A Rapist in Your Way .. via Ear to the Ground , 30/11/19 shared with thanks
Today’s piece pays homage– and it must– to the brave women of Chile and around the world who are standing up for their right to be free from sexual and gender-based violence..
Its an amazing performance video, easy to learn and now reproducing in women’s demos all over Latin America
see full lyrics in Spanish, English and German BELOW
Original Performance, Collective LasTesis, Santiago, Chile, November 25, 2019 where the Pinera Regime has been deploying sexual violence, torture and disappearances in response to recent anti-austerity protests.
Currently, Mexico leads the world in murder of women and other forms of sexual violence. The United Nations, whose research wing may be the only thing it has going for it these days, has this to say:
Approximately 15 million adolescent girls (aged 15 to 19) worldwide have experienced forced sex (forced sexual intercourse or other sexual acts) at some point in their life. In the vast majority of countries, adolescent girls are most at risk of forced sex by a current/former husband, partner or boyfriend. Based on data from 30 countries, only one per cent ever sought professional help .
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‘ The oppressive state is a male rapist! ‘ #ElVioladorEresTu
Globally, one out of three students (aged 11 and 13 to 15 years) have been bullied by their peers at school at least on one day in the past month, with girls and boys equally likely to experience bullying. However, boys are more likely to experience physical bullying than girls, and girls are more likely to experience psychological bullying, particularly being ignored or left out or subject to nasty rumours. Girls also report being made fun of because of how their face or body looks more frequently than boys. School-related gender-based violence is a major obstacle to universal schooling and the right to education for girls .
Twenty-three per cent of female undergraduate university students reported having experienced sexual assault or sexual misconduct in a survey across 27 universities in the United States in 2015. Rates of reporting to campus officials, law enforcement or others ranged from five to 28 per cent, depending on the specific type of behavior.
It is estimated that of the 87,000 women who were intentionally killed in 2017 globally, more than half (50,000- 58 per cent) were killed by intimate partners or family members, meaning that 137 women across the world are killed by a member of their own family every day. More than a third (30,000) of the women intentionally killed in 2017 were killed by their current or former intimate partner.
‘The rapist is you. It’s the cops, the judges, the state, the president’
Performance from Mexico City, Zocalo, currently the country with the highest rates of femicide
In Chile the deployment of sexual violence as a tactic condoned by the regime of Pinera, has left hundreds of women brutally assaulted, raped and treated with sexual violence. Disappearances and sexual torture that characterized the Pinochet regime and then “Dirty War” in Argentina under the generals, have made a very real come-back.
‘It is femicide. Impunity for my killer.’
In Spain, as the courts collude with rapists to let gang-bangers go free, women have also had enough. In Italy and France, sexual violence is endemic and routinely dismissed as a crime “of passion”. Solidarity with women all over the world is so important, because for us, sexual violence, is not an issue, but rather the framework within which our lives are conducted, on the streets, at school, at work, at a party, at a protest, at places of worship, in jail, on-line, or in the bedroom.
A Rapist in Your Way
The patriarchy is a judge
that judges us for being born
and our punishment
is the violence you don’t see.
The patriarchy is a judge
that judges us for being born
and our punishment
is the violence that you’ve seen.
It’s femicide.
Impunity for my killer.
It’s disapperance.
It’s rape.
And I ‘m not guilty, not because of where I was or how I dressed
And I ‘m not guilty, not because of where I was or how I dressed
And I ‘m not guilty, not because of where I was or how I dressed
And I ‘m not guilty, not because of where I was or how I dressed
The rapist is you.
The rapist is you.
It’s the cops,
the judges,
the state,
the president.
The oppresive state is a rapist.
The oppresive state is a rapist.
The rapist is you
The rapist is you
“Slumber gently, innocent girl
without worrying about the riff-raff,
in your sweetly smiling dreams,
will be revealed your loving lieutenant”*
the rapist is you
The rapist is you
The rapist is you
The rapist is you
*(this is, incredibly, an actual extract from the anthem of the Chilean Police) * NOT a lullabye!
