NEWS CENTER – On November 24 and 25 in the city of Oaxaca, Mexico, two days of activities took place, with a vigil and a march against state feminicide, in which solidarity was expressed with Rojava in the face of the war unleashed by Turkey, within the framework of the International Day Against Violence Against Women. Women and dissidents took to the streets, where they met on November 24 and 25 to denounce the feminicidal violence that strikes the region of Oaxaca, in Mexico, the country, the planet, and the bodies and territories of women.
“There are more than 715 women whose lives have been taken in the state of Oaxaca, more than 1692 missing women. The women of Oaxaca come out in mourning in the face of so much indifference,” commented Yesica Consorcio, one of the organizers of the march. “We are demanding justice and we are organizing ourselves in the face of the complicit silences of the prosecutor’s office of this government; at the same time, we are fighting for a dignified life: in last night’s funeral march, with the families, the torches and dressed in black we placed the theme that women have the right to live and our put is for life.”
Convened by the Oaxacan Women Weaving Community Network, a heterogeneous alliance of collective, horizontal, participatory construction of more than 20 broad organizations, the march of women and dissidents on November 25 took place after an evening and a collective encampment in the Santo Domingo square, in the historic center of the city.
The plural, diverse, multicolored fabric of the Network looks to “confront the situation that afflicts us, in our body as the first territory, which has been the object of historical subjugation and appropriation; in our community-original territories that are experiencing dispossession, the imposition of extractivist megaprojects protected by a paradigm of ‘development’ that feeds on voracity, violence, racism, unconsciousness and consumerism; because our population centers in the countryside and the city are being penetrated in all areas by organized crime networks”.
The Network has gathered with strength and broad convocation on November 25 in a region that is historically a reference of the struggle of the communities in defense of life and territory, since 2006, “which represented a milestone in the socio-political participation of the women of Oaxaca” when they made the “march of the pots and pans” and the seizure of Channel 9, in which “hundreds of women took to the streets in repudiation of the corrupt, authoritarian and repressive government”.
The slogan “Jin Jiyan Azadi”, translated into Spanish as Woman Life Freedom, was present from the posters of the activists of OIDHO (Indian Organizations for Human Rights) and in the voices of the participants of the international meetings, organized by the Women’s Movement of Kurdistan, with new strength in its planetary dimension, generating resonance among the women’s movements and dissidences that fight from Rojava to Mexico against patriarchal violence, disappearances, femicides and in defense of territory and life.
The statement in solidarity with Kurdistan called for concrete actions and new ways of thinking interconnectedness in the struggles: “With our concrete actions, full of love every day, we can deeply feel freedom and justice, as a common doing at the center of each step to collectively open new phases of our history so that we can create against projects of death and fragmentation, constructive actions and reflections for life in the universe, human dignity, practices of resistance and radical solidarity. Stop the war of Turkey, from Abya Yala to Kurdistan!”
In the final positioning of the march it was shared that in the face of feminicidal violence, women, feminists, civil organizations and social movement are joining forces and walking together, “because our rage is dignified and our struggle is just. Never again will they have the comfort of our silence”.
From Kurdistan Latin America
