Also today 8 March 20203 The World Women's Day It helps us to reflect on several issues, among which:
a) because the Women's Day occurs on March 8?
b) March 8 is celebrated each year with events taking place in different countries
c) the memory and the memory of the tragic events of violence against women around the world ... a) because the Women's Day occurs on March 8?
March 8 (It seems more certain, it was, but the 25 March): of the 1911, a New York, a group of Textile Industry Workers Triangle Shirtwaist Company They were mobilized for days against the terrible conditions in which they were working: sixty hour work week with overtime imposed and low pay; a fierce surveillance "corporals" external, paid by the piece by the bosses, each of which watched and retribuiva in turn seven girls imposing their grueling pace that often were originally accidents during working hours. The local accesses were locked to prevent workers leaving their jobs, even if for a few minutes. The union was never entered into the company: zero rights, nonexistent security.
Before the fire |
during the fire |
 after the fire |
To crush the protest of the owners of that day had blocked the factory outlets, preventing the workers to leave, but something, But, He went wrong and a fire broke out that killed well 134 workers, among which many immigrant (of which 39 Italian) who sought only to improve their standard of living. The tragedy was consumed in 18 minutes and, after half an hour, the fire was extinguished and the women were dead ... THEREFORE’ gives the (and men) meet on March 8 of each year.
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b) March 8th is commemorated with events taking place in different countries
b1 Women with their movements, from the beginning of '900, He was always decided everything, They have faced violent charges by men in uniform who defended the authoritarian power and male, policemen and soldiers, the carcere.Inoltre chose to sacrifare their lives for their rights, as did all liberation movements, in every age and every where. That period of hard struggles and extraordinary sacrifices, in particular the struggle for the right to vote in the UK at the beginning of the last century, They are told in the film Suffragette from RAI-PLAY. Let's remember the period.
events |
arrests of militants |
Meeting for rights |
forced feeding in prison |
Mothers and wives rebels,zitelle |
mischievous and clumsy… |
Women fighting 100 |
 years ago for voting rights |
described in postal cards… |
b2) Women who continue to struggle, today This world we do not like, and let's change!
| with the choir huelga the feminist in Spain |  |
with video THE OTHER HALF
c) the memory and the memory of the tragic events of violence against women around the world ...
A story similar to that of New York 1911 It happened on March 8 2017 in Guatemala: a terrible fire in the foster home Secure home, a public institution, He has taken the lives of 41 teenagers, housed therein.
The movement of the Guatemalan women said it was a terrible "state femicide" occurred in a property located in the municipality of San José Pinula, about thirty kilometers from the capital, used after the acceptance of 500 young people of both sexes but which at the material time he was home 700, and where the teenagers had repeatedly complained of abuse and sexual violence as evidenced by reading the interview in the newspaper the poster Guatemala State femicide – Interview with Gerard Lutte – The manifesto 21 March 2017
Gerard Lutte cofounder, 29 years ago, of the Mojoca (Movimiento Jovenes de la Calle), Italy supported by the network Amistrada with numerous groups of adherents scattered throughout the peninsula and in Belgium by a network of groups locals. Inside the Mojoca there is the Home 8 March, a reality which houses, communally, different girls, some with young children.
For more info see both the article by Annamaria Pellecchia – The Mojoca – why 4-2016 once 60-64 published on Educational Cooperation, quarterly journal of the MCE (Cooperative Education Association), be another article Mojoca The Right to a Dignified Life NE 246 published in the French magazine The New Educator of February 2020.
In Guatemala we are now celebrating the process, as shown in the article of the poster March 8 2020. Guatemala, Adolescence burned MANIFESTO
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Theresia Bothe, songwriter and friend of Mojoca, on the occasion of 8 March he dedicated the song Cry Freedom 8 of March to the families of 41 Guatemalan girls in the fire death of’Secure home above. Its mission is to give voice to those who have none, and create a musical space in which to convey a message of peace and social change. His is the CD “Sing Street”
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