They accused him of being too political and so in Madrid, the 60-meter-long mural celebrating 14 female icons was in danger of being erased. A brushstroke of black paint to cover the faces of Nina Simone, Rosa Parks, Angela Davis, Frida Khalo, Calling Ngozi and other women at the forefront of the battle for equality, equal rights and the presence of women in the world of work.
“Your skills do not depend on your gender” reads next to the slogan commissioned by the Ciudad Lineal district city council and painted on the wall of a sports center in 2018.
In recent days the representatives of the far-right party Vox, they filed a motion with the city council asking that the mural be replaced with another image. According to Vox, the mural declared a political message while it should have been dedicated to sports.
At first the motion was successful and the council voted to replace the women’s faces with a mural in honor of the male and female Paralympics. But the decision was not welcomed by the residents of the area who in the following days gathered in front of the sports center to demonstrate in favor of the mural and in the same hours an online petition to save the work collected almost fifty thousand signatures in a few hours.
On the case, the prime minister Pedro Sanchez she commented, with a tweet: «The feminist struggle for equality has left an indelible mark on our history. It is a battle that we will carry on until we make sure that women can live freely and fairly ”.
The mobilization was successful: the “feminist” mural is not touched and remains where it is. This is the final decision taken by the municipality of Madrid, with the favorable votes of Mas Madrid, Psoe and Ciudadanos. All the women portrayed are: Rigoberta Menchú, Lucía Sánchez Saornil, Rosa Arauzo, Angela Davis, Valentina Tereshkova, Chimamanda Ngozi, Emma Goldman, Frida Kahlo, Kanno Sugako, Liudmila Pavlichenko, Nina Simone, Billy Jean King, Gata Cattana, Rosa Parks, Commander Ramona.
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