March 22, 2014 will go down in the annals of this country's history. The success of the Dignity Marches that arrived in Madrid and were embraced along the way by the majority of citizens is a historic event.
Lanzarote, oh, my Lanzarote of the soul!, took to the streets. Thousands of Lanzarote women and men took to the streets to say to this stale, fascist, dictatorial, ultra-conservative government: Enough is enough!
Public, secular, and free education. Against a retrograde Wert law. Yes to music, yes to the humanities.
Public healthcare at the service of the patient. Against privatization.
Dignified housing. No one without a roof. Stop evictions.
Dignified and stable work. No labor reforms that cut our rights and create more unemployment and joblessness.
Universal justice accessible to all citizens that protects every human being.
Culture to enrich us and grow spiritually with cinema, theater, dance, and art in all its dimensions.
Dignified pensions and retirements. After a lifetime of productivity, we deserve to have stable purchasing power.
Protection and services for dependency, for home help, for families at risk, for victims of gender violence who suffer from macho terrorism.
No to oil in our islands. Polluting, destroying the marine environment, our coasts, which endangers our way of life.
We, the women, adhere to these demands, but in addition, we are on a war footing due to the alleged reform of the current Abortion Law that contemplates all cases, a pioneer in Europe. This government intends to take us to the caves and leave us unprotected, so that the rich can travel abroad and abort freely, and the poor will have to do it in secret and at the risk of their own lives. Due to the need to make visible the multiple forms of oppression suffered by working-class women, migrants, older women, young women, lesbians, bisexuals, transsexuals, intersexuals, women with functional diversity, women who engage in prostitution, women whose peoples are oppressed; and due to the defense of our own rights and of all humanity.
We know and are aware that much remains to be done for Equality between Men and Women to be real and effective, so we take to the streets to shout and defend all the tides, green, white, orange, red, violet, black, bicolor and whatever it takes, because we are absolutely aware that to fight against gender violence, to live together in an egalitarian society, it is necessary that the rest of the factors are in balance. That's why we didn't care about the color of the tide.
Enough of exalted and dictatorial egos in Lanzarote
Vicenta Monge, President of Tiemar.
