Dr Sims, who had no gynecological experience, obtained up to 20 black slave women suffering gynecological injuries of torn fistulas and experimented on them, without anesthetics , for 4 years in his ”medical Plantation” in Alabama .
In 2015 #Anarchagland, an autonomous-research project of #gynepunk in Catalonia, renamed female sex glands after 3 slaves, Anarcha, Betsey and Lucy, who were abused as medical guinea pigs by the maverick doctor J Marion Sims.
“If there was anything I hated,” he wrote from the outset, “it was investigating the organs of the female pelvis.”
We don’t know how many of his victims died or if they really gave consent as he claimed in his extravagant autobiography ( it was a death sentence offense for slaves to write or record anything) but Sims was a showman and boasted of operating over 30 times on Anarcha who was 17 at the start, and almost killing Lucy outright on her first operation.
Police clash with women’s day marchers in Turkey (VIDEO)
UPDATED 9th March..
Using rubber bullets and tear gas, Turkish police have dispersed a crowd of several thousand marchers who gathered outside Istanbul’s Taksim Square on International Women’s Day, local media reported, with videos from the scene.
The “Feminist Night March” in Istanbul was one of the many demonstrations held on Friday across Turkey, demanding equality and an end to the historic oppression of women.
Police has started intervention with rubber bullets & tear gas against 17th Feminist Night March on Istanbul’s Istiklal Avenue on International Women’s Day.
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#NiUnPasoAtrás (Not One Step Back) moves from Seville to a hundred cities .
Its the first time since the Dictatorship that openly fascist candidates have been elected and the far right have gained control of the Andalusian local parliament by pacting with them.
The PP got the support of Vox without openly assuming its shocking anti feminist measures, including the repeal of the laws of gender violence and LGTBI equality in Andalusia., but Vox with 10 seats will hold the balance of power and a platform to legitimize and spread their movement..
The news of the despicable Vox in power generated rage on social networks and sparked calls for multiple demonstrations and rallies
The slogans # NiUnPasoAtrásenIgualdad (Not One Step Back In Equality) and #OurRightsNoSeNegocian (Out Rights Aren’r Negotiable) have moved from Andalusia to a hundred cities throughout the State to show the rejection of the PP (Right Wing opposition) agreement with the new openly fascist party Vox to invest their candidate and control the local Parliament in Andalusia.
by Álvaro Minguito El Salto Editorial Staff translatiions from The Free
The first session of the Investiture Plenary Session in the Andalusian Parliament took place Tuesday morning while on the street a huge demonstration led by the feminist movements demanded not to negotiate with the rights of women.
“Not a step back” and “Our rights are not negotiable” have been the main arguments of a mobilization that began at midday before the doors of the Andalusian Parliament, in Seville, and that the feminist movement has supported throughout the State with demonstrations mushrooming and spreading to a hundred cities and towns in the afternoon.
# NiUnPasoAtrás (Not One Step Back)
Manifestation Sevilla Álvaro Minguito
The slogansheard in Seville spread in the afternoon to the main cities of Andalusia and have also to A Coruña, Barcelona, Bilbao, Burgos, Cáceres, Madrid, Valencia or Zaragoza, etc etc.
The mobilization in more than a hundred cities has overflowed the borders of the Spanish State, and there have also been concentrations in Paris amd Berlin.
The voices of feminists is joined by those of LGBT movements. Thus, the entities that make up the State Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Trans and Bisexuals (FELGTB) have supported the mobilizations.
If the right comes for us, we’re going to turn purple ✊🏽 #NiUnPasoAtras pic.twitter.com/iYbzHYjmk7 – Sonia (@lventseasporte) January 15, 2019
The federation is concerned about “the proliferation of hate speech in the governing bodies of Andalusia” and fears “a setback in the degree of respect for the rights and freedoms of the people that make up our society,” in reference to the initial proposals presented by Vox to give their support to Juan Manuel Moreno in the investiture, which included the repeal of the laws of gender violence and LGTBI equality in Andalusia.
Juan Manuel Moreno, candidate of the PP, has revealed in the first Plenary of the session of investiture of the Parliament of Andalusia some of his proposals, among which are the suppression of the inheritamce tax and the limitation of mandates to eight years.
