The four feminist references who will give their opinion in this note agree on several diagnoses. One is this: it is imperative to march this June 3, participate in the cry Ni una Menos. This Monday there will be activities in different parts of the country and the region will be the protagonist. Women’s organizations and dissidents They will take to the streets their demands.
Ruth Zurbriggen of the Revolt, Bethlehem Spinetta of the Multisectorial of Women and Dissidents of Bariloche, Estella Cavazzoli of Libertas and Daniel Berdugo from Ni una Menos Cipolletti also agree in which hate speech takes shape. This year, this Ni una Menos, this June 3, is marked by the triple lesbicide committed in Barracas, Buenos Aires, in which they died Pamela Cobbas, her partner Mercedes Roxana Figueroa, and Andrea Amarante. And for which Sofía Castro Riglos is still recovering.
They also agree that it is important keep the memory in the streets, “there are many young people who do not know who Chiara Páez was and it is essential to continue communicating,” says Belén Spinetta from Bariloche. And the warning is worth it, and the replacement of information: the first march Ni una Menos was in 2015. In the first months of that year, there was an increase in the number of femicides compared to the previous year. Melina Romero; Natalia Rocha; Paola Rodríguez; Mariana Llamazare; Agustina Salinas; They were some of the victims of sexist violence.
The first March Not One Lesswas convened in that context, after the femicide of Chiara Paez, 14 years old, on May 9, 2015. Manuel Mansilla, 16 years old, killed her and buried her body under his grandparents’ house. The body of Chiara Paez He was found the next day and Mansilla confessed to having killed her.
«Ni una Menos was born as a cry against gender violence and femicides«, replies Ruth Zurbriggen, «we are calling for a new 3J march, the one that originated that immense and powerful movement that Ni una Menos said in 2015, that movement that politicized sexist violence and knew how to see it in the network of power that is deployed«.
Ni una Menos 2024, reasons to march:
For Belén Spinetta, she lives in a context where It seeks to advance the rights that women and dissidents have achieved: “They are not only questioned our objective achievements such as the Legal Abortion Law, Divorce, Equal Marriage, the Comprehensive Sexual Education Law or the trans labor quota, but also is being encouraged from the national government and the ruling party a anti-gender, anti-feminist politics and the spread of hate speech that goes against this.”
For Spinetta, these types of speeches are part of a period speech. “The sectors reactionaries are emboldened. Hate speech has consequences specific about the lives of women and diversities.”
From Neuquén Ruth Zurbriggen assures that there are thousands and thousands and thousands of reasons to march this Ni una Menos: “It is difficult to synthesize, there are thousands of reasons since the inauguration of Javier Milei that lead us to be in the streets. New ones appear every day. In fact, 6 months of government passed and the feeling is from years of putting up with them. The thing is the plan of destruction of everything collective is being felt, overwhelms and brings many discomforts”.
Among many reasons he lists: “We came out against hunger policies. Against the Law Bases and delivery to large corporations. We leave to continue raising the flags of the ESI, legal abortion, of free and dignified lives for women, transvestites, transsexuals, trans and non-binary people.”
From La Revuelta Colectiva Feminista they invite people to march and assure that “the street is our refuge.” What does it mean? “Streets They are the place of the collective plot, of arming hopes. We go out to talk, to dialogue, to listen to each other and build practices and ways to sustain ourselves. “We oppose cruelty with radical tenderness, which begins by knowing and feeling that we have each other.”
For Daniela Berdugo this Ni una Menos “dIt should mean not one more abuse, not one more man who attacks us.”. For her this year is imperative “show that we are, that we are organized, that there are many of us and that we are going to fight.” And she is also clear with the diagnosis: “We are under a government that oppresses who feels us as a threat and treats us that way. “The biggest cuts are coming to us.”
Not one Less in Neuquén and Río Negro:
He definancing of national devices and programs intended for women and dissidents has its impact on the provincial territories. Spinettta is above all concerned about two: the ENIA Plan, for the prevention of teenage pregnancies, and the National Sexual Health and Responsible Procreation: “Here we are concerned about its dismantling and its possible impact. And also about the Bases Law (if approved) and Decree 70/23 that impacts women and dissidents, for example, the pension moratorium that will have an impact on housewives, retirements.”
“Although the government of the province of Río Negro”says Spinetta, “has a critical discourse towards the reactionary view of the national government, specifically it doesn’twe have already seen it in the Chamber of Deputies and now they are going to do it again in the Senate, they are going to accompany the Base Law that is going to have an impact on the lives of all Argentines and particularly the women who It will have a double impact, like all the regressive policies that exist.”
And at the local level, Bariloche goes through a discussion that seems brought over from previous years: the election of the snow queen. “Walter Cortes doesn’t seem to care about these issues,” says Spinetta, “we from Multisectoral came out to say that involved gender violence in its expression of symbolic violence and They flatly deny it.”.
For Estella Cavazzoli, in Neuquén there is a lack of prevention, “which is the most important thing because it was one of the provinces with highest rate of femicides in 2023”. And he also adds: “We know that we have a threat, a cultural threat. Therefore, I believe that to get out of this, we have to do it as women and dissidents know: winning the streets and fighting for our rights”.
Ruth Zurbriggen contributes her perspective: “There are no recipes. No? We go out rehearsing and insisting with incisive, non-conformist actions, making everyday life a laboratory for survival, knowing that nothing was ever easy and that it is time to deepen ways of organizing against the global far-right. We went out looking and registering who we have next to us. We leave with persistence. With collective struggles. With fights everywhere, in homes, in beds, in institutions, in the streets”. And he closes: “We go out as Norita Cortiñas taught us, embracing just causes and enjoying the collective struggles that we know how to put together.”
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