8-M, Women's Day, live | Thousands of people take to the streets in different Spanish cities to celebrate 8M

Highlights: 8-M, Women's Day, live | Thousands of people take to the streets in different Spanish cities to celebrate 8M. Madrid celebrates two, both called at seven in the afternoon, one organized by the 8-M Commission and another by the Madrid Feminist Movement. The end of sexist violence, the wage gap, labor inequalities or the lack of co-responsibility in care are some of the demands of this 8M, International Women's day. The Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo, has said that the statements of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, serve to "absolutely discredit" her to defend and represent women.

Thousands of people participate in the feminist demonstrations that run through the streets of various Spanish cities. Madrid celebrates two, both convo

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Ana Maria Ortiz

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Madrid

Friday, March 8, 2024-7:38 p.m.

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Thousands of people participate in the

feminist demonstrations that run through the streets of various Spanish cities.

Madrid celebrates two, both called at seven in the afternoon, one organized by the

8-M

Commission and another by the Madrid Feminist Movement, but other cities, such as Barcelona, celebrate only one and it started at six.

The end of sexist violence, the wage gap, labor inequalities or the lack of co-responsibility in care are some of the demands of this

8-M,

International Women's Day

The first demonstration in Madrid left from the Plaza de Carlos V (Atocha) and will reach Colón with the aim of "crowding the streets" to "celebrate what has been conquered" and raise our voices against violence;

The second has started from Cibeles in the direction of Plaza de España and has as its main demands the end of sexist violence, pornography, sexual roles and reproductive exploitation.

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19:36

Ana Redondo responds to Ayuso: "she discredits herself absolutely to defend us"

The Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo, has said that the statements of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, asking "when is Men's Day" to talk about her problems, serve to "absolutely discredit" her to defend and represent women.

"What nonsense he said," Redondo said in statements to the media before starting one of the marches on the occasion of 8M.

"He is very unserious," he added.

In her opinion, that "a leader who claims to be a defender of women" makes these types of statements "absolutely discredits" her to defend and represent women, Efe reports.

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19:31

Thousands of people in Barcelona

The 8M demonstration in Barcelona began around 6:20 p.m. this Friday with thousands of people at the confluence of Passeig de Gràcia and Provença Street, on International Women's Day.

Convened by the Assemblea 8M, it will run along Passeig de Gràcia to Ronda Sant Pere and from there it will go to Arc de Triomf, where the reading of the manifesto and the speeches are scheduled.

This year's motto is 'Women, lesbians and trans people together against precariousness, borders and genocides' and wants to "overflow the streets" to make visible the precariousness they suffer.

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19:20

The Cibeles demonstration, also underway

The demonstration organized by the Feminist Movement of Madrid, which leaves Cibeles towards the Plaza de España, and in which around five thousand people participate, also began at seven in the afternoon.

Cries of "no woman is born to be a whore" in Cibeles, "My body is not for sale, my womb is not for rent" or "Being a woman is not a feeling" reports

Quico Alsedo

The demonstration in Cibeles.

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19:15

Begoña Gómez is also in the Atocha demonstration

The wife of the President of the Government,

Begoña Gómez

, also participates in the demonstration of the 8M Commission that started in Atocha in Madrid, together with the ministers of the PSOE.

Begoña Gómez, together with the PSOE ministers.

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19:10

The 8M Commission demonstration starts from Atocha and heads to Colón

The 8M Commission demonstration starts from Atocha like last year but changes the ending location from Plaza de España to Colón with the intention of "resignifying a square that has been capitalized by the extreme right and from where denialist and opposition speeches are launched." hatred that intends to take away rights", according to what the organizers expressed in the days before 8-M.

This is the same route that was carried out in 2022, when the movement renamed Colón "the square of the feminist revolution," reports

Ana María Ortiz.

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19:03

Feijóo: "It is curious that those who raise the flag against prostitution are clients of brothels"

The leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, charged this Friday on International Women's Day against the equality policies of the Government of Pedro Sánchez, and criticized the leaders of the PSOE "who raise the flag against prostitution" when They are "brothel clients" and pay those bills "with public money."

This was one of the recriminations he launched at the Executive at an event of his party on the occasion of 8-M in Córdoba, where the opposition leader accused the Executive of having "

misappropriated the idea of feminism

to confront society in a demand." fair" and turn it "into the mortar of the wall they are trying to build.

After accusing Sánchez and his Government of "appropriating" "a flag that is not theirs" and leading "the greatest use of women" in "political and partisan" terms, Feijóo disfigured the Executive's way of legislating and then referred to to the 'yes means yes' law, prostitution and the 'trans law', reports Servimedia

Feijóo at an event on 8M in Córdoba.

