On Friday morning, with an opening ceremony and an ancestral ceremony, the 37th Plurinational Meeting of Women and Sexual Diversity began, which is being held in the city of San Salvador de Jujuy. It is a meeting that has been held for decades and brings together women, lesbians, trans, transvestites, bisexuals, intersex and non-binary people from all over. The city was chosen as the headquarters after the massive mobilizations carried out in 2023 throughout the province against the constitutional reform promoted by Gerardo Morales and endorsed by Peronism, seeking to attack the right to social protest.
Its beginning is marked by a new political situation: in response to the ratification of the veto on university financing in Congress, the student movement responded with marches, assemblies and actions in at least 38 universities, including occupations and vigils in 25 of them. So much so that on Thursday a student assembly held between different faculties of the National University of Jujuy voted to promote, within the framework of the Plurinational Meeting, a student assembly for Saturday at 3:00 p.m. in Belgrano square.
They are defending public education with the support of teachers and non-teachers, while at the same time there are fights against the closure of the Laura Bonaparte Mental Health Hospital and against the adjustment in health as in Garrahan.
The 37th Plurinational Meeting of Women, Lesbians, Trans, Transvestites, Bisexuals, Intersexuals and Non-Binaries began in the city of San Salvador de Jujuy. pic.twitter.com/wTSlX0Nsfy
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At the end of the reading of the opening document by the Organizing Committee, Iara Rueda’s mother, who was a victim of femicide in the province, took the stage. With a very moving and combative speech, he raised the need to continue fighting for justice for his daughter and for all the disappeared and victims of femicides in Jujuy..
In the afternoon, debate workshops on different topics will be held in different parts of the city. In this context, the meeting is presented as an opportunity to organize, from below, and democratically decide how to confront Milei’s plan and all his accomplices by uniting the different ongoing struggles. Young women with precarious jobs, retirees and families from the poorest neighborhoods are among the most affected by the government’s adjustment, to which are added health and education workers who have been suffering a brutal attack on their salaries. , or the young students who see that their future is at stake.
On Saturday, the workshops are expected to continue and a mobilization will take place that will tour the city of San Salvador de Jujuy.
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