22:37 –
| 8M Feminist Coordinator: «It seems to us that this year we have once again demonstrated our feminist power»
22:33 –
| Feminist Coordinator 8M: «In the Metropolitan Region there were more than 350 thousand, but we know that actions were carried out in the various territories. We are the women, the dissidents, the residents, the caregivers, the deaf companions, the Palestinians, the Mapuche companions, those who care, those who raise, the students, the secondary ones.»
22:26 –
| Feminist 8M coordinating spokesperson, Gabriela Jadue: «This year women and dissidents, feminist social organizations from all over the countrywe take on the streets with our diversity, our diverse struggle, our actions»
22:08 –
| At the end of the massive march in commemoration of 8M in Concepción, a group of people set up barricades in the Paicavi Rotonda, a situation that caused the Carabineros – with their water-throwing car – to disperse the crowd and turn off the lights. Traffic has already resumed in the sector.
21:34 –
| Senator Campillai: «We have to continue working and fighting, making bills and passing laws so that our women have better pensions and so that women with some type of disability are more included in society»
21:34 –
| Senator Fabiola Campillai participates in the #8M demonstration in Santiago: «The march today was very nice. A lot of people. I think there are many more people than last year»
21:31 –
| Santiago Metro reported that the Santa Lucía station, on Line 1, is closed and no trains are stopped due to disturbances outside #8M #8marzo2024 #CooperativaContigo
9:23 p.m. From this moment Santa Lucía station #L1 It is closed and no trains are stopped due to disturbances outside.
Closed:
%u274C%uFE0FU. Catholic
%u274C%uFE0FSanta Lucia
%u274C%uFE0FBaquedano (Combination available) https://t.co/4yXatN8VJQ— Santiago Metro – #NuevoViaje (@metrodesantiago) March 9, 2024
21:26 –
| Carabineros estimates that 35,000 attended the 8M march in Santiago
19:45 –
| Concepción: The massive demonstration – which until now has been carried out in tranquility – has included batucadas, slogans for women’s rights and calls for justice for cases that have not yet been clarified by justice.
19:45 –
| Under a light rainabout 6 thousand women march this Friday through the center of Concepción in commemoration of International Women’s Day #CooperativaContigo
19:30 –
| [En vivo] Minister Orellana avoids describing comprehensive abortion as a legislative priority in this Government: «The priorities this year are conjugal partnership and Chile Cuida»
19:27 –
| [En vivo] Minister Orellana: «Our legislative agenda will have as its center the modification of conjugal society»
19:26 –
| [En vivo] Minister Orellana and offensive of the right against the Comprehensive Law against Gender Violence: «Presenting an appeal between roosters and midnight on the eve of #8M shows more of a position regarding women than my indication as minister or the work we have done made»
19:24 –
| [En vivo] Minister Orellana and right-wing offensive against the Comprehensive Law against Gender Violence: «It delays us with respect to measures that are fundamental for us, such as better control of precautionary measures»
19:24 –
| [En vivo] Minister Orellana and offensive of the right against the Comprehensive Law against Gender Violence: «Promoting gender equality does not violate the Constitution; we see, rather, a dispute within the right about how to address the issue of women»
19:18 –
| [En vivo] Minister Orellana on cases of sexist violence in full #8M: «It has been quite hard, and it also feels harder in the sense that we found out that the Comprehensive Law against Gender Violence has been brought to the TC under arguments that are not «There is no way in which this new rule violates the Constitution.»
19:18 –
| [En vivo] #8M Minister Orellana: «We need better monitoring of precautionary measures (…) The victim should not comply with them; they are an order of justice and it should be the institutions that comply with them»
19:16 –
| [En vivo] #8M Minister Orellana on possible femicide in La Florida: «Without advancing hypotheses, what we can say is that there are reasons related to the fact of being a woman»
19:13 –
| From the #8M march, the senator and helmsman of the PS, Paulina Vodanonic, speaks about the opposition’s offensive against the Comprehensive Violence Law in the TC: «When we see that the right intends to question a democratic deliberation, it is the moment in which «All generations, movements and parties are in the streets and demanding what women deserve, which is respect and equality.»
