(Finance) – “If we stop, the world will stop”. With this slogan the feminist and transfeminist movement “Non Una di Meno” strike for the seventh consecutive year and on 8 March takes to the streets in 37 Italian cities against male violence against women and all forms of gender-based violence. A strike against war, ecological disaster, inflation but also against the government’s “God, country and family” ideology and against all forms of discrimination and racism. A strike to demand a free and free abortion, an income of self-determination, a public and universal welfare, for the free movement of people done together “with Kurdish, Afghan and Iranian women and women who are fighting for a life all over the world free from oppression and happy”.
TO Rome the event will leave the streets of the Esquiline and will wind along an unprecedented route which at 5 pm will start from piazzale Ostiense crossing via Marmorata, piazza dell’Emporio, Ponte Sublicio, via di Porta Portese, via Girolamo Induno, viale Trastevere and will end in Largo Bernardino da Feltre not far from the Ministry of Education and to denounce, among other things, “‘patriarchal and bigoted’ school programs from which sexual and emotional education is absent”. During the Roman event, as per tradition, there will be “fight actions”. The first will take place at the start, in front of the Acea headquarters, in solidarity “with the workers involved in the Palermo case”. In recent weeks, some company employees have complained about alleged sexist attitudes by CEO Fabrizio Palermo. Then “a collective performance of denunciation” is planned to remember the victims of the shipwreck of Cutro and finally a flashmob which will have as its theme “the subtraction from the exploitation of productive and reproductive work”.
TO Milan there will be two processions and they will start: one at 9:30 from Largo Cairoli with the students and one at 19 from Piazza Duca D’Aosta, dedicated to the whole city. TO Turin the activists of the movement will be in the square so that March 8 “is not the day of mimosas and institutional proclamations, but is a day of struggle and rest from the load of productive, domestic and reproductive work”.
TO Trieste the departure is scheduled from foro Ulpiano at 17:30, then the demonstration will parade along the streets of the center and will also be aimed “against the torture of the 41bis” and “the repression and the ‘security’ managed by the forces of order, violent and oppressive”. The fuchsia wave will cross many cities from Alessandria, Asti, Cuneo, Genoa, Venice, Trento to L’Aquila, Florence, Pisa, Modena up to Bari, Cagliari, Catania and Palermo.
Speaking to the UN Commission on the Status of Women the Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres he raised an alarm: “gender equality is increasingly distant: if things don’t change, there are still 300 years to go”. Indeed, according to Guterres, progress towards gender equality is “fading before our eyes”. According to the latest estimates by ‘UN Women’the United Nations organization dedicated to gender equality and women’s empowerment, theequality between men and women is “300 years away”. Guterres cited high maternal mortality rates, girls forced into early marriages, and girls kidnapped and assaulted for attending school as evidence that hope of achieving gender equality “is receding”.
“Women’s rights are abused, threatened and violated around the world,” she said Guterres. On Monday, young Afghan women gathered outside Kabul University to protest the Taliban-imposed ban on girls’ education, a restriction that could amount to “a crime against humanity” according to a new United Nations report.