MADRID, 25 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Feminists called by the 8M Commission have walked the streets of the center of the capital behind a banner with the motto ’25N It’s over, our fight is global’, on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which is celebrated this Saturday, November 25. The participants have chanted slogans such as “it’s over”, “we want each other alive” or “the street and the night are also ours.” The march started with the cry of “Here we feminists are.”
Among their demands, they cry out against sexual violence, child violence, family violence, workplace violence, human trafficking, transphobic, lesbophobic, racist, fatphobic violence “and many others that condition many lives around the world,” among others. . Furthermore, they defend a global fight against “abuses” on the Earth and ecocide and shout ‘
The organizers have begun to march along the Prado promenade amid chants such as “not one less” or “we want each other alive.” In addition, many of them carry signs on which you can read messages such as “we are not hysterical, we are historical”, “it is us or the patriarchy”, “we are not all here, the murdered ones are missing” or “if we go back to the Middle Ages I will go with the witches”.
In statements to the media before starting the march, one of the spokespersons for the 8M Commission, Inés Morales, indicated that “sexist violence is not isolated cases, it is patriarchy” and pointed out that the organization demands that develop “all prevention and care measures for victims of sexual and gender violence included in the laws.”
In this sense, he pointed out that they ask that the message of “you are not alone” become a reality with the opening of the 52 24-hour crisis centers providing assistance to victims.
Likewise, he has denounced the “institutional violence” of the Community of Madrid and the Madrid City Council. “Cuts to public services and the dismantling of resources are a clear example of institutional violence and governments that legislate against our lives,” he said.
This year, the Palestinian flag has been very present in the demonstration and cries of “boycott Israel” and “from the river to the sea, Palestine will win” have been heard.
This is the second demonstration this Saturday for the International Day against Violence against Women that takes place in Madrid and was attended by the Minister of Youth and Children, Sira Rego, and the former Minister of Equality, Irene Montero.
Rego, in statements to the media, predicted that the feminist movement will be united again because “the fight against violence against women is an element that unites the entire feminist movement.”
Likewise, he has asserted the Government’s “firm and unwavering” commitment to eradicate “all types of violence against women.” “We continue to see absolutely dramatic figures, 52 women have been murdered this year. In the last week we have seen horrible news of a new brutal rape of a minor,” she lamented. Some facts that, as she has commented, require “a committed and firm government expanding rights and reinforcing the freedom of women and the eradication of violence against women.”
For her part, Montero has claimed her unwavering commitment to the rights of all women and to the right to freedom and lives free of violence for all, “also of trans women, of racialized women, of women in all our diversity”.
Likewise, the former head of Equality has assured that the cry of women to end all forms of sexist violence, to live lives free of sexist violence, is a cry that “crosses borders, that fills the entire world to change everything from above.” down and have lives free of violence.
This morning the demonstration called by the Madrid Forum took place, at 12:00 p.m., which was attended by the new Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo, and other socialist colleagues, which once again shows the division of the feminism.
The Government Delegation against Gender Violence has recorded a total of 52 fatalities this year, two more than in all of 2022, to which must be added one minor and another under investigation for vicarious violence, as well as 51 orphaned minors. Since 2003, when data began to be collected, there have been 1,237 fatalities and more than 400 minor orphans. 016 is the telephone number for victims of sexist violence and leaves no trace on the bill or on the terminal.
