The 38th Plurinational Meeting of Women, Lesbians, Bisexuals, Transvestites, Trans and Non-Binary is ending. On Monday at 9 a.m. there will be the closing event at the Cocomarola Amphitheater where the next venue will be defined and some of the debates that went through the workshops will be read out. resonates strongly the proposal of the National Campaign for the Right to Abortionwhat is supported and encouraged by different feminist organizations, so that in the 2026 the Meeting will be in Buenos Aires.
The march began at 6:33 p.m. at the Poncho Verde Roundabout, on Av. Gobernador Ruiz 2300, in the center of Corrientes. A few meters from the header, a flag stood out denouncing that it has been a year without Loan, the child who disappeared in the province more than a year ago whose whereabouts are still unknown, the responsibility of the radical governor Valdés and the national government led by Patricia Bullrich were one of the great indications. With much agitation you could also see the column of the National Abortion Campaign.
In the mobilization, the wiphala flag of the native peopleswho brought their claims against the extractivist policies of looting and against their communities by the different governments. Flags of Palestine expressing the strong repudiation of the genocide carried out by the State of Israel.
Union organizations such as the CTA, SUTEBA, ATE, subway workers grouped in the AGTSyP, aeronautical companies, Sipreba, among others, participated in the mobilization. And Peronist organizations such as La Cámpora and Patria Grande, among others.
The combative sectors and workers, together with feminist and LGTBIQ+ groups independent of governments and the Church, expressed in the mobilization the debates that they raised during the two days in the workshops, putting at the center the complaint about the disappearance of Loan, the need to return to the streets to fight against gender violence and also the fight against the labor and tax reform that Milei seeks to apply in alliance with the governors. Together with workers from different sectors, young students, retirees, women who fight for access to housing and LGBTIQ+ activists decided to mobilize, passing by the Government House and the Cathedral, to point out political responsibilities and demand “Church and State, a separate matter!”
This block was made up of the teaching unions Ademys, the Tigre section of SUTEBA, the Union of Educators of Córdoba, AGD-UBA, the Santa Cruz Teachers Association, the Internal Commission of APUBA of the Faculty of Social Sciences (UBA), together with the groups of the Pan y Rosas Left Front (PTS), Juntas y la Izquierda (MST), Plenary of Workers (PO) and Isadora (IS).
From that space, they pointed out the importance of the movement expanding its forces and once again being a powerful tide against the gender violence that the libertarian government currently promotes in its speeches as an ideology and state policy with its own officials holding women and feminisms responsible for femicides. Hate crimes are no longer tolerated, they assure that it is urgent to stop femicides and transvesticies. While the meeting was going on, the complaint from friends and artists about the transfemicide of Treinti, a trans photographer, became known.
They also stated from that space that the different political and economic offensives once again show how structural inequalities affect women and children most strongly. The attacks on the movement and women’s rights and sexual diversity by the Government are not a coincidence, because the feminized sectors are the ones that suffer the most from precariousness: 8 out of 10 workers in private homes remain without rights, more than 43% of women work informally and the wage gap reaches 40% in that universe, while the LGTBIQ+ group faces greater vulnerability and violence, as evidenced by the case of Tehuel.
At the same time, the pressure of agribusiness on the grasslands and wetlands of Corrientes advances without a Wetlands Law, putting at risk territories whose degradation hits first those who live and work in the most fragile conditions. The same pattern is repeated: the costs of these policies fall disproportionately on women, children and sexual diversity.
Since the mobilization, Natalia Hernández, a teacher in La Matanza province of Buenos Aires, former councilor of the PTS/FIT-U and who organizes in her union SUTEBA, assured: “The extreme right cannot stand that with our feminist movement, women and sexual diversity we have questioned machismo and won long-delayed rights. Furthermore, from the majority opposition they kept agitating that ‘We spent three towns’ thus fueling the reaction patriarchal. They tried to institutionalize the movement that emerged, and in these two years of Milei their politics is not in the streets but only (failed) electoral bets.
For that reason, he also raised the need “not to be overcome by helplessness. We have to make each neighborhood, place of work and study, participatory, massive and organizational spaceswe must put machismo back on the defensive. Together, together, we are an unstoppable force. In every place we are, in every space where they want to silence us, let us raise our voices. With this perspective, all the Pan y Rosas colleagues throughout the country return with renewed energy.”
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
