Wednesday, March 8th is International Women’s Day, a day originally called International Working Women’s Day by the Socialist Party of America with deep ties to the anti-capitalist movement.
This year, International Women’s Day is being used by women across the United States as an opportunity for women to strike in what is being called a “Day Without a Woman.”
The event’s website says the goal is to “highlight the economic power and significance that women have in the US and global economies, while calling attention to the economic injustices women and gender nonconforming people continue to face. We play an indispensable role in the daily functions of life in all of society, through paid & unpaid, seen & unseen labor.”
While the left is predictably celebrating the women’s strike across the country, they probably won’t publicize the fact that the event is being organized by a group with all-male leadership.
ICYMI –> Women’s March Strike Organized By Group With All-Male Leadership https://t.co/x0jAdH2ejA via @JoeSchoffstall pic.twitter.com/anUbj7XJx4
— Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) March 8, 2017
From Free Beacon:
Despite striking for equal opportunities for women in the workplace, the Women’s March is working with the Action Network, a group that does not have a single female in its leadership.
The Action Network is a Washington, D.C.-based “progressive online organizing platform” that is managing the website and email lists of the Women’s March. The group’s work is “specifically designed to help organizers channel scattered grassroots energy into something more focused,” Vox reported.
“The Women’s March is a great real-world example of what we were trying to build from the beginning,” Brian Young, executive director of the Action Network, told Vox. Young said the Women’s March originally began on Facebook but grew into a organizing hub with its own website.
Young is one of five men on the Action Network’s board of directors. The board also includes Mark Fleischman, the president of the Action Network Fund, Douglas Land, the group’s chairman, Jason Rosenbaum, the fund’s director of technology, and Jeffrey Dugas, the group’s special projects director.
The Action Network Fund is frequently used to mobilize protests against President Donald Trump.
It sounds as though the “Day Without a Woman” event is more an anti-Trump event than a strike promoting female equality. Given the deep socialist ties that International Women’s Day has, Wednesday’s march should not be mistaken for speaking for women across the country. Instead, this event, which hilariously is led by men, seems to simply speak to liberals, and its organizers’ connection to other anti-Trump events should dispel any belief that the average woman is being represented.
Are you surprised that the “Day Without a Woman” event is being organized by an all-male organization? Is this really just an anti-Trump event? Share your thoughts below!