The cry of vindication for the rights of women spread strongly this Wednesday afternoon in Bariloche. More than 2,000 women took to the streets of this city to commemorate the International Day of Working Women. In addition, they demanded the cessation of sexist violence.
The protesters expressed their demands in dozens of posters that they carried in the mobilization in which feminist, union, political and social organizations participated.
A group of protesters gathered minutes before 5:00 p.m. in the house where Four Mapuche women from the Lafken Winkul Mapu community charged with usurpations in Villa Mascardi are serving preventive home detention.
Former federal judge Silvina Domínguez – who subrogated the Bariloche court – imposed this precautionary measure on the four women for repeated breaches of court orders. Also, the federal judge of Roca Hugo Greca ordered the preventive detention of three Mapuche women from that community for not appearing at the trial hearing to which they had been summoned on December 13.
That group of protesters left after 5:00 p.m. from that point of the city, located in the eastern zone, and marched towards the center of Bariloche, some 3 kilometers away.
They walked along Diagonal Capraro to Moreno, where they came together with a much larger group of women who chose to concentrate in that place.
From there, the women walked down Moreno in the direction of the Civic Center. As they advanced, more women joined the column.
In front was a group of Mapuche women. who demanded the release of the detained Mapuches whom they identified as “political prisoners.” There were around 50 demonstrators carrying Mapuche instruments and flags.
There was a significant distance between the group of protesters demanding the release of the Mapuche women and the main column of the mobilization.
When the march entered Miter Street, the chants and slogans intensified. They remembered women victims of femicide in the recent history of Bariloche and vindicated the feminist struggle in the country and the region.
Tourists and residents filmed with their cell phones the protesters who walked and danced to the rhythm of the La Nube group towards the Civic Center. Purple and green scarves abounded.
“Neighbor, neighbor, don’t be indifferent, they kill us girls in people’s faces!” Was one of the messages they expressed the most.
Around 8 pm they crossed the arcades of the Civic Center and began to populate a sector of the square. There, they sang for several minutes and demanded respect and fulfillment of their rights. But there was no act or speakers.
The afternoon began to say goodbye when the cry against the patriarchy thundered in the main square of the city. It was the end of a day of struggle and claim for the rights of working women in Argentina and the world.
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