🟣 Resisterhood: Feminist struggles for global revolution!
Left MEPs @MalinBjork_EU, @ElenaKountoura & @meugeniarpalop & guests discuss how freedom from patriarchy can help end violence against women & fight exploitation & female poverty.
📺https://left.eu/events/resisterhood-for-global-revolution/
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Ahead of #InternationalWomensDay, the Left is organising its annual Feminist Forum at the European Parliament, ASP 1G2.
📅7th March 202…
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At the EU level the gender pay gap is 13%.
"Patriarchy is present on a daily basis, from the street to the workplace," says @ManonAubryFr
"All this discrimination makes us more motivated and determined to push the agenda as far as it needs to go."
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Left_EU/status/1633031628116176898
"Crises always have a gender impact," says @meugeniarpalop
"Women suffer pay & pension gap, bear the burden of care & are more affected by poverty & social exclusion. But they are also agents of change.
"To address female poverty, we need #Resisterhood & feminist policies."
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Left_EU/status/1633058677040074758
"Many undocumented workers are vulnerable to violence," says Evelyne, from Ligue des Travailleuses Domestiques.
"But we refuse to live like this. We demand legal access to dignified work."
"Vos propres toilettes, nos propres papiers."
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Left_EU/status/1633084265117220869
"We stand and fight together in the streets," says @mmatias_
"This Forum is always an opportunity to bring the fight and its protagonists to the Parliament to hear from them & to learn for our legislative action."
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Left_EU/status/1633105099336605698
"It will be another 60 years before we achieve equality in the EU," says @ElenaKountoura
"No society can move forward toward prosperity when rampant inequality, gender stereotypes & patriarchal violence exists.
We need zero tolerance of violence in all its forms."
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Left_EU/status/1633032296667258881