▲ Peaceful protest by the Zócalo to the anti-monument Voces embracing voices.Photo Alfredo Domínguez
Carolina Gomez Mena
La Jornada newspaper
Thursday, November 4, 2021, p. 17
Relatives of victims of femicide and disappearance of women and girls defenders of women’s rights and activists held the Day of the Dead March, which began in the capital’s Zócalo, and went to the anti-monument Voces hugging voices, located in Reforma and Sullivan.
At the protest, organized by Voices of Absence, they demanded justice, truth and reparation
and they repudiated sexist violence, many of which lead to gender-based murders. They also advocated because femicide is not a tradition
.
In the peaceful mobilization called by relatives of collateral victims of femicides and disappearances, the participants demanded not one more murdered
and they highlighted that femicide is a national emergency
, and that justice is required.
Carrying blankets, many of them in purple, and wooden crosses with the names of the victims of violence, they named the absent ones, and after each name they shouted: we are your voice
.
