By: Paola Zavala
1.-Not one less. We demand a public apology from the Government of Mexico City for the victims of femicides in this City for the lack of prevention policies and timely attention to their cases.
2.-We are all. We ask for respect for our rights and we demand an end to the persecution and intimidation of feminists and rights defenders in the country’s capital.
In this sense, we demand that the intimidation and disqualification of the compañeras of the Antimonumenta of the “Glorieta de las Mujeres que Chann” stop and that they seek to keep alive the memory of the current debts that the State has with thousands of victims. Likewise, we demand that the harassment and political persecution against women critical of the government by the Local Justice Prosecutor’s Office stop, which has used manufactured folders and has exposed their personal data, putting them in danger.
3.- Accountability. We want to know what has happened with the alleged disappearance of the group of riot police from the capital, who have been used to repress various protests against women and native communities.
Women in the city have memories, we remember the march of 2020 and the latter of 2023, where women were attacked by riot police with pepper spray and lights out during the demonstration. We demand public recognition of these attacks and political commitment to non-repetition of the same
4.-Justice for all. We want the simulations in the Prosecutor’s Office to stop for cases of serious attacks on women and femicides where impunity exceeds 90% of the cases
5.- Equality and care.We want to equitably distribute care responsibilities and for the City Government, as an entity bound by the local Constitution, to take the necessary measures to deal with the federal government’s macho decision to eliminate full-time schools
6.- The streets, transportation and the city is ours. We are the majority of the City’s trips, which is why we reject austericide and demand a Fund to increase resources for security towards women in the Metro and public space; as well as in taxis and minibuses. In these spaces, the disappearance of women and femicides, harassment and violence have increased, which is why it is urgent to rethink the streets and make them complete, illuminated, with an immediate response from the police, and prioritizing pedestrians.
In this sense, we demand non-militarized citizen security. We reject the military presence in the City, particularly in the subway.
7.- Decent Cleaning Service. We want the recognition of the more than 10,000 volunteer workers who clean the city daily. The government has insisted on using the term voluntary or meritorious, to deny the employment relationship that already exists with these people, with a high percentage of women among them, especially in manual sweeping.
Although many of these workers depend on the mayor’s offices, the creation of grassroots positions and union digits depends on the city government. The Head of Government has publicly acknowledged that she has an outstanding debt with them, but she has not done anything about it. Meanwhile, women volunteers lack a contract, salary, social security and any other employment benefits, in addition to being completely unprotected in cases of workplace or sexual harassment.
8.- Commerce in the public space. We demand the issuance of the Law on non-salaried workers, self-employed service providers and merchants, which is frozen by the Congress of Mexico City.
As long as that law does not exist, women merchants in the public space continue to experience the violence that legal uncertainty brings with it, such as displacement from their workplaces and theft of their merchandise. This is in addition to the lack of access to a care service that allows them to leave their children in safe places while they increase their labor productivity.
9.- Budget for justice for women. Women are not a priority in this government’s budget. By 2023, the minimal real increases or cuts in programs that benefit women are worrisome: such as maternal, sexual and reproductive health (-3%), support for children of working mothers (-3%). In care for victims of violence there was a minimal increase (+2%) that is insufficient to cover the lack of shelters for victims and other public policies.
10.- Climate justice for all. The effects of climate change are more severe for women, girls and vulnerable populations. We demand the declaration of a climate emergency in the City, which is accompanied by actions for environmental and food resilience.
We also want the 100 hectares per year of the Xicoténcat project to continue and guarantee the access and safe use of water in the capital, because of every 4 liters that we consume per citizen, only one returns to the aquifers, which is obviously untenable.
