RIVER WIND

There is a very little known tragedy when it comes to violence against women - and it is always talked about too little - which is what has become in recent months the most dramatic and serious scandal in the entire history, probably of the whole of Canada: the thousands of native women disappeared into thin air and often, then, found, barbarously killed after probable rape. It is a painful wound and for this reason still partially removed for the civil and developed country of North America, one of the states with the highest quality of life on the planet, taken as an example to be a model for example of multi-ethnic and intercultural integration. .
An impressive, frightening and well-documented Report on these disappearances and killings of women in recent decades was published in June 2019, consisting of thousands of pages and wanted under the pressure of many associations and complaints of native groups or "native Canadians" by Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau. The commission of inquiry worked two years to produce this document full of testimonies, data and evidence. One of the conclusions relating to the Report is that an appeal to the entire Canadian population to be present in solidarity and participation so that this femicide often covered by silence or the comfortable desire not to know finally and definitively ends.
There is still a very tense climate between native communities and public institutions and, very often, between Canadian natives or Indians and the rest of the population, especially the white one, whether they are North Americans or Europeans does not matter.
The violence against these women finds reason in the inaction of the state and in colonialism with its related ideologies, based on an alleged superiority.
The exact number of missing or killed women is not known, nor will it probably ever be known (since many family members, for fear of further vengeful violence, did not speak said also because they knew that the investigations would not have been conducted with real zeal). This downward number is believed to be four thousand Native American women missing or killed.

PRAY FOR LUCIA PEREZ

Lucia Perez was a 16-year-old girl who was drugged, raped, impaled and left in front of a hospital simulating an overdose. His three killers were acquitted on charges of murder and rape. Lucìa, in Argentina, is not the first victim and will not be the last in a country where there is an episode of violence against women every thirty minutes. And just yesterday, while the women were in the square, a 42-year-old woman was killed in Tucumán by her ex who waited for her outside work, stunned her with a cane and then stabbed her twice.

When everyone expected an exemplary sentence for the three monsters, a bitter surprise actually came, because for the judges of Mar del Plata, according to reports from the well-known site Fanpage.it, the rapists in reality would not be rapists but only guilty of the offense relating to the administration of drugs. Precisely for this reason they were acquitted of the charges of murder and rape: all would have happened in a consenting manner by the young woman.

Lucía Pérez was killed twice. The first by the direct executors; the second, by those who acquitted them and thus denied that two adults who administer cocaine to enslave a teenager are responsible for abuse and femicide. They want to tell us that her life has no value, that the power relations that are the basis of male violence do not exist, that the huge feminist movement that has brought her smile as a flag of struggle to all corners of the country, must shut up. We will not, we do not forgive, we do not forget, we do not reconcile. It was femicide.

I hope that these judges, who acquitted the killers, have no daughters otherwise they could end up like Lucia. And if they died I’d like to see if they will absolve the murderers of their daughters.

WHY DO MEN ALLOW THAT?

Who we are? 
We are the ones who swallow 
tears in silence instead of 
sleeping. We swallow very 
bitter toads and sorrows 
that take away our hearts.
 We are the ones who must 
always resist and keep 
the hut upright.
 I am very tired of seeing 
that the years pass and women 
are still not adequately 
evaluated for what they 
do at home or away from home. 
I'm tired of men who want 
super-perfect and fascinating 
superhero women.
 I'm tired of hearing that so 
many women die every day and
 no man does anything.

why men do nothing to 
eliminate violence against 
women?
Yet they have mothers, sisters,
 wives, daughters, grandchildren. 
Why don't they struggle to prevent 
a woman from suffering or being 
killed?
Why don't they actively participate?