Women, take back the night

Takebackthenight When we speak of violence against women it is often only after episodes of brutal rape. In those cases the media decides to tell us even the details irrelevant to the chronicle. Then, nothing more. When we speak of violence against gay, lesbian or transgender, we do it only if the details are pretty morbid, or if there's someone who die. Sometimes, however, we can talk, even demonstrate against gender violence, even when media network don't speak of the argument.

Tomorrow, close to the international day of trans pride and the one against women violence, a network of collective and feminist realities, will take part to a demonstration against gender violence.
Over the last few years it has taken aim at removing the veil of silence about male violence against women, but this year they want to reiterate that the security and control policies adopted by the government will not help to give real security to women, trans and lesbians, but rather is solidarity the only weapon available.
The parade tomorrow in Rome, entitled "Reclaim the night" will start at 18.30 from Piazza Vittorio, pass through San Lorenzo to end up in Piazzale del Verano. A march that will not be denied to anyone, and even hopes to raise as many supports as possible. The itinerary of the event was not chosen at random because retraces the places that in Rome have always been a symbol of violence. From the station to Piazza Vittorio, a place of immigration, but close to a known area occupied by the fascists, to San Lorenzo, near the Roman nightlife centre recently threatened of evacuation.
So if the State wants, thanks to the power of the media, to inculcate the idea of the terrors of life that are outside the four walls (which should be synonymous with security, and instead in the vast majority of cases are precisely the place of violence), women tomorrow, and beyond, took to the streets to reiterate that security is not provided by multiple cameras or by exclusion or expulsion of immigrants, but by our freedom and self-determination within and outside the house.
The event will commemorate problems, such as insecurity or as widely used practice of resignations in white, which are typical of a society, as the Italian one, that has never been very careful to the problem of women.
In the square there will be also room for the music: in Piazzale del Verano will sing Bianca Giovannini (Banda Jorona), Honeybirds & thebirdies, Giulia Anania, Eli Natali.
Tomorrow will be, then, a preview of 28 November when in Rome will be celebrated the "International Day to end violence against women", established by the UN General Assembly in 1999. The date chosen by the UN is because on 25 November 1960, the Mirabal sisters, heroines of the liberation struggle of the Dominican Republic from the dictator Trujillo, were stopped on their way to visit their husbands in prison, tortured and then killed.
In 50 years little has changed: women and with them all the most vulnerable groups, from gay to transsexuals, are still the victims of violent men.