A feminist anthem of Chile who travels the world whole
A rebellious people came the protest song that reverberates everywhere."And the fault was not mine, or where he was or how he wore. The rapist you are, the rapist are you: the judges, the state, President". This is the phrase that millions of women are taking as their own and sing blindfolded in collective action. And they have sung almost throughout Latin America. In our continent it was felt in different languages in cities like Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Barcelona and other cities in Catalunya. It was also stated in Turkey, India and many other countries. Why protest street performance of a group of women is becoming a feminist anthem of struggle?
It is because the fourth wave feminist world is profoundly internationalist, the different slogans that the movement demands not differ greatly from one country to another, son: legal abortion, no more femicide and elimination of gender violence; Stop the wage gap and job insecurity; recognition and valuation of domestic work and unpaid care. What women demand is respect for human and social rights.
The spread of feminist movements always highlights, We can set an example, the cry of the "not less" born 2015 in Argentina, and the answer given by the partners of Chile, Uruguay, Mexico and other countries to femicide de Lucía Pérez in Mar de Plata. The feminist movement is still at the forefront of social struggles, this time putting the front Chilean sisters with feminist anthem "A rapist in your way", of the collective Theses.
Why protest street performance of a group of women is becoming a feminist anthem of struggle?
While he has a rebellious connotation in Chile against the government of Piñera and the Pinochet regime, the basic features of the feminist anthem also make sense in the rest of the world, hence it is playing in so many countries, though not always with the same consequences. Istanbul women who came to play the song and shouting against patriarchal violence, they found institutional violence: the police attacked them while they finished the song because he thought "The lyrics of the song was unacceptable", seven women imprisoned and prosecutors calls for two years imprisonment for "Offenses against the State".
"Patriarchy is a judge who judges us to be born" cross is something for each and every one of us, even so, the characteristics of male violence by different institutions given in Chile, It is much more serious, having as femicidios results, disappearances and rape. In this context we must understand that the riots, barricades and popular rebellions that today take to the streets of Chile, They face a regime that never ended to change anything background from the Pinochet era.
Thousands march to the cry of "We continue to kill" O "The police do not care, I look after my friends " against inequality and gender violence, to which is added the claim for the human rights of the people of Chile, namely basic public services and quality. Claims of women and of the working class become into one and united.
Feminist song of the group's Thesis, alludes to turn to sexual offenses by "the cops or Carabineros". The National Human Rights Institute, He has brought to date four complaints for violation against the security forces, Y 102 complaints stripped naked, threats and fondling. So far this year are accounted for 41 femicide in Chile, figures that do not reflect reality, as the data derived from the Chilean feminist organizations telling women who have not been killed by formal couples, amounts to 58 femicide in 2019. These figures do not stay here, because since starting the riots against rising rate meter, which it becomes a response to the government and against the economic model of the country, violence by institutions and security forces leaves less 23 killed and over 2.500 wounded.
It is because the fourth wave feminist world is profoundly internationalist, the different slogans that the movement demands not differ greatly from one country to another.
Patriarchal domination and abuse of power are increasingly tightrope and faced by Chilean women, but although up slogans that are more substantive as "the struggle did not end with the dictatorship", public spaces are taken by the self-organization of the masses, Reeling an economic framework, political and social imposed by blood and fire that was sealed with the transitional pact in Chile.
The need to denounce the abuses silenced women suffer in a patriarchal world and macho, the reflection of feeling Segregated, oppressed and being killed, justify the awakening of women of all ages, and its massiveness and combativeness. Is a clear sense of sisterhood with which comes to replicating the feminist anthem, either to support the sisters in Chile, by showing it to new generations and to demand an education in sexual matters, or to report violations of women's rights and human rights by an "oppressive state" and patriarchal justice.
But there is no way to reverse all these situations without question the basis of the existing system, a capitalist and patriarchal system, needed and feed back, and they are functional in their operating objectives. Only through an internationalist organization, revolutionary, anticapitalist and feminist, we can get a comprehensive transformation of our reality as women and the whole society. Because, We are proud to have participated in the performances held in Barcelona Murcia, to integrate International Socialist League together with our comrades from Together and to the left and the Anti-Capitalist Movement of Chile.
Laura Jaén
