2024 Is Here With Revolutionary Voices From Nepal, Brazil, and Cuba | Issue #1
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2024 Is Here With Revolutionary Voices From Nepal, Brazil, and Cuba | Issue #1
Hello, sisters of the world!
A new year of feminist struggles to change the world begins. 2023 was a year of resistance, solidarity, and reunions. In our year-in-review piece launched in December, we looked back on content we have published about building feminism in defense of life, self-determination, and the end of imperialist wars. Now we reaffirm our commitment to a new year of feminist grassroots and internationalist struggle to build a new world. Follow, read, and share Capire and the many feminist voices we will echo in 2024!
We start the year with an inspiring piece by Elpidia Moreno, of the Federation of Cuban Women and the World March of Women, about the role feminist and revolutionary women played in Cuba throughout history. Elpidia provides an overview of what women have done before, during, and after the 1959 revolution, and also addresses an internationalist task: “to continue to contribute to revolutionary grassroots feminism as a movement that struggles to change the world and women’s lives.”
The struggles against capitalism take many forms around the world. In South Asia, rural and women’s organizations struggle against impoverishment, neoliberalism, and free trade agreements. During the 8th International Conference of La Via Campesina, we spoke with Daya Laxmi, a member of the World March of Women International Committee, about the impacts of free trade agreements on her country and the grassroots struggles for food sovereignty and against patriarchy.
We also published an interview with the Brazilian World March of Women militant Adriana Vieira. In the interview, Adriana addresses the capitalist exploitation of nature, the impacts of that exploitation on women’s lives, and the many strategies women have adopted to defend their territories and biodiversity. The recording of this interview in Portuguese is also available here.
Finally, we invite you to read the first brochure of writings produced by Capire and the World March of Women Americas about grassroots feminism and regional integration. In never-before-published interviews, Alejandra Laprea and Norma Cacho address the organization of the World March of Women in the Americas and the movement’s international challenges. The text by Elpidia Moreno mentioned above, plus pieces by Alejandra Angriman and Karin Nansen, are edited versions of speeches they delivered on the webinar “Feminism and Regional Integration,” held in November 2023. The texts by Ana Priscila Alves and Irene León feature the contributions they provided at the 3rd Dilemmas of Humanity Conference in their regional and international stages, in September and October 2023. The writing by our dear sister Nalu Faria, originally published in 2021, was chosen to open our publication, keeping her memory alive, as well as her legacy and her accurate views on the strategies toward building grassroots feminism. Check out the publication below:
Another year of feminist voices to change the world! Check out our content here.
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