On the occasion of International Women’s Rights Day, the departmental collective of the same name organized a feminist strike yesterday, in Nice.
“Don’t liberate us, we’ll take care of it ourselves!” chants Marine, a member of the Women’s Rights 06 collective, amidst a crowd of protesters.
Starting at 10:30 AM, a wall of demands was raised at Place Masséna, calling for awareness from passersby with a single demand: end inequalities and discrimination against women, no matter the sphere where they occur.
Many other organizations responded to the call for the march, including: the LGBTQIA+ Center, Family Planning 06, Antifascist Collective 06, We All 06 and the UD CGT.
The crowd, all dressed in purple (the emblematic color of feminists), finally set off at 1:00 PM towards the Promenade des Anglais.
“On March 8, we all stop. We go on strike.“
On the flyer distributed by the collective, an endless list of demands reflects a society considered too patriarchal and paternalistic.
Among the demands of the feminist movement, we find, for example: the investment of one billion euros to finance concrete public policies to combat violence; the extension of maternity and paternity leave; the development of a feminist and equal education; and the opening of abortion centers accessible to all, nationwide.
“Emmanuel Macron has kept widening inequalities during his term of office“
As elections approached, some 250 protesters did not miss the opportunity to express their discontent with the lack of measures implemented by the Government.
“We don’t really want to be the grand cause of Emmanuel Macron’s term again when we see how the issues were dealt with,” argued Marine Vengeon.
“And you, do you fancy working for peanuts?“
The wage gap between men and women persists. “In France, every day from 3:40 PM, women work for free, even though the law stated equal pay 50 years ago,” the collective denounced.
To garner pedestrian support, the organizers proposed a symbolic action using bread and butter.
Equipped with signs around their necks and trays in their hands, they roamed the square offering their sandwiches. A message with a humorous appearance, yet still manifest and strikingly true…
