"Celebrating our languages, cultures, and forms of popular art... When we also frame that with the struggles that many of us as grassroots organizations are fighting for, that together is what makes it even more powerful. Performance and cultural celebration is itself a means of resistance, especially when taking up public space."
"Highlighting how the feminist movement has been co-opted by neoliberals and heavily commercialized within the past decade, organizers noted that Strike Fest is really about bringing back grassroots, labor focused feminism, honoring the genealogy of massive days of action marked in Latin America on March 8."
Maria Hernandez Park in Bushwick hosted the Undocumented Women's Fund's 10th annual Women's Strike NYC Fest, a grassroots celebration of International Working Women's Day blending protest and performance. The festival, organized by UWF and partner organizations including Planned Parenthood and the DSA, advocates for universal social services with focus on immigrant women. The event featured diverse performances from Alt Tlachinolli, Rude Mechanical Orchestra, and other cultural groups. Organizers emphasized that cultural celebration and public space occupation serve as resistance, particularly against the commercialization of feminism. The festival intentionally honors the Latin American tradition of March 8 mass feminist strikes against gender-based violence, economic inequality, and abortion restrictions.
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