【Reading Lab】「我們會消失。」—墨西哥女性最沈痛的怒吼
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An estimated 80,000 women flooded the streets of central Mexico City to denounce gender-based violence in Mexico’s biggest ever International Women’s Day march. Women and girls of all ages dressed in purple which is the color of the feminist movement and wore green kerchiefs in support of abortion rights.
在墨西哥有史以來最大的國際婦女節遊行中，估計有8萬名婦女湧入墨西哥城主要街道，譴責社會對於女性的暴力行為。各年齡層的女性與女孩，都穿上代表女權運動顏色的紫色衣服，以及搭配綠色方巾來爭取墮胎權。
Made up of at least 70 different feminist and women’s rights groups as well as large numbers of women who marched of their own accord, the protesters clamored for justice, equality, and most loudly for an end to the gender-based violence in Mexico, where an average of 10 women are murdered every day.
抗議群眾由至少70個女權團體，與大量自願參加活動的女性組成。在墨西哥每天平均有10名婦女被謀殺，所以這些抗議者疾呼當局重視女性的正義及平等權，並終結在墨西哥所發生的性別暴力行為。
“More than a year after the arrival of the new government, our demands remain unanswered. We don’t accept López Obrador playing down our demands；if this government wants a transformation of this county, they have to face the problem.” “We tell the president that the victims have a name, the victims have families.” said activists from the stage set up in the city center.
在城中心廣場的舞台上，抗議者悲憤表示：「新政府上任一年多以來，我們的訴求依舊未獲得重視，我們也不能接受López Obrador（墨西哥總統）忽視這些聲音。如果政府想要改造這個國家，他們必須面對這個問題。」、「我們想告訴總統，那些受害者們都是有名字、有家人的人。」
Marches to mark International Women’s Day were also held in many other parts of Mexico on same day including Guadalajara, the country’s second-biggest city, where the water in a public fountain was dyed red to symbolize the spilled blood of murdered women.
在同一天，墨西哥其他許多地方也發起國際婦女節的抗議遊行活動，包括第二大城市— Guadalajara，這裡公共噴泉中的水被染成紅色，象徵著被謀殺婦女的鮮血。
After the demonstrations, countless thousands of women and girls across Mexico have joined a historic strike to protest against the country’s startling rates of gender-based violence and the government’s failure to respond to the crisis in which more than ten women are murdered every day.
在示威遊行之後，墨西哥各地有成千上萬的女性都參加歷史性的罷工活動，為了抗議該國數量驚人的女性暴力事件，以及政府對於每天高達十多名女性被謀殺的社會危機，冷漠又無效的應對方式。
Women’s strikes have been held previously in Argentina and Chile, as well as Poland and Spain, but Mexico had never before had a major women’s strike despite its long tradition of labor and student activism. The spiraling death toll of women and girls being targeted for their gender and a horrific recent string of high-profile crimes has inspired new passion for the women’s movement.
在阿根廷、智利、波蘭和西班牙都曾發生過婦女罷工事件。儘管墨西哥從過去也曾多次發生勞工和學生抗議運動，但從未有過重大的女性罷工。，直到最近以性別為目標的暴力事件，死亡的婦女和女童人數激增，加上一系列震驚社會的重大犯罪行為，激發該國女性發起抗爭活動的怒吼。
*Femicide這個字是由female(女性)加上homicide(謀殺)，代表基於性別因素犯下的殺人案，並廣泛地被定義為「因被害者為女性而遭蓄意殺害」。
*本文收錄於英語島English Island 2020年4月號
英語島希望大家不只是讀文章，而是有意識的知道「讀什麼」以及「怎麼讀」。在Reading Lab這個專欄，我們希望大家利用「PKS」這個方法，在閱讀前、中、後做不同的功課。閱讀前先預測(predict)這篇文章的重點；閱讀中畫出關鍵字(key words)；閱讀後用英文做一段摘要(summary)。完成作業的讀者，歡迎寫信到ask@eisland.com.tw與我們分享。
An estimated 80,000 women flooded the streets of central Mexico City to denounce gender-based violence in Mexico’s biggest ever International Women’s Day march. Women and girls of all ages dressed in purple which is the color of the feminist movement and wore green kerchiefs in support of abortion rights.
在墨西哥有史以來最大的國際婦女節遊行中，估計有8萬名婦女湧入墨西哥城主要街道，譴責社會對於女性的暴力行為。各年齡層的女性與女孩，都穿上代表女權運動顏色的紫色衣服，以及搭配綠色方巾來爭取墮胎權。
Made up of at least 70 different feminist and women’s rights groups as well as large numbers of women who marched of their own accord, the protesters clamored for justice, equality, and most loudly for an end to the gender-based violence in Mexico, where an average of 10 women are murdered every day.
抗議群眾由至少70個女權團體，與大量自願參加活動的女性組成。在墨西哥每天平均有10名婦女被謀殺，所以這些抗議者疾呼當局重視女性的正義及平等權，並終結在墨西哥所發生的性別暴力行為。
“More than a year after the arrival of the new government, our demands remain unanswered. We don’t accept López Obrador playing down our demands；if this government wants a transformation of this county, they have to face the problem.” “We tell the president that the victims have a name, the victims have families.” said activists from the stage set up in the city center.
在城中心廣場的舞台上，抗議者悲憤表示：「新政府上任一年多以來，我們的訴求依舊未獲得重視，我們也不能接受López Obrador（墨西哥總統）忽視這些聲音。如果政府想要改造這個國家，他們必須面對這個問題。」、「我們想告訴總統，那些受害者們都是有名字、有家人的人。」
Marches to mark International Women’s Day were also held in many other parts of Mexico on same day including Guadalajara, the country’s second-biggest city, where the water in a public fountain was dyed red to symbolize the spilled blood of murdered women.
在同一天，墨西哥其他許多地方也發起國際婦女節的抗議遊行活動，包括第二大城市— Guadalajara，這裡公共噴泉中的水被染成紅色，象徵著被謀殺婦女的鮮血。
After the demonstrations, countless thousands of women and girls across Mexico have joined a historic strike to protest against the country’s startling rates of gender-based violence and the government’s failure to respond to the crisis in which more than ten women are murdered every day.
在示威遊行之後，墨西哥各地有成千上萬的女性都參加歷史性的罷工活動，為了抗議該國數量驚人的女性暴力事件，以及政府對於每天高達十多名女性被謀殺的社會危機，冷漠又無效的應對方式。
Women’s strikes have been held previously in Argentina and Chile, as well as Poland and Spain, but Mexico had never before had a major women’s strike despite its long tradition of labor and student activism. The spiraling death toll of women and girls being targeted for their gender and a horrific recent string of high-profile crimes has inspired new passion for the women’s movement.
在阿根廷、智利、波蘭和西班牙都曾發生過婦女罷工事件。儘管墨西哥從過去也曾多次發生勞工和學生抗議運動，但從未有過重大的女性罷工。，直到最近以性別為目標的暴力事件，死亡的婦女和女童人數激增，加上一系列震驚社會的重大犯罪行為，激發該國女性發起抗爭活動的怒吼。
*Femicide這個字是由female(女性)加上homicide(謀殺)，代表基於性別因素犯下的殺人案，並廣泛地被定義為「因被害者為女性而遭蓄意殺害」。
*本文收錄於英語島English Island 2020年4月號