Performancesfrom Latin America and Europe in Solidarity with Female Victims of Violence, November 2019
FULL TEXT TRANSLATION: SPANISH :: ENGLISH ::: GERMAN
FULL TEXT IN SPANISH El patriarcado es un juez que nos juzga por nacer y nuestro castigo es la violencia que ya ves. Es femicidio. Impunidad para mi asesino. Es la desaparición. Es la violación. ¡Y la culpa no era mía, ni donde estaba ni como vestia! ¡Y la culpa no era mía, ni donde estaba ni como vestia! ¡Y la culpa no era mía, ni donde estaba ni como vestia! ¡Y la culpa no era mía, ni donde estaba ni como vestia! ¡El violador eres tú! ¡El violador eres tú! ¡Son los pacos! ¡Los jueces! ¡El estado! ¡El presidente! ¡El estado opresor es un macho violador! ¡El estado opresor es un macho violador! ¡El violador eres tú! ¡El violador eres tú! Duerme tranquila, niña inocente sin preocuparte del bandolero. Que por tu sueño dulce y sonriente vela tu amante Carabinero. ¡El violador eres tú! ¡El violador eres tú! ¡El violador eres tú!
FULL TEXT IN ENGLISH The patriarchy is a judge who judges us by birth and our punishment is the violence you can see. It is femicide. Impunity for my killer. It is disappearance. It is rape. And it was not my fault, not the place where I was nor the dress that I chose! And it was not my fault, not the place where I was nor the dress that I chose! And it was not my fault, not the place where I was nor the dress that I chose! The rapist are you! The rapist are you! It’s the cops! The judges! The state! The president! The oppressive state is a male rapist! The oppressive state is a male rapist! Sleep well, innocent girl. You don’t have to worry about the bandit Your sweet and smiling dreams are taken care of by your Carabinero* lover. The rapist are you! The rapist are you! The rapist are you! *Carabineros = Official name of the Chilean police, derive from the word carabine, a long gun firearm.
FULL TEXT IN GERMAN Das Patriarchat ist ein Richter. Er verurteilt uns nach der Geburt. Und unsere Strafe ist die Gewalt, die du siehst. Es ist Femizid. Straffreiheit für meinen Mörder. Es ist das Verschwinden. Es ist die Vergewaltigung. Und es ist nicht meine Schuld, dass ich an jenem Ort war oder jenes Kleid trug. Und es ist nicht meine Schuld, dass ich an jenem Ort war oder jenes Kleid trug. Und es ist nicht meine Schuld, dass ich an jenem Ort war oder jenes Kleid trug. Der Vergewaltiger bist du! Der Vergewaltiger bist du! Es sind die Bullen! Die Richter! Der Staat! Der Präsident! Der Unterdrückerstaat ist ein Mann, der vergewaltigt! Der Vergewaltiger bist du! Der Vergewaltiger bist du! Schlaf gut, unschuldiges Mädchen mach dir keine Sorgen wegen des Banditen Während du lächelnd schläfst …wacht dein Liebhaber von den Carabineros* über dich. Der Vergewaltiger bist du! Der Vergewaltiger bist du! Der Vergewaltiger bist du! Der Vergewaltiger bist du! *Carabineros = Offizieller Name der chilenischen Polizei, von «Karabiner», kurzläufiges Gewehr.
More than 200 people are BLINDED by cops during ongoing Chilean social revolution … #ElVioladorEresTu
At least 285 people in Chile have suffered severe eye trauma, mostly from hardened rubber bullets and tear gas canisters fired by Chilean security forces at protesters, with more than 6,300 arrests, and 2,400 hospitalisations of protesters. There are thousands of allegations of the ill-treatment and beating children, forced stripping, touching and rape in detention. The latest death was a 13-year-old boy who an interior ministry official said was run over by a van during protests in Arica. Public prosecutors in Chile are now »investigating» hundreds of cases of alleged abuses by police, including torture and sexual violence. A university student named Gustavo Gatica was shot by pellets in both eyes and rendered totally blind.
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Just a comment. The last bit ts not al old lullabye, Its actually the Chilean Police (Carabineros) anthem. Sick, right)?
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Indeed insane, although in the English translation *lover* would be more accurately translated as *beloved*. Still insane, but not as overt.
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