Anti-monument is reinstalled in front of the State Congress

Quintana Roo, Mexico – Dressed in huipiles and white skirts, a group of women began a healing work, placed flowers and candles on the grass in front of the State Congress, and then installed once again the anti-monument, with which they proclaim with fists raised: STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN!

“The act that summons us today, is revolutionary, is against the system, and seeks a symbolic reparation for all our sisters who have been taken from us victims of femicide,” said the women’s collective.

It was in March when the first one they installed and the third of its kind in Mexico was destroyed, vandalized, the glass piece was broken leaving only a cross, and the names of the women they were honoring, which were written at the foot of the structure since November 29th, were stained with white paint.

At that time the act was described by feminist groups as an act of hate, and they blamed Governor Carlos Joaquín González for his lack of action… “You kept silent, you overlooked and you are covering up for these people who tonight, like vandals, which they actually are, tried to tear out our memory,” reads El Universal.

The Feminist Network of Quintana Roo proceeded last Saturday, June 26th to reinstall a new anti-monument, sisters, friends and mothers, dressed in black, removed the white and green banners that covered the purple piece, a symbolism of the recognition and demand for women’s rights, for justice, for a life in peace and free of violence.

With megaphones and through social media women expressed themselves:

“In Quintana Roo they murder us, rape us and vanish us without the slightest respect for our lives, and our rights…. Today the Quintana Roo Feminist Network, once again, rises to make visible the invisible”.

The firm voices are not silenced, the fists are on high, the struggle of women persists and demands justice, for girls, young women, students, housewives, entrepreneurs, businesswomen, grandmothers, sisters and mothers. Once the anti-monument was installed, the names of women who were victims of violence simply because they were women were read out.

The collective made broadcasts through the Marea Verde page on Facebook.

Translated by Miguel Sánchez