A-Infos (en) France, UCL: Unitary appeal, March 8, 2024: faced with attacks from the government, the right and extreme right, women everywhere are resisting! Feminist strike! (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

We call for a strike on work, domestic tasks, consumption. Because only 
our voices, our cries, our visible actions will be able to move society 
and power to finally obtain equality. ---- We call for a strike for 
work, domestic tasks, consumption. Because only our voices, our cries, 
our visible actions will be able to move society and power to finally 
obtain equality. ---- Solidarity with women around the world! ---- On 
March 8, we will be on strike in solidarity with our ----- sisters 
facing the wars raging around the world.
In solidarity with those who face massive bombings, exodus, are victims 
of war rape, struggle to feed their families and themselves.

In solidarity with all those who fiercely defend themselves to regain 
their freedom and their rights.

NO to reaction, NO to the extreme right
Far-right ideas which advocate hatred of others, racism, misogyny, 
LGBTQIAphobia, are enjoying electoral success all over the world and are 
becoming commonplace. In France, the government and the right are taking 
over.

The immigration law passed last December is an example. Even if a third 
of the provisions, such as those establishing national preference, were 
invalidated by the Constitutional Council, this racist law attacks the 
right to asylum and all undocumented immigrants.

> > We demand the repeal of the immigration law and the regularization 
of all undocumented immigrants.

We want to live and not survive!
Wage inequalities, low wages and now inflation are degrading living 
conditions. Women represent 62% of people paid the minimum wage and 70% 
of food bank beneficiaries. More than 9 million people live below the 
poverty line. 300,000 people including 3,000 children live on the 
streets. Some die from it.

> > We demand an increase in wages, the revaluation of social minimums, 
the massive construction of social housing.

Decent work and wages
Women, particularly single mothers, are particularly impacted by the 
high cost of living, they hold poorly paid jobs, are often affected by 
job insecurity and imposed part-time work and receive a salary on 
average Πlower than that of men. Women, whose pensions are 40% lower 
than those of men, are even more impacted by the latest reform.

> > We demand the repeal of Macron's pension reform, laws that penalize 
the unemployed and RSA beneficiaries. We are calling for the revaluation 
of feminized professions (education, care, cleaning, etc.), equal pay, a 
ban on imposed part-time work, the transformation of fixed-term 
contracts into permanent contracts. We want retirement at 60 with 37.5 
annuities.

Public services serving our needs
Liberal ideology aims to break up and privatize public services: 
hospitals, schools, EHPADs, housing. It is women who compensate for this 
deficiency with children as well as the elderly and the sick, to the 
detriment of their career, their financial autonomy, their health.

They assume the vast majority of domestic and child-rearing tasks. They 
carry a mental load forcing them to constantly have to plan everything. 
March 8, 2024: faced with attacks from the government, the right and 
extreme right, women everywhere are resisting!

> > We want quality public services and are calling for the creation of 
public services for early childhood and loss of autonomy. We want time 
to live, an equal sharing of tasks, a reduction in working hours for 
everyone.

Our body belongs to us
The right to abortion is a fundamental right

We demand the reopening of all closed voluntary termination of pregnancy 
centers. We want to enshrine the right to abortion in the Constitution 
in a truly protective manner.

Macron calls for a "demographic rearmament", with Pétainist and 
pronatalist overtones, as if the desire to have a child depended on 
political injunction and is preparing for us a birth leave while 
pointing the finger at "failing" parents.

LGBTQIA, we want to be able to make our life choices, to freely live our 
sexual orientation, our identities.

Disabled, we suffer all the violence. We are deprived of our rights to 
autonomy, education, employment, care, and procreation. We want our 
economic independence, universal accessibility to all public spaces and 
to all places and buildings.

Stop sexist and sexual violence
#MeToo is everywhere, in all walks of life. Impunity persists, 1% of 
rapes are convicted. Macron allows himself to support Depardieu, 
indicted for rape and thus vouches for an entire pattern of oppression. 
Obstetric and gynecological violence (OVG) is systemic and goes 
unpunished. 9% of women say they are victims of brutality in healthcare 
according to the High Council for Equality. The latter emphasizes the 
persistence of sexism among the youngest.

When 56% of victims of sexual violence are minors and 160,000 child 
victims per year, Macron decapitates the Independent Commission on 
Incest and Sexual Violence Against Children and silences the 30,000 
testimonies collected.

While France will host the Olympic and Paralympic Games this summer, we 
are calling for concrete actions to be put in place to combat all 
gender-based and sexual violence, protect victims and combat 
prostitution and pimping networks.

> > We want to restore the CIIVISE to its original purpose and follow 
its recommendations. We are demanding three billion to fight against 
violence, the application of existing laws, the passing of a framework 
law against male violence against women, children and gender minorities.

Educating for equality, a major issue
Education for equality must allow children to understand the mechanisms 
of domination operating in our society.

We want non-sexist education, the effective implementation of education 
in emotional and sexual life which integrates the notions of desire and 
pleasure, education in consent and equality.

On March 8, we will be on strike against the patriarchy and this 
government. We will show the fundamental role of women in society: when 
women stop, everything stops. March 8: feminist strike! All in the 
street in demonstration!
First signatories of the appeal

Africa 93, Women's Assembly, Attac, CGT, CIVG Tenon Collective, National 
Collective for Women's Rights, Coordination of associations for the 
right to abortion and contraception, French coordination for the 
European women's lobby, Women's Feminist Diplomacy 'Future, the 
Effronté-es, Femen, Women against precariousness, unemployment and 
discrimination, Women Equality, Women in Solidarity, Copernic 
Foundation, FSU, Las Rojas, League of Iranian Women for Democracy, 
Maison des femmes Thérèse Clerc de Montreuil , World March of Women 
France, Traumatic memory and victimology, Kurdish Women's Movement in 
France-TJK-F, Nest Movement, Trans Solidarity Organization, Dare 
Feminism, Family Planning, Ruptures Feminist Network, SKB (Union of 
Socialist Women Turkey ), Stop Obstetrical and Gynecological Violence, 
Student Union, National Union of Students of France, National Union of 
Femicide Families, Solidarity Union, Vigilance and Antifascist Union 
Initiatives

In support

Ecologists, Together!, France Insoumise, Democratic and Social Left, 
Ecosocialist Left, Generations, Young Generations, Young Socialists, New 
Anticapitalist Party, NPA-New Anticapitalist Youth Party, French 
Communist Party, Workers' Communist Party of France , Left Party, 
Socialist Party, Public Square, For Popular and Social Ecology, Let's 
Join, Libertarian Communist Union

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