Five years is a lot.
Five years is a lot.
The campaign @No to Mandatory Joint Custody calls on feminist and queer collectives, as well as all beings who wish to join, to an open assembly to organize actions for the repeal of the Tsiaras law, on Saturday, June 27th at 7pm at the Aspalathos art space in Exarcheia.
The Tsiaras law Kills Women.
For five years now, the campaign and the few organizations and journalists who have been documenting the effects of the implementation of the mandatory joint custody law, have observed 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 raw violence of the state that imprisoned her in a life with her abuser, under the weight of threats that if she left he would take the children from her. In the end, he took her life. Because he could. Because he was allowed to. Her murder and the barbarity in which she and her children lived, the trauma that two small children are now called upon to manage, are the result of the mandatory joint custody law. Of the regime of terror and blackmail it has imposed, for the benefit of abusers. And it is happening right now, as we write these lines, in thousands of homes.
The Tsiaras law Tortures Children.
A few days ago, news came that within 48 hours 3 mothers and all their children were murdered by their ex/current husbands and fathers. 13 people dead. In the United States, where the "men's rights" lobby started, the counterattack of the country's rich white cis heteronormative men against the feminist movement and its achievements is already on the next page. Not just women. Children too. All dead.
Five years is a lot. Not one day more.
We will not mourn more women. We will not cry for children. We will not go back to the dark times of the man/father Master. We do not intend to return to a regime of violence and terror from which millions of women and queer beings around the world have fought to escape – in every corner we shout that we, and our children, will live free.
This struggle against the war they declared on our bodies, we will win. The Tsiaras law will be overturned.
With organization and feminist resistance.
We are waiting for you to fight together, on Saturday, June 27th at 7pm, at Aspalathos - Art Space, 129 Charilaou Trikoupi, Exarcheia.
No woman alone and no one alone means all of us together.
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