A-Infos (en) Greece, Protaanka:Text shared on Kyriaki Griva's femicide in the context of interventions in Agios Anargyros (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

It may have been 1.5 months since Kyriaki Griva's femicide, but her 
neighborhood has not and will not forget her. Just as she will not 
forget the patriarchy that killed her, the state that turned its back on 
her murder, but also the local municipal authority, which a few weeks 
before Sunday lost her life, was smugly cheering itself for increasing 
the police presence in the Agios Anargyros, after a summit meeting 
between Tsirbas and Chrysochoidis. ---- For all this, we did not stop 
intervening in the area and in the neighborhood of Kyriaki, at the time 
when a new femicide, of the 40-year-old Enkeleida, took place a few 
kilometers away from us, in Menidi.

The following is the text shared in the context of our relevant 
interventions in Agios Anargyros.

FOR THE FEMALE MIDE OF THE SUNDAY GRIVA OUTSIDE THE A.T. AGION ARANGYRON

In the early hours of April 1st, 28-year-old Kyriaki Griva from 
Agioanargyrot was fatally stabbed by her ex-partner, in front of the 
dispassionate gaze of the local police officers. She herself had 
resorted there to denounce and prevent her upcoming murder, having 
realized that her femicide executioner was watching her. Her address to 
the state enforcement agencies resulted in the derision and indifference 
of both the salaried uniforms of the area and the direct action 
operator, who informed her in the usual arrogant police style that "the 
patrol car is not cab". A few minutes later Sunday lost her life. 
Another femicide was taking place and another police-state crime was 
being committed.

The femicide in Agioi Anargyros was not the first and, unfortunately, it 
will not be the last either. The "shock" and social sadness of the first 
days and weeks will soon be replaced by oblivion, at least for the 
majority. However, the transient "shock" that accompanies the horrific 
news and is later replaced by "flowing life" and "crude everyday life", 
leaves some conclusions. It is the content of these conclusions that 
determines the degree of social and personal awareness. In simple words, 
how wise we have become, what we have understood, how what we have 
achieved will turn into action and attitude towards brutality, in this 
case, the brutality of femicides, patriarchal violence, police brutality.

PATRIARCHY ALWAYS ARMS THE HANDS OF FEMALE KILLERS

The unilateral recruitment of women under the status of "mother", 
"woman", "chick" did not cease to survive. The notion that a woman can 
live and exist, only under these qualities, separated from the universal 
characteristics that define her, as well as only, under the shadow of a 
man, stands before us and we are called to face it. Because it is 
precisely these perceptions and attitudes that have multiplied femicides 
in recent years. The roots of patriarchy are deep in the centuries and 
the exit of women from it activates the dark instincts that want it 
"under" and cannot "tolerate" women's liberation from patriarchal roles. 
Behind every femicide is a "betrayed" masculinity, a construction of the 
same value system. A masculinity that cannot accept that woman can exist 
outside of him, autonomously and independently. And this is how he acts: 
he abuses her when she does not submit, he murders her when he judges 
that he is losing his total control over her, he rapes her.

WHY femicide?

From time to time there comes, with convenient is the truth about the 
system of terms, a discussion about the term "femicide". On the one 
hand, parties of the left and rights organizations are asking for the 
legal recognition of the term, as if this would solve the problem. Of 
course, the only thing they achieve, by declaring their honesty and 
trust in civil justice and the state, all of them, over time, is to 
strengthen it. On the other hand, all kinds of extreme right-wingers and 
apologists for abusers, rapists and murderers, causing confusion for 
those who really do not understand or consider the term unnecessary, 
identify it generally and vaguely with the "murder of a woman".

Femicide certainly does not mean "murdering a woman". On the contrary, 
it is the murder that is done on the basis of gender motivation. Killing 
a woman because of her gender and no other reason. A womanizer is 
someone who kills a woman because he considers her his property, because 
e.g. she "left him" or because she considered that with her a or b act 
she "insulted" his manhood. The concept of femicide is socially 
ingrained and highly testable.

SHATTERING PATRIARCHY, GENDER VIOLENCE AND INEQUALITY

The struggle for complete women's emancipation is a daily, multifaceted 
and multifaceted social, class and political struggle. It is not a 
battle of "sex against sex," a so-called "combat" pitting gender 
characteristics and women against men. Patriarchal division and 
inequality between genders and sexuality are not natural but social and 
class in origin. They are artificial divisions, a creation of class 
societies that were founded centuries ago and are maintained over the 
years and inherited with different characteristics from society to 
society. They will disappear, when the causes that give birth to them 
and with which we have the responsibility, here and now to fight, also 
disappear.

Every day, women are abused and raped. Incidents that come to light are 
few and far between, both because of the prejudice, mistrust and sexism 
that victims will experience, and because of the dependent family and 
economic context in which "domestic violence" against women takes place 
of the working class. Both of these factors, namely sexism on the one 
hand and the class position of the majority of women on the other, 
reinforce these everyday phenomena. Women do not speak up because they 
will receive ridicule and questioning. Women do not speak, because 
leaving the house-prison their children will not have anything to eat 
and they themselves will be judged because "they did not leave early" 
and they will also be held accountable "for their choices".

