WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE ITALY - news journal UPDATE - (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #15-25 - Systemic violence. Let's rebel against the exploitation of our bodies (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Constant news of feminicides and deaths at work chase each other,

dotting the daily news. Three deaths at work every day. Three
feminicides every week. An obsessive average. The statistics are
relentless, even the official ones; those elaborated by self-managed
structures, such as the Transfeminist Observatory on gender violence,
count many more. And in between there is the trail of blood of the
countless episodes of violence and accidents. It is not an out of place
juxtaposition: deaths at work and feminicides, ordinary accidents and
ordinary violence are associable, as they are characterized by
relationships of weakness and subordination.

You die at home at the hands of those who are next to you. And generally
a femicide, a lesbicide, a transcide is always the last in a sequence of
acts and behaviors, the outcome of a power relationship exercised in
various ways, from psychological and economic submission, to physical
violence on those who are perceived as a body of property, to be killed
rather than accept their autonomy. Around the person who suffers
violence, at best there is the exiguity of local social services, the
Anti-Violence Centers that are unable to respond to all requests due to
limited funding; otherwise there is the indifference and complicit
minimization of those who absentmindedly collect a complaint in a police
station, the cruelty of sympathetic courts towards violent males, the
sexism prevalent in newspaper headlines: what is called secondary violence.

People die at work, performing tasks whose compensation will often be a
miserable and undignified salary, perhaps operating machinery or dealing
with production processes whose "gears" and safety devices do not work,
or work badly. People die at work because of the inadequacy or total
lack of safety measures, because of the "state of necessity" that makes
people willing to do anything to have an income. People die at work
because the capitalist system considers the right to safety, health and
life as an obstacle to profit.

What is dotted in the news is not only the atrocity of the facts, but
the cruelty of the narratives. And so this daily slaughter gets media
visibility only in the most sensational cases, as happened with the
workplace massacre at the Esselunga construction site in Florence, or
with ThyssenKrupp in Turin, where eight workers died years ago; just a
line instead, quickly forgotten, swallowed up by the next episode, for
the many workers who lose their lives, often at an age when one should
no longer be working, at times when people should be at home, and very
often, on what is called "the first day of work", a shameful disguise of
an undeclared job "regularized" after death.

And the narrative of feminicides? Visibility and understanding are very
different when it concerns a girl from a good family, a perfect student,
a married woman, a pregnant woman, a white woman. It is another matter
if it concerns a girl who is a bit wayward, a person with an "irregular"
life, an LGBTQI+ person; in fact, in the case of sex workers,
feminicide, which has the same characteristics of sexist violence as all
feminicides, is grotesquely listed among deaths at work, considered an
inconvenience to be taken into account, given the type of work....

Deaths at work and feminicides. Accidents and sexual violence. It is the
devastating scenario of the daily war imposed by capitalism, by
patriarchal and sexist culture, it is the profound structural and
systemic violence of this society based on the domination of bodies, on
the division into classes and on the division of the sexes, on the
alleged power of exploiters, oppressors, masters, of those who want to
dominate our bodies. We must react to this systemic violence by removing
our bodies from the domination of power and exploitation, grasping the
connections between the various forms of oppression and organizing
effective struggles to no longer die and to free our lives.

Claudia

https://umanitanova.org/una-violenza-sistemica-ribelliamoci-allo-sfruttamento-dei-nostri-corpi
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