Wed, Jan 24
|Manila
Action for Gender Equality Conference: Keynote Speech by Marja Bijl
This is not to say that the Left’s emphasis on LGBTI rights, gender equality, ethnic minority rights, in my opinion, basic human rights, is off-putting to its traditional working-class voters, but rather that the Left has of late paid insufficient attention to the most important concern of many vote
Time & Location
Jan 24, 2018, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Manila, Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines
About the event
Wednesday, 24 January 2018
Dear friends, sisters and comrades,
It is an enormous honour to be standing here, among you, so many strong friends, some of whom I deeply admire. Thank you so much for inviting me in this beautiful part of the world and in this beautiful country that is so near to my heart.
I must have been 6 years old, I had just started primary school, when I told my grandmother very firmly: I am going to be a teacher when I grow up! Mind you, it wasn’t just the new teacher that I liked, I was fond of my grandfather and he was the head teacher of the school. My grandmother laughed and told me that she had been a teacher before her marriage and that it was the best profession and that she had loved it. I asked her; ‘ so why did you stop…