This Friday, at 6:30 p.m. from the esplanade of the Intendancy, the annual march #NiUnaMenos will be launched. A set of feminist groups will advance through July 18 to Plaza Libertad, with their various slogans, but within the framework of the claim for security against sexist violence. Other groups will meet 5:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in Salvador Ferrer Serra and Democracia streetsfrom the Tres Cruces neighborhood, and organize a “collective altar” so that people can pay homage to their absent affections.
The march is inspired by and takes the name of the Argentine mobilization. On June 3, 2015, 350 thousand people marched towards the National Congress with the legend of #NiUnaMenos. A phrase taken from Mexican poet Susana Chávez Castillo: “Not one more death”. The woman, murdered in 2011, since the 90s denounced the systematic murders of women, in her hometown of Juárez.
However, the case that catalyzed the massive demonstration in the neighboring country was the murder of Chiara Pérez. The 14-year-old teenager, two months pregnant, was beaten to death by her 17-year-old boyfriend, who then buried her in her grandfather’s yard.
Outraged, the journalist Marcela Ojeda made a tweet that marked a before and after. “Actresses, politicians, artists, businesswomen, social references… women, all of them, bah… aren’t we going to raise our voices? THEY ARE KILLING US.”
Actresses, politicians, artists, businesswomen, social references… women, all of them, bah… aren’t we going to raise our voices? THEY ARE KILLING US
– Maͣrͬcͨeͤlaͣ Ojeͤdͩaͣ (@Marcelitaojeda) May 11, 2015
Ojeda, together with other journalists, communicators, lawyers and writers, motivated and questioned by the tweet, promoted the march that a few weeks managed to summon 350 thousand people.
The same journalist recalled this Friday on Twitter that the parents of Lola Chomnalez will participate in the call in Uruguay.
Today at 6:30 p.m. Adriana and Diego, the parents of Lola Chomnalez, and guests from the fmeinist movements of the #Uruguay they will be in your #Not one less in Montevideo.
They will march from the esplanade of the Intendancy towards Plaza Libertad.
– Maͣrͬcͨeͤlaͣ Ojeͤdͩaͣ (@Marcelitaojeda) June 3, 2022
In uruguay
María Zino, member of Where Are Our Gurisas? (DENG), explained to The Observer that although the march in Uruguay also began in 2015, together with that of the neighboring country, there is no contact between the organizations.
This Friday they will demonstrate to “put the issue on the street.” Not only in reference to femicides, but also to the it already deals with the cases of disappeared women “that are not being investigated”.
DENG will march with other groups, despite having different slogans. “The idea was to be able to generate a coordination so as not to step on each other and to be able to march each one with their slogan but togetherdefining the same address, a schedule and being able to give rise to each of the interventions”, Zino told La Diaria.
Instead, other groups, such as the Feminist Fabric, from 5:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., will be concentrated on Salvador Ferrer Serra and Democracia streets, from the Tres Cruces neighborhood. Mariana Licandro, spokesperson for the organization, told La Diaria that the idea is “to continue denouncing the violence,” but also give yourself time to process grief “of the femicides, of the transvesticides, of the girls and boys also killed by patriarchal violence”.
“Give ourselves some time for ourselves in a world where, due to the prices of things, due to the material precariousness that we have, we practically cannot stop working throughout the week and we do not have time to process all these pains,” explained Licandro.
There will be music, readings and a collective altar, where people will be able to honor their absent affections. “We invite you to bring: candles, incense, flowers, weeds, photos of your affections, crayons, textiles, chocolate and everything you feel like sharing and adding to the altar”says the collective in an Instagram post.
