8M arrives, International Women’s Day, and the feminist movement takes to the streets again. In cities and towns throughout the country there will be rallies and demonstrations that will try to build muscle and maintain the momentum that managed to shake society five years ago. In the background there is a political context of confrontation around equality and a gap in the feminist movement that crystallizes in some territories in two separate demonstrations. These are the main calls:
Andalusia
In Almeria The march will depart at 8:00 p.m. from the Rambla Amphitheater to Puerta Purchena. Two hours earlier, at 6:00 p.m., the 8M Commission of Cadiz has convened from Plaza Asdrubal to Plaza Catedral. At the same time the march will start in Córdoba from the Red Cross roundabout to finish at 9:00 p.m. in La Corredera. Also at 6:00 p.m. the protest is called in Granada, from the Plaza del Triunfo to the Paseo del Salón. In Huelva the demonstration will leave at 7:00 p.m. from the Plaza del Antiguo Estadio and in Jaen It will be at 5:30 p.m. from the Plaza de la Concordia to finish in Plaza de Santa María.
In Málaga feminism will march at 7:30 p.m. from the Plaza de la Marina to the Plaza de la Constitución while Sevilla It will be the only Andalusian city in which there will be two calls: from 6:30 p.m., between Torre Pelli and Plaza de San Francisco convened by the Feminist Assembly of Seville and at 7:30 p.m., from Plaza Nueva to Alameda de Hércules organized by the Feminist Movement of Sevilla.
Aragon
In Huesca, the demonstration will start at 7:00 p.m. from Plaza Navarra. At the same time, the one in Zaragoza will do so, from Plaza Aragón, and also the one in Teruel, which will leave from Plaza del Torico.
Asturias
This year the great Asturian demonstration has been called in Mieres by Asturies Feminista 8M at 7:00 p.m. from Pozu Barredo to Plaza Campus Universitario. In Gijón, the “Libres y combativas” Student Union organized a protest at the same time in the El Bibio bullring.
baleares
In Palma there will be a double call. The first, organized by the 8M Transfeminist Coordinator of Mallorca, will leave Plaza de España at 6:00 p.m. The second, which will begin at 7:00 p.m. in Parque de las Estaciones, is organized by the Feminist Movement of Mallorca.
Canary Islands
The 8M Feminist Platform of Tenerife has called a mobilization that will leave at 7:00 p.m. from Plaza Weyler. At the same time, the march will start from the San Telmo park, called by the Feminist Network of Gran Canaria and in Arrecife it will leave the square of the capital of Lanzarote at 7:00 p.m. At 6:00 p.m. the demonstration will begin in The Palm, specifically on Calle Real de Santa Cruz de La Palma. On the same island, another demonstration has been called in Los Llanos de Aridane by the Jacaranda Palmera Feminist Association at 6:00 p.m. from the Placeta.
cantabria
The 8 de Marzo Cantabria Commission and the Open Feminist Assemblies of Cantabria convene in Santanderat 7:00 p.m. from Puertochico to the Plaza del Ayuntamiento.
Castile and Leon
CCOO convenes in Avila from the Plaza del Mercado Grande (Plaza de Santa Teresa) at 7:30 p.m. In the Plaza del Cid in Burgos convenes the Feminist Coordinator of Burgos at 20:00. In León there are two, at 6:30 p.m. the one called by the León Feminism Movement that will leave from Ordoño II avenue, in front of the City Hall, and at 7:00 p.m. by the 8M León Commission from the Guzmán roundabout. The Platform for Women’s Rights convenes in Palencia at 8:00 p.m. from Calle Mayor (at the height of the Woman of Palencia).
In Salamanca, at 20:00 the Feminist Movement of Salamanca convenes in the Plaza de la Concordia. At 19:00 in Segovia, convenes the 8M Segovia Platform for the Rotonda del Pastor-Conde Sepúlveda- Ezequiel González-Azoguejo route. The Municipal Council of Women will leave in Soria at 20:00 from the Plaza Mayor and at the same time the Women’s Coordinator has organized the march, which will leave from the Plaza Fuente Dorada in Valladolid. The 8M Assembly of Zamora convenes at 8:30 p.m. at the Milestone of La Marina.