Málaga # Málaga ‘We do not fit into the Plaza Constitución’, 15E # niunpasoatrás # niunpasoatrásenigualdad #FeminismoAndaluz #NoNegociamosYoVoy # Andalucía #parlamentoandaluz #InvestiduraAnd # 15Enero # 15E #feminism #sororidad #visibilidad pic.twitter.com/HtCYo0oINc
some info from – La Poderío (@lapoderiofem) January 15, 2019 translatiions from The Free
#NiUnPasoAtrás se traslada de Sevilla a un centenar de ciudades tras el discurso de investidura de Moreno
Los lemas #NiUnPasoAtrásenIgualdad y #NuestrosDerechosNoSeNegocian se han trasladado de Andalucía a un centenar de ciudades en todo el Estado para mostrar el rechazo al acuerdo del PP con Vox para investir a su candidato en Andalucía.
“Ni un paso atrás” y “Nuestros derechos no se negocian” han sido los argumentos principales de una movilización que comenzaba a mediodía ante las puertas de Parlamento andaluz, en Sevilla, y que el movimiento feminista ha respaldado en todo el Estado con concentraciones en un centenar de ciudades por la tarde.
Las consignas que se han escuchado en Sevilla se han trasladado por la tarde a las principales ciudades de Andalucía y han sido también las mismas en A Coruña, Barcelona, Bilbao, Burgos, Cáceres, Madrid, Valencia o Zaragoza.
A las voces de las feministas se han unido las de los movimientos LGTB. Así, las entidades que integran la Federación Estatal de Lesbianas, Gais, Trans y Bisexuales (FELGTB) han secundado las movilizaciones.
La federación se muestra preocupada por “la proliferación de los discursos de odio en los órganos de gobierno de Andalucía” y teme “un retroceso en el grado de respeto a los derechos y las libertades de las personas que componen nuestra sociedad”, en referencia a las propuestas iniciales presentadas por Vox para dar su apoyo a Juan Manuel Moreno en la investidura, que incluían la derogación de las leyes de violencia de género e igualdad LGTBI andaluza.
Juan Manuel Moreno, candidato del PP, ha desgranado en el primer Pleno de la sesión de investidura del Parlamento de Andalucía algunas de sus propuestas, entre las que están la supresión del impuesto de sucesiones o la limitación de los mandatos a ocho años.
The left takes the streets against the change of government in Andalusia
Feminist collectives, LGTBI, Podemos, IU and the SAT are promoting mobilizations in Andalusia before the investiture of a rightwing coalition including the new fascist party Vox, on Tuesday 15th and 16 Jan..
Its the first time since the Dictatorship that openly fascist candidates have been elected and the far right have gained control of the Andalusian local parliament.
The PP got the support of Vox without openly assuming its shocking anti feminist measures but Vox with 10 seats will hold the balance of power..
The news of the despicable Vox in power generated rage on social networks and sparked calls for multiple demonstrations and rallies on the investiture dates, on January 15 and 16 .
Podemos and Izquierda Unida parties yesterday joined the feminist calls to demonstrate and encouraged their respective militants and supporters to attend the events planned next Tuesday: a concentration at 12.00 in the Andalusian Parliament (Seville) and provincial concentrations at 7:00 p.m. in different points of the Andalusian cities.
Camp and antifascist concentration that took place in Granada after the Andalusian elections. MIGUEL RODRÍGUEZ
The mobilization is driven by a large group of feminist organizations that on Wednesday presented a manifesto for what they consider an “attack” by the party led by Santiago Abascal, with its claim to repeal the Law of Gender Violence.
Support demonstrations and actions have also been called in towns and cities across Iberia.
Map made by Irene Martínez for El Salto
Under the slogans ‘Not a step back in equality’ or ‘Our rights are not negotiated’, posters in purple and blue tones have been distributed quickly through social networks to gather as many people as possible on January 15.
Leaders like Antonio Maíllo, from IU (communist), or Teresa Rodríguez, from Podemos( Left) and candidate from the confluence of both formations, Adelante Andalucía, yesterday supported these initiatives and urged citizens to support feminist mobilizations.
