Version imprimableThis is a summary of the strike call to women by the collective #NiUnaMenos (Not one less).This is a summary of the strike call to women by the collective #NiUnaMenos (Not one less). [1]
What triggered this action was a wave of murders of women should suffer in Argentina whose climax was the kidnapping, rape and murder of a 16 years in the city of Mar del Plata. The kidnapping occurred at the same time that the police brutally repressed the closing event of the National Conference of Rosario, an annual event of women whose theme is the demand for decriminalization of abortion.
On 19 October, thousands of women dressed in black, like the Polish women the previous week, abandoned homes, schools, factories, offices for an hour and came together by banging pans and carrying placards that read, “If my life has no value, produce without me!” And “Excuse us but they are killing us!”
In Buenos Aires, despite the rain that swept throughout the day, thousands of women from the city center and the poor suburbs of Greater Buenos Aires, men and children gathered at 5pm at the Obelisk to march to the Plaza de Mayo. In the 30 most important cities of Argentina and throughout Latin America, from Santiago de Chile to Oaxaca, Mexico, women marched against the violence done to them. In Europe there wer support demonstrations in several cities including Paris and Copenhagen.
Saying he was “moved” by the popular response to the call of #NiUnaMenos , the Argentine president Mauricio Macri, with absolute hypocrisy, pledged his support to the movement. Of course he had forgotten he had dissolved the service that investigates cases of murders of women, eliminated the Complete Sexual Education Program and created a programme to eradicate violence against women without even assigning it a budget.
