A-Infos (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #37-24: November 23 in Rome, NUDM demonstration. Let's disarm the patriarchy! (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

On the eve of November 25, the international day against male violence 
against women, there was a massive national demonstration in Rome 
promoted by Non Una Di Meno with the slogan Let's disarm the patriarchy 
and among the national events promoted by the entire transfeminist 
movement there was also the demonstration in Palermo. An important event 
for the participation put in place, 150 thousand people once again 
crossed the city center with demonstrators coming from many other 
locations. Associations, collectives, anti-violence centers, women's 
houses, counseling center assemblies, coordination of counseling center 
assemblies, representatives of Kurdish women in Italy, free 
subjectivities and many other entities involved in the fight against all 
forms of male violence against women, discrimination and gender 
oppression in everyday personal and political, public and private places 
where patriarchal predatory practices proliferate and are aimed at 
opposing the freedom and self-determination of women and free 
subjectivities supported by the hierarchical regulation present in all 
sectors of society participated.

Many slogans and interventions from trucks and there were several flash 
mobs including one in solidarity with the Iranian student Ahoo Daryaei, 
who stripped to protest against the imposition of the regime. The 
gesture was replicated and many stripped holding the banner that read: 
My body is mine and I decide. There have been one hundred and six 
feminicides, transcides and lesbian murders since the beginning of the 
year, thirteen in Lazio, ten in Rome and their names have been 
transcribed on a large fuchsia banner. Many slogans have been shouted 
against the Minister of Education and Merit Valditara and against Pro 
Vita, which is not the name of a food supplement but the name of an 
anti-abortion association active in Rome and for which the route of the 
demonstration was diverted because it passed right in front of their 
headquarters on Viale Manzoni, which was sealed off for the occasion.

The demonstration on Saturday 23 November came together with the 
multiplication of mobilizations activated in recent months in response 
to the ferocious attack aimed at the freedom of women, of all identities 
that do not conform to the heteronormative system and with different 
abilities. The attacks come with bills, resolutions and propaganda by 
state and religious apparatuses through the propaganda of their 
spokespersons amplified by the media network.

How can we forget the over 500,000 protesters who flooded the streets of 
this city with their bodies in 2023, again on the occasion of the 
International Day against Male Violence against Women? At that time, the 
emotional wave of Giulia Cecchettin's femicide had enveloped public 
opinion and media attention had given little space to the response and 
content expressed by that demonstration in the square. Among the various 
important initiatives implemented in the last year in this city, I would 
like to point out the protest and demonstration of September 28th on the 
occasion of the International Day of Safe, Free and Free Abortion. On 
that occasion, thousands demonstrated in the city center starting from 
the Ministry of Health, to denounce the fascistization underway in our 
country that is giving an unprecedented acceleration to the preventive 
counter-revolution or, better, to a regression and closure of the spaces 
of political and social action conquered by the feminist and 
trans-feminist movements, and the criminalization of IVG (voluntary 
interruption of pregnancy) is being implemented once again.

A concrete example of all this is the threat of eviction of self-managed 
CAVs (anti-violence shelters including Lucha y Siesta) that for years 
have carried out reception activities and more, the total closure of IVG 
departments, the dismantling of counseling centers, the divestment of 
RU486, of free access to care and prevention. People with different 
abilities are increasingly relegated to asociality and GPA (Gestation 
for others) is a further homotransphobic measure.

Fascism is the prolongation of war or, better, of ongoing wars 
perpetrated inside and outside individual countries. War is the most 
brutal expression of patriarchy because it reaffirms the law of 
oppression, possession, rape. Stopping wars is essential in Ukraine, 
Lebanon, Yemen, Sudan, the Palestinian genocide and alongside the 
women's revolution in Rojava, Syria, Iraq.

It is anything but "normal" to increase the obscurantist and 
conservative political culture and practices of militarization, control 
and social discipline because they conceal a more subtle and insidious 
internal war that leads directly to the path of criminalization of 
everything that dissents from the rules of exploitation and oppression 
perpetrated against bodies, relegating them to the domestic closure of 
the hierarchical and patriarchal family nucleus. The objective is clear 
and is the totalitarian overthrow trying to bring by hook or by crook, 
voluntarily and involuntarily, to consciously and unconsciously enlist 
or recruit the whole society in the unique form of subjugation.

With the bill 1660, then, the logic of the enemy is once again 
sanctioned and the poverty extended with the economy of misery in place 
does nothing but increase the exposure of bodies to blackmail, 
exploitation and oppression, first and foremost that of gender.

Nationalistic, warmongering, family-oriented and environmentally 
devastating propaganda are the most direct practices practiced against 
our bodies and our free will that we witness every day when the greatest 
data on male violence perpetrated against women comes from the family 
environment. It is positive that much attention is paid to sexist 
language because it is often a vehicle for oppressive practices but it 
is even more important and necessary to be vigilant, not to lose sight 
of and above all to oppose the practices themselves in every public and 
private place across all social and economic strata because the news has 
shown that education to an unconscious toxic affectivity is hidden in 
the so-called "good guys", or above all in the so-called normality 
steeped in patriarchal and religious culture that, not always, but too 
often has been seen transformed into bloodthirsty.

In fact, most of the torturers are exes and husbands, exes and 
boyfriends, brothers, uncles, acquaintances and friends, schoolmates, 
affectionate actors, of course, and sometimes executioners.

The reaction of the movements to patriarchal fascism has been 
self-organized and numerous meetings have followed one another and in 
particular in this territory numerous initiatives have been structured. 
Among these I point out the Coordination of the assemblies of the 
counseling centers, where, neighborhood after neighborhood, between one 
motivation and another, they were dismantling.

To date, there are 12 permanent women's assemblies activated in Rome 
inside and near the counseling centers and others have been activated in 
Lazio. In particular, in the Garbatella neighborhood the fight for the 
restoration of the counseling center of Largo delle Sette Chiese has 
been active since 2023. A group of women united by the fact of having 
used the gynecology and obstetrics service for health needs, for cancer 
prevention, for the birth and menopause process have given body to a 
permanent assembly near the building for over a year demanding the 
reinstatement of gynecology/obstetrics, cancer screenings and the Youth 
Space because proximity social-health services like these are 
fundamental for the health and well-being of women and free subjects. 
Easy and timely access to health services is essential to guarantee 
maternal and child health, and to lower their total costs through a 
permanent facility that carries out a fundamental preventive function.

The assembly highlighted the need for its strengthening because it has 
represented a public health facility with social participation, secular 
and free and, therefore, its closure is unacceptable in a time of 
ever-increasing inequalities and needs.

The tide is rising and we must think about disarming the patriarchy, and 
it will be important to concretely amplify the spaces where 
self-organized practices will be destructured by patriarchal, 
paternalistic and religious, nationalistic, familistic hierarchies, by 
exploitation and discrimination, including racialization.

Norma Santi

https://umanitanova.org/23-novembre-a-roma-manifestazione-di-nudm-disarmiamo-il-patriarcato/
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