19:10 –
| Senator Claudia Pascual (PC) from the #8M march: «I share what the Minister of Women has strongly outlined in the last interviews, in terms of advancing in the defense in the TC of the right to a life free of violence , bring out a conjugal partnership, advance other legislation such as the Adriana Law»
19:03 –
| The #8M march has arrived at Los Héroes, where there is a stage to close the day #8marzo2024 #CooperativaContigo
19:02 –
| Santiago Metro reports that the entire network is operational #8M #8March2024 #CooperativaContigo
18:40 –
| The mayor of Santiago, Irací Hassler (PC), joins the #8M feminist march along with other communist authorities (Credit: Paula Kelly – Cooperativa) #8marzo2024 #CooperativaContigo
18:25 –
| Due to the march for International Women’s Day that moves along the southern road of Alameda, between Avenida Vicuña Mackenna and Los Héroes, there are important perimeter cuts and detours throughout the central sector of Santiago:
18:17 –
| Women of all ages participate in the #8M march, from girls to older adults (Photo: ATON) #8marzo2024 #CooperativaContigo
18:15 –
| The #8M march along the Alameda passes in complete calm: chants, dances and posters with demands for gender equality are seen and heard along the way (Photo: ATON) #8marzo2024 #CooperativaContigo
18:12 –
| «The reason I come is to stop the harassment. Not being able to go out on the street at night, not being able to live in peace,» another marcher explained to Cooperativa #8marzo2024 #CooperativaContigo
18:12 –
| «What motivates me (to march) is that we want more security; to express that we are not alone and that we are all together,» said an attendee of the #8M demonstration to Cooperativa #8marzo2024 #CooperativaContigo
18:06 –
| «We still have a lot to fight for»: Government spokesperson, Camila Vallejo, revealed progress and pending challenges in the fight for gender equality in Chile #8M #8marzo2024 #CooperativaContigo
We still have a lot to fight, as a Government we move forward so that the diversity of women who inhabit our country can develop their lives free of gender violence. Today we commemorate a new #8M where we highlight the concrete advances we have had in this matter.%u2026 pic.twitter.com/1cl2kZUFSe
— Camila Vallejo Dowling (@camila_vallejo) March 8, 2024
18:05 –
| The march for #8M began in Santiago. The participants walk peacefully through the Alameda towards Los Héroes along the south road #8March2024 #CooperativaContigo
17:52 –
| #8M #8marzo2024 Thousands demonstrated this Friday throughout Spain in favor of equality and against sexual violence and prostitution, despite the division within the feminist movement that was noted, once again, in Madrid, where Two different marches were called (Photo: EFE) #CooperativaContigo
17:40 –
| Manuel Rodríguez to the south is being diverted by Santo Domingo to the west, due to traffic detours in the center of #Santiago #8M #8marzo2024
Now (17:43) Manuel Rodriguez to the south is detoured by Santo Domingo to the west, due to traffic detours in the center of #Santiago pic.twitter.com/xuPNiTvh40
— TransportationInforma Metropolitan Region of Santiago (@TTISantiago) March 8, 2024
17:36 –
| Metro reported that Line 1 service is operating normally #8M #8March2024
17:23 –
| Not only in Chile have demonstrations been called for International Women’s Day, and throughout the world thousands of women have taken to the streets to commemorate this 8M:
17:19 –
| Spokesperson for the 8M Feminist Coordinator: «We understand that we are in a time of different types of violence but that they mainly have to do with a patriarchal, capitalist origin, which mainly affects women and dissidents who are part of the working class.»
17:18 –
| Carolina Rubilar, spokesperson for the 8M Feminist Coordinator, stated that this year’s march has its focus on «popular and feminist solidarity against patriarchal and capitalist violence, regarding the different crises in our country: economic, housing, security «
17:12 –
| The march involves traffic cuts in the center of Santiago that have been applied since 4:00 p.m., as detailed by Carabineros: from the east through Eliodoro Yáñez, to the height of Toro Mazote in the west; to the north with Bellavista and to the south with Avenida Matta.
17:11 –
| The demonstration, coordinated with the metropolitan authorities, will begin in Plaza Baquedano and will advance through the central alley of the Alameda until reaching Los Héroes, where there will be a stage to close the day with an event.
17:11 –
| The 8M Coordinator will carry out the traditional march this Friday in commemoration of Women’s Day, which will travel from 6:00 p.m. along Alameda, the main artery of Santiago.