What's new this week | Feminism To Fight Free Trade
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What's new this week | Feminism To Fight Free Trade
::: Lessons From the Struggle Against the FTAA: Continental Unity To Fight Free Trade
Grassroots movements from the Americas have accumulated experiences and a history of struggles for sovereignty and integration. "By saying no to the FTAA and refusing the proposed incorporation of women into a social chapter of the agreement, a broad sector of anti-capitalist feminism emerged in the region" | Experience
::: Building a Binding Treaty for Transnationals is a Feminist Struggle
Women are the most harshly affected by the power of transnational corporations; but they are also the ones primarily resisting it. "Also a common practice of transnationals around the world is the super-exploitation of women. Excluded from these companies’ productive processes, women become part of these activities under marginalized or vulnerable conditions" | Analysis
::: Living Memory: The World March of Women International Meetings
See in this gallery pictures and experiences of the World March of Women | Gallery
“The International Meetings have been held since 1998, when the alliances to form the March were only beginning. Such meetings have been held in ten different places, up to now: Quebec, United States, India, Rwanda, Peru, Galicia, Philippines, Brazil, Mozambique and the Basque Country.”
...And while you are here, check out our content from previous weeks:
::: El Salvador Against Bitcoin, the Poverty of Many, and the Economy for the Few
Large grassroots marches reject president Nayib Bukele’s anti-democratic and neoliberal bid. Read the report by activist Ana Isabel López | Analysis
::: Feminist Peace Initiative: “The only green solution to the military is to not have it”
Kitzia Esteva talked to Capire about how grassroots organizations are connecting to fight U.S. military interventions worldwide | Interview
::: Palestine Women Defending Water, Land, and Life from the Israeli Occupation
Abeer Al Butmeh from Friends of The Earth Palestine denounces the Israeli occupation and exploitation of natural resources | Analysis
::: Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen: Poetry and Revolution
November 6th is the birthday of the Portuguese poet Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen | Culture
::: Al Khadra: “Nobody Taught Me How To Be a Poet”
We publish a translated poem by Al Khadra, an acclaimed name of Sahrawi poetry in defense of self-determination | Culture
::: Grassroots Feminisms and the Transnational Struggles of the World March of Women
The World March of Women’s repertoire of action and reflection to build an anti-racist, anti-systemic, and grassroots feminism | Analysis
::: Women Building Feminist Economy and Food Sovereignty in India
Capire talked to Sheelu Francis from the Women’s Collective about experiences to create new ways of work and living | Interview
::: Feminization of Poverty, a Pandemic Across the Americas
Marilys Zayas looks into how women in Latin America and the Caribbean experience poverty | Analysis
::: Food sovereignty: the trajectory of the World March of Women
Over these 25 years of the principle of food sovereignty, women have contributed to biodiversity and reorganization of labor | Experiences
::: Women Hold Up Half The Sky: How China Eradicated Extreme Poverty
Read Tings Chak's piece on grassroots organizing and policies to fight poverty in China | Analysis
::: History and Analysis of the Feminist Movement in Morocco
Read an excerpt from the article “Feminist Movement in Morocco,” by Khadija Ryadi | Experiences
::: Building feminist economy in Tanzania
Theodora Pius shared experiences and struggles on how woman build feminist economy | Analysis
::: September 28: Latin America and the Caribbean in the feminist struggle for legal abortion
Watch the video with testimonials about the fight for the legalization of abortion in the Americas | Video
::: Internationalist Feminism In Solidarity To Overthrow Authoritarianism
Nalu Faria discusses authoritarianism, which has been afflicting the world with control strategies, escalation of precarious conditions of life, and exploitation of labor and nature | Analysis
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