Mujeres de Negro Madrid

English                             El 29 de junio de 2014 , último domingo de mes En la Plaza Mayor (junto al caballo), a las 12 horas Mujeres de Negro contra la guerra - Madrid Invitan a una concentración de negro y en silencio. Mujeres de la Red internacional de Mujeres de Negro Homenajeamos a todas las mujeres que, en la Primera Guerra Mundial, ♀ por su oposición al rearme, al nacionalismo, al patriotismo y a la guerra, sufrieron amenazas, persecución, exclusión social, cárcel y muerte. ♀ defendieron durante toda la contienda que la igualdad de derechos de las mujeres y la paz estaban relacionadas y proclamaron que la guerra era evitable. ♀ apoyaron la solidaridad entre las mujeres y los pueblos por encima de las fronteras y naciones como el camino a la paz. Expulsemos la guerra y la violencia de la historia y de nuestras...

Women against the First World War (1914-1918) Women in Black of Madrid remember the Cassandras of the Great War: Bertha von Suttner worked to avoid another war, any war. Her novel Lay Down Your Arms is an appeal for peace and describes the horrors of armed confrontation. She founded the Austrian Society for Peace in 1891 and worked tirelessly for the international pacifist movement. She denounced rearmament in peacetime, which would ruin the nations, and warned about the preparation of various countries for a great conflict. She confronted the virulent opposition of nationalists, the clergy and anti-Semites. The First World War began a month after her death. She was the first woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Rosa Luxemburg was arrested in February 1914 for inciting soldiers to rebel and declared: “If they expect us to assassinate the French or any other foreign brother, let’s tell them: ‘No, under no circumstance.’” A couple of weeks after the outbreak of the war, she d...