Saiks and all those who remembered women on IWD, it's a big thank you. Time does not allow any commentary at the moment, but some challenging thoughts are being shared. Good luck to all. Amie. >From: saikss <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: March 8 Greetings >Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 12:24:48 +0100 > >Marc 8 is been observed through out the world as an International >solidarity >day with women. The long battle for equality by Gambian women still >remains >a history in the making. Since Independent their contribution to the >political >life of the country have been cornered to that of "Fan Clubs" and YAYI >KOMPINS >and the semi feudal nature of the Gambian society continue to strangle them >in >the corner of motherhood, bearing children, finding food and house wives. >The >majority of Gambian women live in acute poverty whiles they remain the >touch >bearers of hope in the society. >But this has never led to any surrendering of their wish and desire of a >better society. Their love songs are full of protest and the stories they >tell >their children in the night portray the inhuman conditions they are >subjected >to live .I grew up with one of these stories; A woman who when to pay her >tax >to the king never returned back home, she was murdered for reasons beyond >reason. There are plenty of such stories, perhaps one day we will come to >recognise that these are also forms of struggle. >After Independence, it took us even long to arrive at Louis Njie and it >took >time to go beyond that level. The women's Bureau emerged as the talking >drum >of the establishment and today we have plenty of women gender activist who >dear to go further than the limits set by men domination. One would recall >the >great efforts of sisters like Satang Jobarteh during the last elections; >they >struggled to put on the political agenda very important issues that have >for >years not been recognised in the political life of our country. These are >sisters who have and are sacrificing a lot to make women struggle for >equality >in our society to become an uncompromising political issue in the country. >They are running institutions, programmes etc all in the efforts of >empowering >women. Perhaps it is time for some of us to start thinking of ways of >contributing to theses struggles too, perhaps the next donation >contribution >collections should go to them. Happy March 8 sisters. > >For Freedom >Saiks > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L >Web interface >at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html >To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: >[log in to unmask] > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~