Auli’i Cravalho draws awareness to violence against Indigenous women at The Power premiere in NYC

The promotional push for the new sci-fi drama series The Power continued with its premiere screening at the DGA Theater in New York City.

One of the main stars Auliʻi CravalhoShe caught the attention of more than one when she arrived at the event with a large red footprint painted on her face, in an act of solidarity with indigenous women and the No More Stolen Sisters movement.

‘I represent No More Stolen Sisters. These are missing and murdered indigenous women,’ revealed the Kohala, Hawaii native, who plays the role of Jos Cleary-Lopez, in an interview published in the Good Morning America Instagram Page.

“We were lucky to shoot in Vancouver for this series. And I saw a lot of monuments dedicated to them,’ Cravalho, 22, said of her indigenous sisters, before sharing a heartbreaking statistic.

“Indigenous women are 10 times more likely to be kidnapped or abducted and it’s incredibly frustrating that there aren’t enough cases that are actually being pursued, and that points to the police and how they’re not using their funds correctly,” she said while on the red carpet. .

Violence against Native American women has reached unprecedented levels on US tribal lands and in Alaska Native villages.

According to Indian Law Resource Center.

Explaining her support for the nonprofit, Cravalho also confessed that she too “really wanted to raise awareness for a movement when we’re at a female empowerment event and showing such wonderful stories.” So I’m glad it’s being well received.

The red handprint is often painted on the mouth as a symbol of solidarity with missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in North America.

He amnesty website The website describes No More Stolen Sisters as a human rights response to discrimination and violence against indigenous women.

‘Indigenous women and girls have the right to be safe and free from violence,’ reads the front page of the website. ‘When a woman is subjected to violence because of her gender or indigenous identity, her fundamental rights are abused. And when state authorities do not provide adequate protection for her gender or indigenous identity, those rights are violated.”

An Indigenous woman or girl in Canada, regardless of age or socioeconomic status, is at least three times more likely to experience violence and at least six times more likely to be killed than any other woman or girl in Canada, people who are not natives. declared profit-making entity.

Amnesty International calls for ‘a concerted national response that is comprehensive, coordinated, well-resourced and developed in collaboration with indigenous women and girls themselves’, along with a national public inquiry and regular and comprehensive data collection on violence against women natives. in official crime statistics.

In The Power, every teenage girl in the world realizes that they have developed the ability to electrocute people at will.

The British science fiction drama, based on Naomi Alderman’s 2016 novel of the same name, focuses on a specific group of adolescent girls learning to monitor this new gift that is hereditary, built-in, and cannot be taken away. They go on to learn that they can even awaken the Power in older women. Very soon, almost every woman in the world will be able to do it.

It stars Margot Cleary-Lopez as the mayor of Seattle and mother of three children, which includes Cravalho’s character Jos Cleary-Lopez.

John Leguizamo plays the role of Rob Lopez, the husband of Mayor Cleary-Lopez.

The cast also includes Toheeb Jimoh, Ria Zmitrowicz, Halle Bush, Nico Hiraga, Heather Agyepong, Daniela Vega, Eddie Marsan, Archie Rush, Gerrison Machado, Pietra Castro, and Zrinka Cvitešić, among others.

The first three episodes of The Power will premiere on Amazon Prime Video on March 31, and the remaining six episodes will be available every Friday until the season one finale on May 12.