Women's Day: the 8M agenda includes marches, assemblies and artistic interventions

As every year, every

, women remind the world of the fight for equality, the recognition of diversity and the effective exercise of their rights.

This Wednesday another date is celebrated and it will be done with an agenda of

for the week in the main cities of the country with the aim of promoting women's health care and the prevention of gender violence.

Capital and Province of Buenos Aires

Marches will be held in different places.

The main concentration will take place

.

The demonstration includes a nationwide strike.

movement

highlights "debt, precariousness and the lack of decent wages."

She also wonders: "What happens when care tasks prevent us from working because we don't have someone to care for our children?"

For its part, the Pan y Rosas group calls for participation in open assemblies. 

Groups of women mobilize on the occasion of International Women's Day.

Photo: EFE

The fourth edition of the cycle

will also be held .

He proposes to celebrate 40 years of uninterrupted democracy in Argentina.

There will be artistic exhibitions, workshops, concerts and other activities that will take place until March 10 at the Kirchner Cultural Center and in the Tecnópolis Park, to later extend to the entire country in federal days, on March 10 and 12.

Santa Fe

The province's Ministry of Equality, Gender and Diversity holds the "Juntas de Pie" festival in the Cultural Fruits Market.

The event included cultural displays, musical events, a fair for entrepreneurs, and awareness talks for children.

Women demand equal rights.

Cordova

The group Ni Una Menos will make a feminist, lesbian, trans, transvestite, bisexual and non-binary strike.

And they expressed, in a statement, their rejection of "more adjustment, extractivism and repression to pay the foreign debt."

The march will start at 5:00 p.m. from Colón and Cañada.

Between rivers

With a mobilization that will depart from the Primero de Mayo square at 5:30 a.m. towards Mansilla square, the Assembly of Women, Lesbians, Travestis, Trans and non-Binaries of Paraná and the Multisectoral Entre Ríos Women call to march under the slogan “If our lives are worthless, produce without us”. 

There will be activities and marches throughout the country.

Tucuman

The Ni Una Menos collective, which brings together communicators, artists, researchers and activists, calls for mobilization in the capital of the province, San Miguel de Tucumán, from Irigoyen Square, at 6:30 pm.

Black river

The House of the South Line of the Ministry of Government and Community has programmed several cultural activities in the city of Viedma.

From 4:30 there will be musical shows, awards to representative women of the community and gastronomic tastings.

Open assemblies were also called.

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The Human Rights Secretariat launched the traveling exhibition "We were there, women in collective action."

From March 6, the project will cover various points in the province.

It was prepared by the National Memory Archive to make women visible inside and outside the home, in the countryside, cities and other spaces where equal rights are disputed.

Origin of 8M

On March 8, 1908, a transcendental event marked the history of labor and union struggle throughout the world:

in a fire at the Cotton factory in New York, United States, after they went on strike with stay at your workplace.

The women demanded a

, a salary equal to that received by men who did the same activities and denounced the poor working conditions they suffered.

The factory owner ordered the doors of the building to be closed so that the women would give up.

However, the result was the death of the workers who were inside the factory.

On May 3 of that same year, an act for Women's Day was held in Chicago, a prelude to February 28, 1909, in New York, commemorating "National Women's Day" for the first time.

With this background, a year later, in 1910, the second International Conference of Socialist Women was held in the Danish capital, Copenhagen.

The central theme was universal suffrage for all women, and by motion Clara Zetkin, leader of the "uprising of 20,000",

, in homage to the women who fell in the strike of 1908.

Closer in time, in 1977, the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) officially designated March 8 as International Women's Day.

Then, in 2011, the centenary of the establishment of this commemorative date was celebrated with the premise of Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women).

More than a century later, the struggle for recognition and organization of the women's movement and dissidents spread and organized.

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