MARCH 8th, WOMEN'S DAY: 5 FACTS & VOCABULARY

 

8-MARCH: INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2022

Inspiring quotes about empowering women on their international day:

“To tell a woman everything she cannot do is to tell her what she can.” – A Spanish Prover

“The best protection any woman can have is courage.” – Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Where there is a woman, there is magic.” – Ntozake Shange

“You were given this life because you are strong enough to live it.” – Ain Eineziz

“Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.” – Hillary Clinton

“A girl should be two things: Who and what she wants.” – Coco Chanel

“She wasn’t looking for a knight. She was looking for a sword.” – Atticus Poetry

“There’s nothing a man can do that I can’t do better and in heels.” – Ginger Rogers

“Above all, be the heroine of your life. Not the victim.” – Nora Ephron

“She is a Dreamer, she is a believer, she is a doer, she is an achiever, and that she is “You”. Happy Women’s Day.”  – Hassan Saleem

“Life is tough, my darling, but so are you.” – Stephanie Bennett Henry

“A strong woman looks a challenge in the eye and gives it a wink.” – Gloria Steinem

“Your life isn’t yours if you constantly care what others think.” – Norm Kelly

“If you have a dream, make it a goal.” – Unknown

“Sometimes it’s the princess who kills the dragon and saves the prince.” – Samuel Lowe

“Little girls with dreams become women with vision.” – Unknown

“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” – Katharine Hepburn

“She believed she could, so she did.” – R.S. Grey

“Sometimes it takes balls to be a woman.” – Elizabeth Cook

More inspiring and empowering quotes: HERE

 

25th NOV'19: INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN @ RAFAEL DIESTE

25th November 2019, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

To commemorate this day, we had a protest gathering with students and teachers at 12:00 at the central hall to hear an announcement made by 1st Bac students.

Photos of the protest gathering and the wall banner poster prepared by 'BiblioDieste' below.

Galician version @ ArquivosDoTrasno

WOMEN IN THE FAMILY

For complete family vocabulary link HERE.

"DEAR DAD, I'LL BE CALLED..."

4ºESO groups have been having tutorial sessions lately devoted to relationships between boys and girls. Here's the Norwegian shortfilm made by the Non Governmental Organization Care.no, which you could vision during one of the sessions, with an important message that concerns us all: erradicating violence against women. 

"Dear daddy, I will be born a girl, so please do everything you can so that won't stay the greatest danger of all"

Video "Dear Dad, I'll be called..."

WOMEN'S DAY 2018

No classes today because the Council of A Coruña decided to declare a holiday on the International Women's Day. But also it's a day of social protest all around the world as women have decided to go on strike and demonstrations for their rights.

We're celebrating this day, remembering previous posts on this blog for this day: WOMEN.

Here's also the link to the English version of Emma Clit's comic:

- "YOU SHOULD'VE ASKED"

Galician version of this post @ ArquivosDoTrasno

CONSENT (IT'S SIMPLE AS TEA)

On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and when there's lots of controversy about when a woman consents or accepts a relationship or not. Here's an awesome video that explains clearly what it is to consent.

Video:

THE UGLY TRUTH OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Here's a video which shows the ugly truth of children's books when it comes to display the relevant presence of determined female charcters in them. In the picture you can see shelves packed with books... there'll be just a fewin the video  at the end of the selection.

Equality doesn't exist here, though things are changing, as you will also see.

Video "THE IGLY TRUTH OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS":

Galician version of this post @ ArquivosDoTrasno.

EQUALS. ON THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2017

Today's holiday in Coruña. This year we've changed our local festivity for the 8th of March, the day to commemorate the International Women's Day. The day to remember that women and men are equal. Here's the British ad that was made for this day. Watch and reflect about it.

Video:

Galician version of this post @ ArquivosDoTrasno.

OUR OWN 2016 SUFFRAGETTES & A BOBBY @ "RAFAEL DIESTE" [7th CW]

At our 7th Cultural Week, IES "Rafael Dieste" is proud to present our own 2016 version of the British Suffragettes. 

After having worked on the topic in the different classes, this movement is going to have its representation during one of the parades of pioneers characters due tomorrow. 

Today and tomorrow Wednesday there will be "Pioneer Parades", where different pioneer characters will be played by our school students:

- Today Tuesday is devoted to pioneer characters from VIII century B.C. to the XVIII century.

