{"id":96863,"date":"2020-10-16T10:35:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T02:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=96863"},"modified":"2020-10-16T10:35:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T02:35:40","slug":"chiles-oct-25-plebiscite-feminist-group-las-tesis-lead-protest-over-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=96863","title":{"rendered":"Chile’s Oct 25 plebiscite: Feminist group \u2018Las Tesis\u2019 lead protest over constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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SANTIAGO, Oct 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A crowd of women dressed in mourning marched in the Chilean port city of Valparaiso for a symbolic
funeral for the country\u2019s constitution \u2013 a bit of political theater led by
the female theater troupe \u201cLas Tesis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With 11 days to go before a referendum on whether Chileans want to replace the constitution dating from the era of the late dictator Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990), the four women of \u201cLas Tesis\u201d called on women of all ages to dress in black and join the demonstration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The theater troupe is famous for their creation in 2019 of \u201cA Rapist in
your Path,\u201d which was performed around the world to denounce male violence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time magazine recently included them among the 100 most influential people of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marchers in Valparaiso carried posters depicting the cover of Chile\u2019s
constitution, imposed in 1980 by Pinochet, and wrote on it words that they
believed should also be eradicated from the document.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt first the idea was to throw the constitution into the sea, but later
it became an event in which we wanted to throw into the sea all the negative concepts for the female figure,\u201d said Cecilia Alba, one of the Valparaiso marchers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEach woman wrote \u2018patriarchy,\u2019 \u2018femicide,\u2019 \u2018inequality,\u2019 \u2018differences in
the laws\u2019 and everything that women suffer from,\u201d Alba said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One woman after another threw the posters on to the deck of a ship that
would later set sail for the open sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe objective was for each one to carry a notebook and to walk together,
singing a spell, which symbolizes the sisterhood that represents us as
female,\u201d said Fernanda Rodriguez, another of the participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The constitution was a major target of protests that erupted in Chile in
2019, with demonstrators insisting it was at the origin of the stark economic
inequalities that drove them out on to the streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Oct 25, Chileans will decide in a plebiscite whether or not to
draft a new constitution. — NNN-AGENCIES
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