The LGTBI movement also joins the feminist demonstrations in rejection of the reaction and regression in the conquered rights that they believe the pact between PP and Cs with Vox will bring.
But in addition the Andalusian Union of Workers (SAT) called yesterday a protest called ‘Surround the Parliament’ for the day of the celebration of the full investiture in which the candidate will foreseeably be voted on next January 16 .
In principle, the union has requested authorization for the possible days – the date is still unknown – and aims to surround the Parliament with a human chain, the SAT said in a statement.
This protest will take place from 18:00 hours on the day of the investiture under the slogan ‘Andalusia is not for sale’, with the intention of preventing the change of government with its aim to launch “new attacks” against social rights and democratic institutions and public services, with privatizations and cuts in social policies.
The union indicated that the new government will also mean “a threat to women’s rights and policies of equality and a promotion of sexist violence” and invited other anti-fascist and feminist groups to protest, since theirs will be a “complementary” mobilization » to all the other demos on that day.
REACTION OF THE PATRIARCHY
Both García and Navascués agree that one of the keys to the rise of the far right is as “very clear reaction to the 8M Womens General Strike.”.
A famous quote by Simone de Beauvoir has gone viral in recent days. A phrase from the forerunner of feminism that says: “Do not ever forget that a political, economic or religious crisis will suffice for the rights of women to be questioned again.
These rights are never taken for granted. You must remain vigilant throughout your life. ” In this line Dolores García deepens by stating that “any gap that is opened globally, in the political or economic space, will cause a reinforcement of patriarchy” to explain the current situation.
“Patriarchy becomes very angry when feminism takes center stage, not only here, but in Latin America, all over the world,” something that connects García with the economic system because “the neoliberal model needs women to do care of life work, to corner ourselves around the family, bringing up kids”.
Police violence at an anti fascist counter demo against a meeting of the new VOX party in Girona, Catalonia.
The new Family Counseling or the anti-abortion plan in the PP-Vox agreement are other measures denounced by the Andalusian feminist movement.
THE LGTBI MOVEMENT ADDS
With the same sense of “aggression” to their rights, the Andalusian LGTBI community has joined the mobilizations in the provinces and in the capital. Rafael Gil, president of the association Delta LGBTIQ of the Sierra de Cádiz, calls LGTBI people to second the mobilization.
“They have negotiated with our rights, they have been currency on the table, it seems a shame,” he complains. Gil is firm in the need that “every time the ultra right in our autonomous community touches us, even if only in words, they must have us confronting them, on the street.”
In addition, the historic Grenadian transsexual activist Kim Pérez has announced a hunger strike in protest. “We will not stop being visible in front of this danger to our rights, which we thought was already extinguished, in my case, through a hunger strike, which will represent the anguish that will be renewed now, as long as the new leaders do not declare the will to respect us”.
FUTURE OF THE FIGHT
Beyond the 15th, the Andalusian feminist movement is thinking of ways to counteract the messages of the extreme right. In the opinion of Dolores García, one of the keys is “to work much more in the neighborhoods, because sometimes we do not reach those towns where women or the poor are most vulnerable.
We have to get to those spaces to counteract the discourses of fear that lock up women in the house. ” On the other hand, Alicia Navascués thinks that it is not enough to protect the conquered laws but to denounce “very dangerous speeches of the Citizens Party that seek the commodification of the woman’s body, such as the legalization of ‘rent bellies’ or of prostitution”.
However, both are optimistic. “In the face of such an attack, there is going to be a strengthening, uniting different feelings of feminism,” says Garcia. “From now on we’re going to have a unified, strong feminist movement. We’re going to confront them, and the legislative change for the worse is not going to happen..”.
translation by The Free. Info from.. Por Irene Martínez @ireirenuka / Alfonso Torres @alfonsogtorres at Kaos and El Salto..elsaltodiario
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The court of ‘La Manada’ did not believe a woman who reported that her partner raped her Spanish / English
He got just 10 months, though even the Defence asked for 2 years, for beating and stabbing her. But they acquitted him for rape because she ‘didn’t struggle enough’. This despite the fact that the prosecution requested ten years in prison and had a previous conviction for raping another woman.
