V-Day: 16

I first watched "In the Time of the Butterflies" when I was a sophomore in high school.  Six years later the movie still sticks with me. The movie is based in the book of the same title by Julia Alvarez. Both chronicle the story of the Mirable sisters under the dictatorship of Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. The sisters fight against the oppression and in the end of the are killed by the state.
Their story repeats itself across history. Too many women die each day because they dare to fight against a society that belittles them and treats them as less than human.
Oppression cannot last. It was women who ended the apartheid in South Africa. It is the simple truth that "Women hold up half the sky."

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