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Sweden’s Feminist party
roasted a pile of bank notes worth
100,000 Swedish crowns ($13,010)
on Tuesday in a stunt designed to
highlight wage disparities between
men and women ahead
of a national election,
Johan Ahlander reports for
REUTERS.COM July 6th, 2010.
Feminist party leader Gudrun Schyman
pulled handfuls of cash from a plastic bag
and threw them onto a smoking barbecue
as a small crowd leaned in to take pictures.
It took about 25 minutes
to burn the bag’s contents.
“We are doing this for fair wages,”
she told a crowd of some 75 people
on the island of Gotland,
off the southeast coast of Sweden,
where political parties are gathered
for a week of campaigning.
The stunt, using money donated
by an advertising agency,
was designed to illustrate how women
in Sweden “lose” 100,000 crowns every
minute because their wages are
lower than men’s,
she said.
“This is a lot of money for a lot
of people and it is a lot of money
for me but in a political campaign
it is a drop in the ocean,”
Schyman added.
Swedes go to the polls on
September 19 and the feminist party —
backed by celebrity supporters including
Jane Fonda and ABBA’s Benny Andersson —
hopes to win its first seat in parliament
since it was founded in 2005.
Andersson donated 1 million crowns
to the party last year to fund its campaign
for election to the European parliament.
In Sweden’s national election in 2006,
the feminist party won less than
one percent of the vote.
Parties need at least four percent
to earn a seat in the national assembly.
A video of the event is available
on the party’s web site at
http://www.feministisktinitiativ.se
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UNRELATED NEWS!
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Bravo to the Feminist Party
in Sweden for burning money-
we have a party like that in
America,
they are called Democrats.
In support of the Swedish
Feminist Party,
everyone reading this send
Rash Manly $100 dollars cash
and I pledge to burn through
the money as quickly as
possible.
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