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18:51

Family photo before starting the march

Prominent socialist leaders and Government ministers attend the demonstration that is about to start in Madrid.

In the image, from left to right, you can see the Minister of the Interior,

Fernando Grande-Marlaska

, the Government Spokesperson and Minister of Education

Pilar Alegría

, the Minister of Ecological Transition,

Teresa Ribera

, the socialist candidate for the European elections

Nicolas Schmit

, the Minister of Social Security,

Elma Saiz

, the Minister of Equality,

Ana Redondo

and the spokesperson for the socialist group in the Madrid City Council

Reyes Maroto

Information and photo,

Ana María Ortiz

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18:40

Ministers Teresa Ribera and Ana Redondo, at the demonstration

Teresa Ribera, Minister of Ecological Transition, and Ana Redondo, Minister of Equality, are at the head of the demonstration called in Atocha.

With them, Nicolas Schmit, PSOE's main candidate for the European elections.

Attendees sing "The immigration law kills people every day" and "Transphobes get out of the institutions."

Information and photography by

Ana María Ortiz.

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18:33

The 8M march against the precariousness and inequalities suffered by women begins in Barcelona

The unitary demonstration of feminism on the occasion of 8M has started in Jardinets de Gràcia in Barcelona to protest the precariousness and inequalities suffered by women.

"Women, lesbians and trans. Together against precariousness, borders and genocides", is the motto of the march, which started from Jardinets de Gràcia, at the northern end of Passeig de Gràcia and Diagonal, and will go down Passeig de Gràcia, Ronda Sant Pere and Arc de Triomf, where the final act will take place, around 8:00 p.m., reports Efe

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18:20

Migration Commission

Banner that the migration and anti-racism commission has placed in Plaza Murillo in Madrid where the Minister of Equality will speak in a few minutes.

Ana María Ortiz

reports

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18:07

In defense of men and shared custody

This 74-year-old woman, who prefers to remain anonymous, attends the beginning of the demonstration organized by the 8M Commission "in defense of men" and "so that they can see me."

"A man can have his children, his house and his dignity taken away from him, because he has nothing more to lose. This is solved with shared custody, but none of those who are here want it. There are no more housekeepers from home. Do you know when Men's Day is celebrated?"

Ana María Ortiz

reports

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18:05

Melilla

Groups of women are already participating in the demonstration in the Autonomous City of Melilla

EFE

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Look To The Future

Manu, 3 years old, leads a dozen baby strollers, all from the Tobogán daycare center, whose parents have arranged to attend the 8M Commission demonstration together.

"I have always come, but now more than ever we have to do it to look to the future and try to maintain more or less what we have achieved because it seems that it is in danger," says Cisca, Manu's mother, reports

Ana María Ortiz

PHOTO: ANA MARÍA ORTIZ

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17:35

The motto of this year's demonstration is "patriarchy, genocide, privileges, it's over"

PHOTO: ANA MARÍA ORTIZ

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17:19

"We are here to defend our rights"

Noa (16 years old), Icíar (16) and Inés (17), Baccalaureate of Arts students at the San Isidro Institute in Madrid.

It is the first year that they attend the demonstration alone, since before they did it with their parents.

They have chosen the 8M Commission march because they have read that "it is the most numerous", but they are not clear about how the claims differ from each other.

"We are here to defend our rights," says Noa.

"Because we are not making enough progress," says Icíar, "the most serious thing is the sexist crimes, it is very strong that they continue to exist, it makes no sense."

Ana María Ortiz

reports

Noa, Icíar and Inés, Baccalaureate of Arts students.|

Ana Maria Ortiz

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17:13

Half a thousand Jewish women ask Equality not to demonize Israelis or use the Palestinian flag on March 8

A total of 500 Jewish women have asked the Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo, women's associations and feminist organizations that "the population of Israel not be demonized" in the "celebration" events of 8M, International Women's Day. Women, and they ask that the Palestinian flag not be used, something that they find "totally incomprehensible and outrageous."

Thus, these women consider that, in the demonstrations called for 8M, "raising the flag of Palestine, confusing it with Hamas, whose leaders have tortured, raped, mutilated and kidnapped women and girls" is "humiliating" the women and victims. on October 7, "even to Palestinian women," as they explained, Europa Press reports.

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17:06

Olga and Elena participate in the batucada for the first time

Olga, 32 years old, and Elena, 28, are part of the 500 women who will participate in the batucada that will accompany the march of the 8M Commission, which leaves Atocha.

They have been attending demonstrations for International Women's Day for a decade, but it is the first time they have been part of the batucada.

