‘The Tsiaras law is femicide,’ the campaign stresses.
The call to the assembly reads:
‘The Tsiaras law is femicide.
‘Five years into the campaign, and together with the few organisations and journalists who have been documenting the effects of the mandatory joint custody law, we are witnessing a dramatic increase in the intensity of gender-based and domestic violence as a result of the policies and the climate it has created.
‘The femicide of Vasiliki in Kalamata is a foretold crime of the Tsiaras law. It is the image of the brutal violence of the state, which imprisoned her in a life with her abuser under the weight of threats that if she left, he would take her children. In the end, he took her life. Because he could. Because he was allowed to. Her murder, the brutality in which she and her children lived, and the trauma that two young children are now called upon to manage are the result of the law on mandatory joint custody. They are the result of the regime of terror and blackmail it has imposed for the benefit of abusers. And this is happening right now, as we write these lines, in thousands of homes.
‘The Tsiaras law tortures children.
‘A few days ago, news broke that within 48 hours, three mothers and all their children had been murdered by their former or current husbands and fathers. Thirteen people dead. In the United States, where the “men’s rights” lobby began, the counterattack by the country’s white, wealthy, cis, heteronormative men against the feminist movement and its gains is already on the next page. Not just women. Children too. All dead.
‘Five years is a long time. Not one day more.
‘We will not mourn more women. We will not mourn children. We will not return to the dark times of the master man/father. We have no intention of returning to a regime of violence and terror from which millions of women and queer people across the planet fought to escape. In every corner of the planet, we shout that we and our children will live freely.
‘We will win this fight against the war they have declared on our bodies. The Tsiaras law will be overturned.
‘With feminist organisation and resistance.
‘We are waiting for you to fight together.
‘Saturday 27 June, 7pm, Aspalathos art space, 129 Charilaou Trikoupi, Exarchia.
‘No woman alone and no child alone means all of us together.’
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