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Women's Marching Feet Echo around the World
ARGENTINA
Above: The March is launched on March 8 in Buenos Aires.
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Amid a flurry of marches, actions to collect signatures, seminars, meetings of women in unions, and information given out in schools, Argentine activists managed to get the country's Congress, Senate and a number of regional and municipal councils to declare the March of national, provincial and municipal interest. The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, among others, backed the March. |
The efforts made in the year 2000 (creating posters, holding workshops about the effects of globalization on women) continued in Bolivia. Despite an economic crisis that was "hitting the poorest sectors very hard", women went ahead with their actions. They broadcast a weekly radio program and published En marcha, a magazine for "women with no voice and no rights, women in different parts of the world who are forced to be submissive and silent." |
BOLIVIA
Above: "Women and Men for Change," in the first issue of En Marcha.
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CHILE
Above: The March in Santiago, Chile, on March 8, 2000 drew 6000 people. |
March actions kicked off on March 8 in the capital city of Santiago with a parade of floats alluding to the March demands. Chilean women were calling for full citizenship for themselves, and they were working to have a law adopted that would authorize divorce - still prohibited in Chile. They also pressed for the "morning after" pill to be sold in their country.
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On March 8 and October 17, 2000, Salvadoran women marched to defend the goals of the World March. In this small country, battered by natural disasters and trying to recover from civil war, every demand was considered a priority. Grass-roots women, women involved in the Church, lesbians, groups acting against violence, and individual women all mobilized. |
EL SALVADOR
Above: Women demand access to land at the launch of the March in San Salvador on March 8, 2000. |
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