They ask for 26,000 euros from seven women for blocking the tracks in the 2018 Feminist General Strike

By Patricia Reguero El Salto Original in Castillian below The railway company of the Generalitat de Catalunya has appeared in the Summons of seven activists for blocking the tracks during the hugely successful feminist General Strike on March 8, 2018.

The campaign #8MilMotius (8000 reasons) puts in context the action in which about 30 women participated and asks for the case to be dropped.

The action, in which some 30 women participated, was one of the many that the strike committee of Sant Cugat del Vallés (Barcelona) had scheduled for the feminist strike day. “Actions were organized, and one of them was the cutting of the railways, to symbolize the break made by a General Strike,” explains Anna Sala, one of seven women who are being investigated.

“The action was decided by the 8M strike committee through an open assembly where all the women of the town who wanted to participated, so we understand that it is legitimized,” she says.

During the action “seven of us were identified by the police”.A few days later, Sala continues, they are summoned to declare before the police, at which time they demanded their right not to testify. Later comes the notification of the Court Case organised voluntarily by the Mossos ”Catalan” police against the women activists, using a complaint filed by the Railway Company FGC.

Now, the seven women are waiting to know if this complaint prospers, although they maintain the hope that it can be dropped. “What is asked is excessive when it was a day of strikes in which thousands of women took to the streets,” she explains.

Meanwhile, the Feminist Assembly of Sant Cugat del Vallés has launched a campaign to activate the affinity networks that were generated during the organization of the strike, create a resistance Fund and continue to claim the reasons for the strike. “We want to put on the table that we had many reasons for this action as well as for the others and we continue to have them now,” explains Sala. The campaign # 8MiMotius is also directed specifically at FGC. “The action was not done without reason in FGC, but we wanted to point out that public transport is one of the places where aggressions occur daily,” he says. In fact, the Survey of Macho Violence in Catalonia 2016 indicates that 56% of aggressions against women by men who are not partners or ex-partners occurred mostly in leisure places, in public spaces, or in public transport. 17% OF ATTACKS ON WOMEN BY MEN WERE ON PUBLIC TRANSPORT From # 8MilMotius remember that the punishment for the feminist strike has not occurred only in Sant Cugat. Different feminist assemblies have been denouncing since March 8 and the Gag Law has been used to suppress the protest, as shown by the twelve fines that the feminist movement has suffered for actions during the strike of March 8 in Valencia or those registered in Burgos against several activists who participated in a picket in a shopping center. Women in the feminist strike in Sant Cugat on March 8 in an image donated by the Strike Committee. The activists will explain their reasons on November 30 in the Grand Protest Fiesta in Sant Andreu barrio and on December 1 in the Vallcarca Days on Repression in Feminist Movements. Become a Member/Hazte socio/ Huelga feminista They want us submissive, but we are combative: towards 8M2019



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Piden 26.000 euros a siete mujeres por cortar las vías en la huelga feminista

Por Patricia Reguero / El Salto