"I think that in recent years many things have gone backwards," says Olga.

"Before we fought for women's rights and the ideas were clear and now many things have been put in the middle that have created disunity," Elena points out about the division of the feminist movement into two manifestations. "We would like there to be only one." ", they say while they wait for the rest of the members of the batucada and the truck that will bring the instruments. They have been rehearsing for two Sundays at a school in Vallecas, reports

Ana María Ortiz

Olga and Elena.

Ana M. Ortiz

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16:51

Sánchez responds to Ayuso that today she is president because of the "fight of many women who even lost their lives"

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, claimed Women's Day this Friday 8-M and told Isabel Díaz Ayuso that if she is president of the Community of Madrid today it is because of the "struggle of many women who even lost their lives to empower women.

This was said at the press conference she held in the Chilean capital with the president of Chile, Gabriel Boric, with whom she jointly signed a declaration on the occasion of this anniversary and the commitment of both progressive executives to consolidate the rights of women who They said, they are in danger due to the rise of the extreme right.

In his speech, Sánchez acknowledged that Ayuso's statement caught his "a lot of attention" in which "a little less" than he said that "a man's day also had to be approved," Servimedia reports.

Read the statements of Isabel Díaz Ayuso here.

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16:39

Milei eliminates the name of the Women's Room of the Casa Rosada in the middle of 8M

The Government of Javier Milei decided to remove the name

"Women's Hall"

from an important space in the Casa Rosada, which will now be called "Hall of the Heroes."

"Valuing women goes beyond the name of a room, and if there is someone who values women it is President Milei," said Presidency spokesman Manuel

Adorni

this Friday .

Read the complete information about

Sebastián Fest

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16:33

Correos asks to celebrate 8M "all year" with a Women's Day stamp

This Friday, Correos presented a commemorative stamp for Women's Day, in which it asks to celebrate 8M "all year round" remembering pioneering women of feminism in Spain, Efe reports.

Designed by artist Isa Muguruza, the stamp shows Clara Campoamor, Maruja Mallo, Almudena Grandes or María Blanchard surrounding the date '8M' with some of the most representative objects of their lives and professions.

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16:05

Sporting's video to commemorate Women's Day sets the networks on fire

The video with which the Sporting de Gijón football club wanted to commemorate Women's Day has generated controversy among network users by starting with

a girl on her knees, brush in hand and a bucket of water, cleaning

the lines of the

El Molinón

grass

Read the complete information here.

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15:38

Aina Vidal refuses to let Ayuso "ruin" 8-M by suggesting that a day dedicated to sex is not necessary

Sumar's first deputy spokesperson in the Congress of Deputies, Aina Vidal, pointed out this Friday, International Women's Day, that the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, is not "going to ruin" the date despite having tacitly questioned that there are days dedicated to one sex.

Vidal was asked, in an interview on laSexta collected by Servimedia, about the reflection that Díaz Ayuso made in his intervention at the institutional event for 8-M itself at the Madrid Government headquarters.

In fact, she was asked about one of her phrases: that the president does not know "when men's day is," to which she had added the need for women to help combat some statistical data in which men lose out. , reports Servimedia

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15:22

Students demonstrate to demand that sexist violence stop being denied

Hundreds of students, mainly girls, demonstrated this afternoon in the center of Barcelona on the occasion of 8M, demanding that sexist violence stop being denied.

Called by the Student Union, the march left at 12:00 p.m. from Plaza Universidad and reached Plaza Sant Jaume, also demanding "the end of the Zionist genocide in Gaza."

The protesters have walked the streets carrying numerous lilac flags and behind a banner with the slogans 'Revolutionary feminists with Palestine.'

In defense of trans people.

Stop the Genocide and stop transphobia,' reports Efe.

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14:30

The 8-M agenda prevails over bad weather in Menorca

Despite the overcast sky and poor weather forecasts, feminist organizations in Menorca have continued with the activities scheduled for International Women's Day in all the municipalities of the island.

The mayor of Mahón, Héctor Pons, together with the deputy mayor Elena Costa and other representatives of the municipal corporation, have read a manifesto to which all the political groups of the council have adhered.

"Hacemos un llamamiento a la acción a nuestras comunidades para que se unan en solidaridad con las mujeres de todo el mundo y trabajen juntos para crear un futuro más justo e igualitario para todas las personas, independientemente de su género. Las políticas de igualdad deben ser transversales e impregnar el conjunto de nuestras actuaciones", han expresado desde el balcón del ayuntamiento ante un centenar de personas.

