![]() ‘Boys have penis, and girls have vulva, don’t let yourself be fooled,’ read one of their latest messages, which also sparked outrage. It is not the first time that Hazte Oír launches a controversial campaign against feminism, transgender or abortion with a bus. Spain's Partido Socialista Obrero Espaol (PSOE) party may have won in the country's general elections in April, and in European elections in May, but the threat of anti-abortion, anti-immigration, and anti-feminist party Vox looms large across the country, especially for Spain's women, who have so much more to lose than to gain. Whilst the vehicle was in Barcelona, it was attacked by members of a far-left youth organisation. ‘This bus is not welcome, because it is a tool for hatred, and its messages attack the dignity of women and feminism,’ said Jaume Asens, one of Barcelona city’s deputy mayors. but he says he has talked to Catalan separatists and. With the lawsuits, Barcelona aims for the vehicle to be halted if it tries to enter the city again. Vox wants to replace a law on gender-based violence with one on intra-family violence, turning the focus away from male perpetrators. The Hazte Oír bus arrived on 3 March in the Catalan capital, although it abandoned it hours later, after the Prosecutor’s Office had requested, as a precautionary measure, to immobilise the vehicle.īut the court ruled that even though the campaign’s messages may be considered ‘abhorrent and even repugnant,’ they were protected by ‘freedom of speech.’ The vehicle’s messages included: ‘It is not gender-based violence, it is domestic violence’ and ‘The gender equality law is discriminatory for men.’ The Hazte Oír bus in Barcelona on 4 March 2019 (Pol Solà / via ACN)īarcelona city council claims the advertising messages ‘undermine the dignity of people’, especially in reference to children, youth, women and marginalised social sectors. On the gender violence law you might have assumed what are VOX and Podemos’ positions on it. The bus also called upon Spain’s right-wing and far-right party leaders – Pablo Casado from the People’s Party (PP), Albert Rivera from Ciudadanos (Cs) and Santiago Abascal from Vox – to repeal the 2004 gender violence law and legal protections granted to the LGBTI community.ĪLSO READ: Spain’s right and far-right unite at Madrid rally Debate surrounding the Gender Violence Law. They relate to the association’s bus, decorated with messages against gender equality laws and LGTBI norms, that circulated the city last week, campaigning against feminazis and displaying an image of Adolf Hitler with pink lipstick – on the eve of International Women’s Day. Barcelona City Council has filed two complaints against the ultra-conservative catholic Hazte Oír (Make Yourself Heard) association, that could incur fines of up to 61,000 euros.
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