Creative tactics that help bring about change

Women turned Protective Wall into a memorial

Date:
Mar 8 2021

Ahead of Monday’s planned protest, police set up a barricade around the presidential palace, which a spokesperson described as a “peace wall” to prevent vandalism, the Guardian reported. But protesters said the barrier was symbolic of the president’s refusal to take on the issue, noting that he frequently makes a show of traveling in drug cartel-controlled parts of Mexico but felt unsafe ahead of their protest.
Women instead plastered the barriers with slogans and the names of murdered women. They also left flowers, memorial objects, and painted the pink crosses, an iconic memorial object from the Dead women of Juarez back in 1993.
Over the National Palace, the words “Mexico Feminicida” were projected.

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Fernanda Soria

March 17, 2021

Effectiveness

How does this project help? Activates (people), Shifts (culture)

Timeframe For change

Has short-term goal.

The short term goal was to redirect the focus and public’s attention, from the government wall, to the thousands of women who have fallen victims of feminicide and violence

Has long-term goal.

End gender-based violence in Mexico and demand the government to take responsibility

Notes:

The intervention was really successful in redirecting the public’s attention to the victims and the issue for which women march every year. Across media, the transformation of the wall into a memorial was reported, commented, shared, and circulated. The memorial became an icon of this year’s protest almost instantaneously. And the current government was left on a position of shame.

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