Feminist voices against transnational corporate power | Issue #13
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This week on Capire | Feminist voices against transnational corporate power
Hello, sisters of the world!
This April 24th marks 10 years since the Rana Plaza tragedy, a textile sweatshop building that collapsed on the outskirts of Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh, in 2013. The collapse resulted in more than 1,000 victims—most of them were women. To remember this episode, the date also marks the International Feminist Solidarity Day Against Transnational Corporate Power on the agenda of struggles of the World March of Women.
Transnational corporations are the ones garnering the most power and wealth from the conflict of capital against life. The offensive of corporate power advances toward women’s labor, territories, and bodies, using militarization as its tool.
“Ten years after its collapse, we see in the Rana Plaza crime how the warmongering capitalist project is still being updated. Workers, women, people, lands, nature are being victims of the abusive tools of this system.”, states the World March of Women in its international declaration produced this year. In an article published in Capire today, you can check excerpts from the MMM's international declaration and also a video produced by Real World Radio (RMR) and Friends of the Earth International (ATI) for the date.
We invite you to read and share other five feminist writings that allow us to reflect on how transnational companies are moving toward different sectors and parts of the world.
::: Feminism Against Corporate Power, Militarization, and Borders
The political agenda of the World March of Women Europe | Analysis
::: Women Discuss Forms of Resistance and Alternatives to Corporate Power in Latin America
Bertha Zúñiga, Leticia Paranhos, Miriam Miranda, and Soniamara Maranho on how to confront transnational corporations in their territories and the region | Experiences
::: The People of Asia Against Free Trade: “Society Endures the Trauma of Debt”
Capire talked to Geum-Soon Yoon, of the Korean Women Peasants Association, about free trade policies in the region | Interview
::: Dignity as Paramount: The Fight Against Transnationals in Uganda
Jean Ngobi, from the World March of Women Uganda, talks about how big international companies are affecting women’s live in Africa | Analysis
::: Nature Is Not a Commodity: An Agenda of Feminist Struggles
Article by Natália Lobo, of the World March of Women, criticizes the corporate strategies of financialization of nature | Analysis
For these and more content on women’s struggles against transnational corporations, visit capiremov.org!
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