From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz   
      
   It shows up on my master list as a national holiday only in Russia,   
   Belarus and Ukraine. (Russia has a Mondayized-Saturday "IWD Holiday" on   
   the 10th, which is also the day IWD is celebrated in Ukraine.)   
      
   Curious.   
      
   But this makes it all clear:   
      
   "Spurred by the universal female suffrage movement, International   
   Women's Day originated from labor movements in Europe and North America   
   during the early 20th century, with the modern holiday, March 8, being   
   declared by Vladimir Lenin."   
      
   (Gasp!)   
      
   "The earliest version reported was a "Woman's Day" organized by the   
   Socialist Party of America in New York City on February 28, 1909. This   
   inspired German delegates at the 1910 International Socialist Women's   
   Conference in Copenhagen to propose "a special Women's Day" be organized   
   annually, albeit with no set date; the following year saw the first   
   demonstrations and commemorations of International Women's Day across   
   Europe. Vladimir Lenin declared March 8 as International Women's Day in   
   1922 to honour the women's role in 1917 Russian Revolution; it was   
   subsequently celebrated on that date by the socialist movement and   
   communist countries."   
      
   "International Women's Day remained predominantly a communist holiday   
   until circa 1967 when it was taken up by second-wave   
   feminists....International Women's Day had been largely forgotten in the   
   United States by the late 1960s, before an activist called Laura X   
   organized a march in Berkeley, California, on International Women's Day   
   in 1969....The holiday became a mainstream global holiday following its   
   promotion by the United Nations in 1977."   
      
   Holy crap! How come Trump hasn't banned it yet?   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Women%27s_Day   
      
   /Ob sci.lang:  The Wikipedia article features a dynamic poster for IWD   
   in Germany, 1914. "This poster was banned in the German Empire."   
   One line on the poster reads: "Heraus mit dem Frauenwahlrecht."   
   I find it hard not to translate that as "Out with women's right to   
   vote"; but in English that would give the opposite of what I'm sure was   
   the intended meaning. So it's really something like "Come out and show   
   your support for....". Am I right?   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)