All the demonstrations against patriarchy we want to go to

On this 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, it is time to make some noise. This Saturday, numerous demonstrations will take place throughout Italy to fight for a fairer and safer world for all - in the name of Giulia Cecchettin and all the more than one hundred women who were killed in 2023, but also in the name of those who suffer violence every day. Physically, psychologically, economically. There is so much frustration, but also the determination not to remain silent, the will to unhinge a patriarchal system based on subterfuge, but also to demand concrete measures, such as funding for primary prevention and anti-violence centres, as well as compulsory affective and sexual education in schools.

The Non Una di Meno collective has organised two national mobilisations for 25 November in Rome and Messina, stressing that they "do not want to be a commemoration of the victims of femicide, but a focal point of revolt against the structural violence that affects our lives. It is therefore not a ritual moment, but the beginning of a daily mobilisation - in schools, workplaces, neighbourhoods, alongside feminist and transfeminist anti-violence centres - which, with the discovery of Giulia Cecchettin's body, spilled over into spontaneous processions in squares all over Italy."

The wave of reaction to this collective outcry, which has been suppressed for far too long, is strong and is directed against an everyday excuse that is not a newly emerging phenomenon, but affects women as well as non-binary and LGBTQIAPK people, people with disabilities, racialised people, migrants and second generations, sex workers and prisoners. And she is ready to take to the streets all over Italy, from north to south.

For Giulia, for all the others and for ourselves: stop silence. Let's burn it all down. Let's make ourselves heard. Everyone must decide for themselves how.

Below you will find a list of demonstrations against the patriarchy that we want to go to:

Lombardia

• Como - venerdì 24 novembre: ore 17, Piazza San Fedele
• Bergamo - venerdì 24 novembre: ore Piazzale Marconi
• Chiari - sabato 25 novembre: ore 9, Piazza Martiri della Libertà
• Monza - sabato 25 novembre: ore 10.30, Piazza Roma
• Milano - sabato 25 novembre: ore 11, via Beltrami/Largo Cairoli

Piemonte

• Biella - sabato 25 novembre: ore 14, via Italia
• Torino - sabato 25 novembre: ore 15, Porta Nuova
• Cuneo - sabato 25 novembre: ore 18, Piazza Galimberti

Friuli Venezia Giulia

• Trieste - sabato 25 novembre: ore 14.30, Piazza Hortis
• Udine - sabato 25 novembre: ore 18, Piazza della Repubblica

Trentino Alto Adige

• Merano - venerdì 24 novembre: ore 17, scalinata in Corso Libertà

Veneto

• Venezia - venerdì 24 novembre: ore 17, Campo Santa Margherita
• Treviso - sabato 25 novembre: ore 18.30, Piazzale Duca D’Aosta

Emilia Romagna

• Parma - sabato 25 novembre: ore 10, Piazzale della Pilotta
• Reggio Emilia - sabato 25 novembre: ore 11 e 19, Piazza Prampolini
• Rimini - sabato 25 novembre: ore 16, Arco di Augusto
• Bologna- venerdì 24 novembre: ore 17, Piazza Verdi

Toscana

• Livorno - sabato 25 novembre: ore 17.30, Piazza Grande
• Prato - sabato 25 novembre: ore 16.30, Piazza del Comune

Umbria

• Perugia - sabato 25 novembre: ore 17.30, Piazza del Bacio

Lazio

• Roma- sabato 25 novembre: ore 14.30, Circo Massimo (Manifestazione Nazionale)

Campania

• Napoli - sabato 25 novembre: ore 10, Piazza Vittoria

Calabria

• Catanzaro - venerdì 24 novembre: ore 18, Piazzetta Cavatore

Sicilia

• Palermo - venerdì 24 novembre: ore 17.30, Piazza Indipendenza
• Messina - sabato 25 novembre: ore 15, Largo Seggiola

Sardegna

• Cagliari - sabato 25 novembre: ore 16, Bastione San Remy