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! I’m Amy Goodman. Voters in Brazil head to the polls Sunday in an election that could reshape the political landscape of South America. Polls show the current front-runner is the far-right Jair Bolsonaro, a former Army officer who has openly praised Brazil’s military dictatorship, which lasted from 1964 to 1985.
Exit polls should be broadcast at 7 p.m. local time and results will start flowing shortly after that because Brazil uses an electronic voting system.
Bolsonaro has a long history of making racist, misogynistic, homophobic comments. He has encouraged police to kill suspected drug dealers. Most polls show Bolsonaro winning on Sunday but failing to win enough votes to avoid a runoff election on October 28th. He has risen to the polls since September 8th, when he was stabbed while campaigning.
Bolsonaro also directly benefited from the jailing of former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in April, who had been leading all presidential polls. Lula remains in jail on what many consider trumped-up corruption charges to prevent him from becoming president. Lula, the head of the Workers’ Party, was then forced to drop out of the race. Lula’s handpicked successor, Fernando Haddad, is currently placing second in most polls.
CNT calls for rebellion against the Patriarchal State and its courts
The anarcho-syndicalist trade union shows its indignation at the judicial resolution adopted in the case of “La Manada” the self styled ‘wolf pack’.
”The CNT union has shown its absolute “dismay and disgust” before the performance of the Navarra Court that has decreed the provisional release of the members of “La Manada” . “We share the anger and call to turn indignation into a permanent struggle against the patriarchal system that the State carries in its genes,” said the anarcho-syndicalist organization.”Being Afraid is gonna Switch Sides.. Feminist Self Defense …Platform for Free Abortion and Sexuality’‘
In the same way, the CNT has warned that what happened around “La Manada” once again puts in focus an unquestionable reality: “for what and for whom courts and prisons are made”. “That same judicial system is the one that pursues and ruins the lives of eight young people of Altsasu thanks to a police assembly, or also the one that persecutes rappers and criminalizes social protest,” the union stressed.
“Justice is nothing other than injustice, and the State is nothing more than a gigantic macho, violent and patriarchal apparatus,” they said. In this context, the CNT has also called for a “reflection” on the current system, “a system that breeds monsters like the members of La Manada and places in the courts of ‘injustice’ machista and misogynist judges.”
The anarcho-syndicalist union showed its ” support and affection” towards all the militants of the feminist movement that today take to the streets “to shout against this injustice and defend their rights”. “You, sisters, are essential and indispensable to build another model of society, freer and more human,” they remarked.‘We are the wolf pack’
Protests as Spanish court releases ‘wolf pack’ rapist predators
Five men who were convicted only for sexual assault after a gang rape of a woman at a Spanish bull-running festival have now been released on bail pending appeal, sparking fresh protests.
One of the accused is a Guardia Civil (Franco’s military police) and another was in the army. Several are far right “ultras” who support FC Sevilla.
Protesters have taken to the streets of Spain after a court ordered the release on bail of five men sentenced to nine years in prison for sexually abusing a young woman at Pamplona’s bull-running festival.‘Hitting a Guardia Civil gets 13 yrs jail. A Guardia Civil and 4 friends rape you and walk free’.
The men, who called themselves “the wolf pack” in a WhatsApp messaging group, had been accused of stalking, abducting and raping a woman, then 18, at the entrance to an apartment building in Pamplona on July 7, 2016, at the start of the week-long San Fermin festival, which draws tens of thousands of visitors.
All five were convicted only of sexual abuse in April and were acquitted of the more serious crime of sexual assault, which includes rape, as the court did not consider that the victim had been subjected to intimidation or violence, sparking nationwide protests.
Coming shortly after the first ever feminist General Strike the verdict by a politicized Spanish Court is seen as direct repression and yet another example of patriarchal approval for the rampant neo fascist mentality and impunity for a far right gang including a paramilitary police officer who boasted of their crime on Whats App and mocked their victim.
