In Mexico city, on Friday February 14th. 2020, president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, while inside the National Palace, giving his morning press conference, probably thought all would be quiet. What he didn’t expect was a group of brave and very angry women attacking the palace doors. This attack was in response to the brutal killing of 25 year old Ingrid Escamilla, who was murdered in the north of Mexico. Suffering the brutal death didn’t seem to be enough for the media, the Mexican newspaper La Prensa published photos of Ingrid’s mutilated body.
In Mexico around ten women are are killed every day, over the last four decades, femicide has increased exponentially, patriarchy is very much alive in Mexico. However patriarchy’s tentacles slither through the fissures in every country in the world, its distorted value structure, quietly accepting the dominance of one section of our species over another. The deep ingrained protocols continuing the dominance of male over female. and all the injustices that follow from this irrational man made value structure.
The attacks by these brave women on the national palace were just a part of the much larger day of protests, showing their solidarity with Ingrid and all other women who have suffered the brutality and death of a male dominated society.
In Mexico city, women from all over took to the streets and filled metro stations to display their rage at a society that looks the other way when it comes to the brutal treatment and death of women. Part of the women’s anger was seen widely when they set fire to a La Prensa truck outside the newspaper's offices. These protests are not an isolated incident but part of series of ongoing strikes and protest at several university campuses across the city. The women's anger is at the macho violence and against the state and universities ignoring this endemic savagery.
It is suggested that you watch Mexico City as International Women’s Day, March 8th. nears, and support these women who are taking direct action in the face of brutal state repression, to carry on this fight for justice, and against the rampant patriarchy and savage state violence. They deserve our full solidarity and support.
In Mexico around ten women are are killed every day, over the last four decades, femicide has increased exponentially, patriarchy is very much alive in Mexico. However patriarchy’s tentacles slither through the fissures in every country in the world, its distorted value structure, quietly accepting the dominance of one section of our species over another. The deep ingrained protocols continuing the dominance of male over female. and all the injustices that follow from this irrational man made value structure.
The attacks by these brave women on the national palace were just a part of the much larger day of protests, showing their solidarity with Ingrid and all other women who have suffered the brutality and death of a male dominated society.
In Mexico city, women from all over took to the streets and filled metro stations to display their rage at a society that looks the other way when it comes to the brutal treatment and death of women. Part of the women’s anger was seen widely when they set fire to a La Prensa truck outside the newspaper's offices. These protests are not an isolated incident but part of series of ongoing strikes and protest at several university campuses across the city. The women's anger is at the macho violence and against the state and universities ignoring this endemic savagery.
It is suggested that you watch Mexico City as International Women’s Day, March 8th. nears, and support these women who are taking direct action in the face of brutal state repression, to carry on this fight for justice, and against the rampant patriarchy and savage state violence. They deserve our full solidarity and support.
