“Everyone leave!” With posters against Congress and interim president José Jerí, since 4 pm yesterday, the group of performing artists and filmmaker groups gathered in front of the Palace of Justice.
As part of the collective ‘What color are your dead?’, which was born with a photographic exhibition based on the deaths during the marches against Dina Boluarte; The actress and director Urpi Gibbons attended. “I would like, at least, for a board of directors to be created in a different way, because it seems to me that this has been a continuity and I do not agree with a president, to begin with, who made the report to exonerate Dina from the people that I precisely defend, who are the victims of violence,” he declared to The Republic.
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The actress condemned the ‘terruqueo’ from the Legislative and Executive Branch. “It also hurts me, as a teacher, because I teach many people from Generation Z, I know them and it seems an insult to me that they are called terrorists. The prime minister has been the first to ‘terrorize’. I know people whose parents have been victims of terrorism. Calling terrorists with that ease seems humiliating to all those who are going out to protest because it is a right.”
During the march there were performances: women dressed in red and white performed the feminist anthem A rapist in your way (either The rapist is you). Also, the collective ‘In Defense of Peruvian Cinema’, the Organized Hip Hop group and Susana Baca walked to Congress. “Not one more death, we have the right to live in peace,” declared the former Minister of Culture, who was received with applause.
The journalist and filmmaker, Sonaly Tuesta was part of the block that defends Peruvian cinema. “It is impossible to remain silent. Things have been advancing and escalating. Jerí is continuity and it is incredible that we have allowed a president of Congress to have an accusation of sexual rape and that he now becomes president,” the documentary filmmaker also told us and called for artists to continue demonstrating en bloc against censorship. “Since this ‘anti-cinema law’ was approved, we now do not know how the situation will turn out regarding cinema, for example. There are many things that give us indications of how it will be and it will not be good.”
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Regarding the accusations against Jerí, the artists agree that having a president accused of rape is “normalizing” gender violence. “The mere denunciation should be enough, right? For the presidency to be assumed,” says Gibbons. For Tuesta, it is a bad message. “It outrages me and scares me that it is normalized.”
At the close of this edition, the different groups were marching towards Congress. Lucho Cáceres, Mónica Sánchez and Tatiana Astengo questioned the media figures who tried to delegitimize the protest. The groups agree in rejecting “the democratic discourse” of the current government and its allies. “They have done esprit de corps, right? So, now they have that speech because the elections are coming up.”
