More than five hundred participants joined a “march for life” in Girona this Sunday morning, in support of Israeli and Palestinian mothers who are calling for an end to the war. The event began at ten in the morning in the Migdia Park with an offering to Mother Earth and concluded at one on the stairs of the Cathedral with a song for peace. Farners Aymerich, one of the organizers, explained that the initiative arose “listening to the cry of Israeli and Palestinian women who do not want to continue sending their children to war.” The march coincided with the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: “It is time for the human family to reconsider how we are addressing this issue,” Aymerich said.
From ten in the morning, the Migdia Park was filled with people who attended to raise their voices for life in support of the mothers who have seen their children die in the war between Israel and Palestine. “Today we are doing a march for life, listening to the cry that Israeli and Palestinian women launched at the beginning of this second cycle of violence,” explained Aymerich, one of those responsible for organizing the event.
“These women marched together to the Dead Sea seven years ago and now we march to the Cathedral,” added Aymerich, who mentioned that the mothers ask that “the war stop immediately because they do not want to give birth to send more children to her.” Along these lines, Girona asked that “tenderness, listening and care be placed at the center in our society.” In addition, it was recalled that “these women want to be part of the negotiating tables.”
This Sunday’s action began with the creation of a colorful mandala on the grass of the park, presided over by the sculpture of a woman giving birth by Montse Català. “It is an offering to Mother Earth, which reminds us that we are all children of the same life and that the differences are external, but inside we are all the same,” Aymerich transmitted. Everyone gathered around this symbol to offer songs to life and peace, accompanied by mantras and incense.
From here paths were also opened in seven directions (east, south, west, north, heaven, earth and heart), which are “a reminder that we are never alone, because there are guardians who accompany us.” Later, they continued with dances to ask for universal peace and “synchronize hearts and make a single heartbeat that can reach the other side of the Mediterranean.”
All this was the symbolic act that preceded the march for life from the Migdia Park to the stairs of the Girona Cathedral. Chanting the entire way the mantra “we walk life, we serve peace”, the nearly 500 participants moved to the center of the city, passing first along Migdia Street, continuing along Creu Street to Plaza de los País. Catalanes, going up Calle del Carme to Plaza del Vi, to then continue along Calle de la Fuerza to the foot of the Cathedral. There, the event ended with a symbolic floral offering and some last songs to life.
This march for life intended to be “the seed that serves to put peace and coexistence on Earth first” and “stop the barbarism that exists in the Mediterranean and in so many parts of the planet.” Furthermore, it coincided with the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948 with the mission of protecting fundamental human rights throughout the world. “Perhaps it is time for the human family to reconsider a little how we are approaching this matter,” Aymerich concluded. This is the most translated document in the world, available in more than 500 languages ??that the group denounces as “perhaps not enough to be implemented.”
