HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY!

March is Women's History Month and today, March 8th, is International Women's Day. It has meant a myriad of things throughout its 93 year history, from an event for socialist causes to strikes and marches for peace and women's rights.

A holiday is what you make of it, so take a little time to celebrate IWD in the way you see fit. Champion a woman in your life for her achievements. Write a letter to your congressperson asking for the resuscitation of the Equal Rights Amendment. Protest a violent or misogynistic ad on TV. Buy something woman-friendly; a magazine (no, not Cosmo or Seventeen. Bitch or Bust!), any Ani Difranco, Dar Williams, or Tori Amos CD, a book by a woman author (but stay away from Ann Coulter or Laura Schlesinger...for as much as women's liberation has allowed them to shine and succeed they sure are bitter). Make a button. Sign up to go to the March in April.

I haven't decided yet what I will do today. I coach at noon, would it be risky to wear my Save Roe (a hanger with a slash through it) button to a high school? Perhaps today is my day to officially declare that I will be in DC next month, with Marisa, Jerry, hopefully Davis, and 3000 other people fighting for women's rights.

Whatever you do, let me know about it!