Photos of some of the Demos around Iberia
Manifestación en Pamplona en protesta por la puesta en libertad bajo fianza de los cinco miembros de ‘La Manada’.
Concentración contra la puesta en libertad de ‘la manada’ en Cuenca.
Manifestación en Madrid contra la puesta en libertad de la manada.
Cientos de personas se concentran en Sevilla contra la puesta en libertad de los miembros de la manada.
Manifestación en Murcia, en la Plaza del Cardenal Belluga. El movimiento ha logrado movilizar de nuevo a miles de personas a través de las redes sociales.
Manifestación en Pamplona por la puesta en libertad de la manada.
En Valencia, el movimiento feminista avisó de que tomaría las calles. Y así lo ha hecho.
La imagen ante los Juzgados de Bilbao ha sido también la de un clamor multitudinario
Women’s rights groups immediately took to social media to call for protests on Thursday night with the slogan: “If the pack hits the streets, we will as well.”
Around a thousand people marched in Pamplona, some shouting “Enough macho violence”, and there where also rallies in neighbouring Basque cities Bilbao, Vitoria and San Sebastian.
Hundreds also marched in Barcelona, some holding a banner that read: “In the face of patriarchal justice, feminist self-defence.”
“It is a shame, these scoundrel rapists get away so easily. It seems they want to release them so they are ready to start again on July 7, the day of San Fermin,” said 66-year-old protester Carmen Roman.
Another protest is scheduled to take place on Friday evening outside of the justice ministry in Madrid as well as in the southwestern city of Seville, the hometown of the five men, and other cities.
Demonstrators hit the streets of Pamplona, Spain.
Prosecutors had argued during the closed-door trial last year that the men’s victim was subjected to “serious intimidation and it prevented resistance or flight”.
They had asked for each of the men, who have been in custody since 2016, to be jailed for 22 years and 10 months.
One of the accused is a Guardia Civil policeman – currently suspended– and another was once in the army. Several are “ultras” who support FC Sevilla.
“¿Qué tiene que pasar para que se tomen en serio nuestras vidas?”
María Lozano
La manifestación ha comenzado frente al Ministerio de Justicia en torno a las 19.00 de este viernes. Ha continuado por la Gran Vía pasando por Cibeles, hasta llegar al Congreso de los Diputados, donde las asistentes han protagonizado una sentada multitudinaria en la que las mujeres iban perdiendo la voz, pero no la rabia.
Decenas de miles de personas han salido a las calles de nuevo para protestar contra la puesta en libertad bajo fianza de 6.000 euros de los cinco miembros de ‘La Manada’, que han salido este viernes de prisión. “¿Qué tiene que pasar para que se tomen en serio nuestras vidas?”, se preguntaban varias mujeres en la concentración de Madrid.Concentración en Madrid contra la puesta en libertad de los miembros de la manada.
“La rabia que tenemos es para cortar Madrid y todo el Estado”, denunciaba una de las personas presentes en la manifestación. La concentración ha comenzado frente al Ministerio de Justicia en torno a las 19.00 de la tarde de este viernes. Ha continuado por la Gran Vía, pasando por Cibeles, hasta llegar al Congreso de los Diputados, donde las asistentes han protagonizado una sentada multitudinaria en la que las mujeres iban perdiendo la voz, pero no la rabia.
“El feminismo está calando en la sociedad, desde abajo hacia arriba”, afirman desde el Movimento Feminista
Desde el Movimiento Feminista de Madrid han afirmado que esperaban esta respuesta ciudadana porque “el feminismo está calando en la sociedad, desde abajo hacia arriba”. Una de las representantes del movimiento ha afirmado a Público que “esto es una demostración clara de que la sociedad está cambiando y de que las leyes tienen que cambiar al ritmo que cambia la sociedad”. Además, advierten de que “si la Justicia no nos escucha saldremos a la calle hasta que lo haga porque de momento, la Justicia y la legislación no tienen una visión de género”.
“No hay palabras, esto una vergüenza”, ha denunciado una de las asistentes en la manifestación refiriéndose a la puesta en libertad de los miembros de ‘La Manada’. Ha afirmado que no le sorprendió la noticia de la liberación: “Después de que uno de los jueces considerara que era jolgorio y parecía que la víctima estaba pasándoselo bien, no me sorprendió nada que esto ocurriera”.
