A-Infos (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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