[rad-green] Millions of Women in Mexico Join 'Day Without Us' Strike to Protest Gender-Based Violence
"Sid Shniad" (via rad-green Mailing List) <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Mar 2020 17:09:58 -0700
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format... ------------=_1583885439-7785-102065 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="00000000000028f96d05a0890f0d" --00000000000028f96d05a0890f0d Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable *https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/10/millions-women-mexico-join-da= y-without-us-strike-protest-gender-based-violence <https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/10/millions-women-mexico-join-da= y-without-us-strike-protest-gender-based-violence>Common Dreams March 10, 2020Millions of Women in Mexico Join 'Day Without Us' Strike to Protest Gender-Based Violence"In Mexico it's like we're in a state of war; we're in a humanitarian crisis because of the quantity of women that have disappeared or been killed."by Jessica Corbett, staff writer* [image: Women raise their fists a protest on the International Women's Day in Mexico City on March 8, 2020] *Women raise their fists a protest on the International Women's Day in Mexico City on March 8, 2020. (Photo: Manuel Velasquez/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)* Millions of women across Mexico took part in Monday's "Un D=C3=ADa Sin Noso= tras <https://www.newsweek.com/mexico-witness-day-without-women-millions-expecte= d-strike-over-gender-violence-rates-1491183>" or "A Day Without Us <https://www.reuters.com/article/us-women-antiviolence-latinamerica/a-day-w= ithout-women-strikes-in-mexico-follow-huge-rallies-idUSKBN20W0KQ>" strike, staying home from work and school to protest the country's high rates of femicide <https://bpr.berkeley.edu/2019/04/17/femicide-in-mexico-what-happens-when-t= he-state-looks-the-other-way/> and other forms of gender-based violence just a day after an estimated 80,000 people marched in Mexico City to mark International Women's Day. "The point is for there to really be a loss, that is, for this day to happen without us. ...It had to be something like this, radical and cutting, so that the loss for everyone would be seen, or rather the absence, the lack of our presence." =E2=80=94Lluvia Flores G=C3=B3mez, bakery owner "In Mexico it's like we're in a state of war; we're in a humanitarian crisis because of the quantity of women that have disappeared or been killed," National Citizen's Observatory of Femicide coordinator Mar=C3=ADa = de la Luz Estrada told <https://apnews.com/a0af573598d3fec88bda6149d2e35644> the *Associated Press*. The *AP* reported that "government data say 3,825 women met violent deaths last year, 7% more than in 2018. That works out to about 10 women slain each day in Mexico. Thousands more have gone missing without a trace in recent years. Authorities seem incapable of preventing or properly investigating the crimes, very few of which result in convictions." Sandra Reyes, a 33-year-old biologist at the National Cancer Institute, told <https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/09/thousands-mexican-women-prot= est-violence-murders-femicide-government-inaction> the *Guardian* that Monday's strike sent a clear message to Mexican society. "In some ways, it's a taunt: if you do not want us out here in the streets, we'll disappear," she said. The Mexican business group Concanaco Servytur estimated <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/world/americas/mexico-women-strike-prot= est.html> that the strike could have cost the country's economy up to $1.37 billion. Despite the cost, some businesses gave <https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/7kzdyy/mexican-women-are-shutting-down-= their-country-to-protest-violent-machismo-culture> women paid leave for the day in solidarity while others shut down entirely. According to the *AP*: [The strike] is about "showing, socially... how valuable we women are, our contribution, and what would happen if one day we were not around. In all aspects: as homemakers, as workers, as consumers," said Lluvia Flores G=C3=B3mez, 40, who was sipping coffee and reading a book on the couch at h= ome in the historic downtown instead of going to work. Flores shuttered her bakery in observation of the strike, though she said her employees=E2=80=94all women=E2=80=94would be paid for the day. She said= the business would take an economic hit, but it was important to call attention to all the ways women are under attack in Mexico=E2=80=94not only murder, disappea= rance, and rape, but also home