“¿Qué tiene que pasar para que se tomen en serio nuestras vidas?” y “¿Qué seguridad tenemos las mujeres en la calle?” han sido algunas de las preguntas que se hacían las asistentes en la concentración. “Estas personas son reincidentes. Lo han hecho más veces y además no lo reconocen y lo van a volver a hacer”, afirmaba una de ellas.
Uno de los hombres presentes en la manifestación ha denunciado que esto es una muestra de que “Franco sigue aquí en todos los niveles del Estado” y que “la Justicia lleva siendo patriarcal desde el principio de los tiempos y la transición es totalmente falsa”.
“Ella en casa y ellos de parranda”, proclaman los participantes, entre otros cánticos en los que expresan su rabia. “No valiente, quiero ser libre”, corean.
Protestas en toda España
Miles de mujeres se han concentrado en la plaza Sant Jaume de Barcelona, donde han usado cacerolas y llaves para hacer una protesta sonora. “Queremos justicia y no se ha hecho. Después de esto, ¿qué podemos esperar?”“Justicia patriarcal, sistema criminal”, dice una de las pancartas de las asistentes a la manifestación en Madrid.
Los convocantes de la movilización han subrayado que no se puede “permitir que los cinco violadores de ‘La Manada’ queden totalmente impunes”: “Queremos justicia y no se ha hecho. Después de esto, ¿qué podemos esperar?”, se han preguntado.
En Pamplona, donde se produjeron en los Sanfermines de 2016 los hechos por los que fueron condenados José Ángel Prenda, Jesús Escudero, Alfonso Jesús Cabezuelo, Antonio Manuel Guerrero y Ángel Boza Florido, se han congregado miles de personas en la plaza del Ayuntamiento.
“¡¡No es no. Justicia!!” es el lema de la pancarta que ha encabezado la protesta, que han portado mujeres con guantes rojos, color con el que desde hace años se simboliza el rechazo a las agresiones sexistas en Navarra.
Es el segundo día de protestas en Pamplona, después de que este jueves al poco de conocerse la decisión del tribunal se convocara de otra de forma espontánea.
En las capitales andaluzas los manifestantes, la mayoría mujeres, han sido miles. En la ciudad en que viven los miembros de ‘La Manada’, Sevilla, unas cinco mil personas se han concentrado en la Plaza Nueva bajo el lema “Si ‘La Manada’ sale a la calle, nosotras también”.
Un millar de personas se han manifestado en Granada ante el Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Andalucía, y otras ciudades como Jaén, Almería, Cádiz o Linares han protagonizado concentraciones.
En el País Vasco, miles de mujeres se han manifestado. En Bilbao se han exhibido carteles con frases como “sí es sí”, “no a la cultura de la violación”, “basta de justicia patriarcal” y “nosotras te creemos”.
Por su parte, en San Sebastián cientos de personas se han movilizado bajo la consigna “ante los ataques sexistas, solidaridad feminista. Ninguna agresión sexista sin respuesta” y han desplegado banderas moradas.
Mujeres y hombres de todas las edades se han congregado en Valencia frente a la Delegación del Gobierno para denunciar que “la justicia patriarcal es letal”.
En Castilla-La Mancha se ha exigido una justicia “más humana, sensible y formada en género”, mientras que en Asturias, centenares de personas han mostrado su solidaridad con la víctima a la que han recordado que no está sola: “Hermana, aquí está tu manada”.
Más de medio millar de personas ha salido a la calle en Santander, con cacerolas para mostrar su indignación y han pegado en la pared de la Delegación del Gobierno carteles con las siguientes proclamas: “Violar sale barato”, “violador, es tu momento, la justicia está de rebajas” y han puesto fotos de ‘La Manada’ junto al texto “soy un violador y el Estado me lo permite”.
Unas 1.300 personas han gritado en Logroño “No es no” frente al Palacio de Justicia, mientras que en Segovia unas 150 han reclamado que no se juegue con la seguridad de la víctima, al tiempo que han reclamado formación de género para los jueces.
