A-Infos (en) Greece, Thesaloniki, APO: Rally against gender-based violence and femicide (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The femicides of Kyriaki Griva, by her former "companion" outside the AT 
of Agios Anargyros and the 87-year-old woman who ended up after the 
stabbings of her 80-year-old husband in the area of Harilaou are added 
to a long list of murders of women, continuous incidents gender 
violence. They come to be added to an ongoing condition of increasing 
brutality, where women lose their lives at the hands of their abuser, 
because the perpetrators are first nurtured and then armed and covered 
by an entire system, that of the state, capitalism and patriarchy. A 
system that in every aspect reproduces the oppression against women 
every day and washes away the crimes committed against them.
Gender-based violence is systemic violence and as such is an integral 
part of state and capitalist brutality. From the propaganda sharpened by 
the system aimed at controlling the female body, against women's right 
to abortion, the escalation of class exploitation, the exploitation of 
women as reproductive machines, incarceration in concentration camps, 
threats, rape and murders of refugees at Europe's land and water borders 
- Fortress, the institutional cover-up of rapists, child rapists, 
trafficking rings and femicides, sexist and fascist attacks on loacti+ 
people, sexual harassment and rape in police stations and roadblocks to 
physical violence safety against female competitors. At the same time, 
we see that while the mother of the 12-year-old girl from Colonos was 
found not guilty at first instance, she is being prosecuted again after 
an appeal by the prosecution, showing us the cynicism of the authorities 
and their contempt for a decision that was made with the majority of the 
jury. An appeal that constitutes a hostage for the mother, the 
12-year-old and her siblings, vindicates the state police-judicial 
apparatus in the face of the social outcry raised by the prosecutor's 
proposal and the acquittal of the ring while aiming to drown out any 
feeling that solidarity has won and that our struggles have the power to 
overturn state designs.
The state repression we received on Wednesday 10/4 at the demonstration 
in the center of Athens for the femicide of Kyriaki Griva outside the 
A.T of Aghii Anargyroi does not surprise us, it angers us. It comes to 
be added to a long list of police attacks, sexist and gender-based 
violence by the security forces against women and men, as happened in 
the demonstration of November 25, 2022 in Athens, in the demonstration 
in Ilioupoli in solidarity with the E. against the policeman Bouyouko 
who kept her incarcerated and released her, in the demonstrations of 
solidarity with the 12-year-old from Kolonos and her mother against the 
trafficking rings that operate under the full cover of the state 
institutions and the police, which took place in the neighborhood but 
also outside the prisons where the mother, at the demonstration for the 
rape of a 19-year-old by DIAS cops at the Omonia police station. 
Gender-based violence by security forces is an integral part of state 
repression to subjugate those who struggle. From sexist attacks on 
marches, with cops hitting protestors in a way that targets them for 
being women, sexual harassment inside police stations and roadblocks, 
body searches and stripping, sexist attacks on gay+ people, the 
terrorist operation with threats of abuse in the neighborhoods, such as 
in Exarchia with a typical example of the kidnapping and threat of rape 
by the MAT to a protester inside the subway construction site in the square.
Against the hypocritical interest of the institutions in eliminating 
gender-based violence and discrimination, stand the thousands of women 
who break the silence, who deny the role of the victim, who stand in 
solidarity next to each other, who build through their individual and 
collective rebellion the prospect of a world of real equality and 
freedom. As anarchists and as women, we organize and fight until the 
world of patriarchy, the state and capitalism is overthrown. To build on 
its ruins, the world of social equality, dignity, freedom and justice, 
anarchy and libertarian communism.
THURSDAY 18/4 AT 18:00 | IN CHARILAOU SQUARE
TO DESTROY STATE, CAPITALISM AND PATRIARCHY
FOR RULING AND ANARCHY

Anti-Patriarchy Group | Anarchist Political Organization - Federation of 
Collectivities

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