translated from Spanish: How the Argentine Actressconference was lived

This afternoon the exhibition of a new public complaint headed by the collective of Actresses Argentinas was carried out, in a press conference that was held at the Hotel Bauen.Minutes before the announcement, Avenida Callao began to be filled with people waiting to what was going to happen. “The objective is to make sexual harassment and abuse available within the precarious workplace, following the accompaniment to the denunciation of a paradigmatic case for culture, education and the state,” the press release advanced. You could see the expectation. Media, guests, organizations, all were looking for their seats so they could listen carefully to the speech and take some pictures of what was happening. 

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“A few more minutes and we start,” says Laura Azcurra, as they finish fixing the last details. They were already there, the entire collective of Argentine Actresses organized, and ready to lead the fight together with 60 organizations that promoted the initiative. Without saying names, the complaint was focused on the case of Anahí de La Fuente, who denounced the former director of the San Martín Diego Pimentel Cultural Center: “We come together to raise mass visibility and denounce gender-based violence and abuse of power,” the Actresses. Then they added, “We accompany all the people who experience gender-based violence every day and who couldn’t raise their voices (…) no more cover-up, no more naturalizing violence, no more silencing victims through threats.” 

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Among the main complaints were “eliminating labor precarization and junk hires”, “the reinstatement of employees”, the “accession of the Micaela Law” and the application of “a gender protocol in each private or public sphere”. For his part, Anahí took place to add some comments, in the face of the press question. “They managed to take away my financial support and self-esteem, but I’m not going to allow it anymore,” he confessed and took the applause of everyone. In turn, they had room to ask for justice for Cinthia Choque, the transit officer who was run over by Eugenio Veppo. “Enough violence, no more silence. Cintia: present!” they demanded in a slogan that everyone quickly added. Each of the participants at the table took place to speak in front of the microphone, to follow the speech, to publicly announce what was happening. Because after all, what they were looking for was to make it more so, to show everything that the patriarchal system naturalized in the collective imagination. Towards the end, with the applause and brilliance of all present, they all chanted “It will fall” in front of the cameras, raising the green handkerchiefs in the air in favor of the legalization of abortion, in search of respect for women’s rights. 

De la Fuente was expelled at work for being encouraged to denounce what she suffered day after day. How long do we have to put up with it? Why does the system and the State endorse these cases? If one thing is certain, it is that there is a group of women ready to contain them, ready to help them and shout loudly: we don’t shut up anymore. In this note:

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