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Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts) Wed Oct 19, 2016, 05:49 AM Oct 2016

Argentina: hundreds of thousands of women set to protest against violence

Argentina: hundreds of thousands of women set to protest against violence

Organizers urge women to stop work and other activities for an hour in Wednesday ‘women’s strike’ following rape and torture of a 16-year-old girl

Uki Goñi in Buenos Aires
Wednesday 19 October 2016 04.15 EDT

Hundreds of thousands of women in Argentina are expected to join a national protest over violence against women on Wednesday, after a 16-year-old girl was raped and tortured.

Organizers of the “women’s strike” have called for every woman in the country to stop work, study and other activities for an hour at 1pm.

“In your office, school, hospital, law court, newsroom, shop, factory, or wherever you are working, stop for an hour to demand ‘no more machista violence’,” wrote the march organizers.

The protest – marked with the Twitter hashtag #MiércolesNegro, or Black Wednesday – was prompted by the abduction of Lucía Pérez, a schoolgirl who was drugged, raped and tortured earlier this month in the coastal city of Mar del Plata.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/19/argentina-women-strike-violence-protest

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Argentina: Girl's Brutal Rape, Murder Sparks New Demonstrations Judi Lynn Oct 2016 #1

Thanks for posting this, Judi. Here's aerial footage from the march: forest444 Oct 2016 #2

Judi Lynn

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1. Argentina: Girl's Brutal Rape, Murder Sparks New Demonstrations

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Wed Oct 19, 2016, 06:08 AM

Oct 2016

Argentina: Girl's Brutal Rape, Murder Sparks New Demonstrations

BUENOS AIRES, Oct 19 (BERNAMA-NNN-AGENCIES) -- The brutal killing of a 16-year-old girl who was allegedly raped and impaled on a spike by drug dealers has sparked outrage in Argentina, where protesters plan a "women's strike" Wednesday.

Lucia Perez, a high school student in the resort city of Mar del Plata, died on Oct 8 after being brought to the hospital by two men who said she had overdosed on drugs.

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The lead prosecutor, Maria Isabel Sanchez, could barely hide her disgust.

"I know it's not very professional to say it, but I'm a mother and a woman, and I've seen a thousand things in my career, but nothing equal to this litany of abhorrent acts," she said.

More:
http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v8/wn/newsworld.php?id=1293315

forest444

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2. Thanks for posting this, Judi. Here's aerial footage from the march:

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Fri Oct 21, 2016, 10:53 AM

Oct 2016

Attendance, despite being held on a weekday in the rain and 55° weather, was estimated at 120,000. And to think Señor Macri always chalks up scanty attendance at his government-sponsored rallies to "the weather."

I might add that the Fox News of Argentina, the Clarín Group's TN cable news, made news themselves when one of its longtime anchors, Mario Massaccesi, suggested that due to the march, "many dishes were left unwashed."

Sounds like Trump's kind of guy.

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