WHAT CAN WE DO;

Our non-negotiable position on the side of abused women, our solidarity 
social shield against the bastards and the rotten values, perceptions 
and mindsets that give birth to them is our permanent, moral and social 
obligation. By changing the social framework of values, contributing to 
the eradication of patriarchal values and fighting the class, 
authoritarian and hierarchical structure of society, we form those 
conditions that will allow the universal, female and total emancipation 
from every bond of inequality and inequality and from every domineering 
phenomenon leading, even to death, as in femicides.

The key issue is to understand that we will achieve this ourselves. Not 
the state and its institutions, not the urban system, not the factors 
that impoverish us, materially, spiritually and morally.

WHEN CHIRPAS MET CHRYSOCHOIDI

All these years, existing social phenomena ignite a debate in public 
life around "security" and the fight against "crime". Often this debate 
is fueled by television and online media and the press, whenever 
governments want to increase repression, tighten criminal codes and 
target social and political groups. Why don't we laugh: the struggling 
and the downtrodden are targeted.

What is never said is that the police forces are constantly increasing 
while at the same time the phenomena you are supposed to be called to 
suppress are also increasing. How is this possible? Let's look at a 
recent example.

The femicide of our fellow citizen outside the A.T. Agios Anargyron 
happened just a few weeks after the neo-democratic summit meeting 
between the mayor of the Tsirba region and the minister of repression 
Chrysochoidis. Through this meeting, the Chirba gang that runs the 
municipality and has turned it into a local fiefdom of the existing 
government, triumphed over the upgrading of the police presence in the 
area and the establishment of new units, such as the motorized state 
battalion of torturers and thugs. "ACTION". The latter very quickly left 
their mark on the neighborhood: checks on young people, thugging and 
magic rides to terrorize unsuspecting passers-by, to their sadistic 
satisfaction.

That's what they know how to do, that's what they do. After all, we are 
talking about a unit that has been established to attack protesters, 
therefore to protect the powerful and not, of course, the "citizens".

What this example makes us wiser, that is obvious. That contrary to what 
is said in the channels and the press and contrary to the lies about 
"understaffed" police departments, the security forces are the only ones 
that are constantly opening "new jobs". That is to say, while the 
working class lives with 3.60 and while the social majority groans and 
is drained of precision, this reality finds no correspondence as far as 
the cops are concerned. Why; But why when the working class and the 
social majority take to the streets, who will protect the political 
system, the state and the big players of capital if not the police?

It also makes us wiser because it shows us in action the priorities of 
the uniformed mercenary guards of state and capital. Let's consider a 
hypothetical example. If instead of Sunday, April 1, there was a 
different address: a signal was sent to A.T. that a group of anarchists 
is marching nearby. How many police units would have been mobilized? 
Certainly their number would not fit in 1, but not even in 10 taxis.

NO WELL WE DON'T WANT MORE POLICE

Just as in Agios Anargyros the increase in police presence did not 
prevent a murder in front of the police, so the role of the police in 
general is very specific: that of protecting the politically and 
economically powerful. Asking the state through the police to combat 
phenomena created by its own policies is like asking the wolf to guard 
the sheep. By asking for more police we don't stop the next femicide: we 
increase the chances of a dead protester, of a tortured woman who was 
considered a "suspect", of a young person who breached a police roadblock.

THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF FEMACIDE

We have no doubt that upon hearing the "news" the vast majority of 
people were plunged into rage and grief. It is not in our society, "all 
black", as they try to convince us so that we are trapped in the despair 
of our "me" and "party". How hypocritical is that? They tell us to 
"look" at your party, because "everyone is looking at their party", that 
is, become one of them! Nevertheless, we insist: values have not been 
lost from all people. But we also have to note: sadness and anger are 
emotions, and emotions don't change the world, they don't solve 
problems, they won't prevent the next femicide, they won't help us 
recognize what the real role of the police is. By crying or cursing we 
end up just passive spectators, not agents of change. What is at stake 
is to be "exposed" by our party, which can only classify us as depressed 
and self-centered beings. As isolated and powerless to change the world, 
we end up looking for escape routes in the buffoons, the psychologists, 
the fans and every relaxing fad they place on us. And all this, while 
all around us women are being murdered, workers are being killed in the 
workplaces, the whole society and us together, is being crushed, 
squeezed out, dominated by the few and powerful who have the wealth and 
power in their hands and are the only ones won.

NOTHING WON BY AN OUTstretched PALM. EVERYTHING IS WON WITH A RAISED FIST

Solidarity, collectivization, social empathy. One next to the other and 
not each apart. Races, claims, battles. Organization for revolutionary 
overthrow. In these proposals are the solutions and the ways out. The 
response to these proposals will determine what kind of world we will 
live in. The dilemmas they pose are practical and tangible. By putting 
them into practice, by making them flesh of our flesh, by making them a 
personal and collective matter, by making them a responsibility and an 
obligation, then and only then, we will look to the future with 
optimism. Then, we will really have nothing and no one to fear. 
Governments will fall, states will be overthrown, systems will collapse, 
cannibalistic values will be consigned to the dustbin of history.

Then and only then, we will be equal among equals, free among free. In a 
society that will not accommodate gender violence and the violence of 
the authorities, that will not accommodate femicides and state crimes.

NO MORE KILLED

SUNDAY MANE: PRESENT

TO FIGHT PATRIARCHY, THE STATE, GOVERNMENTS AND CAPITAL

INITIATIVE OF ANARCHIST SAINTS OF ARANGYRO-KAMATERO

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