FOLLOWING A 1908 DEMONSTRATION FOR LABOR RIGHTS BY 15,000 WOMEN IN NEW YORK CITY, THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF AMERICA, IN 1909, DECLARED "AN INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY". THE IDEA WAS POPULARIZED IN EUROPE BY CLARA ZETKIN, A GERMAN SOCIALIST, AND ON MARCH 19, 1911, A MILLION WOMEN MARCHED AROUND THE WORLD TO DEMAND JUSTICE AND WOMEN'S EQUALITY.
THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT, OR FEMINISM, IS, HOWEVER, FAR FROM UNITED AND, THERE ARE WOMEN WHO CONTEND THAT IT HAS LOST ITS WORKING CLASS ROOTS. THIS PAST MONDAY, ON INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN'S DAY, THE BRECHT FORUM INVITED HESTER EISENSTEIN, AUTHOR OF "FEMINISM SEDUCED: A LESSON FOR OUR TIME" AND OTHER WOMEN LEADERS FOR A PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE WOMEN MOVEMENT. WBAI FRED NGUYEN WAS THERE AND HE FILED THIS REPORT:
