When at eight o’clock in the evening a thunderous batucada has broken into the Plaza de la Reina within the current of the demonstration, the organization has warned through the public address system that “there are still people at El Corte Inglés” not without some emotion. And the mass, then, has started to applaud.
Because the one this Wednesday has once again been a massive event in Valencia, as it happened last year. According to the Government Delegation, more than 15,000 people attended the march called by the Feminist Coordinator under the slogan “Feminism, Justice, Equality and rights for women”, while the organization raises this figure to 60,000.
As spokesperson for the Coordinator, Cándida Barroso has stressed that the “enemy” is the patriarchy and is not among the feminists and has recalled that “men also have to go out into the streets”. Also, she picks up the agencies, she has warned that sexual violence is “an overwhelming reality for women and girls”, to which she has demanded more state and regional measures. “There is great pressure in this country to set up women’s farms,” ??she warned, referring to surrogacy.
For its part, the demonstration of the Assembly has had more than 1,000 attendees according to official sources, and there have been no incidents in it either. This was coordinated by the Feminist Assembly, and ran almost parallel to the previous one under the motto “Front violent capital, feminisme dissident”, and it started from the CIE in Zapadores through the Ruzafa neighborhood to San Agustà square. It continued through the Ciudad de Brujas square until entering Carmen (Bolseria and Cavallers streets) and ended in the Plaça de la Mare de Déu, a few meters from the previous call.
Their spokesperson, Mireia Biosca, has defended that it was necessary for them to call their own demonstration that would put the anti-capitalist and anti-racist struggle at the center, which “is also a feminist struggle.”
On the tour, many young people especially involved who have come to the event with banners and various messages, ranging from the defense of trans rights to women’s freedom of expression. “If you think that feminism does not go with you, you should know that you can have an opinion thanks to feminism,” read one of the proudly carried by a young woman with reduced mobility.
Other slogans have been “Patriacat i capital aliança colonial”, “It is not a party but a protest”, “My vagina is not rented”, “Doctor objecting to the container”, “If you looked through our eyes you would still scream” or “Prostitution does not It’s work, it’s sexual violence.”
Before the march and even in daylight, shouting “Woman, life and freedom!”, women dressed in purple T-shirts have cut their long hair with scissors at the Porta de la Mar in Valencia.
It has been the ‘Scissor to the patriarchy’, a collective haircut in solidarity with the women of the Iranian people with which the demonstration that this afternoon is called in the streets of Valencia has started.
A March 8 in which the city has once again put on its purple glasses on a day marked by the debate around the Law of ‘only yes is yes’ and the capitalization of the feminist discourse that has confronted the left, also in the Valencian Community, where the reflections around the abolition of prostitution have once again brought tension to the left at the gates of this day.
However, far from political speeches, the feminist movement is energetic in the street, thanks also to the fact that young people have made it their own. “At one, at two, at three, we shout: Visca, visca, visca, the feminist rain!” They have started over and over again.
