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TAKING A STAND
MALLORCA took a firm stand to mark International Women’s Day. All over the island there were events and actions leading up to and on the actual day itself on Sunday March 8 to celebrate women and their contribution to society, but also to call for greater rights and gender equality.
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The biggest gathering was the march organised by the Mallorca Feminist Movement under the banner ‘Destruye el Patriarca-
do, no el planeta’ (Destroy the Patriarchy, not the Planet). Some 10,000 women, and men, of all ages turned
MARCHERS: Made their way through the streets of Palma under the banner ‘Destroy the Patriarchy, not the Planet.’ out to make their way in a festive atmosphere from the Plaza España to the Parc del Mar, where this year’s manifesto was read out.
Joining the demonstrators were representatives of a number of political parties, trade unions, social organisations and institutions, in-
cluding the Government Sub-delegate Aina Calvo, the Consell de Mallorca President Catalina Cladera and Palma City Mayor Jose Hila. Balearic Island President Francina Armengol was also there. She insisted on the need to “carry on fighting, to continue demanding and to continue celebrating” the advances gained in gender equality. “We have come a very long way with important laws… but there remains a long road ahead; we still have a situation of real inequality,” she added.
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