00:00Changing the topic and moving to Argentina, tens of thousands of women and gender dissidents
00:04mobilized from the National Congress to Plaza de Mayo to commemorate International Working
00:09Women's Day, also calling for a national women's strike.
00:13More details in the report by our colleague Aya Nessi.
00:21This Monday, tens of thousands of women and gender dissidents march across the country
00:26in commemoration of International Working Women's Day. Feminist, social, political and union
00:31organizations decided to move the mobilization by one day to call for a national women's
00:36strike.
00:39Amid songs, percussion bands, street theater groups and dances, several slogans emerge,
00:44not one less, enough of patriarchal violence or the fight for those who are no longer with
00:49us, but also others against the policies of Javier Millet that affect the entire society,
00:53and particularly the most impoverished women.
00:56We have signs against the labor reform, against Melly's austerity measures, against the layoffs
01:01because, also as teachers, we see the need to be here on the 8th and 9th, mobilizing,
01:05because we see in schools how our children are also affected by the crisis.
01:11I believe that the people's call for unity and struggles and unity in the streets has
01:15been heard by feminism, and that is why unity is seen today in this square, in these streets,
01:19across the country. What is happening is very serious. There are many things they are pushing
01:24forward with.
01:28In Argentina, a woman is murdered every 33 hours, and the income gap between men and women has
01:34reached 29.3 percent. Women also represent more than 34 percent of the lowest income sectors.
01:43The executive power dismantled state programs for assisting victims of gender-based violence,
01:50sexual education, and others by between 85 percent and 100 percent, cutting their budgets
01:55and attacking them through official channels.
01:59I am called to march by my colleagues, my friends, my mother, my aunts, my nieces, my cousins.
02:10All the women I know, our political prisoner Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner,
02:19Evita, and all the women who are afraid to go out on the street.
02:25The force of this march demonstrates that the feminist movement is standing strong against
02:30the government, informó Ayan Messi desde Telesur Argentino.
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