Argentinas Life-or-Death Womens Movement
Argentina’s Life-or-Death Women’s Movement
When Argentinian women strike tomorrow, they’ll do so in resistance to a terrifying wave of femicides.
by Verónica Gago & Agustina Santomaso
3.7.17
Argentina's Ni Una Menos protests. Nicholas Allen
The March 8 Women’s Strike will bring women all over the world together, showing us possible connections within an emerging women’s international. In this regard, Latin America offers us an important model.
The region’s revitalized feminist movement has pushed past old boundaries, aligning itself with the environmental movement, labor unions, and struggles for expanded sexual, economic, and social rights. It has effectively withstood a neoliberal onslaught that has, for the most part, neutralized the region’s progressive forces.
The Ni Una Menos (Not One More) collective, a continental alliance of feminist forces, will participate in the March 8 action, which will be the second women’s strike in Argentina in less than a year. Born in 2015 in Argentina as a campaign against gender violence, Ni Una Menos has become a political counterbalance to what many now acknowledge as a region-wide war against women. This movement helps us see how a global movement for women’s liberation can connect with calls for economic and social justice.
Agustina Santomaso spoke with Verónica Gago on the eve of the International Women’s Strike to better understand how the event is taking shape in Latin America.
More:
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/03/argentina-ni-una-menos-femicides-women-strike/
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