Izote News

Women Take to the Streets for International Women´s Day
Betth Grayer / March 09, 2006

Yesterday, Salvadoran women took to the streets to celebrate International Women´s Day. A caravan of trucks and buses left early in the morning and travelled across the city stopping at important points for speeches and to put up posters proclaiming ¨Ni una muerta mas.¨ The women in the caravan demanded a stop to the loss of women´s lives to poverty, sexual violence….

I rode with syndicalist women bearing a banner proclaiming ¨ Women´s participation in the struggle is necessary for social and economic liberation.¨ As we passed the market, the women handed out educational leaflets explaining their campaign against the flexibilization of labour encouraging women to organize unions and fight for their rights.

As we arrived at the University of El Salvador, our final destination, the caravan passed through a brigade of FMLN women and men campaigning for Violeta, the FMLN mayoral candidate for San Salvador. The afternoon ended with speeches and songs celebrating the history of international women´s day and the struggle in El Salvador for women´s liberation.