L'Humanité - Google and Apple suddenly removed International Women's Day from their calendars. But in over a hundred cities in France, 250,000 demonstrators participated to commemorate this international event and to mobilize and fight for women's rights. Provocations by identity groups Nemesis and Nous vivrons, which attempted to disrupt the demonstrations organized by about fifty feminist associations, failed to spoil the celebrations in Paris. The march was joyful, festive, and full of songs, from the Republic to the people. "We made it very clear to the prefecture: we do not want a racist, xenophobic, and anti-Semitic identity group," explains Myriam Lebkiri of the CGT. "Their political discourse is incompatible with a demonstration. They come to create disturbances and silence our demands."

"Stop the extreme right, the reactionary right, the government, and its liberal and authoritarian policies!" chanted the collective Feminist Strike, which initiated the mobilization. "For the first time, on March 7th, the government wanted to ban the feminist night march," reacted angrily **Youlie Yamamoto** of Attac and a leading figure in Rosies. This is a historic first in the context of the rise of the extreme right, which is a significant political signal. In the face of the "Bro" club of Trump, Zuckerberg, and Musk, women in the United States are still on the front lines. Feminist resistance is organized against a masculinist, virulently fascist international. In France, despite the Bétharram scandal, François Bayrou is still Prime Minister. The issue of children's rights is crucial and has always been defended by feminist associations. Macron's five-year term, which was supposed to be exemplary, is definitely not. This power embodies patriarchy in all its glory. On Friday evening, March 7th, the administrative court definitively lifted the prefecture's ban just before the feminist night gathering.

62% of people earning minimum wage are women

The General Secretary of the CGT, **Sophie Binet**, seated on the back of a truck, reminded the crowd, before the start of the demonstration, that "there is money, equal pay estimated at 6 billion euros, which could be used to fund the pension fund." Wage inequality is still not being addressed, even though 62% of people earning minimum wage are women, the union representative told her neighbor. **Auriane Bertrand** is wearing a black t-shirt that says "rural women everywhere." The young woman, who usually works in horticulture at the market, can't do that this year because she no longer has any land. "I'm looking for land, it's not easy. With the farmers' confederation, we are trying to bring women closer and assert their place in the agricultural world." The farmer participated in farming workshops to learn about electricity and carpentry, so that she could "make tools on a small scale and that are more ergonomic," taking into account her size. "What we do every day in the field is feminist, it is our way of political expression."

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Mexican artist Vivir Quintana performs "Cancion sin miedo"

The imposing statue of the Republic was covered with a purple shirt denouncing ecocide and the murder of women as consequences of patriarchy. Several Latin American activists sang together Cancion sin miedo (Song without fear) by the Mexican artist Vivir Quintana, which has become a global anthem against the murder of women. After three hours, the last groups, which had been waiting, were finally allowed to join the procession. Behind them, CRS (riot police) advanced and formed a barrier, as the Nemesis collective had not given up on asserting its presence, despite the public unrest it risked causing. A little further on, the Brav-M motorcycle group gathered. This was the first time they had appeared near a feminist demonstration. Street medics were also present, ready to intervene if necessary. At the other end of the demonstration, the wave of purple shirts reached the national assembly.

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