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14:25

Mónica García señala que los sesgos de género en la sanidad provocan que "las mujeres estén infradiagnosticadas"

La ministra de Sanidad, Mónica García, ha señalado este viernes que los sesgos de género en Sanidad provocan que las "mujeres estén infradiagnosticadas" en diagnósticos como los infartos, entre otros, porque "podemos sufrir síntomas atípicos y acudimos más tarde al médico".

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14:12

La presidenta balear reivindica a las "mujeres pioneras" y se compromete a "no dar ni un paso atrás" en la lucha por la igualdad

La presidenta del Govern balear, Marga Prohens, ha reivindicado a las "mujeres pioneras" y se ha comprometido a "no dar ni un paso atrás" en la lucha por la igualdad. Prohens se ha pronunciado así durante el acto de lectura del manifiesto con motivo del 8M.

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14:09

El nivel de igualdad de género de un país tiene consecuencias en la salud para toda la población, según un estudio

El nivel de igualdad de género de un país tiene consecuencias en la salud, independientemente de factores políticos y socioeconómicos, ya que, a mayor nivel de igualdad se observa una mejoría en indicadores como esperanza de vida o años de vida ajustados por discapacidad para toda la población y no solo para las mujeres, según revela el estudio 'Determinantes Sociales de la Salud: abordaje desde la visión de la sociedad civil', publicado por el Consejo General de Colegios Farmacéuticos (CGCF).

En este sentido, el estudio señala que los patrones clásicos de masculinidad, por los cuales ellos toman decisiones más perjudiciales para la salud, podrían explicar en parte este fenómeno. No obstante, la situación de la mujer en España con respecto a otros países se refleja en el Índice Europeo de Igualdad de Género, donde ocupa un sexto lugar en el ranking.

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14:00

Trabajadoras de la red municipal contra la violencia machista piden reunirse con Almeida

La Plataforma de Trabajadoras de la Red de Violencia de Género del Ayuntamiento de Madrid, que inician este Día Internacional de la Mujer (8M) una huelga con la esperanza de que el Gobierno municipal "se siente a negociar", ha pedido este viernes una reunión con el alcalde de Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, para abordar el "colapso" del servicio de atención a las víctimas.

Ataviadas con pañuelos de lunares rojos y blancos y bufandas moradas, las trabajadoras se han concentrado a mediodía en la plaza de Cibeles, frente a la sede consistorial.

"Queremos trabajar, no queremos hacer otra cosa", ha incidido en declaraciones a los medios Fátima, una de las trabajadoras, mientras su compañera Elena ha explicado que Ana Fernández, directora de general de Igualdad y Violencia de Género del Ayuntamiento, "acudió al espacio de mediación del Irma", donde dijo que la "culpa era de las empresas gestoras", mientras que estas responsabilizan al Consistorio.

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13:57

Vox denuncia que el Gobierno no ha hecho "nada" para proteger a las mujeres

Vox ha denunciado este viernes que el Gobierno no ha hecho "nada" para proteger a las mujeres. Así lo ha asegurado la formación política en sus redes sociales, donde ha preguntado "qué ha hecho el Gobierno para proteger a las mujeres" y, mediante una serie de imágenes ha destacado que hay "centenares de violadores con beneficios penitenciarios" y que "1.079 agresores sexuales han sido beneficiados por la ley del sólo sí es sí".

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13:42

Extremadura se queda por primera vez sin una declaración institucional consensuada en el Día de la Mujer al negarse a respaldarla Vox

No había precedentes en ninguna legislatura anterior. Hasta este año, los grupos parlamentarios en la Asamblea de Extremadura habían consensuado un texto conjunto que servía como Declaración Institucional en el Día Internacional de la Mujer en el parlamento extremeño. Hasta este año, donde Vox se ha negado a respaldarlo, ha elaborado su texto alternativo y ha fijado una posición contraria a la firmada por el resto de partidos, PP, PSOE y Unidas por Extremadura.

El portavoz del partido de Santiago Abascal en la Asamblea extremeña, Óscar Fernández, ha declarado que el texto institucional propuesto contiene alusiones de carácter ideológico, como la Agenda 2030, y "estigmatiza a una parte de la población", en referencia a los hombres, motivo por el cual no lo suscriben. En este sentido, ha señalado que "no va al fondo de la cuestión, que es la igualdad real entre mujeres y hombres", una normativa a la que se ha referido que sí recoge la Constitución Española. "Desgraciadamente y con mucho pesar, no la hemos firmado", ha dicho Fernández. El diputado de Vox también ha expuesto que la declaración institucional hacía alusión a la Agenda 2030, "la cual rechazamos", y estigmatiza a una parte de la población y supone "una superioridad de unos contra otros".

Lee la información completa de David Vigario en EL MUNDO.

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