No aggression to feminism without response
In what should be a day of vindication and fight for our rights, we also had to regret and suffer different attacks from the right. Just to take some examples, Madrid was a focus of aggressions since the Government Delegation prohibited the demonstrations. The mural of Women, painted in the Ciudad Lineal sports center, he woke up vandalized, like another mural painted in Alcalá de Henares. Recall that the Ciudad Lineal mural had been a matter of dispute when the district Plenary voted to eliminate it at the request of Vox, but a neighborhood mobilization demanded "The mural is not touched" and got them to reverse the decision. further, in the unitary concentration in Barcelona, that was carried out on Avenida Paseo de Gracia, they acted provocative and a man pepper sprayed the companions when they explained to him that the call was non-mixed and that he had to withdraw. This type of aggression was repeated throughout the day in other cities.
Some events were reflected in the mass media and others in social networks, although none were dedicated as many minutes of screen as they are dedicated to other topics. Then, We publish what one of the colleagues from Madrid who experienced in one of the self-convened rallies told us, despite the unjust prohibitions.
“We got together with some colleagues because we were evicted two months ago from Solar Maravillas, that are on Antonio Grillo street 8 by Malasaña. In theory they justified the eviction because there will be a health center, but, behind the Gran Vía in Madrid, that will end up being a luxury apartment . We got together to make an intervention respecting the measures of COVID and put a flag to denounce the time it has been abandoned. The police passed, they looked at us with interest, they parked the car a few meters ahead and waited for us to leave to take down the signs. Then we go to walk to the Retiro, and we found that we couldn't get in, because there was an impressive police operation. In the end we were able to reach the Fuente de Cibeles and from there we joined a group of self-convened women to claim the 8M, forever, respecting the safety distance and the use of masks. The police who were there directed us towards the Neptune fountain and they surrounded us, we were about a hundred women. The troops were furious. There we read a proclamation and then policemen, exerting brutality, they separated the companions to identify them. There was a lot of tension because we didn't let them take her away and the police wouldn't let them in, nor leave anyone out of the fence. Then we went to Sol, where before fascist groups had gone, that then returned to deploy their violence: the looks insulted us, They rebuked us and filmed us under the protection of the police. We were also with some female health colleagues who have been suffering attacks during each claim they make.. I came back with a very ugly feeling and with the clarity that there will be more attacks. "
This is just one example of institutional and right-wing action focused on women. One day before, in the Metropolitan Wanda, Atlético Madrid fans welcomed their team with a great demonstration. On previous occasions, neo-Nazis marched smoothly through the streets of the capital and Covid-19 deniers did the same several times., without being banned. Anti-rights are emboldened by the permanent campaign against the feminist movement carried out by Vox, the PP and Citizens. While Ayuso says atrocities, he "Most progressive government in history" PSOE-UP endorses the prohibition of concentrations and is entangled in promises of lukewarm reforms that it does not fulfill either.
We still have many rights to conquer, there will undoubtedly be more actions to repudiate and more attacks to face. For all of it, the mobilization of the feminist movement, together with the workers and the people, they will mark the way forward and will be fundamental, because as we have already said thousands of times “if they touch a, we all answer ".
