The 8M Feminist Platform of Lanzarote has announced that it will take to the streets next Monday, unlike what Mararía has announced, who ruled out concentrating this year due to the health situation. In a statement, the Platform defends that it will be "a responsible, legal and authorized concentration by the health authorities in coordination with feminist groups from all the islands."
Under the slogan "Canarian feminisms have no borders", the concentration will take place in the Ramírez Cerdá park from 6:00 p.m., and the use of masks will be mandatory. In addition, they specify that "it will be silent and the safety distance will always be maintained to minimize the risk of contagion by aerosols."
With the chosen slogan, the Canarian feminist movements want to point out all “the physical and social borders that migrant women, racialized women, trans women, lesbian women, prostituted women, women with disabilities suffer, and all excluded and exploited women and how they affect the role that patriarchal society has determined for women.”
From the movement they assure that “these are very hard times for humanity as a whole and even more so for the most vulnerable people”. "The pandemic exacerbates the already existing gender and class inequality. Now more than ever it is necessary to appeal to the State and institutions to force a social change with equality as the objective”, they emphasize.
The platform says it feels “astonished and sad at the criminalization of feminist mobilizations in the face of the numerous criticisms it is receiving beforehand, without any concentration having yet been held”. “It is a more than evident symptom that society is still sexist, since it is the only mobilization, of the many that have taken place, to receive so many accusations and cause so much commotion,” she laments.
