It won't be a March 8 like any other this year. International Women's Rights Day which for years has coincided with a day of general 'attention', cheerful for the party, donated mimosas, out-of-sister dinners, even recently yellow-themed fashion collections, angry for feminist processions , is heavily downsized in Italy for the coronavirus emergency and for the containment measures launched in the Dpcm of 4 March.
The Quirinale had to cancel the ceremony on March 8 for Women's Day. And the feminist strike of 9 March launched by the Non Una di Meno movement to which trade unions such as the Cobas, the Cubs, the USB and some regional structures of the CGIL had also been blocked on the instructions of the union guarantee commission.
"The instrument of the strike is stolen from us but, despite the impossibility of abstaining from waged work, we will not give up occupying the streets and squares in all the forms that will be possible, with all the imagination and the multiplication of practices and languages of to which we are capable, "they replied from the movement. The parades skip but "other forms of visibility, widespread actions, social communications, flash mobs, streaming protest campaigns are chosen," he tells ANSA for the Giulia Siviero movement. In these hours final decisions are being made, given the current situation and the Dpcm of sun 24 hours ago, but we are going to annul the processions everywhere, "first of all out of a sense of responsibility", to avoid being together in situations of overcrowding even if in the open air, even if you remember, the same responsibility has not been assumed in front of the "structural" violence that is exercised daily against women.
In Rome the presidium of the Lazio Region has been canceled, the flashmob "Lo Sfruttatore sei Tu" at noon in Piazza di Spagna is confirmed because, they say "we will not give up occupying the squares and bringing our anger to the streets, even if in a very creative way" . And the cost of the emergency falls, it is easy to see it these days, especially on working women. But the themes that have brought women to the streets in recent years, recently on the international wave of the #Metoo, remain of enormous relevance and at the center of the meaning of March 8: from the infinite count of femicides - 14 dead since the beginning of the year, 75 in 2019, plus hundreds of cases of violence - the economic gender gap without forgetting the attacks on women's conquests starting with the law for the termination of pregnancy