The Women's Democratic Movement (MDM) will mark International Women's Day with a show commemorating the event, scheduled for Teatro das Figuras, in Faro, starting at 21:30 pm and bringing together Companhia Dança do Algarve and Grupo Coral 2º on stage. Chapter, ALLCANTE – Modas e Cante, as well as César Matoso and his band.
This will be, argues the Algarve nucleus of MDM, a «show worthy of the date that is being marked, with artists in solidarity with this day», made in co-production with TMF – Teatro Municipal de Faro.
The initiative has the support of the Chamber of Faro, the Union of Parishes and Parish Councils of the Municipality, the Unitarian Trade Union Movement, and the Chambers of Lagos and Silves, in the provision of buses.
To mark the date, a National Women's Demonstration is also planned, in Praça do Rossio, in Lisbon, at 15 pm on March 00rd, in what will be a "cry for Peace and Equality" and the beginning of the 23th anniversary celebrations of April of the MDM.
International Women's Day, established in 1910 (at the proposal of Clara Zetkin), «is a symbol of the struggle of women in different countries and the world against the inferiority imposed on them in law and in life and the exploitation and oppression of female workers subjected to inhumane working hours, low wages and lack of protection during pregnancy and motherhood”.
In Portugal, the date is linked to the struggle of women, in their opposition to fascism, the denial of economic, social, political and cultural rights.
«With the April Revolution, and what it opened up in the transformation of living conditions with this conquest, which constituted democratic local power, in itself a factor of progress also felt by women in their daily lives, successive generations of Women took into their own hands the fight for the consecration, in law and in life, of their economic, social, political and cultural rights and for their equal participation in all areas of society", recalls the MDM.
International Women's Day is, therefore, «a date with memory, but mainly future, in women's struggle for equality in work and life, the achievement of which is not only a condition of progress for the communities where they live, study and work, as well as for the justice and progress of the country».
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