The Augsburg Feminist Strike Committee is calling for a protest on March 8th, 2022
We are still in crisis – and the system continues to fail. Nurses, doctors, teachers and educators should be fobbed off with bonuses but structural changes are missing. More than ever, mothers, especially in systemically relevant professions, are confronted with multiple burdens. We need this to change! It is not just since the outbreak of the corona pandemic that women have been bearing the brunt of unpaid and low-paid care work. Nursing facilities use the argument of economic efficiency when it comes to the low payment of nursing staff. But the crisis shows that capitalist thinking does not get us anywhere, when solidarity is called for.
Higher salaries or bonus payments are useless when there is a shortage of care workers in the short and long term. The crisis exposes the patriarchal structures that pervade our society: if children have to be quarantined, who takes care of home schooling, childcare and meals? Women experience more family-related stress than men as a result of the corona crisis. Teachers are expected to single-handedly make up for missing state concepts. Caregivers cannot go on like this anymore and they do not want to either. Domestic violence is on the rise. The Patriarchy has a firm grip on us: the role model of the caring housewife and mother, long thought to be outdated, has intensified in the crisis. At the same time, care work is not seen and hardly rewarded.
An end to outdated norms and new performance pressures! No more taking it for granted and not being seen! We are on strike!
On March 8th, 2022 at 4:30 p.m.: Protest and rally, City Hall Square Augsburg, organized by the Augsburg Feminist Strike Committee
For decades, feminists have been discussing the C-question; today, too, we stand up for a gender-equal society. We dream of the feminist utopia and of a future, which we would like to turn into reality today. Feminist struggles connect us! Live feminist! Make care work visible and distribute it fairly! Yesterday, today and tomorrow!
Come by and bring your friends, torches, glow sticks or fairy lights! We symbolically switch on purple lights to finally throw a spotlight on invisible care work.
We developed a hygiene concept so that everyone can feel safe. Please wear masks. The Soliküche Knoblauchfahne provides lunch and dinner.
There will also be childcare.
Further information will be published soon on our website, on Facebook and on Instagram.
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If you have any questions, you can contact us via f-streik-aux@rixeup.net.
It’s time!
Only some days are left for the women*’s strike 2020. We are preparing like crazy!