Feminist demonstration in Paris: they make their voices heard ahead of March 8

Hundreds of people, mostly young women, demonstrated Monday evening in Paris at the call of a coordination of feminist associations, ahead of March 8, displaying their opposition to the patriarchal system, transphobia or their support for Ukrainian women.

Monday March 7, 2022, as International Women’s Rights Day approaches, a first demonstration took place in Paris, starting at 5:30 p.m.

On social networks, the antifa feminist coordination called for mobilization this Monday evening, from 5:30 p.m. The march started at Place Valhubert, near the Gare d’Austerlitz. The demonstrators passed by the Place de la Bastille, Saint-Paul and then arrived in front of the Hôtel de Ville.

Spokesperson for the Feminist Coordination, a collective bringing together some sixty associations at the origin of this demonstration between the Gare d’Austerlitz and the Hôtel de Ville, Lisa, 26, explained that this event had been « designed in complementarity with the March 8 demonstration for the defense of women’s rights ».

« Let’s march against the capitalist and patriarchal system », or « to our Ukrainian sisters, solidarity », could we read on some signs, behind a head banner displaying: « against putophobic, cis, racist, straight, sexist, validist violence « . “Neither Putin, nor NATO, no to war,” proclaimed another placard.

Some participants wished to stand out from the day of March 8:

For Cécile Manchette, from the feminist collective Du pain et des roses, « today’s demonstration represents a more radical and younger vision. We want to express our disagreement with positions that do not appear anti-racist and anti- capitalists in the feminist struggle ».

According to Arya Moreni, 29, another spokesperson for the collective, this march also aimed to « denounce the fact that this five-year term has been a farce with regard to the police management of sexist and sexual violence ».

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