The blocks from Plaza de Congreso to Plaza de Mayo were the center for the meeting of thousands of feminists who demonstrated this Monday for Working Women’s Daypopularized as 8M.
At 10 in the morning the organization Atravesados por el femicide gathered, with a moving installation. Starting at 4 p.m., the columns of feminist organizations began to arrive and marched with the union bloc.
The event took place in the center of the square where the document was read “Unite the struggles to defeat the slave reforms of Milei, the IMF and their accomplices“, which has more than 700 signatures from organizations, media and militants. The document is a strong criticism of the economic measures of the Milei government and the attack on public policies, against women and diversities. It also recalled that this month marks the 50th anniversary of the military coup amid the chant “Milei, trash, you are the dictatorship.”
The text has as its axes the opposition to “reforms that make life precarious” such as the labor reform and the lowering of the age of imputability, the educational reform and the extractivist reform. He also raised a rejection of the pension reform. «In the face of hate, more organization; in the face of looting, more solidarity; “In the face of cruelty, more community,” closes the document of this 8M in Argentina.
The 8M call
The ‘Ni Una Menos’ collective was the one that promoted the call, to which the CGT and the two CTA (Workers and Autonomous) joined; the left-wing feminist group Pan y Rosas, made up of national representative (FIT) Myriam Bregman; and the National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe and Free Abortion (which participates as part of traditional feminist organizations), among others.
The decision to move the main march from Sunday the 8th to Monday the 9th was made in order to make this problem visible not only with the mobilizations, but with a stoppage of activities that demonstrates the importance of women in both the economy and society, as Agencia Noticias Argentinas learned from sources in the organization.
The federal day was replicated in the provinces of Tucumán (Plaza Independencia), Entre Ríos (in El Reloj, Paraná) and in the spa city of Mar del Plata (center).
The claims of 8M
The initiative had as its central objective the same demands that championed the date more than 10 years ago, such as the fight against sexist violence, the wage gap, job insecurity and the defense of the rights achieved, in the face of possible setbacks that the National Government threatens.
A group of protesters with La Cámpora flags deviated towards the apartment of former president Cristina Kirchner in the Constitución neighborhood, where the former president is serving her house arrest as a result of lawfare, and she went out to the balcony to say hello.
According to the report published by the observatory of the organization MuMaLá (Women of the Latin American Motherland) that covers the months of January and February of this year, a femicide is recorded in the country every 39 hours, that is, an average of 0.6 deaths per day (one victim every day and a half).
Regarding the salary situation, the analysis carried out last week by the Center for Argentine Political Economy (CEPA) indicated that the income of men exceeds that of women by between 27% and 29%, a gap that widens according to the jobs and informal working conditions.
Regarding the upbringing of children, according to a document published in September of last year by the UNICEF Situation of Children and Adolescents office, 7 out of 10 parents in Argentina do not meet the food quota and it is the mother who is in charge of the maintenance, education, food and health of children.
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