The timing of the strike is made all the more significant, as it will take place one day after International Women’s Day.
In just three days Mexico will see its largest national strike with a projected 36.4 million women partaking in #undiasinmujeres . As a direct response to the overwhelming number of murders and attacks on women in the country, organizers in Mexico are going all in to protest for the lives lost and to raise awareness on changes that need to be made going forward.
ADVERTISEMENT The timing of the strike is made all the more significant as it will take place one day after International Women’s Day. Last month protestors defaced the entrance to Mexico’s National Palace, the presidential office and home, after the gruesome death of a 25-year-old woman named Ingrid Escamilla and a 7-year-old girl, Fátima Cecilia Aldrighett, who was abducted from school and later found wrapped in a plastic bag by the side of a construction site. Rightfully enraged, protestors covered themselves in fake blood calling for justice and an end to the alarming rise of femicides in the country.
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