The event begins on Tuesday, the 13th, at 9 am, with a formal session at the Plenary Ulysses Guimarães - the Chamber of Deputies, in Brasília. Followed, at 2 pm, by cultural and educational activities presented by the daisies themselves for the daisies, an exchange of knowledge (and delicious food) between the participants. And finally, at 7pm, it will be the opening act that will set the mood for the next day's march.
The concentration for the march is on Wednesday, the 14th, at 6 am, in the Pavilhão do Parque da Cidade, from where the daisies come out in protest to the Esplanada dos Ministérios, with the closing act at around 11 am. Since 2000, every four years, the daisies - field, forest and water workers - have gathered in Brasilia to continue the struggle of the first Margarida for the right to land, water, and decent work in the countryside - without the which city starves.
Marcha das Margaridas is the largest women's movement in Latin America, including women workers from other countries to add to the fight that has already won things such as: The National Documentation Program for Rural Workers, which according to Carmen Foro, vice-president of the Central Única de Workers (CUT Brasil) and director of the National Confederation of Agricultural Workers (CONTAG), benefited more than one million women who had no registration with government agencies; and the right of Joint Title which guarantees equal rights to family lands between husband and wife.
Margarida Maria Alves was executed on August 12, 1983, in the municipality of Alagoa Grande - PB. In the middle of the Bolsonaro administration, it is possible to believe that this time the one who is pointing the gun at the heads of the daisies is the Federal Government itself, for example, releasing the use of 239 different types of pesticides that, in addition to making sick farmers forced to work with him, get sick. consumers who feed themselves with infected products and threatens the business of independent women who are unable to compete with the large estates full of poison. Or who knows, for another example, Bolsonaro's insistence on taking the power to demarcate indigenous lands from Funai (National Indian Foundation) and handing it over on a silver platter to the Ministry of Agriculture, which has maintained and encouraged the exploitation of the agribusiness. 
The current government is causing setbacks in all aspects of Brazilian life, but daisies are not just taking a stand against these setbacks. They also want advances that benefit all women, no matter if they live in the countryside, in the forest or in the city. In 2019 the fight continues, putting on the agenda, in addition to the opposition against Bolsonarist setbacks, the fight against racism and LGBTphobia, the fight in favor of agroecology and the fight for the self-determination of peoples and local popular sovereignty over food and production power.
And it's not just peasant women who fight like a daisy. What they are claiming affects all women, no matter where they come from or where they are going. So even if you're not one of those workers, consider adding. If you're in Brasília on the 13th and 14th of August, don't forget your straw hat, your chest (or any other shirt that symbolizes your fight), and the banners demanding a Brazil with popular sovereignty, democracy, justice, equality and free from violence.
Felicia Guerreiro
Photos: Lula Marques
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