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On 5 October 1789, Parisian women gathered in the square, then marched on Versailles, where King Louis XVI held court. Some men joined. Members of the crowd violently stormed the royal apartments in Versailles to make their demands. The rest is history. 1/7 #SupremeCourt https://twitter.com/LiveLawIndia/status/1348521452031524864
On 3 March 1913, a day before Woodrow Wilson's inauguration, thousands took part in the parade which sought an amendment to the US constitution. Women finally were granted the right to vote with the ratification of 19th amendment in 1920. 2/7
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On 9 Aug 1956, thousands of women gathered in Pretoria to deliever against the pass laws being extended to women to the government. They sang: “you strike a woman, you strike a rock”. The pass law was repealed in 1986.
Aug 9 is celebrated as National Women’s Day in SA. 3/7
Aug 9 is celebrated as National Women’s Day in SA. 3/7
On 24 October 1975, 25,000 women gathered on streets of Reykjavik (Iceland population 220,000) and 90% of female population did not go to work, cook, clean or take care of children. It's a wake up call. Vigdis Finnbogadottir became Iceland's 1st female president 5 years later 4/7
In 1973, peasant women started Chipkao Movement in a Himalayan village to prevent trees from being felled. When loggers arrived, women stood firm for 4 days, surrounding the trees. The protest led to 15-year ban in 1980 on felling of trees in UP's Himalayan forests. 5/7
On 8 March, 1917, hundreds of women in Saint Petersburg threw stones/ snowballs at factory windows demanding for bread. the women took hold of soldiers' rifles & commanded: "put down your bayonets and join us". Within 5 days, centuries-old Tsarist regime had collapsed. 6/7
On 29 Sep, 1942, 72-year-old Matangini Hazra led a march of 6000 people, mostly women to take over Tamluk police station. She was shot dead by British police in front of Tamluk PS.
As Marx says "great social revolutions are impossible without the feminine ferment". 7/7
As Marx says "great social revolutions are impossible without the feminine ferment". 7/7
