creation of a new life is the most ridiculous thing ever.  A few seconds and a microscopic amount of DNA are his sole contribution – even the woman’s egg is thousands of times larger, and she does all the work of nurturing that new life until she undergoes the dangerous, painful, difficult process of birth.  Thereafter, for reasons both biological and social, she usually is the one who nurtures the new child until it stands on its own two feet.  But the patriarchy’s unhealthy and extremist focus on fathers, men, and sperm have led most people to fully buy into the lie of children having two equally contributing parents. Woman is the creator, the life-giver, AND the nurturer – and this is in no way passive.  Among mammals, for the survival of a species, men are not biologically required to survive after they have spent their sperm succesfully a few times, while women are required to live until they are nearly elderly in order to further the survival of the species.  Between recent scientific advances and the study of “lower” life forms, such as reptiles and insects, it is becoming increasingly apparent that males may not be needed at all.  Contrast this reality with the stubborn insistence by modern, patriarchally-conditioned humans that “nature” is sexually egalitarian in its methods of creation or even favors males and the ludicrousness of their position becomes apparent, as does the practice of enshrining a false duality that declares male and female as equal (or worse, not-so-equal and with females being the “weaker”, “lesser” beings) and opposite.

READ the rest here:  http://amananta.wordpress.com/

scroll down to the A Somewhat Belated Farewell

In solidarity, with the Sisterhood,

Oh, btw, forgive the misspellings, my patriarchal legion lord vulture has me using a MAC, can't correct on this crap machine...so till I get a P.C., will have to tolerate wrong spellings.

Jane

End of Mother's Day Series, The Mothering of Mother Earth and Mother Creatures

Well this is later than I had planned, partly because what I was going to go with, when I watched several videos on the abandonment of children, the anti-mother sentiments that are increasing, etc., and especially two videos, one on the horrors of Institutionalized Parenting [which I personally know a little about, lived in orphanage when 14 for a year but even then it was not as horrid as those in Nanny Police States--though those Do exist in America], but what really disturbed me was a video I saw in regards to one Nation using Feminism--and Liberation from Poverty [so they claimed] as nothing more than a means to Trafficking and ENSLAVE POOR CHILDREN, which I will be showing this week...

so anyway my thoughts on what to write here began to take on a transformation but not sure really where it's going--so, for now, I am going to post some photos, you look at them and this will allow me some time to put this together however the Holy Spirit leads me to, these are Female Animals, Mothers.

And while you look at them, think to yourself, how many Humans would be brave enough to go up to these mothers and attempt to 'take their young away' and then, Why that is?  What is it about Their power, compared to the Power of Female Mothers...in how the Societies or Tribes rather, TREAT the MOTHERS of both...

http://pixdaus.com/index.php?pageno=16&query=moth&sort=search

http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/G991956/

 

http://www.betterphoto.com/gallery/dynoGallDetail.asp?photoID=7014172&catID=29641

http://famous.tm/nature/

http://www.dunzie.com/animals/100119-the-10-most-extreme-mother-animals.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1192225/Mother-Natures-humdingers-The-awesome-animals-turn-laws-science-upside-down.html

Now, what WE, under Patriarchy [male dominion with some, but not a lot, of female help and of course the Power Hegemony of Wealth and CONSUMPTION] to THEIR HOMES

http://politicalclimate.wordpress.com/

Actual Nuke Test, Ocean, one of Many...  
http://www.wetasschronicles.com/archives/2005_11_06_archive.html

COUNTRY USA   RUSSIA   UK   FRANCE   CHINA   TOTAL

No OF TESTS 1,030 715 45 204 41 2,035 nuclear bombs!

DATE OF FIRST TEST 14th July 1945 29th August 1949 3rd October 1952 13th February 1960 8th May 1964

DATE OF LAST TEST 23rd September 1992 24th October 1990 26th November 1991 15th July 1991 15th May 1995

see rest of Nuclear Testing Info including Numbers of Deaths caused by, here:
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/nuclear_testing.htm

This used to be a Rain Forest [home for numerous animals, birds, etc]

http://www.scienceclarified.com/everyday/Real-Life-Earth-Science-Vol-3/Ecology-and-Ecological-Stress-Real-life-applications.html

Polluted lakes and Rivers

http://www.sos-arsenic.net/english/environment/

TOXIC DUMPING IN 'POOR' PEOPLE'S LANDS

http://www.chevroninecuador.com/2009_06_01_archive.html

Land that Could have been used for FARMLAND to feed NUMEROUS STARVING--YET, LIKE NUMEROUS COUNTRIES IT CAN'T BE,

WHY?  BECAUSE OF OVERPOPULATION-BABIES?  MOMMIES? 

