Women, the procession in Rome against gender violence: 'Let's disarm the patriarchy'

The fuchsia tide returns to the streets of Rome. The procession of 'Non una di meno' promoted on the occasion of 25 November, the international day for the elimination of violence against women, started from Piazzale Ostiense. The banner that opens the demonstration reads 'Let's disarm the patriarchy', while on another hung to the side of one of the two trucks in the procession 'Shame must change sides'. There are thousands of people in the square.

Leading the procession are feminist anti-violence centres. Among the many slogans and placards read: 'we are revolution', 'if patriarchy does not exist why do we continue to die', 'forbidding women to work is violence', 'princess you are only mine, to own is not to love and school must teach it'.

'This is a patriarchal government, a female premier is not enough. Measures contained not only in the security decree and for us worrying, from the restriction of the right to dissent to the possibility of entry into prison for women who are pregnant or have very young children", this is what the activists of 'Non una di Meno' highlighted at a press point on the sidelines of the departure of the national 'transfeminist' procession from piazzale Ostiense in Rome. "We are here to say that we must take away all weapons to the patriarchy weapons that affect all aspects of our lives: from the violence of the 'pro-life' movements in hospitals to transphobic violence - they add -. And then the violence we suffer in the workplace, both because we suffer harassment and because we are constantly underpaid and employed in the most precarious jobs. Violence that we also suffer in schools where we do not receive any form of transfeminist education and the violence that the planet we live on suffers'. "We are back in the streets to be the tide again and build that power that can erase patriarchy," they stressed.

Before the start of the procession, a photo of Minister Giuseppe Valditara was burnt in front of the Ministry of Education. "Before reaching the square against gender violence, we burn the minister Valditara," reads a story posted on Instagram by the feminist movement 'Aracne' and collectives. On a poster the activists then wrote: '104 state deaths. It is not immigration but your education'..