Several hundred people have demonstrated in Arrecife to commemorate International Women's Day, a march in which the vice president of the Mararía association, which helps victims of sexist violence, Carmen Delia Reyes, has stressed that 8M "is not a day, but a movement for change".
The demonstration began after 12:00 hours in the Plazuela de Arrecife and went along Canalejas Street, Avenida Marítima and Calle Real, to return to the starting point again.
A banner with the slogan "Against sexist violence, feminist resistance", held by women, opened the march, during which slogans such as "down with fascism, up with feminism", "we want ourselves alive, free and without fear", "it is not an isolated case, it is called patriarchy" or "patriarchy is a judge that judges us for being born" were chanted.
Before the start of the demonstration, Reyes read a manifesto in which she requested "real equality" of rights and the empowerment of young women, which she considered "will be the guarantee of the changes of the future".
She also spoke of strengthening health and education to contribute to the eradication of gender violence, and of breaking the glass ceilings and gender gaps.
The representative of Mararía stressed that in 2024 "94 women were murdered in Spain and that every day there are nine rapes and 55 sexual assaults, two every hour", while lamenting that, despite this, the sexual violence that is reported is still a very small percentage of what women suffer.
The demonstration, convened by the Mararía association, the Forum against gender violence and the 8-M feminist Platform, ended with the reading of another manifesto and several poems.
During their tour, the participants booed three people who were holding a Spanish flag and a banner with the slogan "the arrival of boats multiplies rapes".