Castilla la Mancha
In Albacete convenes the Albacete 8M Platform at 6:00 p.m. from Gabriel Lodares square to Altozano square. Violet Command summons in Cuenca at 6:00 p.m. from the Plaza de Toros to the intersection of Carretería street with Sánchez Vera street. Real city will host the Assembly of Feminist Women of Ciudad Real in the Plaza Mayor at 8:00 p.m. and in Guadalajara The 8M Commission calls on women to take to the streets at 7:30 p.m. from the Plaza de Santo Domingo. In Toledothe Toledo 8M Platform will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the Parque de la Vega.
Catalonia
In Barcelona The informative Central Piquete begins in Jardinets de Gràcia at 9:00 am. At 12:00 there will be the Demonstration of students in Plaça Universitat, the same location for the unitary demonstration called by Assemblea 8M at 18:30.
In Tarragona convenes Platform 8M in Plaça Imperial Tàrraco at 12:00, and CCOO in Plaça de la Dona Treballadora at the same time. In the Subdelegation of the Generalitat of Girona there will be a concentration at 11:00 am and at 6:00 pm two demonstrations will start, the one called by the Coordinator of Anticapitalist Feminisms in Plaça 1 Octubre and by the Feminist Platform in Plaça de la Independència.
In Lleidathe Marea Lila will leave at 6:00 p.m. from Plaça Ricard Vinyes and at 6:30 p.m., the Lleida 8M Coordinator calls from Plaça del 8 de March.
Valencian Community
In Valenciathe Feminist Assembly of Valencia convenes at 5:30 p.m. from the CIE in Zapadores, and at 7:00 p.m., from La Porta de la Mar, the feminist coordinator of Valencia convenes.
Estremadura
The main protests in Extremadura will be in badajoz, where the march will start at 6:00 p.m. from Avenida de Huelga; in caceres half an hour later from the Plaza de América; in Merida at 8:00 p.m. from Plaza de España and at the same time from Parque de la Coronación in plasencia.
Galicia
The demonstration will begin in A Coruña from the Obelisk at 20:00. The Feminist Movement of Compostela convenes in Santiago de Compostela at 7:00 p.m. in Praza March 8. With the same route comes another header backed by the Marcha Mundial das Mulleres. In Lugo, from the multipurpose building of the Xunta (Ronda da Muralla, 70) will depart at 20:00. At 12:30 pm there will be a concentration in the Plaza Mayor of Ourense and at 20:00 the demonstration from the Government Sub-delegation (Parque de San Lázaro, 3). In Pontevedra will leave at 8:00 p.m. from Praza de Ourense and in Vigo they will depart from Praza dos Cabalos at the same time.
Madrid’s community
In Madrid The 8M Commission calls the demonstration at 7:00 p.m., which will start in Atocha to continue along Paseo del Prado, will cross Plaza de Cibeles and continue along Calle de Alcalá and Gran Vía to Plaza de España. There will be another demonstration organized by the Feminist Movement of Madrid, which begins at 6:30 p.m. from the Plaza del Emperador Carlos V (Glorieta de Atocha) until it ends in the Plaza de las Provincias.
Region of Murcia
The Feminist Assembly of the Region of Murcia and the Feminist Movement of the Region of Murcia call the demonstration at 7:00 p.m. and it will begin in the Plaza de La Fuensanta in Murcia.
Navarra
In Pamplona the demonstration will leave the Antoniutti park at 20:00.
Basque Country
In Bilbao The Student Union has called for the student feminist strike at 12:00 pm from the Arriaga Theater. The call for the abolitionist bloc of the feminist movement is at 6:30 p.m. at the corner of Viajes Ecuador on Gran Vía. (Poster workshop in the Doña Casilda park at 5:00 p.m.) Euskal Herriko Mugimendu Feminista, convenes under the motto “Denon bizitzak erdigunean” at 7:30 p.m. from the Plaza Corazón de Jesús.
In Donostia the Student Union has called for the student feminist strike at 12:00 pm from the Boulevard. At 6:30 p.m., Euskal Herriko Mugimendu Feminista and the abolitionist bloc converge from the Old Tunnel.
Vitoria-Gasteiz will host the student feminist strike of the Student Union, which has called at 12:00 pm from the Plaza de la Virgen Blanca and at 6:45 pm the Euskal Herriko Mugimendu Feminista and the abolitionist bloc converge from the Plaza Bilbo.
The Rioja
The March 8 Platform has called for a demonstration through the streets of Logroño, which will leave at 7:00 p.m. from the Glorieta del Doctor Zubía.