- Tomorrow Wednesday will be about pioneer characters from the XIX & XX centuries. In this parade, girl students from 2ºESO-C Irene BLANCO, Paula REY & Cielo MARÍÑEZ  (in the photo above) will play the role of the British Suffragettes (Emmerline Pankhurst, Emily Davison...) They will be accompanied by Carlos GALÁN (in the photo below) who'll be playing the role of a policeman (bobby).
(Update: At the end of this post below, you can watch the video of their performance).

They'll come rushing down the assembly hall, shouting out:
"VOTES FOR WOMEN!" 

and later pronounce some of their most famous quotes:

Paula: 
"We're in every home, we're half the human race, you can't stop us all. We will win"

Cielo: 
"We break windows, we burn things 'cause war is the only language men listen to".

Irene: 
"We do not want to be law-breakers. We want to be law-makers".

The three together: 
"...And never surrender. Never give up the fight. We will win".

Below you can watch their performance pronouncing these words:

UPDATE: THE VIDEO OF OUR SUFFRAGETTES & BOBBY'S PERFORMANCE LAST WEDNESDAY 27th APRIL AT SCHOOL.

See more about Wednesday's performance @ ArquivosDoTrasno.

THE SUFFRAGETTES WORKSHOP: WHO WERE THEY? [7th CW]

Suffragettes: who were they?

As one of the activities of our 7th Cultural week, today there's a workshop devoted to the British Suffragettes. The activity will be in English at 11:20h at the school's library. Showing videos and photos, which have been previously posted on this blog during the preparations for this week,of the women who fought for equality at the beginning of the XXth century.

There's also the possibility of repeating the workshop on Thursday 28th at 10:30.
It's open to any group, except 2ºESO-C & 1ºBACs which have already seen it during their classes.

Slide:

VII CULTURAL WEEK WORKSHOPS: THE SUFFRAGETTES, WHO WERE THEY? on PhotoPeach

SOME CLIPS FROM "SUFFRAGETTE", THE FILM.

Some more clips from the "Suffragette" film.

Video "NEVER GIVE UP":



Video "THAT'S FOR TODAY":

Video "WE WILL WIN":

SUFFRAGETTES IN THEIR OWN WORDS, QUOTES & SPEECHES [7th CW]

Continuing with Emmeline Pankhurst and the suffragettes. Here's a post which collects some of her most remarkable quotes and her famous speech "Freedom or Death" (1913). And lines from the "Suffragette" film dialogues.

Video "FREEDOM OR DEATH", Emmerline Pankhurst:

Link to the complete speech @ TheGuardian:

Great speeches of the 20th century: Emmeline Pankhurst's Freedom or death

"I am here as a soldier who has temporarily left the field of battle in order to explain what civil war is like when civil war is waged by women."

"Now I want to say to you who think women can't succeed, we have brought the government of England to this position that it has to face this alternative: either women are to be killed or women are to have the vote."

["FREEDOM OR DEATH", Emmerline Pankhurst.]

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Video trailer 1 of the film "Suffragette", where the lines below appear:

[Lines below taken from dialogues of the film "Suffragette" (2015) Trailer nº1.]

- "We meet Mondays & Thursdays, if you're interested..."

- "You're a suffragette, Ms Ellyn."
- "I consider myself more as a soldier"

"As Mrs Pankhurst says, 'it's deeds, not words that will get us to vote'."

"For 50 years we have laboured peacefully to secure the vote for women. We've been ridiculed, battered and ignored."

"All my life, I've done what men told me. Well, I can't have that anymore"

"I ask the women in Britain to rebelion."

"We break windows, we burn things 'cause war is the only language men listen to."

"We're in every home, we're half the human race, you can't stop us all. We will win."

"And never surrender. Never give up the fight."

Video trailer 2 where the lines below appear:


[Lines below taken from dialogues of the film "Suffragette" (2015) Trailer nº2]
- "You work at the Glass House Laundry...?"
- "I was born there... Part time from when I was 7, full time from when I was 12..."

"What would the vote mean for you?"

- "Votes for women. Power is in your hand"
- "No one cares, love."
- "Some of us do..."

"All my life, I've been respectful. Done what men told me."

- "You're a wife. My wife... That's what you're meant to be"
- "But I can't have that anymore..."

"Never underestimate the power we, women, have to define our own destinies. We have been left with no alternative, defy this government." "Vote for women!"

"We shall cut into the heart of communications..."

"Rules mean nothing to me, I've had no say in making the law."

- "We will stop you."
- "What you're gonna do? Lock us all up? We're in every home. We're half the human race. You can't stop us all."

"We do not want to be law-breakers. We want to be law-makers."

"The only way is forward."

"I'm worth no more, no less than you."

"We will win."

