Tertulia Feminista Sur calls for mobilization in Barahona next June 7th

Barahona.- The organization Tertulia Feminista Sur announced its active participation in the Great March-Caravan called for next June 7 in Barahona, a mobilization that arises in defense of water, life and against predatory mining. The collective extends the call to turn that day into an action also against femicides, sexist violence, institutional abandonment and the impunity that normalizes the death of women in the country. So far this year, the Dominican Republic has recorded more than 33 femicides, with figures ranging from 28 to 33 cases according to different official sources, only four of the victims had previously reported their situation of violence showing that there is distrust of the institutions called to protect and administer justice, at least 26 children have been orphaned because of these crimes. From Tertulia Feminista Sur, they maintain that it is no coincidence that the most impoverished and sacrificed communities by extractivism are the same ones where women live with fewer support networks, more precariousness, and greater exposure to sexist violence.

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"The same system that poisons our rivers, that sells the homeland and prioritizes capital over life, is the one that abandons us when we flee the aggressor, the one that treats us as guilty for wanting to survive, and the one that later adds us to the list of the dead," the organization warned in a statement. The call for the 7th of June will also be an opportunity to make visible the national mourning that the country is going through in the face of femicides. The organization warns that this is not just another march, but an action to denounce those who look the other way while women are murdered, and also against an economic model that destroys the territory and condemns its inhabitants to poverty and lack of protection. The march will start from the Cabral intersection at 9:30 am. Ending at the Plazoleta Duarte.