Is In the manifesto read that there is not looked in the direction of the trade unions as the main

Imagine international women day that the women had enough. That the cashiers their shops closed, the teachers their classes left behind, nurses hospitals left and nannies their crèches did close, secretaries and management assistants are the towel gifts, the journalists their pen on the willows hung and fashion models stopped beautiful. That unemployed international women day mothers and housewives refused any longer to mothering or keep house. That the workers and clerks international women day it flatly refused to work even the waitresses their customers no longer saw food and drink, the police international women day traffic cops in the soup run and showed the students the books angrily clapped shut. That all those women took to the streets and cried out: now we have had enough
A silly dream of a Dolle Mina with an overheated imagination, you say? However: last week it was in Barcelona so far. On October 22, there are thousands of protesters took to the streets under the slogan: Vaga the Totes (General Strike) and Les Dones movem el mon, l'ara aturarem! (Women international women day set the world in motion, together we put him stop!). According to him this action was the result of more than a year to plan and organize and work by hundreds of feminist action groups international women day across the country.
Spain is one of the European international women day countries - was the hardest hit by the financial international women day crisis - in addition to Greece. And although the number of unemployed in June 2014 for the first time declined since 2011, the situation international women day for many there is still dramatic. Youth unemployment peaks still above 50% and there is still the vivid reminder of the many families who were put out of their homes because the rent or the mortgage could not pay more.
The action started early in the day, when hundreds of people marched through the streets of Barcelona to occupy the office of the Cercle d'Economia. This powerful economic think tank resists include active against the Catalan independence, which a referendum will be held soon. A manifesto was at Headquarters read that denounces the role of this type of influential circles international women day in perpetuating international women day a devastating market economic system that undermines both social justice and gender equality. " There was anger at the statements by Monica Oriol, president of the Circulo de Empresarios de Madrid (a kind of local VOKA) which declared that "avoid women between 25 and 45 earlier to take to the problem of pregnant women in the workplace dodge ".
Towards evening international women day came again thousands of people onto the streets to protest against the increase include the prices of public transport. In three metro stations, the activists kept the doors of the train open so everyone could get on. Later four major intersections were blocked in the city.
But why was it necessary to introduce a specific feminist struggle movement focus on? The manifesto complains international women day in any case that the savings on education, health and social security affect women more than men. In these sectors, a lot of women who see through this austerity international women day first affected by unemployment or reduced wages work. Coming on top of that the abolition of certain services in the care or child implies that the specific international women day women who now spend much more time caring for children and sick or elderly relatives.
Also wants the Vaga the Totes extend the 'strike' concept, so that everyone can join the movement. Not only the working part of the population, but also everyone who contributes in an invisible way: the unemployed, illegal immigrants, sex workers, students and pensioners. Laura Lozano puts it in the newspaper El Diario way: "Quite a few women can traditional strikes that are not attending because they must often combine several low-paid jobs or organized actions."
Is In the manifesto read that there is not looked in the direction of the trade unions as the main organizer of the protest movement. Or promoter "We would rather slower to build than building on existing. New structures We want women, lesbians, transgenders, the protagonists of the movement, because they just have to suffer international women day most from the machismo. Our needs and our demands must not disappear into the background. "
The following international women day action is already announced in the spring of 2015 calls on the motion for a new general strike. "Una vaga general - social i laboral, Productiva international women day Reproductiva i, i feminista radical '(A general strike therefore, socially and in the workplace, refuse international women day to be productive international women day or to provide international women day sexual services, feminist and radical). Meanwhile, continued to strengthen international women day e