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CRISTINA DEL VALLE, THE FIGHT FOR THE DIGNITY OF WOMEN

At first glance, his black gaze conveys serenity, very clear principles ros y un fuerte carácter. Al iniciar la conversación, descubrimos también un gran corazón, una generosidad inmensa y una asturiana con vocación de torbellino. De su tierra ha heredado la capacidad de lucha; de su madre, la fuerza para sobreponerse a todos los sufrimientos; de su trabajo con las mujeres víctimas de la violencia, la fortaleza y el amor a la libertad.
Nos habla de todas aquellas mujeres admirables que se esconden en las casas de acogida, en Ciudad Juárez, en los campamentos saharauis o en Palestina. Lo que no dice es que ella también lo es. Desde pequeña vivió los malos tratos y parece que se prometió no permitir que la violencia contra las mujeres fuera silenciada. Siempre ha trabajado al lado de the most disadvantaged, but one day he discovered that music could serve to be the speaker of all women who suffer violence. Thus was born the Platform of Women Artists Against Gender Violence, which speaks in this interview.


has consolidated a successful career. But also a long history of voluntary social welfare projects. Where does this commitment almost innate desire to improve the world?

I believe that education and the area where we socialize and grow conditions us many things in our life and our behavior. Long ago I said publicly that it was a survivor of violence, as many of the daughters of battered women. I had the pleasure, and I think the honor of being educated by a brave woman who saved his life and came out of this situation by not wanting to continue to negotiate their dignity and freedom. That education helped me to have a world view different from any other child. My house was always a reception area, from 12 years working with social organizations.

Have you always been connected with movements of cooperation and assistance to women?

active membership as I started at 13 - 14 years in Asturias. He was singer and composed at a very young and played in cultural centers. He also worked in an active way with my family in all that was a social movement. Also started very young to be active in leftist parties and youth movements in high school.
in Valencia, when we moved to escape the situation in Asturias, started a cultural association named Ayora who worked in slums with the elements of culture, music and art.
When I arrived in Madrid in '79, I started collaborating with the Human Rights Association and Enrique de Castro in the project of El Pozo del Tio Raimundo and worked as a volunteer in Valdemoro prison.

Perhaps the biggest commitment that has become the spokesman of a cause is the Platform of Women Artists Against Gender Violence. This platform was created in 1999 with the intention of being the voice of victims of abuse, why then was necessary that they be heard?

wore in Madrid working time and working with women's organizations. Once, in one of the shelters for battered women, lived a very special experience. As a child he lived in a foster home, obviously had nothing to do with today. But it was like a regression, go back to see you in a space which has past, but was also a very careful where they were a big family, where, suddenly, I had the feeling of being very protected. It was very special.
And going a whole day with women, talking and sharing experiences, I realized how little had changed since I had lived the experience. Women reproduce the same pictures, the same ordeal when you have a complaint or go to the police station, describing the same thing: social intercourse against violence. Then I realized the shame it was that had not changed anything.
elections coming up in Spain, and well out of there ... with lots of emotions inside. It was a Saturday, I called some of the fellow artists and I called in my house. From that day, we decided to work together and be speakers of many women's organizations and, especially, women who were suffering violence in this country were many young people move to this was a problem of all and than at any time any of us can be a victim of domestic violence.

The first draft of the Platform was to get the approval of the Comprehensive Law on Gender Violence, how were those over 4 years of political negotiations? Hard

because we had a government opposed. A government that had publicly committed to us in an act of the fundraising, but when he came to power declined, not only took the law, but also said it was committed. Then they showed a clear lack of political will at the time of putting domestic violence on the front page, a problem that was a state problem, for us, very serious.
From there, we had many problems, we were very uncomfortable politically. It was not easy working in a country where the will of the government was quite contrary to the fight we had. We become upset artists, by artists that no longer we sounded in some ways, we were not as sweet certain television channels, ...

Platform not only develops projects nationwide. In fact, you work a lot in Ciudad Juárez. There, the rate of rape and murder of women is very high and few arrests of offenders, how has experienced this situation?