and workplace discrimination and lack of equal opportunity. "The point is for there to really be a loss, that is, for this day to happen without us. ...It had to be something like this, radical and cutting, so that the loss for everyone would be seen," she said, "or rather the absence, the lack of our presence." Participants and supporters of the nationwide 24-hour work stoppage, also dubbed "A Day Without Women," posted updates on social media with the hashtags #UnDiaSinMujeres <https://twitter.com/hashtag/UnDiaSinMujeres?src=3Dhash>, #UnDiaSinNosotras <https://twitter.com/hashtag/UnDiaSinNosotras?src=3Dhashtag_click>, and #UnDiaSinEllas <https://twitter.com/hashtag/UnDiaSinEllas?src=3Dhash>. They shared photos of closed shops and restaurants as well as empty desks and subway cars. "Our government urgently needs to take action. We hope the strike opens their eyes," Marisela Villapando, who drives Uber part-time, told <https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/7kzdyy/mexican-women-are-shutting-down-= their-country-to-protest-violent-machismo-culture> *VICE*. Villapando, who said she knows four women who were murdered or disappeared in the past year, added that "we live in fear." Elsa Arista Gonz=C3=A1lez, a 40-year-old a law student and coffee shop empl= oyee, echoed that sentiment in comments to the *Guardian*. "We used to be able to walk home from school alone, and leave open the door to your house. Not anymore," said Gonz=C3=A1lez. "We've become used to livi= ng in fear." "We used to be able to walk home from school alone, and leave open the door to your house. Not anymore... We've become used to living in fear." =E2=80=94Arista Gonz=C3=A1lez, law student and coffee shop employee Mexican President Andr=C3=A9s Manuel L=C3=B3pez Obrador on Monday delivered <https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/03/9533942/mexico-women-strike-prote= st-femicide-sexual-violence?utm_source=3Dtwitter&utm_medium=3Dtweet> conflicting messages about the strike=E2=80=94both claiming that the government is work= ing every day to address gender-based violence and also suggesting that some of the anger directed at his administration over the issue "is conservatism disguised as feminism." "This movement has various aspects," AMLO, as the president is known, said <https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/mexico-womens-strike-fem= icide/2020/03/09/293a7770-615d-11ea-8a8e-5c5336b32760_story.html> during a morning news conference. "It's a movement of women who legitimately fight for their rights and against violence, against femicides. But there is another part that is against us, and what they want is for the government to fail." AMLO's comments angered Mexican journalist Guadalupe Loaeza, according to <https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/mexico-womens-strike-fem= icide/2020/03/09/293a7770-615d-11ea-8a8e-5c5336b32760_story.html> the *Washington Post*. "The president has been provoking us with his indifference, with his comments," Loaeza said. "He does not grasp that this is about feminism. He misrepresents it, distorts it by saying that it is conservatism." --=20 ---=20 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "= Sid-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an e= mail to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/= sid-l/CACKppcwZRrgHwKbEwEk%3DxBsWyWRLx0enATkeyvCzJCQ8f__dag%40mail.gmail.co= m. --00000000000028f96d05a0890f0d Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_default"><b><font face=3D"georgia, ser= if"><a href=3D"https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/10/millions-women-= mexico-join-day-without-us-strike-protest-gender-based-violence" target=3D"= _blank">https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/10/millions-women-mexico-= join-day-without-us-strike-protest-gender-based-violence</a><br><br><font s= ize=3D"4">Common Dreams=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 March 10, 2020</f= ont><br><br><font size=3D"6">Millions of Women in Mexico Join 'Day With= out Us' Strike to Protest Gender-Based Violence<br></font><br><font siz= e=3D"4">"In Mexico it's like we're in a state of war; we'r= e in a humanitarian crisis because of the quantity of women that have disap= peared or been killed."