as each happens 8M (March 8), women from all over the country will take to the streets and participate in different activities to demand respect for their rights, which is why this Wednesday, as part of the celebration of Women’s Day, there will be mobilizations and assemblies throughout the country .
In this way, this 8M working women join the international strike in the same date every year, to demand equal opportunities, wages and against all other types of discrimination they face in the labor market.
Plus this 8M It will also serve to reinforce their claim to justice for feminicides not investigated or without punishment, and to condemn all types of gender-based violence.
Although there will be mobilizations throughout the country, the main one will be centered in the City of Buenos Aires, where thousands of women will meet in front of Congress, under the slogan “with this justice there are no rights or democracy. The debt is with the workers”. The appointment will be from 4:00 p.m. on July 9 and Avenida de Mayo to march to Congress.
“We stopped to transform patriarchal, classist, racist, corporate and anti-democratic justice; we stop against illegitimate debt, for recognition of all jobs and for decent wages; We stop to build ties that break the macho pact that condemns us to death inside and outside our homes,” the organization Ni Una Menos reported on social media.
Meanwhile, the members of the National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe and Free Abortion called a mobilization “in rejection of the adjustment of the Government and the IMF; against patriarchal violence; for the correct implementation of the laws of Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy (IVE) and Comprehensive Sexual Education (ESI); and by the separation between the Church and the State”.
In the City, the fourth edition of the cycle “We Move the World” is also held, for which there will be artistic exhibitions, workshops, concerts and other activities that will take place until March 10 at the Kirchner Cultural Center and in the Tecnópolis Park.
What is commemorated on 8M
He March 8 In 1908, a transcendental event marked the history of work worldwide, after 129 women died in a fire at the Cotton factory in New York, United States, after declaring a permanent strike at their workplace.
The women demanded a reduction in working hours, a salary equal to that of men and better working conditions. For this reason, every year in the same dateWomen from all over the world take to the streets to demand their rights, and the struggle of the workers.