I would define it in one word: impunity. The murders are crimes of state when the government agrees to violence against women in a massive way, the figures are there, more than 400 killed and 4,000 missing in a city of 1,500,000 inhabitants.
Women have the feeling that they can be killed, tortured and raped no cost to the dancer. Mexican women said that there is a language between people who says, "If you want to get rid of your wife, go to Ciudad Juárez and throw it in the desert."
also highlight the incredible work of mothers. These mothers have been those that have made the world know what is Ciudad Juarez, have remained strong and brave, despite the daily police harassment and social condemnation by many employers and media.

also maintain other open international fronts as the Palestinian people, the Sahara and Iraq. Why do you think that some controversy arose with the Platform trip to Baghdad? Some

not aroused much controversy! We had just visited the Saharawi refugee camps. And when we returned, the government of this country, suddenly gets into an international violation was the invasion of Iraq. We as people thought it was our role and our consistency going to go there to denounce the war. I picked up the feelings of millions of English citizens, at the time the survey spoke of that 90% of citizens did not want Spain's participation in this illegal act. What we did was something as simple as going to put a face to the victims. We knew it was going to do political damage, so we went.
We were a group of women who were enjoying the sympathy of the public, artists had no suspicion that policy because we did not belong to any party. We as citizens of the world to condemn what was happening and to bring media to be the eyes of this reality and contra which I believe is one of the keys to the work of the people of culture and media.
trip was very hard in every way. Obviously we had a cost, which we knew, but never thought it would be so hard, it was a brutal attack by the media at the service of power. I then worked in RNE and was ejected. We broke artistic and theatrical contracts. We heavily burdened.

The main criticism made was that they had gone to support Saddam's regime.

course! It was inexpensive and easy attack. We then went, as all delegations, a country that had a government, but we would denounce that. But obviously, the attack was that easy and you had to attack us wherever. Anyway, after the story and the time showed the truth.

How war affects especially violence against women?

Yes, we say that violence against women is not a violence that is isolated from global violence. Is a violence has a masculine structure and is exercised in the workplace, at home or in social or political. The structure of violence is made in the same way.
We always talk about the Platform report the structure of violence. As part of this culture of violence, war is a clear manifestation. In countries in conflict, especially women are always doubly victimized, the more suffering the impact of violence.


were also in Palestine when the construction of the wall, how is daily life there?
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travel there if you do not see that reality, it is difficult to get an idea of \u200b\u200bwhat is happening. It's all so embarrassing that we start talking about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict as two equal, and no, we're talking about a victim and an executioner. An executioner is not only the state of Israel, is the international community to clean the moral debt that has the unquestionable Holocaust gives a State of Israel. And given telling a population that has to transfer part of its territory. Hence, Israel began to occupy much of what had been agreed internationally.
I was a week in Palestine and saw what they did with the Palestinians. There were hundreds of sick, pregnant, children, who were down from the ambulance and were on the floor for hours in the heat or rain. That combined with not allowing pregnant women are treated in hospitals for the Arab population does not grow, coupled with the wall, which our Israeli ambassador has been defined as "a security fence because of the Jews." I've seen it, know it's a concrete wall about 10 feet high, separating families and casually that "vallita" security passes through the richest area of \u200b\u200bgroundwater leaving the people of Palestine without their land culture.

Another place where the role of women is highlighted in the organization society are the Saharawi refugee camps, how is life in these refugee camps?

The vast majority of men when the Green March begins go to struggle. Women suddenly alone with the elderly and children, built a society based on values \u200b\u200bwhere the whole in the schooling and culture. In 75, when the Green March, 90% of women under English colonization were illiterate, and suddenly, the company has become a society where 100% of women are educated, have even considered a career many of them. All the political and social, of course, falls on women.
is an example of a society values \u200b\u200bbased on community work and socialization of all structures.

change the subject and focus on the current situation. Today, youth are more involved, perhaps at levels we have not achieved before, in themes such as cooperation, participation in NGOs or social movements. Yet we are accused of being one of the generations with less political participation. How does the situation?

We are at a critical time because on one hand are the first generation, according to all international reports, we can end hunger in the world. There are all action, all media for no poverty or misery. The shame is that suddenly they are not doing.
I believe that we can not think of a single actor, such as governments can change things. This is a work of several actors, social movements, civilians, women, unions, political parties, governments, ... but the people always has the title role. We can not keep blaming what's happening in the world to politicians. We vote, we are citizens, consumers, therefore, we are intervening in the developing world.
mobilization and citizen participation is essential at this time.