NO

TRY, ANOTHER...

L.A.N.D.M.I.N.E.S.

http://www.mineaction.org/overview.asp?o=1337

AIR POLLUTION, and guess what, last I knew, BABIES DIDN'T DRIVE...China did NOT look like this when they used Bikes even With overpopulation [which btw, was due to patriarchal 'mandates' for none other than a huge ass Army]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x268520

Tomorrow I will follow up on this series, but for now...

I find it amazing, that the Destruction of the Mother animals and their babies Habitat, wasn't done by Human Mothers and Babies, HARDLY

it was done by

CARS [CONSUMPTION]
TOXIC DUMPING
NUCLEAR [WAR]
OIL, OIL, OIL [CONSUMPTION]
WOODS FOR HOUSES [NOT FOR YOUR AVERAGE FAMILY OF FOUR, OH NO, THEY CAN'T AFFORD IT, FOR TWO PEOPLE FAMILIES WITH ONE KID, THE YOUNG PROFESSIONALS OR WITH NO KIDS, THOSE 200,000 TO 1,000,000 CONDOS/LOFTS, ETC--IT'S STATUS REMEMBER] taken from FORESTS
FORESTS DESTROYED FOR LAND FOR 'COWS' FOR AMERICAN/WESTERN 'BEEF' EATERS
A.K.A. RESTAURANTS FOR THE 'RICH' [most families can't afford that usually]
etc etc etc

My POINT being, that the Destruction of the Planet, is NOT due to Babies or Mothers, but the Devaluing of, for none other than

CONSUMPTION AND GREED.

that, and WAR, for CONSUMPTION AND GREED [ECONOMIC INTERESTS]

see the Connection?

Tomorrow, what is Mother Nature, answering Back with?


Jane

MOTHER'S DAY THE DEVALUING OF 'MOTHERS' DEVALUES ALL WOMEN PART 2 OF SERIES

MOTHER'S DAY WHY IT IS STILL IMPORTANT JUST AS MUCH AS INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

Part 2 The Devaluing of Mothers Devalues All Women


Mothers, one of the Main Source of Life Nurtures in our World, yet today they are Endangered, Yes Endangered,

and the More Motherhood is Demonized, the More Endangered Women will become [and that demonization also includes the patriarchal gender roles males supreme and women inferior to enforce the misogynist belief of Male Entitlement to Rule and Oppress/Own women using motherhood to Chain her]







NOW BEFORE ALL THE 'CHRISTIAN PATRIARCHS AND CAPITALIST PATRIARCHS GET ALL EXCITED,


LOOK AT THE VIDEOS, ALL THESE HORRIFIC CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, ESPECIALLY AGAINST

WOMEN AND CHILDREN

ARE IN 'RELIGIOUS INFLUENCED 'PATRIARCHAL' SOCIETIES...

BUT, ALAS,

BEFORE THE NON-RELIGIOUS GET TOO HAPPY WITH GLEE, LETS LOOK AT OTHER SIDE OF

MISOGYNY, SHALL WE, AND 'IT'S' CONTRIBUTIONS, TO THE DEMISE OF

WOMAN

THANK YOU MATERIALISTS, CAPITALISTS, TECHNICAL WORSHIPERS

excerpt: Making mobile phones uses minerals only available from Congo's war zone. Is our appetite for the latest electronic gadgets fuelling exploitation in the Congoeven threatening the survival of central Africas magnificent gorillas?
On the inside of many devices like mobile phones and laptops, the mineral, Coltan, has made our gadgets smaller and more complex. In the mineral-rich Congo, armed militia watch over the children digging it from the ground. The government only pretends to help us says one miner, who pays a government official just to work. The Congo is a shifting sands of various militia, the largest of which is the Congolese state itself explains an expert on blood minerals. Yet the miners depend on the little they get from mining to survive. Electronic giants like Apple now claim they will no longer use Coltan from this area but experts are convinced the militias will smuggle it onto the market regardless. For local miners, the move away from African minerals is just another way of penalising Africans. Coltan fuels a conflict, which has seen national parks become war zones, gorillas killed for meat and hundreds of houses set on fire in turf wars over mineral territory. Yet it also feeds 400,000 petty traders. Why did it take a mobile phone to make us appreciate the injustice in the Congo?

