Mar 13
Last Monday, on International Woman’s Day, President Sarkozy announced a carefully-timed decision which, apparently, he hoped would resonate with women voters of immigrant descent who will be voting in tomorrow’s elections for France’s 22 Regional Asemblies …
I first received the Pictorial Homage a few weeks ago. Loking at it again, it filled my heart with gladness to know that women, with the support of good men, will survive. Yes, there is resilience and hope and sharing. And, loss of loved ones. We endure.
These are the true heroes, indeed. And, these are the people on whose behalf we must continue the struggle. I am always convinced that one voice can make a difference.
My heart aches for the extraordinary women of Haiti and Chile. I tried to capture that in an amateur painting of Haiti personified by a woman. The divisions in both societies have placed them in situations that have some similarities. The stratification in their societies has ensured them a place to endure because those at the top need so much – reminds me of Mrs. Baby Doc have an airconditioned room in their palace for her furs.
The greed of man never fails to surprise me.
Here in Trinidad, at a major hospital, the sterilization unit is not working and so no surgeries can be carried out!!!! Women, whose lives are at risk in giving birth, that will not wait, will not be able to have necessary procedures. Yet, we build monuments to hubris.
So, yes, citizens all over the world, overcome and we join in celebration. I will do so with some CAFRA women on Sunday.
Patricia
Mervyn,
Thanks so much for your very accurate and insightful analysis – linking Sarkozy’s sheer dishonesty and opportunism, again on the back of a woman, and the situation which faces so many young and not-so-young women in the global South. The strength, elegance and pride of the women in the pictorial belies all those spurious charges about women living in poverty as living with a “victim, woe-is-me” syndrome.
Judith