International Women's Day
8 MARCH 1998
Nationwide and International Activities

National Capital Region
  Theme: "Kababaihan, Labanan ang Imperyalistang Atake sa Kabuhayan at Tumitinding Karahasan Laban sa Kababaihan"
  12:00 noon to 5:00 p.m., Welcome, Rotonda to Mendiola   march rally of around 3,000 women led by GABRIELA
Davao City
  Theme: "Ipagpatuloy ang Sentenaryong Rebolusyon, Labanan ang Imperyalistang Globalisasyon"
  1:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., Magsaysay Park to Rizal Park   historical cultural march rally of around 3,000 women led by GABRIELA Davao. March rally will include a float carrying a tableau depicting effects of colonization and imperialist globalization on women
Cebu City
  Street march rally
  1:00 p.m. from Fuente Osmena to Colon to Juan Luna junction   around 500 women led by GABRIELA Cebu and Bayan Cebu
Bacolod City
  GABRIELA-Negros will lead a street march rally
  Rally of women will have 3 stop overs for short programs in the three major routes of the city.
Iloilo City
  GABRIELA-Panay will lead a march cultural rally
  Rally of 350-500 women will stop over in major establishments in Iloilo City. Marchers will be carrying an effigy of a Filipino woman hanged by the US-Ramos policies and imperialist globalization. A cultural program will start at around 3:00 p.m. at the Iloilo Rotary Amphitheater.
Cagayan de Oro City
  GABRIELA-Cagayan de Oro will lead Women's march rally to...
  Gaston Park to the Roman Catholic Cathedral to Divisoria to Xavier University to Velez Street. Ecumenical service and cultural presentations will be held at the McArthur Park. A prostituted woman and violence against women (VAW) survivor will be among the speakers.
Tagbilaran City
  Theme: Effects of Imperialist Globalization on Women
  3:00 to 5:00 p.m. main program at the Plaza, Rizal, Tagbilaran Capitol   a cultural march rally of around 500 women led by Women's Development Center (member organization of GABRIELA Alliance of Women)
New York City, New York, USA
  GABRIELA Network New York "Speak Out"
  1:00 - 8:00p.m. - Davis Auditorium, Columbia University in New York City   250-300 participants from various organizations and individuals will take the microphone for a no-holds-barred airing of women's issues, complaints, insights, etc.
Los Angeles, California, USA
  GABRIELA Network Los Angeles primer
  printed a primer on March 8 and mailed it and some were distributed in the communities
San Francisco, USA
  Theme: "Celebrating Women's Courage, Resistance and Strength!"
  March 7, 5:30 p.m., 18th and Church Sts., San Francisco   GABRIELA Network Bay Area (San Francisco) will hold a torchlight march and ritual
  The action is for all the women political prisoners in US and around the world, the campesinas in chiapas, to the women fighting trafficking and all women in history who have dared to fight for freedom and liberation.
Melbourne, Australia
  Theme: "Women Unite for Justice and Native Title"
  1:00 p.m., GPO City Centre to Flagstaff Gardens   GABRIELA Australia will join the International
Women's Day march
Melbourne, Australia
  Theme: "Centennial, Sovereignty and Philippine Mining"
  4:00p.m. at a church in Footstray   GABRIELA Australia will celebrate 2nd anniversary
Japan
  GABRIELA Network Japan
  will also celebrate the International women's Day emphasizing the most inspiring popular (oppressed) women's struggles in the Philippines and other women in the Third World countries.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
  Women from the Philippine Women Center in Vancouver, B.C., have organized video showing
  March 14, 7:00 pm, at the Kalayaan Centre in Powell Street, Vancouver, B.C.   Films to be shown are "Brown Women, Blond babies", "Modern Heroes, Modern Slave" and "Kababaihan:Filipina Portrait". Discussions will follow after the film showing
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