Massimo Baccheta explains why Radio Popolare has no female voices on air today due to a feminist strike.
1. Radio Popolare's morning show 'Tutto scorre' airs on March 9, 2026, with male host Massimo substituting because female staff are observing the trans-feminist strike of Not One Less.
2. Host Massimo explains he joined the show specifically to give the microphone to demonstrators at Largo Cairoli, Milan, while also taking listener calls from 02 33 001 001.
3. The episode's core question is whether the DDL Buongiorno, the defunding of anti-violence centers, and the ban on sexual education in schools form a coherent government project against women's autonomy.
4. USB confederal leader Cinzia Porta explains that the basic union has proclaimed a national general strike for the whole day, covering public and private sectors, to coincide with the trans-feminist protest.
5. Porta cites that during COVID, 99.9% of dismissals in Italy were of women, and that the current shift of public accounts toward military spending cuts social services women rely on most.
6. She names the textile and clothing sector, where women make up 60% of the workforce, as particularly exposed to the economic consequences of rearmament policies.
7. Gianna Fracassi of FLC-CGIL reports that this is the union's third consecutive year proclaiming a strike in the school and university sector, reflecting strong sensitivity to gender issues among educational workers.
8. Fracassi notes the DDL Buongiorno and the minister's refusal to allow informed-consent sexual education in schools as the key demands of striking teachers.
9. Caller Simona, a caregiver unable to attend the march, asks specifically about the passive-resistance law and whether being stopped by police constitutes 'resistance to public officials,' expressing concern about the legal risks of peaceful protest.
10. Simona also questions why the President of the Republic did not block laws she describes as anti-constitutional, saying she admires him but cannot understand his inaction.
11. Correspondent Alessandro Braga reports from Largo Cairoli that hundreds of students are arriving, with pink and fuchsia smoke machines lit and a Medusa figure on the march's manifesto.
12. Elena from Non Una di Meno states that more than 50,000 people attended the previous day's Milan march and argues that those funding wars in Iran and carrying out what she calls a genocide in Palestine are the same individuals systematically denying rights to women and queer people.
13. She connects economic violence — specifically rising prices against a backdrop of 50% female unemployment — to the patriarchal and colonial logic she says underlies both domestic policy and foreign wars.
14. Two 19-year-old students, a woman and a man, tell Alessandro Braga they are in the square because the gender pay gap persists despite being illegal on paper, and that safety for women requires both sexual education and a changed consent law.
15. Massimo and Alessandro discuss a survey finding that 1 in 3 men under 30 considers it acceptable for women or their mothers to remain at home in traditional roles, noting the contradiction between this data and the progressive profile of the young protesters present.
16. Marta from Non Una di Meno, aged 19, says the organisation goes into schools to teach consent and violence prevention, calling it 'the first means of subversion' against a government that wants women to feel isolated and pitted against each other.
17. She names the Church's influence on state policy as a structural cause of the cultural taboo around sexual education in Italy and argues the DDL Buongiorno loads responsibility onto women to refuse consent loudly enough.
18. The episode moves between studio call-ins, live street audio with crowd noise and music, and short interviews, creating a documentary tone that is energetic but sometimes difficult to follow due to overlapping voices.
19. The episode is best suited to listeners interested in Italian feminist politics, the trans-feminist movement, and the intersection of labour rights, war, and gender in contemporary Italy.
20. Listeners expecting a structured debate or a single coherent argument will find the fragmented live-broadcast format difficult to follow.
