WOMEN'S STRIKE IN ABYA YALA

CHALLENGES FOR TRANSFORMATIVE MOBILIZATION

Abstract

In October 2016, in Argentina, Lucía Pérez was drugged, raped, impaled and killed by three men. They left her in a hospital claiming that she had overdosed on cocaine. This feminicide took place in the same week that the National Meeting of Women in Rosario was taking place in the country. The violence of this death was the trigger to trigger a collective reaction by women. Not only in Argentina, but all over the world, there was a call for women to take to the streets. Under the motto “ni one less! Vivas y libres we want!” The strike transformed the mobilization against femicides into a massive, transnational movement, capable of connecting sexist and economic violence, denouncing capitalist exploitation. Despite this, many women around the world, and in Latin America itself, did not stop with this great movement. In Brazil, for example, months before Lucía's death, a 16-year-old girl had been raped by a group of 30 men, who recorded the violence on video. This fact did not generate significant repercussions that connected women en masse to the strike movement. In view of this, our proposal is to reflect on the challenges of the women's strike movement, which, although it has become transnational, needs to sensitize a greater number of women in order to build a network with the power capable of transforming reality.