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thoughtfullooking woman, and the slogan reads: "I saw witches in my front burnerrecriminateand silentglowing out of flamesat Salem." It should be pointed out that some feminists see the entire history of the patriarchy as a general persecution of women by men; and, since men controlled the recording of history, this theme was lost. Only in extreme cases, such as the burning of large numbers of women, are there some signs of this history. In making explicit the history of oppressed people, such victims' visibility is important. Other posters tiffany outlet in the bookstore are more oriented toward action. Two of them are announcements for International Women's Day in March, which tiffany sale honors tiffany jewelry the massive organization among women in America for suffrage and in struggles for unionization. On March . , women textile workers first marched to protest their working conditions. In at the Second International Conference of Socialist Working Women, the celebration of International Working Women's Day on March was established. Until World War , International Working Women's Day was celebrated in America and Europe, but the Copyrighted m jterial Community Projects war caused its discontinuation. In , feminists in Berkeley, learning about the history of working women, reinstated its celebration in the Bay Area San Francisco Women's Union pamphlet, March . Another poster follows a similar theme. The slogan reads: "Yes, it is bread we fight for, but we fight for roses, too," from the workers' song "Bread and Roses." Another poster is about rape as an act of violence against the oppressed. Its format is the front page of a newspaper, The Forward Times, which carries the headline "Women Declare War on Rape." The headlines for the stories carry out this theme. The last poster carries out the theme of the sisterhood of all women, which transcends class and race differences. It is a quote from one of a series of poems, A Common Woman, by a Bay Area poet with a national following among feminists, Judy Grahn, who writes about the lesbian experience as one of her themes. The excerpt on the poster is from the poem "Vera: From My Childhood," and has passed into lesbianfeminist and feminist folklore. It is used as a motto both in speech and on samplers and posters: "The common woman is as commonAs a common loaf of bread ... And will rise!" It refers to the invincibility of woman even after a tiffany & co outlet long history of oppression. The entire poem: Solemnly swearing, to swear as an oath to you who have somehow gotten to be a pale old woman
