The Plurinational Meeting of Women, Lesbians, Transvestites, Trans, Bisexuals, Intersex and Non-Binary is convening again in a context of increases in open attacks from the State promoting gender violence and hatred of LGBTIQ+ people.
This self-convened and massive space was born in 1986, inspired by the Nairobi World Conference, and since then it has transformed into a true engine of organization and struggle, unique in the world. It brings together thousands to debate, organize and win rights, such as the legalization of abortion or policies against gender violence.
For three days, the meeting becomes a powerhouse of workshops, marches and cultural activities. Participation is plural and the debate agenda is multiple with the different debate topics proposed in the workshops.
Milei, hatred become state policy and the adjustment of those at the top
The demand for Ni Una Menos, against femicides, returned to the media this year with the triple narco-femicide in the province of Buenos Aires, the double femicide in Córdoba and in the demand for justice by Cecilia Strzyzoswski against the impunity of political and economic power. From January to October there were at least 208 crimes. This 38th Meeting comes in the midst of a fierce offensive by the Milei government against women and sexual diversity.
Gender violence and LGBTIQ+ hatred not only multiply on the street and on social networks, but they were transformed, without a second thought, into State policy: they dismantled care devices, they fired the vast majority of workers who assisted victims, they fired transvestite and trans workers who entered the State due to the quota, and the denialist and sexist speeches come down from Rosada herself. As if that were not enough, femicides and hate crimes find no answers, while the government revels in impunity and naturalizes violence with trolls and officials.
Speeches that go hand in hand with attacking and demonizing teachers, health workers like Bonaparte or Garrahan, all in order to apply their adjustment plan tailored to the IMF and the requests of Yankee imperialism with Trump and the United States wanting to ensure the looting of our resources.
Milei is preparing, together with Peronism, the UCR and the PRO, a battery of labor, tax and pension counter-reforms, a plan that has as its correlate the main confederation of workers led by Peronism, the CGT, negotiating and letting each attack pass. Who will be the first to pay the price? Women and sexual diversity who already suffer the worst salaries, precariousness and the burden of unpaid care tasks. The anger grows because the adjustment is unleashed more viciously on those who have the least and struggle the most. A panorama where we debate, organize and take to the streets to confront these policies becomes more than necessary.
What activities will be carried out during the Meeting?
The agenda of the 38th Meeting in Corrientes is loaded with activities that combine struggle, culture and organization. The detail, so as not to miss anything:
Saturday November 22:
- 09:00: Opening ceremony and reading of the Organizing Commission Document (Cocomarola Amphitheater)
- 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.: Thematic workshops (gender violence, health, work, etc.)
- 18:30: Handkerchief for the Right to Legal Abortion in Camba Cua Park
- 7:00 p.m.: March against Transvesticides, Lesbicides and Transfemicides (Miter Park)
- 20:00: Tortazo and Festi Torta in Costanera Sur
Sunday, November 23
- 09:00 to 12:00 and 15:00 to 18:00: Workshops
- 18:30: Main march of the 38th Meeting from Rotonda Poncho Verde
- 20:00: Peña Plurinacional in Costanera Sur
Monday, November 24:
- 09:00: Closing Ceremony, 2026 venue election and reading of conclusions at the Cocomarola Amphitheater
During the three days there will be gastronomic, cultural and self-managed entrepreneurship fairs, book presentations, music, painting, dance, cinema, live radio, sale of official t-shirts and much more. Everything, in different points of a Corrientes taken over by the feminist tide.
Why is it carried out in Corrientes?
This year, Corrientes Capital was chosen after the proposal presented at the closing of the 37th Meeting in Jujuy. A province that faces urgent problems such as gender violence, human trafficking and job insecurity. This year’s motto sums it up: “Against trafficking and for the memory of those who are missing, we will be in Corrientes.”
Join us with Bread and Roses: for socialist feminism
Pan y Rosas is a group of women and sexual diversity that is organized in countries in Latin America, North America and Europe, which seeks to break the chains of a social order that weighs on millions of human beings. On the path to wresting all the rights possible from capitalist democracies through struggle, it raises the prospect of ending this capitalist and patriarchal system based on the deepest inequality: a small handful of people live off the exploitation of millions. In the 21st century, to legitimize increasingly deep class inequalities, capitalism needs multiple oppressions of women and sexual diversity, it needs wars and the destruction of the planet: “You will always see us in the streets alongside the working class. Because we refuse to be oppressed and exploited, we fight for bread and roses.”
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
