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Ni una mas in english1/18/2024 Reports found that in addition to at least 138 separate protests that took place in Argentina, there were 25 protests in Chile, seven in Bolivia, five in Mexico, two in Uruguay, two in Honduras, and others in the capital cities of Paraguay, Ecuador, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, and beyond.įormer Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner wrote an open letter in support of the protests, while the current president of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, taped a video pledging her allegiance. What’s more, the efforts of Argentine feminist organizers sparked a transnational response. “Not even one woman less! We want us all alive!,” thousands marched and sang, drummed and yelled. Dubbing the demonstrations “Black Wednesday,” the protests were notable not only for their rapid organization and widespread diffusion, but also for their framing of gendered violence as inextricably linked to gendered structures of power- a point that was exemplified in the signs, slogans, and speeches that accompanied the demonstrators on city streets across Argentina. Reacting in rage and sorrow to the October 9, 2016, murder of Lucía Pérez, a 16-year-old high school student from the city of Mar de Plata who had been abducted, drugged, and gang-raped so viciously that she died of her injuries, Argentine feminist organizers relied on social media to organize the strike and orchestrate the protest in less than a week. On October 19, hundreds of thousands of women across Argentina braved a torrential downpour to participate in two extraordinary protests: an unprecedented women’s strike and a massive demonstration against femicide ( femicidio)-that is, the killing of cis-gender and transwomen because of their gender.
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