Feminist Struggles in Latin America

GAGO, VERÓNICA

Princeton

Workshop; Feminist Struggles in Latin America: Past/Present; 2018

Princeton University

On March 8, 2017, the International Women?s Strike was coördinated between more than fifty countries, drawing on the momentum that had been building since the Latin American women?s strike on October 19, 2016. The International Women?s Strike in 2018 has set another date, in assemblies in many neighborhoods and cities, in meetings in unions and schools, in encounters in factories and community spaces. The strike expresses, once again, an organizational horizon here and now, constructed from below: as an action that has revitalized the broad movement of women, including trans women, lesbians, and transvestites, that has not stopped growing, expanding, and diversifying. In this sense, it is important to think of the strike as a process and not as an event. The time between one ?date? and another ?date? is not empty or devoid of activity. In Latin America and the Caribbean, the strength of the strike is always a combination of mourning and struggle: in March we commemorate a new anniversary of the assassination of Berta Cáceres who lives on today in struggles against neoextractive projects, as well of the girls who died on March 8, 2017 in a children?s home in Guatemala.