In commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women Extinction Rebellion occupyRai’s entry entered through Verdi a Turinwhere around ten women tied themselves with pink, green and black rope and taped their mouths with black tape, while the banner “Let’s untie the information” was displayed. “We occupy the entrance to Raybecause instead of carrying out his duties of providing correct information to the community he proposed distorted narrative“, said the spokesperson, Elsa. In her opinion, this is related to “the issue of femicide, the climate crisis and the genocide in Gaza, issues that are as closely intertwined as the ribbons that bind us. Topics characterized by the greatest violence: the silence“. “According to what emerged from the Step Observatory report – the report of record of the movement -, the Italian media in reporting on the murder of women still uses terms such as “raptus” – although to a lesser extent in recent years – and prefers empathy towards the executioner and spectacularization in cases of rape and sexual violence. The choice of words influences public perception, and the lack of adequate language and narrative in the media also appears in the environmental field, as underlined by the annual report of the Pavia Observatory: the latest example was the heat wave in June, when less than a quarter of the reports on the evening news cited the climate crisis as the cause of the phenomenon.”