</font><br><br><font size=3D"4">by Jessica Corb= ett, staff writer</font></font></b></div><div class=3D"gmail_default"><font= face=3D"georgia, serif"><br></font><div style=3D"font-size:17px;box-sizing= :inherit"><div style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><div style=3D"box-sizing:inheri= t"><div style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgi= a, serif"><img src=3D"https://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styl= es/cd_large/public/headlines/gettyimages-120611915911.jpg?itok=3DaTDvlNrW" = width=3D"472" height=3D"247" alt=3D"Women raise their fists a protest on th= e International Women's Day in Mexico City on March 8, 2020" style=3D"b= ox-sizing:inherit;border:0px;margin-right:0px"></font></div></div></div></d= iv><div style=3D"font-size:12px;box-sizing:inherit;background-image:initial= ;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:init= ial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;padding:5px 10px"><di= v style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><div style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><p style= =3D"box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia,= serif"><b style=3D"background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Women raise their fi= sts a protest on the International Women's Day in Mexico City on March = 8, 2020. (Photo: Manuel Velasquez/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)</b></fon= t></p></div></div></div><div style=3D"font-size:17px;box-sizing:inherit"><d= iv style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><div style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><div styl= e=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><font color=3D"#00= 0000" face=3D"georgia, serif">Millions of women across Mexico took part in = Monday's "<a href=3D"https://www.newsweek.com/mexico-witness-day-w= ithout-women-millions-expected-strike-over-gender-violence-rates-1491183" s= tyle=3D"box-sizing:inherit;background:0px 0px;text-decoration-line:none" ta= rget=3D"_blank">Un D=C3=ADa Sin Nosotras</a>" or "<a href=3D"http= s://www.reuters.com/article/us-women-antiviolence-latinamerica/a-day-withou= t-women-strikes-in-mexico-follow-huge-rallies-idUSKBN20W0KQ" style=3D"box-s= izing:inherit;background:0px 0px;text-decoration-line:none" target=3D"_blan= k">A Day Without Us</a>" strike, staying home from work and school to = protest the country's high rates of=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://bpr.berkele= y.edu/2019/04/17/femicide-in-mexico-what-happens-when-the-state-looks-the-o= ther-way/" style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;background:0px 0px;text-decoration-l= ine:none" target=3D"_blank">femicide</a>=C2=A0and other forms of gender-bas= ed violence just a day after an estimated 80,000 people marched in Mexico C= ity to mark International Women's Day.</font></p><p style=3D"box-sizing= :inherit;float:right;font-size:18px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-varian= t-east-asian:normal;font-weight:700;line-height:24px;margin-bottom:0px;marg= in-top:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px 20px;text-align:right;width:263.35px"><font= color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">"The point is for there to = really be a loss, that is, for this day to happen without us. ...It had to = be something like this, radical and cutting, so that the loss for everyone = would be seen, or rather the absence, the lack of our presence."<br st= yle=3D"box-sizing:inherit">=E2=80=94Lluvia Flores G=C3=B3mez, bakery owner<= /font></p><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"g= eorgia, serif">"In Mexico it's like we're in a state of war; w= e're in a humanitarian crisis because of the quantity of women that hav= e disappeared or been killed," National Citizen's Observatory of F= emicide coordinator Mar=C3=ADa de la Luz Estrada=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://ap= news.com/a0af573598d3fec88bda6149d2e35644" style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;back= ground:0px 0px;text-decoration-line:none" target=3D"_blank">told</a>=C2=A0t= he=C2=A0 <em style=3D"box-sizing:inherit">Associated Press</em>.</font></p>= <p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, se= rif">The=C2=A0<em style=3D"box-sizing:inherit">AP</em>=C2=A0reported that &= quot;government data say 3,825 women met violent deaths last year, 7% more = than in 2018. That works out to about 10 women slain each day in Mexico. Th= ousands more have gone missing without a trace in recent years. Authorities= seem incapable of preventing or properly investigating the crimes, very fe= w of which result in convictions."