Climate Change Resistance in the Philippines, Food Sovereignty in the WMW, and Rural LGBT+ Struggle | Issue #18

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This week on Capire | Climate Change Resistance in the Philippines, Food Sovereignty in the WMW, and Rural LGBT+ Struggle

Hello, sisters of the world!

In the Philippines, the population is enduring natural disasters driven by climate change. In recent decades, ever stronger typhoons have hit the area, leaving an ever greater trail of destruction. And while some risk mitigation measures have been taken, the country still lacks state and international policies to fight the root causes of climate change. An article by the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women – Asia Pacific (CATW-AP) denounces the industrial model of increased extraction and productivity and shares their political views on the struggle against climate change and for a just transition paradigm.

In addition to tackling the causes of climate change, rural social movements around the world are building the struggle for the right to sexual and gender diversity. We spoke with Luana Oliveira, from Brazil, a member of the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) and La Via Campesina LGBT+ Collective, about the struggle for LGBT+ rights in the countryside and the pursuit of justice in the Lindolfo Kosmaski murder case. 

And this week we launched the video Food Sovereignty: A Feminist Struggle of the World March of Women, produced by the World March of Women and Capire. Through personal accounts, interviews, and records by militants of the WMW from around the world, the video looks back on the history of the movement in defense of food sovereignty and feminist networks and practices that have been producing and ensuring food for thousands of years. Watch it:

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::: Philippines: Resisting Climate Change, Building Alternatives
The experiences and proposals of feminist and community struggles in face of climate change | Experiences

::: Rural LGBT+ Struggle Echoes the Voices of Those Who Have Been Silenced by Violence
Luana Oliveira, of La Via Campesina Brazil, addresses in this interview the murder of Lindolfo Kosmaski | Interview

::: Food Sovereignty: A Feminist Struggle of the World March of Women
Video looks back on the history of struggles for food sovereignty waged by the WMW as a political endeavor to defend common goods and territories | Multimedia

...And if you haven't seen it yet, check out our content from previous weeks:

::: The Earthquake in Turkey: the View of Kurdish Women
Kurdish women denounce the government's neglect of earthquake victims and share their actions in support | Analysis

::: Memory and Mística, Vital Words to Build Feminist Futures
An article on the importance of feminist memory and mística, which retrieve a past of struggles and point to a present of possibilities of change | Experiences

::: Euskal Herria: Revolutionize Care to Change Everything
Women from the Basque Country are in permanent campaign for feminist care policies | Experiences

::: Internationalist Feminism: Women’s Many Struggles Around the World
WMW militants in Africa and Asia reflect on the construction of feminism in their countries | Experiences

::: Fear of Women’s Bodies, Fear of Freedom
Fatma Benmefteh addresses the patriarchal control over women in Tunisia | Analysis

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Capire is a media tool dedicated to echoing the voices of women in movement, publicizing the struggles from different territories, and strengthening local and international references of anti-capitalist, anti-racist, grassroots feminism. Watch this video or read our presentation to learn more about it. This website is an initiative by the World March of Women, in collaboration with women of allied movements, such as La Via Campesina and Friends of the Earth International.