was Rosa Luxemburg who proposed this day, 'March 8, as : The International Women's Day.
(From "Camilla Ravera says his life" by Rita Palombo - Rusconi publisher)
... In 1898 we went to Valencia. Dad was constantly transferred, especially where it was necessary to establish new offices of the Ministry of Finance. In those years the state newborn extended to give life to peripheral (.... ... ... ..) As at Aix, in Valencia witnessed a fact that I remained engraved in the memory. For a long time belonged to the memories of my childhood. But later, when my political choice was made, what happened that day became a historical reference of my struggle for the liberation of women and 1'emancipazione.
not remember how old I was, perhaps attending second grade, and seven or eight.
I liked going to school because I was happy to be with other children.
Mother accompanied me every morning and often impatient because I stopped to look at whatever struck your attention. We had arrived a few weeks in that town and I still had many things to discover.
While talking with her mother, suddenly I heard the angry voices, angry and soon after from a corner, I saw many women appear advancing towards us. I was scared. I shook the hand of my mother and she forced me to stop.
was a procession of women workers. Before I ask those who were and why her mother scream like that, conscious of the fear I felt, I said they were protesting the cleaners gold, led by a man, a socialist named Filippo Turati, because their pay, earned working twelve hours a day, could not even buy bread.
then invited me to observe their hands. I looked at them: they were all roses by 'acid which was used to clean the gold. They were barefoot, badly-dressed and where they went and why the man smunte.Chiesi guides.
She said that perhaps they were directed to the League of workers and Turati, although it was not poor, was the head of the parade because he was a socialist. And this was admirable.
Poco dopo scomparvero in una via e mia madre mi spiegò che non bisognava aver paura dei lavoratori che probabilmente avrei visto altre volte camminare urlando per strada.
In quel modo la mamma mi insegnò ad amare i deboli e innanzi tutto a rispettarli. Allora mi chiesi: "Chi ha soldi non potrebbe darli a chi non li ha?". Questa domanda mi frullò nella testa per giorni e giorni. Anch'io, pensavo, potevo far qualcosa per coloro che soffrivano.
Inutile sottolineare l'importanza che quelle lavoratrici ebbero nella formazione politica di Camilla, che si tranquillizzò sulla sorte di quelle donne solo quando la mamma le disse:
«Le ripulitrici 's got gold 1'aumento wages.
now work and are happy. "
A year later, in 1899, Ravera moved to Casale Monferrato. There Camilla watched another episode that had a great influence on his policies.
We often went to the public gardens, in front of which it was building a palace.
I watched with interest the work. One day, in addition to the masons, I saw women carrying heavy tools and lime on the shoulders and climbed on precarious wooden stairs.
I was told that they were the wives of those masons who helped their husbands to earn that much more that just made the salary to carry on the family.
was then that I was born in a conscious concern for the plight of working women, for his problems and the struggle for the emancipation of women.
Camilla meanwhile had finished elementary school and then the complementary. To continue his studies he was forced to attend! 'Institute of Science, because there was only one school Casale Monferrato in a male boarding school.
That school was born thanks to the struggles of some teachers, most of them young, who had started the first private institution, then, with time, also, if not more, to 'good teaching we give and popular with students and parents, they got the convention to turn it into a recognized school and then equalized by a state.
Those were the years when it began in Italy to talk about women's empowerment. And they were beautiful
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