This March 8 in Chile we returned to the older ways of mobilizing to which women had been used to since the feminist wave began in Chile, before the pandemic that, as a result of the health measures adopted, forced us for more than two years to stay at home and take care of ourselves, but not to remain silent. That is why this year the mobilizations were once again massive and above-all festive, because we can see a new political scenario with a government that declares itself feminist and that at least has a cabinet composed by a majority of young women, illustrating the generational changes so badly needed by the country. |
On this date that marks a historic milestone for the women of the world, of Latin America and of Chile, we, the World March of Women – Chile have come together and convened to carry out joint actions with peasant, rural and indigenous women who made a caravan from Petorca to Santiago, to protest the scarcity of water in the region and to communicate that the problem that afflicts these towns and localities is not drought, it is plunder (No es sequía, es saqueo). The caravan, an initiative of a peasant organization that is part of the CLOC, left very early in the morning and included the participation of the Movement for Water - MAT, ANAMURI, health organizations and local dissident groups: A group of incense-bearing women received the caravan in front of the Ministry of Agriculture in the afternoon, adding a mystical sense to the activity, then there was a performance by the dissident women, portraying the suffering of families in the face of drought and the death of their animals, an integral part of the peasant economies in the region. At the end of the action, a Declaration was read with the basic points of the demands of rural, peasant and indigenous organizations and it ended with the sentence “nos quieren secar la vida, pero somos caudal que libera” (“they want to dry us up, but we are the flow of liberation”).
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