Seven years ago, the first Ni Una Menos mobilization took place in all of Argentina, marking a new chapter in the country’s feminist movements that would be reflected throughout the Latin American region. The march was organized for that June 3, 2015, after the femicide of Chiara Páez, a 14-year-old pregnant girl, murdered by her partner, also a teenager.
Since that first march, there were 2,041 murders on the basis of gender in the country until May of this year, according to the “Adriana Marisel Zambrano” Observatory, between femicides and trans/travesticides. The figures reveal an average of 24 femi/trans/travesticides per month, and almost 300 per year.
After the achievement of the law for the voluntary interruption of pregnancy (VII), one of the main agendas mobilized by feminisms in recent years in Argentina, the motto of this year’s march involves the grassroots claim against gender violence and against economic violence.
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“Alive, free and indebted: the State is responsible”
This Friday (3), the march will have as its motto “We want to live, free and without debt”, taking up the demands against femicides and gender violence that are linked to the consequences of the economic crisis that the country is experiencing, something that is at the heart of the debate over the debt agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
In an interview with elDiarioAr, the sociologist and one of the founders of Ni Una Menos, Luci Cavallero, highlighted the importance of the motto on economic autonomy in this march. “It is impossible to think about ending the violence without a concrete economic income. We will also ask that the agenda of economic redistribution be prioritized in relation to debt repayment”, she explained, mentioning the call for this year’s march.
The concentration will start at 5 pm in the federal capital, in the center of the city of Buenos Aires, in a march towards the Plaza del Congreso. The mobilization will also take place in provinces across the country.
Editing: Arturo Hartmann
