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Women applaud during the International Women's Day celebration at La Moneda government palace in Santiago, Chile, today. Michelle Bachelet, Chile's first female president, celebrated Women's Day by assuring that politics has changed for good as she nears the one-year mark of a term that has brought new opportunities for her countrywomen.

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Sticks of Fire in Tampa writes, Today is International Women’s Day! Because we live in America, you probably haven’t heard of it… but community radio WMNF will be celebrating it all day with female deejays and female-oriented programming throughout the day. See the schedule online, and as always, you can stream online or check it out in the archives.

Today is also Blog Against Sexism Day, which started last year here. Today is the day that bloggers unite to voice our objections to the continued marginalization of women and girls worldwide.

Blog Against Sexism Day includes links to dozens of bloggers adding a post to the conversation.

It's also the day of the Global Women's Strike 2007.

International Women's Day - African Women Blogging

When I pasted "International Women's Day" into Technorati, a blogs search engine, the post below was highlighted in an orange box as a WTF -- "What the Fire?" -- Today's Hottest Blurbs:

Women's Day 2007 - Celebrating (Pakistani/Muslim) Women by blogger IFaqeer.

...the person that I would really like to be heard from more is another kind of Muslim woman: the activist, the human rights lawyer, the person fight back against oppression, and to make the world a better place for all of us--comfortable with her faith, her community, and often her nation; but still being in the forefront of working to make them work better for her co-religionists, her neighbours and her compatriots.

Turns out, iFaqeer is a Pakistani man living in Silicon Valley.