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Stay home, while people are being tamed
“Stay home”
As the days go by, the inequality in all its dimensions becomes more apparent: poverty prevents a majority of families from being able to provide themselves with food for their meals, children cry for milk, informal workers, without any protection, go out to find the means to earn their daily bread, sex workers who never had health insurance, but cannot stop, they have families to feed, women sharing a room with their torturer.
Stay home while the only social fabric capable of contributing to the care of life in solidarity is being destroyed.
Stay home while the government fuels individualism.
Stay home while people are tamed to prevent rebellion against the dictatorship disguised as a lamb.
Stay home while social media creates a paralyzing panic that undermines the capacity for political reflection and action-mobilization of Bolivians, preventing them from demanding clear and effective responses from authorities and rulers in the face of any crisis, whether health-related or war-related.
Stay home while the hospital service lacks the minimum equipment to provide biosecurity to those who dedicate their time to caring for and comforting the sick.
Stay home while femicidal sexist violence lashes out against the bodies and lives of adolescent girls, young women, and women.
Stay home while prayers divide people into the "good or chosen of the Lord" and those who do not follow his precepts.
Stay home while homeless children die of hunger before they get infected with the coronavirus.
Stay home, while supermarkets continue to fill their coffers and farmers lose their produce because there is no transport to get to the markets.
Stay home while financial capital demands sacrifices in the name of the economy; they, the bankers, get richer and the people get poorer.
Stay home while banks promise to ease their loan terms; in the end, you'll still have to pay both principal and interest.
Stay home while the electricity and water meters keep running.
Miriam Suárez Vargas
Women's Center
Casa de la Mujer
Psychological, legal, medical and social support from a feminist perspective in Santa Cruz de la Sierra.