Seated and silent: this is how thousands of protesters from “Not one less” decided to begin their march in Rome. Then suddenly, all standing up, in one voice, very high, of anger against feminicides and shouting “Let's disarm the patriarchy” they chanted the slogan: “Together we left, together we will return. Not one less”.
"Not one less" they repeated again, on the eve of November 25, the international day against violence against women. "We are the loud and fierce cry of all those women who no longer have a voice", they shouted holding the banner with the words "my body, I decide", a famous feminist slogan from the Seventies.
Shortly before the march, in front of the Ministry of Education, a photo of Minister Giuseppe Valditara was burned by activists from the Aracne feminist movement and collectives. On a poster the writing: "Over 100 State deaths. It's not immigration but your education". A reply to the words of the minister who a few days ago had argued that "the increase in sexual violence is also linked to forms of marginalization and deviance resulting from illegal immigration".
During the march there were also chants against Pro Vita, with the demonstrators who tried to reach the headquarters of the anti-abortion association but were blocked. Scenes that did not please the Minister for the Family Eugenia Roccella: «Demonstrating against violence against women, talking about education on respect, freedom, and then showing off the acts and slogans that we saw being staged before and during today's demonstrations, is a strident contradiction». The minister also wanted to remember that «the Meloni government has done a lot to combat violence against women, also from an economic point of view it has contributed to increasing stable female employment, it has supported the increase in anti-violence centers that have grown by 5% in the last two years. Violence against women is something that truly affects families in a lacerating way, too often unfortunately».
The fuchsia tide, 150 thousand according to the organizers, a year after the femicide of Giulia Cecchettin and with the heavy list of "another 106 names that have been added", responded to Valditara : "Patriarchy exists, it is not ideology and institutional racism is not the answer. The murderer, the violent, are children of our society and almost always have the keys to the house. This is a patriarchal government, a female prime minister is not enough. The measures contained in the security bill are worrying, from the restriction of the right to dissent to the possibility of entry into prison for pregnant women or in any case with very young children".
(Unioneonline/D)