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Monday, July 28, 2025

Di­ary of a Moth­er­ing Work­er - En­try 99

Stories that bind us

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The bliss of snaking through Man­zanil­la's co­conut trees was enough to make the dri­ve worth­while, but the com­mu­ni­ty spir­it that I en­coun­tered in Ma­yaro was, un­ques­tion­ably, the high­light of the day.

I was there to give a talk for In­ter­na­tion­al Women's Day, be­ing cel­e­brat­ed for the third year in this lit­tle cor­ner of south east­ern coast, adding to the oth­er events hap­pen­ing all over the coun­try all through March, and con­tin­u­ing to ho­n­our an agree­ment made by more than 100 women from 17 coun­tries in 1910.

Al­ways so­cial­ist in its pol­i­tics, In­ter­na­tion­al Women's Day orig­i­nal­ly aimed to strength­en women's protests against ex­ploita­tive work­ing con­di­tions, their par­tic­i­pa­tion in pol­i­tics to ad­vance their rights, and their knowl­edge of those women who came be­fore, who un­apolo­get­i­cal­ly re­sist­ed re­gard­less of what was ex­pect­ed of them be­cause they ex­pect­ed more for them­selves.

This Sat­ur­day was no dif­fer­ent. Car­la Wal­cott, grand­daugh­ter of Clotil Wal­cott, was there, con­tin­u­ing to call for do­mes­tic work­ers to be con­sid­ered work­ers un­der the In­dus­tri­al Re­la­tions Act and to labour un­der de­cent con­di­tions of em­ploy­ment.


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