Many women wore purple clothing: pants, hats or gloves. Not so the musician Olga Tucek, who invited people to sing along with accordion sounds and politically spicy songs. On March 8th, the world celebrates International Women’s Day.
Women’s suffrage has now been won in almost all countries – but there are still enough issues to take to the streets, said Bettina Looser yesterday at Fronwagplatz – such as actual equality in wages and pensions.
Feminist fires on Fronwagplatz. Image: Jeannete Vogel
After the speeches by Sahana Elaiyathamby (we are our mothers’ wild daughters) and Isabelle Lüthi (it’s no use if more and more women get into the carpet floors as long as the majority of women are still cleaning these carpet floors for rock-bottom wages), a short play followed, then it went it in the demonstration procession to the Bach gymnasium. At the end of the day, Olga Tucek performed there and offered a “flaming beacon for fiery women. And brave men.” But before that there was a lecture by the climate seniors.