On Sunday, March 5 (today) at 21.00, we announce from our Facebook and Twitter accounts: #8MarttaTaksimdeyiz
Subject: 15th March 8 Feminist Night March
Place: Taksim, in front of the French Cultural Center
Date: March 8, 19.30
Who: Women, LGBTI+ people, (closed to cis men!)
#FeministGeceYürüyüşü #8M #KadınGrevi #Hayatıİstiyoruz
We join the call for the International Women’s Strike from Turkey #ParoInternacionalDeMujeres
To say our choices belong to us against those trying to take decisions about our lives out of our hands #8MarttaTaksimdeyiz
Leave the housework, let the world stop #8MarttaTaksimdeyiz
We abandon neither the nights nor the streets nor the squares! #8MarttaTaksimdeyiz
Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Germany, Northern Ireland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, Poland, Russia, El Salvador, Scotland, South Korea, Sweden and Turkey! #8MarttaTaksimdeyiz
Against those who steal our hope for peace by threatening us with civil war and tell us to surrender our lives unquestioningly into the hands of a single man #8MarttaTaksimdeyiz
To say no to fathers, husbands, lovers, bosses and state “elders” who mix lies with threats to force us to consent and depend on them #8MarttaTaksimdeyiz
To say our bodies, our labor and our identities belong to us #8MarttaTaksimdeyiz
To say no to femicides, male violence and rape in dormitories and foundations, harassment on buses and in the streets, stalking by ex-lovers and spouses, forced marriages and pressure to have children #8MarttaTaksimdeyiz
Against harassment and rape covered up in high schools, discrimination and dating violence at universities, and sexist treatment by academics and teachers #8MarttaTaksimdeyiz
To say we do not want male violence in parliament, sexist MPs or bills legitimizing sexual abuse #8MarttaTaksimdeyiz
Against hate crimes, murders of trans people and homophobic discrimination at work, at school and in the streets, to say we are here, we are together, you cannot stop LGBTI+ people #8MarttaTaksimdeyiz
Against the unpaid domestic labor, childcare and housework loaded onto women; against discrimination in working life and the imposition of the “acceptable woman” at home and in the workplace #8MarttaTaksimdeyiz
To say we do not let them interfere with our lives, we claim our lives #8MarttaTaksimdeyiz
To say you cannot eliminate the women’s associations and centers, closed by decree laws, that women seeking escape from male violence turn to #8MarttaTaksimdeyiz
To say we stand with the workers of the freedom-minded press, academia and state institutions who have lost their jobs, been arrested or face attempts to strip them of their rights #8MarttaTaksimdeyiz
In a polarized world, to say our greatest source of support is women’s solidarity #8MarttaTaksimdeyiz
Facing the life ahead, we will overcome our despair by growing stronger together to say this #8MarttaTaksimdeyiz
@istanbulfeminist