The origin of International Women’s Day is certainly unstable, but what is certain is that the last few years has been a key day around the world. With nearly one million attendees at the 8M demonstration in Madrid in 2019 (375,000, according to the authorities), the day of March 8 has become a day of struggle in which millions of people from different countries they raise their voices to defend a real equality between men and women. On this occasion, and unlike what has happened in the last two years, in 2020 a feminist general strike was not called, but there will be no lack of demonstrations in all the cities of Spain and, surely, in almost all the big cities on the planet.
The marches take place the same week in which the Government of Pedro Sánchez approves the Law of Sexual Freedom and against sexual violence, one of the many demands of the Spanish feminist collective. So the Sunday, March 8 the streets will once again be colored purple and many of the demands for equality will be heard again. These are the demonstrations called for the 8M 2020 day:
Andalusia: all marches
- Seville: Avenida del Cid | 12:00
- Pomegranate: Rotunda del Triunfo | 12:00
- Cadiz: Plaza Asdrúbal | 12:00
- Cordova: Plaza of the Constitution | 12:00
- Seville: Torre Pelli | 12:30
- Cordova: Plaza of the Constitution | 12:30
- Almeria: Puerta de Purchena | 16:00
- Jaen: Plaza San Ildefonso | five pm
- Huelva: Old Columbian Square | 18:00
- Malaga: Alameda de Colón | 18:00
► Here are all the 8M events in Andalusia
Aragon, demonstrations without strike
There will be several events for March 8, although no strike is called. From 13:00 we will proceed to reading the manifesto in the Plaza del Pilar, as is going to happen in many marches, the dance of ‘A rapist on your way’. University students will demonstrate in the morning, while the central demonstration will depart at 18:00 from Gran Vía to Plaza del Pilar. The feminist flag will fly on the balcony of the Town Hall throughout the day, as will various fountains in the city. In Huesca and Teruel there will also be demonstrations in the afternoon.
- Saragossa | 18:00 | Gran Via
- Huesca | 18:00 | Santiago Escartín Otín Civic Center
- Teruel | 18:00 | San Juan Square
Asturias: 8M without stoppages
There will be no strike or work stoppages in the Principality of Asturias, but the feminist movement has called on Asturian women to support a care strike in order to make visible how they contribute to sustaining life with tasks that are not visible or unpaid. The same Sunday there will be gatherings in various town halls at 12:00 in the morning, and the central act of 8M in Asturias will take place in Oviedo, where there will be three different points:
- Oviedo | Column ‘For the missing’ | 17:00 | Renfe
- Oviedo | Column ‘For those who care’ | 17:00 | Plaza america
- Oviedo | Column ‘For those who come’ | 17:00 | Victor Chávarri
Balearic Islands: strike (in the Pitiusas)
The Mallorca Feminist Movement pretends that this year the 8M is “vindictive and ecofeminist”, for which it has called a demonstration in Palma Sunday at 12:00. For their part, the feminist groups in Pitiusas (Ibiza and Formentera) are once again joining the international appeal for labor strike, student strike, care and 24-hour consumption. Several institutes of Mallorca also add to the strike for Friday. They encourage the strike with the motto: “We want ourselves free, we want ourselves alive, feminist, combative and rebellious!”
- Palma de Mallorca | 12:00 | Spain Square
Canary Islands
Under the slogan ‘All free and diverse women’, the Canary Islands faces a week in which they will fight for equality with rap workshops for young people, screening of awareness documentaries and a concert, in addition to the awards ceremony of the Canary Institute of Equality (ICI) 2020. In addition, the Moroccan Navy activist will participate in the institutional events of the 8M offering students from all the islands a three-hour workshop on the fight against sexist violence.
- Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 12:00 | San Telmo Park
- Santa Cruz of Tenerife | 17:00 | Weyler Square
Cantabria
‘All women, all rights, every day’ is the motto of the March 8 demonstration in Cantabria this year. Although this year there will be no labor strike because it is Sunday, a request for a care and consumer strike has been requested. The main demonstration will go through the streets of the capital starting from Puertochico and ending at the Town Hall.
- Santander | 12:00 | Puertochico
Castilla la Mancha
The different platforms and feminist associations of Castilla-La Mancha They plan to concentrate most activities in the first week of the month, with the establishment of information points and activities such as book presentations. The gatherings for Women’s Day will take place, almost in all municipalities, at 12:00 on Sunday, March 8.
- Toledo | 11:30
- Albacete | 12:00 | ‘Punta del parque’ (avenue of Spain, corner with the Abelardo Sánchez park)
- Guadalajara | 12:00 | Appanage
- Basin | 18:00 | Bullring
- Real city | 18:00 | Gasset Park
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Castilla y León
In most of the Castilian-Leonese provinces, the demonstrations will be held at noon on March 8. Through social networks, the different feminist groups have released several videos in which the involvement of different generations and they defend to combat the wage gap, workplace harassment and sexual violence. As extraordinary activities, the Valladolid Science Museum has created a set of clues called “Cuentacientíficas”, for families to locate in their facilities the women who have left their mark on the scientific career.
- Avila | 12:00 | Plaza del Mercado Chico
- Burgos | 20:00 | Plaza del Cid
- Lion | 18:00 | Guzmán Square
- Palencia | 13:00 | Statue of the Woman
- Salamanca | 12:00 | Concord Square
- Segovia | 18:30 | University Square
- Soria | 13:00 | Main Square
- Valladolid | 19:00 | Main Square
- Zamora | 19:00 | Pirulo de la Marina
Catalonia: strike and work stoppages
Contrary to what happens in most of the autonomous communities, some unions have called a strike in Catalonia. Firstly, the possibility of holding stoppages for 48 hours was debated (on Sunday, March 8, and the following Monday), but finally a single one was chosen. strike on Sunday, to which are added the different manifestations at different points.