Produced by ABC Australia, distributed by Journeyman Pictures

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gCuLuwoovk

WHETHER IT'S ANTI-MOTHER IN SECULARISM-ATHEISM OR PERPETUATING WOMEN'S OPPRESSION UNDER THE 'LIE' OF FORCING MOTHERHOOD SO THAT MEN HAVE ENTITLEMENT-FREEDOM, WHY ATHEIST-HUMANIST MISOGYNY IS JUST THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN OF RELIGIOUS MISOGYNY

THE RESULTS ARE SIMILAR, TAKE A LOOK--RUSSIA, ALBANIA, ROMANIA

WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU HAVE THE 'STATE' AS HUSBAND AND PARENT, WHEN YOU DO AWAY WITH

MOTHERS -- WHY THE 'INSTITIONALIZING OF 'PARENTING' KILLS CHILDREN, WHAT THE ANTI-MOTHER SECULARISTS

DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW...

THE 'OTHER' MISOGYNIST EXTREME

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ39fZWkgnM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkUvOjnwE-Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDR5xpLEx-U

WHERE HAVE ALL THE CHILDREN GONE?  Underpopulation in Europe [prior to mass migration of Muslims which is changing the face of Europe into an Islamic STATES], here you have underpopulation or institutionalizing children/street children,

and in Patriarchal Religious countries, you have women/mothers and children, raped, sold, butchered,

DO YOU SEE THE ROOT?  IT'S NOT RELIGION, IT'S HATRED OF

WOMAN

OF WOMB

OF MOTHERS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WOKszPk8dQ

IF WOMEN AND MOTHERS WERE NOT 'HATED', DEMONIZED, EXPLOITED, DEVALUED


THERE WOULDN'T BE THESE SOCIAL PROBLEMS--THE ROOT ISN'T HOUSING, THE ROOT ISN'T POLITICS ONLY, THE ROOT ISN'T RELIGION ONLY, THE ROOT ISN'T SECULARISM ONLY


IT'S DEVALUING OF WOMEN AND OF MOTHERS AND NOT REALIZING


HOW VERY IMPORTANT THEY ARE--TO THE SURVIVAL OF ALL


HUMANITY.

where are these trafficked/stolen children being taken?  Well, it might surprise you, but Europe is a main place for Child Prostition, Protected and Even ENDORSED by the anti-God pro Pedophilia lot, Porn Industry, etc, supported by none other than numerous


ACADEMICS
LEFTISTS
RIGHT WING PROSTITUTE MONGERS
RELIGIOUS RAPISTS [OR THOSE WHO HAVE NO ISSUE WITH FORCE MARRYING YOUNG GIRLS]
AND NUMEROUS OTHER SECULARISTS--FROM GERMANY, ITALY, HOLLAND [HUGE PROBLEM IN FACT], UNITED STATES, MILITARY ZONES [MILITARIZATION],
ELITES FROM GOVERNMENT, COMMERCE, LEGAL MEN
RICH INCLUDING MALES AND FEMALES WHO USE THESE CHILDREN AS 'SLAVES' INCLUDING NANNIES/SEX SLAVES, 
AND


ORGAN THEFTS, ETC.

THIS PHOTO, FROM NONE OTHER THAN AMERICA, OAKLAND CA, CHILD PROSTITUTION EPIDEMIC

http://www.antifascistencyclopedia.com/allposts/child-prostitution-epidemic-in-oakland-ca-2

AND THIS IS WHY, I WILL NEVER, BE SILENT, WHY I WILL WORK TO CONFRONT THE HYPOCRISY IN THE 'LEFTISM' SECULARIST ANTI-GOD PRO-PEDOPHILE LOT [see the misogyny in Atheism series, I will be covering more on this issue, it's Why I got out of the left politics BTW, because these pro-pedophile jerks [many women included] are IN numerous socialist, humanist and academic lobbying groups, they USE the misogyny in Christian cults/circles to Promote a False liberation, but really, their goals, is to see to it that there are NO protections for children therefore making children vulnerable to Their sexual exploits.  One of their main parties is in CA BTW, but they are Far worse, in their Influence, in ACADEMIA AND IN PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY, ESPECIALLY IN GERMANY, HOLLAND, ETC.  [that doesn't Include Islam's sanctioning of child forced marriage of underage girls, or Christianity's 'fundie cults' which basically do the same garbage to girls/women].


AS WELL AS THE PATRIARCHAL-RELIGIOUS MISOGYNY--


BOTH, IN MY BOOK, NEED TO GO DOWN.

