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Tampa, FL \u2013 On Sunday, March 8, over 100 people marched through downtown Tampa for International Women\u2019s Day. The march started and ended at Tampa City Hall.<\/p>\n
Organized by the Tampa Immigrants\u2019 Rights Committee, the event featured an organization fair and speakers from eight different organizations. The crowd chanted \u201cNo fear, no hate, no ICE in our state,\u201d \u201cMoney for jobs and education, not for war and deportation\u201d and \u201cMy body my choice,\u201d receiving enthusiastic support from passing by drivers and pedestrians.<\/p>\n
Stephanie Yocum, president of the West Central Florida Labor Council, talked about the militant working-class women who created International Women\u2019s Day, stating, \u201cToday belongs to working women past and present, to those who demand dignity at work, to those who understand that justice in jobs is justice in life, and to those who continue that struggle today.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yocum also highlighted Florida Senate Bill 1296 which would raise the threshold for union recertification. This bill passed the Florida Senate on Friday, March 6. Like many other anti-union legislations in Florida, this one also does not apply to police, firefighters or correctional officers.<\/p>\n
Yunqing Zheng from TampaIRC said, \u201cwe demand justice for women killed by increased border militarization, and we demand no ICE in our communities. Women and young girls in detention centers suffer from sexual assault to sterilization to medical neglect including denial of life saving care and postpartum care. We saw this happen in Tampa with Heidi Sanchez and Mabelyn Hernandez-Diaz who were detained while still nursing.\u201d They also demanded justice for Renee Good, whose killer \u2013 Jonathan Ross \u2013 has yet to be charged and convicted.<\/p>\n
\u201cBuilding the fight against Trump and his agenda is crucial to fighting women\u2019s oppression,\u201d said Victoria Hinckley of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. \u201cWe also demand no war with Iran! We refuse to believe the lies being told to us by the ruling class that the bombs the U.S. drop on Iran is somehow liberating for women.\u201d<\/p>\n
The event also featured speakers from Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society, Tampa Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, Tampa Democratic Socialists of America, and Hillsborough Young Democrats.<\/p>\n
#TampaFL<\/a> #FL<\/a> #InternationalWomensDay<\/a> #ImmigrantRights<\/a> #WomensMovement<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa, FL \u2013 On Sunday, March 8, over 100 people marched through downtown Tampa for International Women\u2019s Day.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-189158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}