She's Beautiful When She's Angry Page #10

So they got two huge banners 40 feet long.

- (ship horn blows)

- They had the banners rolled up in their jeans,

and they were walking

like they were crippled.

(horn blows)

We got to the island. So we had a group

that was going to start demonstrating.

Out of the house and into the world!

Out of the house and into the world!

CEBALLOS:
I was gonna go

up those winding stairs.

At the top one where we were

putting, "Women of the World Unite,"

I just remember the wind was so strong.

And the next thing we

knew, the guys caught on.

By this time there were helicopters.

Then Mayor Lindsay called and he said,

"Let the women be. Let them alone."

Glory, glory hallelujah

CEBALLOS:
It was a sensation!

It went around the world.

Time magazine picked it

up, the Italians, the French.

It was fabulous. Can you imagine?

"Women of the World Unite."

All that publicity helped.

WOMEN:
Glory, hallelujah

It's liberation time

Tomorrow, 50 years after

we gave them the vote,

the women are going to strike to

support their liberation demands.

Thankfully, Cedar Rapids women's

liberation movement is pretty much dormant.

If I knew what they were going out

on strike for, I'd be able to answer.

No, I don't believe I will.

I don't think that's necessary at all.

I don't think too much of it.

A woman's place is in the home.

So remember, men... if

you come to work tomorrow,

and your secretary

refuses to do the filing,

and then go home and find that your

wife has refused to do the cooking,

don't blame them.

Remember, you gave them

the vote 50 years ago.

This is Mike Scott, male chauvinist,

TV 9, Eyewitness News.

The press just thought this was so crazy.

And this kept working for us in some ways.

The Sun Times put out

a headline the day before...

"Will women strike?"

CEBALLOS:
So the day of the march,

I was walking towards Fifth Avenue,

scared to death

that I was gonna see only 3,000.

And I will never, never forget.

You couldn't see the end of the line.

When you looked out at everybody,

I mean, there were women

as far as you could see.

Freedom now! Freedom now!

Sisterhood is powerful! Join us now!

Sisterhood is powerful! Join us now!

Join our ranks! Every

woman, join our ranks!

SHULMAN:
People were cheering us.

They hung out of the

windows and out of balconies

and cheered us on and waved flags for us.

Freedom now!

(chanting)

I was recognizable in New York then,

so I put one of these

African turbans on my head,

wore some African garb to say,

"See, I'm in the women's

movement. What's wrong with you?"

- Whoo!

- Freedom!

There's something wrong when an

attractive girl can make more money

as a Playboy Bunny or a cover

girl than as anything else.

I'll never be more shocked than I was

when I walked up on the podium that day

and looked out and saw the

entire plaza was filled.

And feeling the support of these

thousands of people all at once,

it was an exhilarating feeling.

WOMAN:
We didn't see serious programs

devoted to issues that concerned women.

Issues, not recipes. Day

care, not chocolate mousse.

I want the freedom not to have a husband.

(cheering)

I want a society where men and

women cooperate, not compete.

Where women have to support their children

and men help to rear them.

(cheering)

HERNANDEZ:
I think what men want

to do, too, is join with women

in making this a society

that cares about all people.

Equal pay for equal work!

When do we want it? Now!

And what I would love today

is the women and the men

putting their fingers up like this.

And we now know that we have

the power to unite together,

to work together, to make

the changes that are needed.

And that we have your attention, and

that we have the headlines in the media.

You didn't make us. We're

making you take us seriously.

MILLETT:
It felt like we had triumphed.

It felt like we were changing the world.

Now we are a movement.

It's probably no accident

that we, in our time,

didn't know anything

about the suffrage struggle

and how long it took to

get the vote... 50 years.

You know, I'm one of

the few left who can say

their mother worked for suffrage.

I'm very proud of that.

My mother felt so strongly

about getting the vote,

and she was so thrilled to get it.

And I loved going with her

to vote when I was only five.

And they pulled that curtain,

and nobody... you could

only see people's feet.

I just found that kind of

mystical, and I still do.

And I later decided

that two emancipators of women

were the vote and birth control.

BROWNMILLER:
We live in a country that

doesn't credit any of its radical movements.

They don't like to admit,

in the United States,

that change happens

because radicals force it.

To take away the history

of how change got made

helps to cuts down on activism

because people don't think

that I, an everyday person,

could make a big social change.

The Supreme Court gave

us Roe vs. Wade,

and I'm just a regular woman.

But that's who made abortion rights come...

just a student, and just a mother,

gathering together and protesting.

(crowd chattering)

This is Our Bodies,

Ourselves, ninth edition.

It just came out two weeks ago.

We are so happy.

It's like our baby.

It's amazing to think that we

have been around for 40 years.

And to me, the global

piece has been so amazing.

Our Bodies, Ourselves has given any

group of progressive women in any country

the text of the book to adapt

it to their own cultural context.

There have been these marvelous projects

that have started throughout the world,

and it's been going on

since the '70s really.

(crowd applauding)

WOMAN ANNOUNCING: Mama Asiah from Tanzania.

JUDY:
For our 40th anniversary,

women came from Israel,

from Nepal, from Turkey, from

Armenia, from Nigeria, from Tanzania.

They have amazing stories to tell.

In India, when I was doing the work

with the Bangla version of OBOS,

young girls hadn't heard of

it, but they were jubilant

that something like

this was coming to them.

And they all said, "Oh, this is going

to take us to a very different place."

So thank you, all of you,

for giving us back our bodies

and the right to health.

Thank you so much.

ROSEN:
I think there are great

achievements of the women's movement.

The women's health movement is one of them.

We named sexual harassment.

We named domestic violence,

the battering of wives.

We then made it illegal.

WEBB:
Every aspect of life has changed.

Families are different.

My daughter is leading a completely different

life because of the women's movement.

They both take care of the children.

They both earn money. They both work.

There's still some sex segregation

in the workforce, for sure.

But there were whole fields that

were simply closed down to women,

and that's done with.

I don't think we're going back on that.

WILLIS:
I think the most profound

thing that feminism did for me

was to make me feel that I

was capable of genuine freedom.

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