</font></p><p style=3D"box-sizing:in= herit"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">Sandra Reyes, a 33-y= ear-old biologist at the National Cancer Institute,=C2=A0<a href=3D"https:/= /www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/09/thousands-mexican-women-protest-viol= ence-murders-femicide-government-inaction" style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;back= ground:0px 0px;text-decoration-line:none" target=3D"_blank">told</a>=C2=A0t= he=C2=A0<em style=3D"box-sizing:inherit">Guardian</em>=C2=A0that Monday'= ;s strike sent a clear message to Mexican society. "In some ways, it&#= 39;s a taunt: if you do not want us out here in the streets, we'll disa= ppear," she said.</font></p><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><font colo= r=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">The Mexican business group Concanaco = Servytur=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/world/americas/= mexico-women-strike-protest.html" style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;background:0p= x 0px;text-decoration-line:none" target=3D"_blank">estimated</a>=C2=A0that = the strike could have cost the country's economy up to $1.37 billion.</= font></p><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"ge= orgia, serif">Despite the cost, some businesses=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www= .vice.com/en_ca/article/7kzdyy/mexican-women-are-shutting-down-their-countr= y-to-protest-violent-machismo-culture" style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;backgrou= nd:0px 0px;text-decoration-line:none" target=3D"_blank">gave</a>=C2=A0women= paid leave for the day in solidarity while others shut down entirely. Acco= rding to the=C2=A0<em style=3D"box-sizing:inherit">AP</em>:</font></p><bloc= kquote style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><font c= olor=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">[The strike] is about "showin= g, socially... how valuable we women are, our contribution, and what would = happen if one day we were not around. In all aspects: as homemakers, as wor= kers, as consumers," said Lluvia Flores G=C3=B3mez, 40, who was sippin= g coffee and reading a book on the couch at home in the historic downtown i= nstead of going to work.</font></p><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><font co= lor=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">Flores shuttered her bakery in obse= rvation of the strike, though she said her employees=E2=80=94all women=E2= =80=94would be paid for the day. She said the business would take an econom= ic hit, but it was important to call attention to all the ways women are un= der attack in Mexico=E2=80=94not only murder, disappearance, and rape, but = also home and workplace discrimination and lack of equal opportunity.</font= ></p><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgi= a, serif">"The point is for there to really be a loss, that is, for th= is day to happen without us. ...It had to be something like this, radical a= nd cutting, so that the loss for everyone would be seen," she said, &q= uot;or rather the absence, the lack of our presence."</font></p></bloc= kquote><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"geor= gia, serif">Participants and supporters of the nationwide 24-hour work stop= page, also dubbed "A Day Without Women," posted updates on social= media with the hashtags=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://twitter.com/hashtag/UnDiaS= inMujeres?src=3Dhash" style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;background:0px 0px;text-d= ecoration-line:none" target=3D"_blank">#UnDiaSinMujeres</a>,=C2=A0<a href= =3D"https://twitter.com/hashtag/UnDiaSinNosotras?src=3Dhashtag_click" style= =3D"box-sizing:inherit;background:0px 0px;text-decoration-line:none" target= =3D"_blank">#UnDiaSinNosotras</a>, and=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://twitter.com/= hashtag/UnDiaSinEllas?src=3Dhash" style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;background:0p= x 0px;text-decoration-line:none" target=3D"_blank">#UnDiaSinEllas</a>. They= shared photos of closed shops and restaurants as well as empty desks and s= ubway cars.</font></p><div align=3D"center" style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><p= style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"></p></div><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><fo= nt color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">"Our government urgently = needs to take action. We hope the strike opens their eyes," Marisela V= illapando, who drives Uber part-time,=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.vice.com/= en_ca/article/7kzdyy/mexican-women-are-shutting-down-their-country-to-prote= st-violent-machismo-culture" style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;background:0px 0px= ;text-decoration-line:none" target=3D"_blank">told</a>=C2=A0<em style=3D"bo= x-sizing:inherit">VICE</em>. Villapando, who said she knows four women who = were murdered or disappeared in the past year, added that "we live in = fear."