► Barcelona: in Barcelona, the demonstration starts at 17:00 from Plaça Universitat. Here you can see the itinerary and schedule.
► Lleida: the 8M Coordinator of the city has called a march that leaves at 18:30 from Plaça 8 de Març, but there will be another, called by the Marea Lila, which will have the plaza Ricard Vinyes at 18:00 to arrive, an hour later, to Plaça Sant Joan.
► Tarragona: the March 8 demonstration in Tarragona starts at 17:30 from the Plaza Imperial Tarraco.
► Girona: here there will be several events throughout the week, and the same Sunday at 12:00 in the morning There will be a demonstration in Plaça Independència, called by the Gironina Feminist Platform; but in the afternoon there will be another, called by 8M Girona-Coordinadora de Feminismes Anticapitalista, which will take place at 18:00 in the square 1 d’October.
Estremadura
In ten towns of Badajoz there will be ‘Women’s Careers’ with information points and informative material on equality. In addition, in several towns in La Paz they will do entrepreneurship and female self-defense workshops. The demonstrations will be in the morning:
- Cáceres | 12:00 | Plaza america
- Badajoz | 12:00 | Government Delegation
Galicia
Under the extensive slogan ‘It is our time to conquer rights, it is our time of co-responsibility in care, it is time of equal pay, it is time that it is only yes and it is time of feminism’ Feminist platforms will mobilize in all cities, towns and regions. The Galegas 8M platform also called a demonstration under the message was ‘Without care there is no life’ in Verín (Ourense), where Feijóo had to face the controversial decision to close the delivery, forcing pregnant women to have to travel to the capital, 80 kilometers away, to give birth. This fact turned the municipality of Ourense into a “feminist symbol and women’s rights. “
- A Coruña | 12:00 | Obelisk
- Santiago de Compostela | 19:30 | Praza Oito de Marzo
- Vigo | 18:00 | From Urzaiz and from Vía Norte
- Pontevedra | 17:30 | Provincial Hospital
- Lugo | 12:00 | Xunta Multipurpose Building
- Ourense | 20:00 | Government Subdelegation
The Rioja
Feminist mobilizations in this community will focus on Logroño manifestation on Sunday March 8, which will depart at 18:00 and will take a tour of the city center.
Madrid: march from Atocha
Like the last two years, the demonstration for International Women’s Day It will have its starting point at the Carlos V roundabout, better known as the Atocha roundabout (at the Arte del Metro station). From here it leaves around 17:00, to finish, passing through the main roads of the city, in the Plaza de España. Thousands of people attended the Madrid demonstration last year: one million, according to the organizers; 375,000, according to authorities.
► Route, schedule and slogans of the 8M march in Madrid
Murcia
In the Region of Murcia there is call for a labor strike, promoted by the CGT union for March 8 and 9. The mobilizations in Murcia will be structured around three axes: student, care and consumption, and the demonstration will start on Sunday at 11:30 from the Plaza Circular, to give way later to the central demonstration.
- Murcia | 18:00 | Fuensanta Square
- Cartagena | 12:00 | Spain square
Navarre
The Navarra feminist movement it leaves work stoppages aside and focuses on the “defense of human rights and the anti-fascism“to the cry of ‘They will not pass’. The events will begin in a decentralized way in towns and neighborhoods on March 8 at 12:00, and then move to the Plaza del Castillo in Pamplona where there will be a joint mobilization. In the afternoon, from 18:00, mobilizations have been called in different areas of the foral community.
- Pamplona | 18:00 | Antoniutti Park
Basque Country
When it fell on a Sunday, there will also be no strikes or strikes in the Basque CountryBut there are demonstrations in the three Basque capitals and in various towns. In Bilbao, one of the cities where feminism has achieved greater convening power in previous years, protest activities will take place until Sunday. On Saturday 7, at 7:00 p.m., women will wear black to claim “anti-capitalist feminism” in Gran Vía with Astarloa and a night demonstration will be held, prior to the main mobilization on Sunday.
- Bilbao | 12:00 | Monument to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
- Vitoria | 17:30 | San Antón Square
- Saint Sebastian | 18:00 | Boulevard
Valencian Community
The Valencian Community has also dropped this year from the strikes and the strike, but it maintains the demonstration, which will carry the motto ‘Feminisme per a canviar el món’ (‘Feminism to change the world‘) and in which batucadas and’muixerangas‘(human towers) of women. The march will be accessible to women with disabilities and space is reserved for them just behind the header banner. An anti-racist column that will leave the Center for Internment of Foreigners (CIE) of Valencia will join the demonstration. From the day before March 8, the Feminist Assembly has called for the “occupation” of the Plaza de la Virgen and during the Friday and Saturday before it will carry out actions in the neighborhoods.
- Valencia | 18:00 | IES Lluís Vives [con columna a las 16:30 desde el CIE]
- Alicante | 18:00 | Plaça dels Estels
Autonomous cities
In Ceuta they also join the celebration of the performance of ‘A rapist on your way’ for the 8M, and after the demonstration the manifesto will be read. In Melilla, for its part, feminism will seek to make visible the “systematic violation of the fundamental rights of migrant women”, as well as the strategies and process of struggle that this group carries out in this context.
- Ceuta | 19:00 | Constitution Plaza
- Melilla | 12:15 Real Market
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