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People will die and we will live free like other people. And finally a shake up at the top of german politics why one of the countrys most recognized politicians wont be part of the next government. Whether calling for a quality freedom respect or an end to gender violence women around the world have been using International Womens day to make their voices heard crowds of demonstrators filled the streets of cities including manila seoul new delhi and look for on thursday this International Womens day comes in the wake of the need to movement and well be having a deeper look at what has changed since it began half a year ago but first we begin in spain where women staged a full day night nationwide strike and heres a look at the days events. And the hours and passionate schools to change this was in the trees Cent ....
And for more on the me too movement let s bring in christina luntz editor of. the cofounder of the center for feminist foreign policy welcome to you christina and we re also joined from france we are joined to this evening by gloria freedman a sculptor who signs the controversial letter from actress catherine deneuve criticizing the me to movement welcome to both of you we appreciate you both being on the program with us this evening and christina i d like to turn to you first the me too movement of course a prominent movement getting getting a lot of press a lot of attention is it fair to say that this has been a sea change not only when it comes to the fight against sexual harassment but also the fight for greater gender parity definitely and i think it s. it has positive implications as well negative for so the fact that more people are listening now and more people are speaking out is definitely something incredible powerful and ....
Implications as well negative for so the fact that more people are listening and more people are speaking out is definitely something incredible powerful and important but at the same time it just shows that for so many years indicates women have tried to speak out but the mechanisms of oppression of silencing women so effective that no woman went to her and they were not believed in extent as we know so they did have a voice they didn t have a platform. gloria you have also referred to that you in fact in you signed this letter saying that the movement has simply gone too far can you explain that rationale and what do you think the risk is well and first of all i mean now it took on an international basis i signed a letter which came from the friends situation in france is it me to movement was ....
Statistics so i guess i m kind of tired of these conversations because we re having a system we have we have a problem of powa structures and we have to understand how it works and how it impacts society we have to look at how society has been built and who has filtered and with what mechanisms and for example the justice system is part of germany we paint a lot and we did lots of activists with all the law and sexual violence in germany and rape was changed two years ago but there s still so many flaws in so many parts of society and the fact that if you look at the figures it s only a very tiny seeing addicted to. actually get prosecuted in germany and that s not acceptable so there s still so much work to be done as you re highlighting there and gloria i d like to ask you you know you highlighted what you think are some of the problems specifically with with the french movement ....