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TeleSUR correspondent Brian Mier reports on the current Women’s Day march taking place in Recife, Brazil, which has been the epicenter for the feminist struggle in the country. teleSUR

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00:00For decades, the metropolitan region of Recife in Brazil has been the epicenter of the feminist

00:05struggle in the country.

00:07More details with our correspondent Brian Meir.

00:12For decades, the Recife metropolitan area has been an epicenter of working class feminism

00:18here in Brazil.

00:20Today is International Women's Day and like every March 8th for the last 50 or 60 years,

00:27thousands of women are pouring out to the streets to march in solidarity with women

00:33movements around the world.

00:35Now this is an event that's carefully planned over the course of months in assemblies and

00:40plenary sessions with representatives of women's feminist social movements, like the World's

00:45Women's March, the articulation of Brazilian women, as well as social movements like the

00:51Landless World Workers' Movement, labor unions affiliated with the Central Unica dos Trabalhadores,

00:57like the Teachers' Union.

00:59And over the course of these planning assemblies, they develop a series of demands for every

01:05year's march.

01:06This year, there's multiple demands, but the three principal demands that they'll be calling

01:11out for today when they take to the streets are, first of all, an end to violence against

01:17women.

01:18Secondly, an end to the six-day workweek.

01:22Brazil still has a six-day workweek.

01:25This disproportionately damages the working class, who are the focus of the actions being

01:32called for here in the march today.

01:34And finally, they're demanding no amnesty for former President Jair Bolsonaro and his

01:3932 cronies who were indicted last month for attempting to implement a military dictatorship

01:47in a failed coup attempt in January 2023.

01:51So on March 8th, here in Greater Recife, another successful International Women's Day March

01:57is already underway.

Brazil | Thousands of activists take to the streets on International Women's Day

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