Today is International Women's Day, which has been a day for recognizing which women are not recognized. Beacon resident, Palestinian refugee and local business owner (Ziatun and Beacon Bread Company) Lena Jamal shared a post from The Slow Factory that we will quote here:

"This International Women’s Day we call on all who identify as feminists to engage in the lifelong unlearning of their biases and to be in solidarity with Palestinian women, Sudanese women, Congolese women who are experiencing an ongoing genocide.

"In Palestine, more than 9,000 women have been brutally killed by the Israeli Occupation. Sixty three women killed per day.

"In Sudan, 4 million Sudanese women & girls are at risk of sexual violence.

"In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, more than 1 million women have been survivors of sexual violence.

"In Turtle Island aka the so called USA, 94% of fatal violence committed again Trans people are committed against Trans women."

Visit The Slow Factory’s post for this and several other quote posters you need to see.