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Women On Top

Demonstrators cheer during an International Women’s Day rally, Wednesday, March 8, 2017, in Cincinnati. Around the country, people called on women to stay
home from work and not spend money in stories or online to show their economic clout on America’s fabric.

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Women Go On Strike in US to Show Their Economic Clout

ERRIN HAINES WHACK the vast women’s march- no respect for women or of women showed Po- Women also held rallies in
Associated Press es that drew more than 1 our rights,” said 49-year-old land’s conservative gov- Tokyo and Madrid.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Many million Americans the day Adina Ferber, who took a ernment red cards and Germany’s Lufthansa air-
American women stayed after President Donald vacation day from her job made noise with kitchen- line arranged for six all-
home from work, joined ral- Trump’s inauguration. at an art gallery to attend a ware to demand full birth female crews to fly into
lies or wore red Wednesday The turnout on the streets demonstration in New York control rights, respect and Berlin. Sweden’s women’s
to demonstrate how vital this time was much small- City. “They need to deal higher pay. In Rome, hun- soccer team replaced the
they are to the U.S. econo- er in many places, with with us as an economic dreds of women marched names on the backs of the
my, as International Wom- crowds often numbering in force.” The U.S. event — from the Colosseum to de- players’ jerseys with tweets
en’s Day was observed the hundreds. There were inspired in part by the Day mand equal rights. Thou- from Swedish women. Fin-
with a multitude of events no immediate estimates of Without an Immigrant pro- sands marched in Istanbul, land announced a new
around the world. how many women heeded test held last month — was despite restrictions on dem- $160,000 International Gen-
The Day Without a Woman the call to skip work. part of the U.N.-designat- onstrations imposed since der Equality Prize.
protest in the U.S. was put “Trump is terrifying. His entire ed International Women’s last year’s failed coup. Turk-
together by organizers of administration, they have Day. In Warsaw, thousands ish police did not interfere. Continued on Page 4