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Issues like safety, demand for basic needs of health care, housing and the lack of jobs, the currently on the board for groups like Bhartiya Mahila Federation, Awaz-e-Niswan, Stree Mukti Sanghatana, Forum Against Oppression of Women (FAOW) and Special Cell and Akshara.
“Today one remembers how a 150 years ago the Rani of Jhansi fought for freedom, it was a freedom for all and not just for her state. The city of Mumbai belongs to all of us, like the rest of India does,” says Gangabai about the MNS campaign against migrants from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
“It is not a day to celebrate but to ask for equal rights for working class women and their families,” adds Chayanika Shah of FAOW. There was also a leaflet campaign against the growing violence against women in public and private spaces.
The incidents on New Years Eve and during the T20 celebration show women’s growing vulnerability. Nandita Shah of Akshara was distributing the helpline number 103 that can be used by women in distress.
The women marching were noticed by commuters who stopped by to grab a leaflet, a few foreign tourists who joined the march and began documenting with their cameras, while, for the first time one saw men participating in the march.
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