As is tradition, this March 8 thousands of women from all over the planet joined to overflow public spaces through marches and different actions to commemorate International Women’s Day.
In a year marked by the massive return to the streets, after two years of an acute health crisis, different international feminist collectives were present along with the main historical demands that seek the long-awaited gender equality.
Know here the most outstanding international interventions during this 8M:
Mexico
Prior to the 8M, the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, decided to encircle the National Palace, this since according to his opinion, the feminist movement of that country has the objective of vandalizing and projecting a violent struggle.
This action was immediately responded by women’s collectives, who received this new International Women’s Day with the message “Mexico Feminicide” written on the walls installed by the government.
national palace #mexicofeminicida pic.twitter.com/5r0YoWgv8D
— Andrea Murcia (@Usagii_ko) March 8, 2022
At about 2:00 p.m. in Mexico, a first march was formed with about 3,000 people in the vicinity of the Monument to the Revolution.
While at 4:00 p.m., from the Angel of Independence began a second demonstration that culminated in the Zócalo capital.
Credits: Foro Tv
“Sister I do believe you”, “they took away so much that they took away our fear”, “we would be more if they had not killed us”, were some of the messages on the banners of the Mexican women.
Argentina
The “pibas” began to congregate from noon in Buenos Aires. According to information from Argentine media, thousands of women filled the streets and the vicinity of the Plaza del Congreso.
The call was attended by prominent referents of Argentine feminist groups. For example, the co-founder of the “Ni Una Menos” movement, Marta Dillon.
March for Women’s Day in front of the National Congress. Photo: Juan Manuel Foglia
At about 5:30 p.m., the great demonstration culminated, where women’s organizations read a closing document of the march for the International Strike.
“The feminist movement has returned to occupy the streets en masse. Neither the pandemic, nor the impoverishment, nor the sexist violence that we no longer tolerate could prevent us from saying again that March 8 is the international day of the feminist strike,” they said in the collective text.
Photo: Lucia Merle
Spain
On the European continent, specifically Barcelona, around 15,000 people gathered in a march to commemorate this 8M.
“I protest because, when it happened to me, I felt guilt,” or “I want to stop asking my friends if they arrived well,” were some of the messages on the posters of hundreds of Spanish women.
Cries of “the night is ours. No aggression without response” at the Barcelona demonstration for the #8M. #8M2022 @20mBarcelona pic.twitter.com/3h20kepfKD
— Judith Calderón (@JudithClavain) March 8, 2022
According to one of the spokeswomen of the Assemblea 8M, Dolores Pulido, this demonstration resumed the normality achieved in 2018, “a year that marks massive and unstoppable mobilizations of the feminist movement.”
On the other hand, in Madrid according to estimates of the Delegation of the Government of Madrid approximately 30,000 people marched under feminist slogans and in favor of women’s rights.
Dominican Republic
Some 150 people demonstrated in Santo Domingo on the occasion of Women’s Day. This year, the main demands of women’s movements focused on the decriminalization of abortion and the prevention of gender-based violence.
Wearing orange and green garments and carrying flags as well as protest posters, the demonstrators walked to the headquarters of the National Congress shouting slogans such as “Neither submissive nor obedient, women fighters” or “This day is not a holiday is of struggle and resistance.”
In the Dominican Republic, our comrades are also participating in the mobilization for the #8M in Santo Domingo. Around the world #TocaIgualdad pic.twitter.com/g05OulVr84
— InteRed (@OngInteRed) March 8, 2022
After the brief tour, the activist of the Movement of Working Women, Lucereida Mejía read a manifesto that was delivered in the National Congress, to demand from the legislators “a different attitude to guarantee the rights of women.”
Italy
In Rome, a large demonstration organized by the feminist collective ‘Non una di meno’ (Not one less) started the 17.00 hours in the Plaza de la República and advanced through the streets of the capital until reaching the Colosseum.
Credits: @chetorino on Twitter
Thousands of women gathered to call for equal rights, but also to demonstrate against the conflict in Russia and Ukraine. “The battle of one is the war of all”, “Violence is structural, the root is cultural and the problem is patriarchal”, were the main messages.
‘Non una di meno’ also organized strikes and protest marches in other cities of the country, such as Florence, Milan and Naples, to denounce “the worst living and working conditions suffered by women” after the coronavirus pandemic.
Credits: @Pressenza_it on Twitter
