Listen to Women for a Change

Written By Grace Lee Boggs

Detroit’s international Women’s Day Celebration on Saturday, March 9, at the UAW-GM Center was more moving and revealing than any of the many IWD celebrations in which I have participated over the years.

Co-hosted by the UAW Women’s Department and the Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership, the celebration brought together hundreds of women from many different walks of life and generations.

The theme was LISTEN TO WOMEN FOR A CHANGE!

Besides short talks by UAW Vice President Cindy Estrada and myself, it featured a series of workshops which demonstrated that women are the ones needed to give leadership on the many critical issues now facing everyone in our city and country:

  • Taking Back Our Households

  • Re-imagining Education

  • Creating Peace Circles: From War Zones to Peace Zones

  • Making a Splash at the Ballot Box

  • Money Matters

  • What’s Love got to do with it? (HIV)

  • Seeing Past Hell and onto Hope

Grace Lee Boggs
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