This Wednesday, March 8 for Women’s Rights Day, the processions will also be an opportunity for some opponents to demonstrate against the pension reform deemed “unfair” for women.
A “feminist strike” is scheduled for Wednesday, March 8 on the occasion of Women’s Rights Day. This day will be an opportunity to demonstrate as usual in March to fight against wage inequality, domestic violence but also for the freedom to dispose of one’s body. However, this year’s demonstration will also be a way to challenge the pension reform.
On the site grevefeministe.fr, who launched the call, the pension reform project is hotly contested. “In France, the government is once again attacking women head-on with a pension reform that will hit them hard. At the heart of the fight against this reform, March 8 is an opportunity to highlight the scene the situation and the demands of women and to amplify the mobilization” is it claimed. Thus, are planned throughout France, the day after the protest day of March 7, processions for women’s rights and against the pension reform.
Where are the rallies scheduled for March 8?
Several unions including Solidarity called for “participating in feminist unitary initiatives and demonstrations, as well as inter-union actions that may be added, to highlight the injustice and specific inequalities that women suffer with this pension reform project”. Thus, here is the list of the main processions scheduled for March 8:
- Paris: Demonstration at 1 p.m. at the Palais de justice
- Marseille: Demonstration at 10:30 a.m. Place du General de Gaulle
- Lyon: Demonstration at 5 p.m. Place Bellecour
- Nice: Demonstration at 10 a.m. Place Masséna
- Toulouse: Demonstration at 2 p.m. Place Saint-Cyprien
- Dijon: Demonstration at 2 p.m. Place Wilson
- Montpellier: Demonstration at 2 p.m. Place Zeus
- Vannes: Demonstration at 2 p.m. on the Port Esplanade
- Rennes: Demonstration at 2 p.m. on the Esplanade Charles de Gaulle
- Bayonne: Demonstration at 3 p.m. at the Carreau des Halles
- Carcassonne: Demonstration at 5.30 p.m. at the Portail des Jacobins
- Nancy: Demonstration at 2 p.m. Place Carnot