Hundreds of women and diversities stopped and mobilized under the slogan “With a ban there is no democracy or work, we are all workers”in support of the vice president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchnerclaimed the feminist struggle, and expressed their rejection of the patriarchal culture and sexist violence, within the framework of International Women’s Day.
The march that began after 5:00 p.m. in Plaza Moreno had as protagonists mothers and relatives of the victims of femicide, Sandra Ayala Gamboa, Johana Ramallo and Nadia Ferraresi who held a banner that said: “With a ban there is no work or democracy, we are all workers.”
The call, led by the feminist assembly of La Plata, Berisso and Ensenada and supported by the Buenos Aires administration, brought together women and diverse unions, social, political, student and popular organizations that raised flags and posters expressing support for the Vice President .
“Denouncing the ban on Cristina is an imperative for women from the popular countryside because the political violence exerted against her is brutal and seeks to be a social disciplinarian of the transforming force of women”, the Minister of Women, Gender Policies and Sexual Diversity of the province of Buenos Aires, Estela Díaz, told Télam, who stated: “With Cristina everything, without Cristina nothing”.
Díaz highlighted that the “fight is a celebration, it is to recognize all the path traveled and make visible what is missing for women: more work, more health, lower levels of inequalitybut also gender violence and deleveraging”, and stated that “a country with development and inclusion is the agenda of organized women”.
The glitter, the green hearts, the painted faces and bodies returned to the streets at the hands of hundreds of women who, between drums and dances, sang “alert, alert that the feminist struggle is walking through Latin America. Take care of yourself, take care of yourself machistas, Latin America is going to be all feminist”.
During the tour, the crowd stopped at several significant points in the city for feminist militancy, such as the Buenos Aires Courts, the McDonald house, known for being the place where Ricardo Barreda murdered his wife, his two daughters and his mother-in-law in 1992; the Sandra Ayala Gamboa house, where the 21-year-old was murdered in 2007; and the Federal Courts, where there was a cry for justice for Johana Ramallo, disappeared and victim of femicide within the trafficking networks of the city of La Plata.
“We went out once again, not only for Johana, but for all the victims of femicide and transfemicide,” Marta Ramallo, the young woman’s mother, told Télam, adding that “we are once again on the streets demanding justice and shouting that we do not want to more victims”.
His time as rector of the National University of La Plata (UNLP) was also a moment of great effusion.
In the place the women chanted “Universidad de las trabajadoras and those who don’t like it get screwed, get screwed” and they raised signs with legends such as “unionism is with us”, along with the insignia of the CTA; Atulp (Association of Workers of the National University of La Plata), Cicop (health), AJB (Buenos Aires Judicial Association), ATE (State Workers Association), unions present in the mobilization.
The undersecretary for Policies against Gender Violence, Flavia Delmas, told Télam that the International Day of Working Women happens at a time when “we are all pointing to the Judiciary, at a time when political violence has the centrality of the scene”.
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In this sense, he stressed that “the attempted assassination of the vice president is unpunished and we went out to denounce it on the streets and ask for justice. We need the ban on Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to be lifted,” he claimed.
In addition, the official recalled that the “Ministry (of Women) is carrying out active policies that are rights, and those rights have to be recognized, sustained and expanded.”
Given the data on femicides released by the Buenos Aires Attorney General, Delmas remarked that they are doing “a very big job in terms of labeling so that there is no sub-labeling and that femicides are considered femicides.”
At the end of the march, students from the Union of Secondary Students (UES) formed a circle and sang the Peronist march.
For its part, Marea Rosa, a diversity organization, called for the effectiveness of the transvestite-trans labor quota law, asked that Mayor Julio Garro leave, and demanded justice for Nicole Ruiz, a transvestite activist murdered by her sister’s partner. in 2022.
Also due to the appearance of Tehuel de la Torre, the young transgender man who disappeared on March 11, 2021.
