International Women's Day

A friend recently sent me this lovely and inspiring announcement from the Zapatistas in Chiapas, Mexico, about a women's sport and cultural weekend being held to celebrate International Women's Day on March 8th. Despite my visceral horror of anything resembling organised games, this seems to me a much more uplifting representation of the spirit of IWD than the terrifyingly corporate 'Official' IWD site here, sponsored by huge international banks and corporations which I would would put money on, do bugger all for gender equality at any kind of grassroots level, however much they might top corporate indices for equality in their white, upper-middle-class Western offices. Who declared this site 'official' anyway? Forgive me if I'm sceptical.