In the article regarding the epidemic of Child Prostitution [trafficking] in Oakland, it's Amazing how these 'johns' claim that one, they don't get sex in normal channels, Meaning, that grown women/Wives won't tolerate them RAPING them--what Assholes,

and then, they have to be Taught how RAPING a child is DAMAGING TO A CHILD,


it's just UNREAL, the BULLSHIT, these ASSWIPES will use, to get OUT of punishment,


to hell with retraining, what these MEN, MANY WHOM THE GIRLS RESCUED SAY ARE 'RICH' [TYPICAL CAPITALIST MINDSET], IS NOT EDUCATION


BUT


FULL CASTRATION.


When we stop CODDLING PEDOPHILES AND RAPISTS--WE MIGHT ACTUALLY HAVE A SAFER WORLD FOR CHILDREN AND


FOR MOTHERS.  and BEFORE THE 'CHRISTIAN' PATRIARCHS /COMP DESPOTS get their pants wet with glee over My confronting the Secular Pedophiles,


you need to be aware of the NUMEROUS SO CALLED 'CHRISTIAN' MEN WHO ARE TRAFFICKING/AND ARE IN PEDOPHILIA--YOU'D BE SHOCKED, AT THE RIGHT WING, THAT ARE JUST AS NOTORIOUS FOR THIS DISGUSTING HUMAN RIGHTS TRAVESTY AS THE SECULARISTS


IN OTHER WORDS, SATAN IS IN THE TEMPLE--


SEE THE numerous case files this website has been keeping track of, you'd be surprised at how many Christian or who lay claim to that title, are trafficking, molesting/raping children, as well as Government [both Right and Left] so,

on Blackwater and [their using children], and if you look to the top, you'll see the many cases, this website has logged.  


http://www.antifascistencyclopedia.com/allposts/blackwater-used-child-prostitutes-in-iraqlawyers-trade-accusations-over-blackwater

It's I think, vital that we confront how demonization of Mothers, of Women, contributes to the abuses of Children, it's a domino effect, where ever there is mass exploitation of Children, especially Girls,


there is Always, a low status/regard for WOMEN.  The two go hand in hand...that includes using women as nothing more than Cheap Labor--demonizing motherhood to create vulnerable segments/marginalized children, women to Exploit. 


In solidarity,

Jane

Celebrate, the Stop De-Valuing the Caring Roles and Labor!

God IS Good...just when you think it's futile to try, He can sweetly remind you that HE is still in Control and those that Hate, Kill, Butcher, Abandon children, Prey on the Weak, Will one day, Yes,

STAND BEFORE JESUS AND ANSWER TO HIM....

in the Meantime,

see what is moving in places around the world [where women Haven't become death-materialist toxic men] in regards to Caring, from Indie Media News...http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

Mothers Protest Family Separation, De-Valuing of Caring Work

On Saturday, March 13, mothers and those who depend on them held simultaneous protests in ten cities around the world in honor of the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day. Called by the Global Women’s Strike, the events united under the call to “Invest in Caring, Not Killing,” beginning with payment for the first carers: mothers. Marchers also demanded resources for family reunification and protested the mistreatment of undocumented domestic laborers.

In Guyana, coastal women of African, Indian and Mixed descent travelled to the interior to join with their Indigenous sisters demanding clean potable water, electricity, housing, money for carers, protective rape law, and an end to racial and domestic violence. This historic unity was front page news in the national papers.

In India, Tribal and Dalit women from rural Chhattisgard assembled to demand equal rights to land and property; ration cards for mothers below the poverty line; higher pensions for single, widowed and divorced women; and compensation for mothers and children released from bonded labour.

In Los Angeles, about 150 people led by women and Aztec dancers marched to the Department of Children and Family Services to protest children being unjustly taken from their mothers because of racism, poverty and other discrimination. A similar protest was held in Philadelphia — due to heavy rains the group gathered inside the Arch Street United Methodist Church to dialogue and view a preview of the documentary, “DHS: Give Us Back Our Children!” produced in cooperation with the Scribe Video Center Community Visions Project.

Events also took place in Haiti, Mexico, Peru, Turkey and Venezuela, as well as in the Strike headquarters in London.

The Strike began working to revive International Women's Day in 2000. Their webpage explains: "We all know that the survival of the human race depends on the caring work of mothers. Mothers have the longest working day and the lowest incomes. On top of caring we’re expected to work for the lowest pay to feed our families. We get no recognition or support, only blame when things go wrong. And in times of wars or even ‘peace’, mothers are to the most dedicated campaigners for justice for our loved ones – an extension of our caring work."