00:00I'm Bethany Moore and I'm an activist with Alliance for Choice Dairy.
00:12It feels really overwhelming to talk about the turnout of this event and the
00:16people of dairy really showed up after the four recent attacks against women in
00:20our city. We knew that this was going to be well attended because in times of
00:24crisis dairy people really come together. I was just extremely moved to
00:30see the size of the crowd and I'm really glad and the people showed up for you
00:34know the women, the girls, the marginalized people of dairy and as I
00:38said in my speech earlier this is the start of something and everyone who came
00:42here tonight is now involved in the movement and now has a part to play and
00:46we hope that they will.
00:50Yeah so I am Cassie Jane Blackley I'm from Foil Women's Information Network.
01:01It's been an amazing turnout we've had over I'd say a thousand people I heard
01:05on it on the news earlier and men, women, everyone has come together in
01:10solidarity for the event tonight.
01:14Do you think the message got across?
01:17I think so I think I think there was a joint message across all the speakers
01:21tonight that we need short-term action, we need to feel safer in our streets now,
01:25we need to feel confident in ourselves now and then a commitment to long-term
01:29systemic change that we all desperately need and that the main point that we
01:34want to bring across is you know the measures that we're asking to be put in
01:37place for women are going to benefit everyone in society, women, men,
01:41minorities and like any marginalised group is going to benefit from changes
01:46in our community.
01:50Mark H. Durkan, SDLP MLA for Foil.
01:59Well it's very heartening to see such a good strong turnout here in Derry
02:04tonight I think people have been blown away by how many people have come out
02:07and stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the women of Derry, the women of Northern
02:12Ireland and women across the world who have subjected to violence, to attack and
02:18to fear of violence every day. It's important that people do take this stand
02:23I think it's particularly important that men take this stand as well. We have to
02:28do so much to change behaviours and that starts by changing attitudes.
02:34I'm Jim Duffy, I live in Derry. My name is Bridie Williams, I live in Derry as well.
02:48I thought it was very powerful to see men and women gather because it's
02:56horrible what's going on and hearing on the news all the time about all the
03:00women yeah and it was nice to see it was a good atmosphere. Yeah it was
03:05important to see politicians talking about it as well. I think Derry as a
03:10community is very powerful as well and stick up for what's right when they can.
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