</font></p><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><font color=3D"#00000= 0" face=3D"georgia, serif">Elsa Arista Gonz=C3=A1lez, a 40-year-old a law s= tudent and coffee shop employee, echoed that sentiment in comments to the= =C2=A0<em style=3D"box-sizing:inherit">Guardian</em>.</font></p><p style=3D= "box-sizing:inherit"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">"= We used to be able to walk home from school alone, and leave open the door = to your house. Not anymore," said Gonz=C3=A1lez. "We've becom= e used to living in fear."</font></p><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;fl= oat:right;font-size:18px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asia= n:normal;font-weight:700;line-height:24px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px;= padding:0px 0px 20px 20px;text-align:right;width:263.35px"><font color=3D"#= 000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">"We used to be able to walk home from = school alone, and leave open the door to your house. Not anymore... We'= ve become used to living in fear."<br style=3D"box-sizing:inherit">=E2= =80=94Arista Gonz=C3=A1lez, law student and coffee shop employee</font></p>= <p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, se= rif">Mexican President Andr=C3=A9s Manuel L=C3=B3pez Obrador on Monday=C2= =A0<a href=3D"https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/03/9533942/mexico-women= -strike-protest-femicide-sexual-violence?utm_source=3Dtwitter&utm_mediu= m=3Dtweet" style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;background:0px 0px;text-decoration-l= ine:none" target=3D"_blank">delivered</a>=C2=A0conflicting messages about t= he strike=E2=80=94both claiming that the government is working every day to= address gender-based violence and also suggesting that some of the anger d= irected at his administration over the issue "is conservatism disguise= d as feminism."</font></p><div style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><p style= =3D"box-sizing:inherit"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">&qu= ot;This movement has various aspects," AMLO, as the president is known= ,=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/mexico-= womens-strike-femicide/2020/03/09/293a7770-615d-11ea-8a8e-5c5336b32760_stor= y.html" style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;background:0px 0px;text-decoration-line= :none" target=3D"_blank">said</a>=C2=A0during a morning news conference. &q= uot;It's a movement of women who legitimately fight for their rights an= d against violence, against femicides. But there is another part that is ag= ainst us, and what they want is for the government to fail."</font></p= ><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, s= erif">AMLO's comments angered Mexican journalist Guadalupe Loaeza,=C2= =A0<a href=3D"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/mexico-wome= ns-strike-femicide/2020/03/09/293a7770-615d-11ea-8a8e-5c5336b32760_story.ht= ml" style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;background:0px 0px;text-decoration-line:non= e" target=3D"_blank">according to</a>=C2=A0the=C2=A0<em style=3D"box-sizing= :inherit">Washington Post</em>.</font></p><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit"><= font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">"The president has been= provoking us with his indifference, with his comments," Loaeza said. = "He does not grasp that this is about feminism. He misrepresents it, d= istorts it by saying that it is conservatism."</font></p></div></div><= /div></div></div></div></div> <p></p> -- <br /> <br /> --- <br /> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups &= quot;Sid-l" group.<br /> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an e= mail to <a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">sid-l+unsubsc= [email protected]</a>.<br /> To view this discussion on the web visit <a href=3D"https://groups.google.c= om/d/msgid/sid-l/CACKppcwZRrgHwKbEwEk%3DxBsWyWRLx0enATkeyvCzJCQ8f__dag%40ma= il.gmail.com?utm_medium=3Demail&utm_source=3Dfooter">https://groups.google.= com/d/msgid/sid-l/CACKppcwZRrgHwKbEwEk%3DxBsWyWRLx0enATkeyvCzJCQ8f__dag%40m= ail.gmail.com</a>.<br /> --00000000000028f96d05a0890f0d-- ------------=_1583885439-7785-102065 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> List help: <https://riseup.net/lists> ------------=_1583885439-7785-102065--