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Women of popular movements were ordered to take to the streets on March 8, claim the sanction of the emergency law on gender violence Yes lcreation of care spaces for girls and the children of the workers popular economy. The proposal is to meet at 4:30 p.m. in Hipólito Irigoyen and Virrey Ceballos, and is promoted by UTEP activists. The Movement of Excluded Workers, the Darío Santillán Front and Notre America are the organizers.

“Marching was a decision highly contested by the theme of the pandemic, but finally we decided to do it whye believe it is important to be on the street, we don’t want the date to pass. We will only mobilize activists who do not have to use public transport “, Dina Sánchez of the Darío Santillán Front stepped forward.

The bill increases the creation of a care and accommodation network for women victims of violence, especially in cases where being permanently in your home poses a threat to your integrity. It also proposes the creation of a program of territorial promoters for the prevention of gender violence, made up of workers in the popular economy who receive remuneration equivalent to a minimum wage. Another of its points provides that women victims of gender violence can access a grant, in an increasing amount according to their number of children, which allows them to reduce their economic dependence on the violent. .

“The pandemic has left us with many losses in working-class neighborhoods. Women in particular are making a huge effort. We support the tasks of care, many of us are heads of families, we are in charge of the upkeep of the house. We want to make visible that the reality of women in working-class neighborhoods is very harsh. The government can conceive of public policies but it is very difficult for them to arrive, because many comrades are the prey of the violent ones at home ”, added the leader of the FPDS.

For Agostina Betes, from NuestraAmérica, the creation of Houses without violence as places of accommodation and confinement for women victims of violence is another of the fundamental points of the bill.. “Women from popular movements were able to form a team that wrote this project, which we presented last year. It is a law that responds to the problems of the sector, to guarantee the material conditions so that women and dissidents who need it can be relocated, because we know that violence does not stop with a complaint: it must have public policies to access housing and work. “

Another of the demands of the mobilization is that care spaces be created for the children of workers in the popular economy. Although today many textile workshops and recycling centers have them, they are fully supported by the efforts of organizations. These are gardens that work on the lungs for which popular movements demand, among other things, public policies that provide them with educational content, as well as the recognition of the work of the workers who perform caring tasks there.

“We, workers in the popular economy, need care places for our children, this is one of our main demands,” said Jackie Flores, of the Excluded Workers’ Movement. “On another side, there are no public policies that reinforce the work that organizations do against gender violence. We are a fundamental part of the solution and they are leaving us behind. “