Un 8 March especially this year's one in Venetian mainlandOn the eve of the international women's day, yesterday evening a procession, organized by the Pandora Climate Laboratory, wound through the streets of the center to demand a safe city for all, especially for women. This morning, the streets of Mestre were peacefully invaded by participants in the eighth edition of the Corsa pink, promoted byProvincial Uisp, In collaboration with the Anti-Violence Center of the Municipality of VeniceThe event (over 1300 participants registered) had a twofold objective: to raise public awareness of gender-based violence and to raise funds to support women embarking on journeys to escape violence.
Yesterday afternoon, in front of the mimosa tree in Via Cappuccina, the event took place “Shared songs, words, poems, and thoughts”The chosen location is anything but casual, because, for the entire duration of the weekend, the mimosa area in front of the barracks of the Urban Police It was monitored by associations and citizens to prevent the tree from being cut down for commercial or non-commercial purposes.
Franca Franzin, can you explain where this particular initiative comes from?
We are here to defend the mimosa, which has been an event for many years now. They're trying to keep this tree alive, the last one left in the area, because another, a little further away, died from breaking its branches. These days Our group continues to guard the mimosa day and night, because there is the so-called Women's Day...
But why does he call it “so-called”?
Because it bothers me: what does March 8th really mean today? It means they kill a woman every day... It doesn't make any sense, because when the holiday is over... stop, women no longer exist. The language should also be revised; we continue to say "man, man, man," someone told me that "man also means woman." Well, then we should say person, or man and woman; that would be much better and we would have a little more recognition.
Francesco Brunello is the historical memory of the Amico Albero association: how did this organization come about?
We started to defend the environment of the center, it's not just the defense of these trees and it's not the tree itself, it's just an incentive to take care of the greeneryWe must have it even in small things, like mimosa.
And in a city like Mestre, this isn't so easy, is it?
No, actually. Of course, we citizens do everything, it's not like the administration gives us any help, that is, we call the security guard every night and we tax ourselves, paying for a surveillance service, from 11 pm until 7 am on the two nights in which there is a risk that the plant will be damaged, while the other hours are covered by us, who take turns. There are about thirty of us, and the problem started on day 6, when some of the flowers started to disappear. The 7th was the worst day, and today you can see that the problem isn't so much taking a single sprig, but that the plant is gradually being destroyed. That is, they were breaking off the branches and taking them home to make bunches, which they then resold on street corners.
