{"id":14306,"date":"2017-03-09T02:31:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T18:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinaworker.info\/?p=14306"},"modified":"2017-03-09T11:48:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T03:48:02","slug":"hong-kong-womens-march-against-sexism-and-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinaworker.info\/en\/2017\/03\/09\/14306\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong women\u2019s march against sexism and racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>International Women\u2019s Day: \u201cSolidarity with global mass protests and women\u2019s strikes\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Socialist Action reporters<\/p>\n<p>Over 70 attended the Socialist Action (CWI) candle-lit demonstration in Hong Kong for International Women\u2019s Day, 8 March. Protesters\u00a0squeezed behind police barriers at Hong Kong\u2019s US consulate to shout slogans against Donald Trump\u00a0and his right wing sexist and racist agenda. Also to show\u00a0solidarity with the global women\u2019s strike and protests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFeminists are silenced and arrested in China,\u201d said Sally Tang Mei-ching of Socialist Action. \u201cThey are banned by the dictatorship from making blog\u00a0posts in support of the international women\u2019s strike and new global movement of radical women\u2019s struggle, so we must be their voice,\u201d she said. Pointing to the Russian Revolution in 1917, she said, \u201cThe Chinese dictatorship is right to fear the voice of women \u2013 because on this day 100 years ago the women of Russia went on strike against the world\u2019s then most bloodthirsty dictatorship, of Tsar Nicholas, and a week later he was overthrown by revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14309\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14309\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14309\" src=\"http:\/\/media.chinaworker.info\/2017\/03\/17190940_1466887053321352_1452332815419443466_n-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sally Tang Mei-ching.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Women from several nationalities \u2013 China, Indonesia, Philippines, Hong Kong and the US \u2013 were present in the protest with\u00a0refugees making up by far the biggest group. In a powerful speech, Mira, a refugee from Indonesia and a member of Socialist Action, spoke about her own experience of violence against women. \u201cRape and abuse within the family is a big problem in Indonesia as in many other countries,\u201d she said. \u201cBut many women don\u2019t speak out because they are afraid\u00a0the authorities won\u2019t take the woman\u2019s side and they could lose custody of their children.\u201d She cited a recent UN report that 1 in 3 women in the world have suffered sexual or physical violence. \u201cWe need a\u00a0united movement to fight against\u00a0this system,\u201d said Mira.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14310\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14310\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14310\" src=\"http:\/\/media.chinaworker.info\/2017\/03\/83Mira-600x448.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"448\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14310\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mira of Socialist Action speaks at the IWD demonstration.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Among the refugee women in Hong Kong many have suffered rape, sexual abuse and violence, but the Hong Kong government is deaf to their plight\u00a0and oversees one of the lowest approval rates for asylum applications anywhere in the world. It is also part of the trend of capitalist governments attacking refugees as\u00a0\u201ccriminals\u201d and \u201cillegal immigrants\u201d to whip up racism as a way to attack the working class as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s latest ban on Muslims and all refugee arrivals in the US was condemned by speakers. Chants of, \u201cNo ban, no wall, Donald Trump has got to fall,\u201d echoed around the consulate building. One speaker pointed out that 78 percent of Syrian refugees, who will be banned from entering the US next week under\u00a0Trump\u2019s latest\u00a0executive order, are women and children \u2013 \u201cterrorists\u201d according to him.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14308\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14308\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14308\" src=\"http:\/\/media.chinaworker.info\/2017\/03\/17155716_1466873009989423_7616473133197636901_n-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14308\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anti-Trump protesters in Hong Kong, IWD 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The demonstration also demanded equal pay for women and a universal pension system financed by taxing the rich. Several media organisations including Al Jazeera covered the protest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, International Women\u2019s Day, we go to the streets \u2013 not to go shopping or organise dinners and ceremonies. We want a new fighting feminism against the rule of the undemocratic billionaire 1 percent,\u201d said Sally Tang Mei-ching.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14307\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14307\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14307\" src=\"http:\/\/media.chinaworker.info\/2017\/03\/17190631_1466872636656127_7855960889927619439_n-1-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14307\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hong Kong International Women\u2019s Day demo organised by Socialist Action.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14315\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14315\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14315\" src=\"http:\/\/media.chinaworker.info\/2017\/03\/Adela-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adela of the Refugee Union addressed the protest.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/chinaworker.info\/en\/2017\/03\/08\/14292\/\">Statement of International Women\u2019s Day protest in Hong Kong<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Women\u2019s Day: \u201cSolidarity with global mass protests and women\u2019s strikes\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":14309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[132,133,148,124],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-china","8":"category-hong-kong","9":"category-international","10":"category-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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