Dozens of people have gathered late this afternoon at the Obelisk of A Coruña under the call of the Galician Feminist Platform. An act held before the alert situation that is taking place before the multiplication of sexist murders, as we move into the de-escalation of the pandemic. Once again, the classic but still necessary slogans have been chanted, such as “We are not all, the murdered ones are missing“o” We don’t want minutes of silence, but screams. ”
Feminist organizations have drawn up a manifesto, read at the end of the rally, by which they have once again demanded more resources and more actions against violence that kills women for the sake of it.
Escalation of sexist violence
In the municipal plenary session of this month of June in the City Council of A Coruña, a total of eight minutes of silence, one for each murder of the month. There are 18 so far this year, 1096 since 2003, the. The discovery of the body of little olivia, the eldest of the missing girls in Tenerife, aged six, has been the definitive trigger for the outrage.
The girl’s body was located by a search vessel 1,000 meters deep in the Atlantic inside a sports bag tied to an anchor. Next to it, another empty sports bag. His sister Anna has not yet been found. The girls had been missing since April 27 along with their father, Tomás Gimeno.
The national spokesperson for the BNG, Ana Pontón, has asked from A Coruña for a social change to overcome sexist violence. No one is owned by anyone, the nationalist leader has said.
The Galician Feminist Platform asks that sexist violence be considered as terrorism and considers unacceptable the daily murders of women and children in what is considered vicarious violence, parents who kill their children to harm the mother. Calls to silence those who deny that there is a problem and consider that feminism is not necessary and those who intend to confront the movement. The feminist collective considers that only a society with real equality of women and men can eradicate gender violence and sexist murders.
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