“today not only marched for the rights that we are still denying: the right to a safe, free, free abortion or to have a salary equal to that of men, also marched to demand that public policies are implemented” s needed to stop violence against women, to punish the knives, so that we can go out without being afraid”, says Alejandra Palacios, law student, who attended the March on March 8 along with a group of friends.
All carry the Green scarf that again to be on the streets during Friday, international women’s day. The garment that symbolizes the struggle for a legal abortion, safe and free was mixed with the flags and purple blankets, the color of the feminist struggle.
Lee: We don’t want celebration, we want solution: thousands of women March in the CDMX there were also pink crosses in memory and defense of victims of femicide, and their mothers were also.
María Esperanza Luciotto, mother of Karla Pontigo, who was murdered in 2012, in San Luis Potosí, is on the March to demand that the Supreme Court of Justice of the nation (SCJN) already resolved on the case of her daughter. The Court drew the case to check if the agent of the public prosecutor’s Office met the standards set for diligent research and with a gender perspective, since it determined that Karla had suffered an accident.
“Case is defining as a culpable homicide, the theory of the prosecution is that Karla crashed with a glass door, in his work. We do not agree. She suffered harassment by his boss, and his body had more than 40 injuries, including some sexually,”says Ana Sandra Salinas Pérez, Foundation Attorney for Justice and the democratic rule of law.
By irregularities in the investigation is that the Supreme Court drew the case, but did so from 2015. “Justice delayed is not justice; why we are today in the March, to ask the Court to resolve already. The judiciary has in its hands today make a difference, a little to pay off the debt the country has with the victims of feminicide. “In addition, to remember that there will be a security plan that works but starts to do justice”, says Salinas.
is the same demand for Lorena Gutiérrez, justice for his daughter Fatima, who was murdered when she was 12 years old, in Toluca, State of Mexico. Of the three alleged killers of a minor one remains free. The suspect worked as a gardener at the Sierra Nevada school.
“The school protected it so that the name of the institution would not be involved in a case of feminicide, said that the day of the murder he was at his work.” It is not true, he was my neighbor and many people saw that day in the community, he and the other two who are already prisoners murdered my girl”, says Lorraine.
The slogans of the collective of feminists, organizations of civil society and trade unions clothing the mothers of femicide victims. They shout justice and require one or more killed. Groups of friends and colleagues of different schools of the UAM, of the UNAM, IPN, also raise the voice to say: “my body is mine, only mine”, and shout slogans claiming the right to abortion.
“I want to go out without fear” among the young, there is a demand that stands out, and put one of them, Martha Armenta, a graphic design student, as his main reason for leaving. “I’m here because I want to go out without being afraid. We are fed up with being afraid, we are fed up with harassment, want to walk in the street without fear that we disappear, that kill us, end up in a trafficking network, we are fed up and demand that the State will act to put an end to this wave of violence against us.”
With all these demands, green and violet tide advanced by the Reforma Avenue, crosses Central axis, followed by calle 5 de Mayo and arrived at the Mexico City Zocalo. They entered first contingent of trade union organizations. Then the feminist collective, the citizens of a foot, numerous groups of friends.
The socket plate was filled with women’s groups that extend, on the floor, rugs with their slogans. The batucada sound and many dance, with surrounding buildings illuminated socket of violet, at the end of the evening of the international women’s day.
At one end of the plate of the Zócalo, in front of Cathedral, a group of women extends woven blankets of purple. The call made by Facebook, the collective disaster wool and weaving identity. Each participant could weave a piece, which then joined with others. The aim was to show how women are makers of things, which can organize and arm much together.
Beyond, Front National Palace, a group of students from the University of communication has placed a “clothesline of words”, based on the project of the artist and activist Mexican Mónica Mayer.
“We ask the assistants to the March who answered two questions, when was the last time that you suffered harassment and why marches today? There were several responses where reads to the ultimate experience of harassment was today itself, that speaks of the problem so large that we face women”, said Erika Núñez, as she and his companions begin to lift the clothes that will be transformed into a video art summarizes the reasons for this March.
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