TeleSUR correspondent Brian Mier reports on the current Women’s Day march taking place in Recife, Brazil, which has been the epicenter for the feminist struggle in the country. teleSUR
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00:00For decades, the metropolitan region of Recife in Brazil has been the epicenter of the feminist
00:05struggle in the country.
00:07More details with our correspondent Brian Meir.
00:12For decades, the Recife metropolitan area has been an epicenter of working class feminism
00:18here in Brazil.
00:20Today is International Women's Day and like every March 8th for the last 50 or 60 years,
00:27thousands of women are pouring out to the streets to march in solidarity with women
00:33movements around the world.
00:35Now this is an event that's carefully planned over the course of months in assemblies and
00:40plenary sessions with representatives of women's feminist social movements, like the World's
00:45Women's March, the articulation of Brazilian women, as well as social movements like the
00:51Landless World Workers' Movement, labor unions affiliated with the Central Unica dos Trabalhadores,
00:57like the Teachers' Union.
00:59And over the course of these planning assemblies, they develop a series of demands for every
01:05year's march.
01:06This year, there's multiple demands, but the three principal demands that they'll be calling
01:11out for today when they take to the streets are, first of all, an end to violence against
01:17women.
01:18Secondly, an end to the six-day workweek.
01:22Brazil still has a six-day workweek.
01:25This disproportionately damages the working class, who are the focus of the actions being
01:32called for here in the march today.
01:34And finally, they're demanding no amnesty for former President Jair Bolsonaro and his
01:3932 cronies who were indicted last month for attempting to implement a military dictatorship
01:47in a failed coup attempt in January 2023.
01:51So on March 8th, here in Greater Recife, another successful International Women's Day March
01:57is already underway.