2014: Call to the Action
A call to women and trans people;
We are meeting at Galatasaray at 19:00 for the March 8 Feminist Night March!
Since last March 8, we have passed through another year of continuing, intensifying attacks on women.
Every new day, we read news of another woman’s death. Murderers and rapists go unpunished. The state tries to prevent divorces, not male violence.
The AKP has effectively taken away our right to abortion; we are turned away at the doors of public hospitals. They are drafting laws that will condemn us to flexible and insecure working lives.
While the pressures on us continue to grow, we do not give up struggling and revolting against male domination!
For eleven years, every March 8, we feminists have held a night march in Taksim. The AKP government, attacking every area of our lives, is also trying to take from us the route we march along. Despite all the bans, we are gathering in Taksim again and raising our voices.
In the twelfth year of our Feminist Night March, we will be in the streets at night on another March 8, making noise against patriarchy, male violence, sexism, heterosexism, capitalism, militarism and war.
We invite all women to Galatasaray at 19:00 to raise our voices together and give voice to our revolt!
ISTANBUL FEMINIST COLLECTIVE