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Las concentraciones por toda España contra la puesta en libertad de los miembros de ‘la manada’
El feminismo ha vuelto a ocupar la calle para protestar contra “la justicia patriarcal” después de que la Audiencia de Navarra haya decidido no prolongar la prisión provisional a los cinco condenados
The case, known as the “wolf pack” trial because of the name the men used in their WhatsApp group, caused a national outcry after the defendants were acquitted of rape.
The case was widely seen as a cross-examination of the 18-year-old woman rather than the men who attacked her. The proceedings were criticised after the judges accepted into evidence a report compiled by a private detective hired by some of the defendants. The detective had followed the woman over several days and produced photographs of her smiling with friends.
This was used to suggest she had not suffered any lasting trauma, prompting hundreds of women to demonstrate outside court holding signs reading: “We believe you, sister.”
Defence lawyers claimed the woman had consented and had let one of the men kiss her. They also said that 96 seconds of video footage from the men’s phones – showing the woman immobile and with her eyes shut during the attack – constituted proof of consent.
The prosecution said the victim had been too terrified to move.Al final de la manifestación, decenas de manifestantes han protagonizado una sentada frente al Congreso de los Diputados en Madrid.
“The defendants want us to believe that on that night they met an 18-year-old girl, living a normal life, who, after 20 minutes of conversation with people she didn’t know, agreed to group sex involving every type of penetration, sometimes simultaneously, without using a condom,” the prosecutor Elena Sarasate said.
The verdict was criticised by many senior politicians, including Pedro Sánchez, the leader of Spain’s socialist party who recently became the prime minister.
“She said NO,” he wrote on Twitter at the time. “We believe you and we’ll keep believing you. If what the ‘wolfpack’ did wasn’t group violence against a defenceless woman, then what do we understand by rape?”
News of the men’s release prompted women’s groups to call protests in cities including Pamplona, Madrid, Zaragoza, San Sebastián and Barcelona on Thursday and Friday.
Laura Berro, the equality and LGBTI councillor at Pamplona’s city council, said the court’s latest verdict was proof of the patriarchal nature of justice.Cientos de personas se concentran en Madrid al grito de “Tranquila hermana, aquí está tu manada”.
“It’s shocking,” she tweeted. “But we will not shut up or be paralysed.”
In Kenya, women protested in a restaurant where a waitress had asked a woman to go to the restrooms to breastfeed her baby.In Chile, a communications agency aired a TV message that highlighted the fact that no law protects breastfeeding women, nor do they have any legal recourse if they were harassed while breastfeeding. Continue reading “From Kenya to Chile: Fighting for the Right to Breastfeed in Public”
‘Hitting a Guardia Civil gets 13 yrs jail. A Guardia Civil and 4 friends rape you and walk free’.
Manifestación en Pamplona en protesta por la puesta en libertad bajo fianza de los cinco miembros de ‘La Manada’.
Concentración contra la puesta en libertad de ‘la manada’ en Cuenca.
Manifestación en Madrid contra la puesta en libertad de la manada.
Cientos de personas se concentran en Sevilla contra la puesta en libertad de los miembros de la manada.
Manifestación en Murcia, en la Plaza del Cardenal Belluga. El movimiento ha logrado movilizar de nuevo a miles de personas a través de las redes sociales.
Manifestación en Pamplona por la puesta en libertad de la manada.
En Valencia, el movimiento feminista avisó de que tomaría las calles. Y así lo ha hecho.
La imagen ante los Juzgados de Bilbao ha sido también la de un clamor multitudinario
Demonstrators hit the streets of Pamplona, Spain.
Concentración en Madrid contra la puesta en libertad de los miembros de la manada.
“Justicia patriarcal, sistema criminal”, dice una de las pancartas de las asistentes a la manifestación en Madrid.
Al final de la manifestación, decenas de manifestantes han protagonizado una sentada frente al Congreso de los Diputados en Madrid.
Cientos de personas se concentran en Madrid al grito de “Tranquila hermana, aquí está tu manada”.
The Free 