“We want Europe to be the land of women’s freedom: not just freedom from all oppression but freedom to fully express their human difference. And we don’t accept that, in this common land of ours, the logic of the strongest and the use of weapons to resolve conflicts prevail. “The association If not now when – Free, the Italian feminist movement, one of the most important in the Western worldled by director Cristina Comencini, takes the field alongside Ukrainian women.
And it does so through an appeal. “The NATO instrument must therefore be redefined in the light of the establishment of a defense force of the European Union, capable of supporting its proven mission of civil power. The bloody invasion of Ukraine, decided by Putin, makes us more and more persuaded. that in order to defend the principles of peace it is not necessary to take refuge in generic pacifism, trusting that others will think about it. Today we feel that it is up to us, also to women, to protect ourselves, helping the European Ukraine to resist the unprecedented aggression “.
The feminist movement, with the feast of 8 March approaching, wants to make its voice heard: “The prospect that the new profile of a politically autonomous Europe is based on the development of equal citizenship between men and women appears more concrete to us. The thirty years that lie behind us, instead of ushering in the “end of history”, was the scene, as Pope Francis has been repeating for some time, of a world war in pieces. Let’s move towards this March 8 alongside Ukrainian women, their lives intertwined with ours: their dignity is our dignity. Their freedom is our freedom. Under the same sky of Europe “.