"Never surrender. Never give up the fight."

[Colour code: In red - suffraggettes speaking. 
In blue - Emmeline Pankhurst speaking.
In black - men speaking.]

SUFFRAGETTES IN ACTION: "VOTE FOR WOMEN!" [7th CW]

SUFFRAGETTE EMILY DAVISON KILLED IN ACTION*

In this post we include several photos referring to the suffragette movement in action.

First photo: recreation of the typical suffragette outfit.

Second photo: Emmeline Pankhurst giving a speech.

Third photo: Emmeline Pankhurst being arrested in front of Buckingham Palace in May 1914.

Fourth photo: Annie Kenney & Christabel Pankhurst, founders of the WSPU (Women's Social & political Union)

Fifth photo: a group of women from the National Women's Social and Political Union during a demonstration.

Sixth photo: the moment when suffragette *Emily Davison was run over by the King's horse at Epsom Derby. She died a few days later.

Video of the moment when Emily Davison was run over by the King's horse:

*Emily Davison (School teacher, 1872-1913) was a distinguished suffragette activist of the feminist movement lead by the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), at the beginning of the XXth century in Britain. They fought for the right of women's vote.

Emily Davison had taken part in several terrorist acts against public buildings without any damage to people. Having being arrested and condemned several times, she carried out many hunger strikes in prison. During another protest act, she threw herself down a stair case suffering severe spinal injuries. Once she had recovered, she realized that the cause needed a determined action, on June 4th 1913, she walked in front of Anmer, the king's owned horse during Epsom Derby. Emily's intentions aren't very clear. Some theories state that her intention wasn't suicide as she had bought a return train ticket from Epsom. She just wanted to stop the horse and place a WSPU scarf. The collision was brutal and she was pulled along the horse track as can be seen in the video. She died four days later at Epsom Rural Hospital because of a skull fracture.
+ info on Emily Davison. (Wikipedia)

Finally, vote for women over 30 was achieved in 1918. In 1920, it was equal as men, over 21.

Video trailer of "Suffragette" (different version):

EMMELINE PANKHURST, PIONEER SUFFRAGETTE LEADER [7th CW]

Working on this year's cultural week, the English Department is preparing materials on different people:
1- the American Pioneers, 
2- biographies of universal pìoneers for the "Pioneerpedia" & "The Pioneer Quiz" 
3- the British suffragette movement and her leader Emmeline Pankhurst.

This post introduces you to Emmeline Pankhurst, the leader of the British suffragette movement that fought for women's right to vote at the beginning of the XXth century.

She founded the WSPU (Women's Social and Political Union).

In the link below you have 10 basic things you need to know about this woman:

Emmeline Pankhurst: 10 things you need to know about the suffragette

Further below, there's a cartoon video which summarises her story:

Video EMMELINE PANKHURST:

SUFFRAGETTE [7th CW]

Next Friday, a new film will be premiered in cinemas throughout Spain. "SUFFRAGETTE" is a 2015 British historical period drama directed by Sarah Gavron and written by Abi Morgan. The film stars Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, and Meryl Streep. It tells the story of the Suffragetts movement at the beginning of the XXth century. Women's suffrage movement fought for women's right to vote in the elections and take part in politics and can be considered a pioneering movement which we can work on for this year's School Cultural Week 2016. The English Departmente will be definitely working on it.

+ info: [@bbc.co.uk]

- The women's suffrage movement

- The suffragists

- The suffragettes

- Summary of the suffrage movement

Below pictures from the film and the video trailer:

HAPPY WOMEN'S DAY!

PENS FOR WOMEN?

Ellen Lee DeGeneres (born January 26, 1958) is an American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress. She starred in the popular sitcom Ellen from 1994 to 1998 and has hosted the talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show since 2003.

A few days ago, she joked about this sexist latest product from BIC: women's pens. Great fun!

Video
 
Link to subtitled video in Spanish HERE.

INTERNATIONAL WOMAN'S DAY 2013: "A PROMISE IS A PROMISE: TIME FOR ACTION TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN"

Women's Day (IWD), originally called International Working Women's Day, is marked on March 8 every year. In different regions the focus of the celebrations ranges from general celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards women to a celebration for women's economic, political and social achievements.

 International Women's Day was first observed as a popular event after 1977 when the United Nations General Assembly invited member states to proclaim March 8 as the UN Day for women's rights and world peace.

The UN theme for International Women's Day 2013 is "A promise is a promise: Time for action to end violence against women," while International Women's Day 2013 has declared the year's theme as The Gender Agenda: Gaining Momentum.