Lanzarote commemorates International Working Women's Day
Different institutions and associations on the island have commemorated International Working Women's Day this Thursday, with different events in which a call for equality has been made.
Neighbors, workers and members of the Municipal Corporation gathered this Thursday morning at the doors of the headquarters of the Tías City Council, where a manifesto prepared by the Youth and Equality Policies Commission of the Canary Islands Federation of Municipalities (Fecam) was read.
Likewise, the City Council staff has distributed violet ribbons these days among establishment owners and the general population, such as the one on the facade of the Consistory.
A violet ribbon could also be seen on the facade of the Haría City Council , which has also distributed small violet cords this Thursday to public workers and residents who come to the northern Consistory's offices. The rest of the city councils, as well as the Cabildo, will also wear a violet ribbon on their facades until March 26.
In Playa Honda, the Tiema Rural Women's Association has gathered in Santa Elena Square, at 1:00 p.m., to read the manifesto of the Canarian Feminist Action Platform.
Concentration
Meanwhile, at 5:30 p.m., the PSOE began a march for equality, which started from the Insular Library, to pass through the neighborhoods of Titerroy and Valterra and end, at 6:00 p.m. on Calle Real, where a concentration called by the Forum against Gender Violence will be held. During this act, the Cabildo distributed an explanatory brochure on the reasons that every year lead to remembering "the struggle of women for their participation on an equal footing with men in society and their full development as a person."
The Forum against Gender Violence will also present this Friday, at 8:30 p.m. in the Insular Theater, the short film entitled "Woman: 100 years of struggle" and a musical performance, which will be given by the Municipal Band of San Bartolomé and the Municipal Choir of San Bartolomé.
For its part, Mararía will be next Saturday at 1:30 p.m., on Calle Real, distributing ribbons. Afterwards, at 12 noon, it will inaugurate a collective exhibition of artists in several shop windows on Calle Real. In the afternoon, at 5:30 p.m., there will be an island meeting of women at the Sociedad Democracia de Arrecife
