What’s New This Week | Feminism to Tackle Borders and Political Persecution
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What’s New This Week | Feminism to Tackle Borders and Political Persecution
In less than one week, four women journalists were killed while doing their job in different parts of the world. Capire is a feminist communications portal produced by militant women to strengthen feminism, share experiences of struggle, and expand solidarity. So this week we are joining grassroots movements and counter-hegemonic media outlets that denounced the murders of the Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh, shot dead on May 11th while covering an attack by the Israeli army against a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank; of the Chilean journalist Francisca Sandoval, who died on May 12th after being shot while covering May 1 demonstratinos in her country; and of the Mexican journalists Yesenia Mollinedo and Sheila García, killed on May 9th when they were both in the same car in the state of Veracruz. Shireen and Yesenia were wearing gear that identified them as press. Amid all these cases, a demand emerges: “being a journalist cannot be a death sentence.” All our support to the brave women who put their whole bodies on the line to cover the attacks of capital against the peoples, and who make communications a tool to promote information, struggle, and change.
In the struggle for a more just world, feminist women propose and practice an economy that puts life at the center. Feminist economics is the central theme of the latest publication of the Latin American Network of Women Transforming the Economy (Remte) and the World March of Women. The book Transforming Economies from a Feminist Perspective brings reflections on feminist economics and its relation to the market agenda, food sovereignty, the solidarity economy, the commons, agroecology, and Remte's own agenda and history. The book is available for free in Spanish, and we have translated some excerpts on our website.
This week, we also published an interview with Sophie Malka and Aude Martenot, from Switzerland, on the vote that will happen today on the country’s financial contributions to the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex). Frontex is in charge of surveilling, persecuting, and criminalizing migrants, and these forms of violence are more strongly felt by migrant women. In the interview, Sophie and Aude challenge the migration policies of the European Union and denounce the violent actions of Frontex, as well as the differences between asylum policies for people from European countries and those for people from the global South.
The women of the agroecological and agroforestry movement have affirmed their forms of struggle and relationship with nature, which are manifested in the care for the reproduction of human and non-human life on earth. To understand these relations, we published this week an article with some of the accumulations of the satellite event held in Brazil for the 5th World Agroforestry Congress. And in the experience of covering the 3rd Continental Assembly of the ALBA Movement, Capire gathered experience reports from several women who act daily to sustain life in their communities. These are the popular and feminist movements that organize resistance and alternatives to the economic and political crisis left by the neoliberal government of former president Mauricio Macri (2015-2019), as well as the difficulties imposed by the covid-19 pandemic.
::: No To Frontex: Women Against Surveillance on European Borders
Switzerland will hold a popular vote on May 15th on spending more money on Frontex | Interview
::: Transformative Economies From a Feminist Perspective
Check out the new book by the Latin American Network Women Transforming the Economy, featuring analysis and accumulated knowledge | Analysis
::: Agroforestry, Feminism, Agroecology: Interweaving Women’s Knowledge and Practices
Women in agroecology and agroforestry in Brazil sow diversity and collective organizing | Experiences
::: Argentina: Women in Movement Sustain Life in Rural and Urban Areas
Meet the experiences of women who organize care and solidarity in their territories | Experiences
Check out our latest gallery
::: Coverage: Women Workers Marching in Argentina
This May 1, International Workers’ Day, we took part in the Workers’ March in Buenos Aires, Argentina, taking to streets that are marked by resistance as well as grassroots feminist victories. We share below photos that show the radical character, the organization, and the major role played by women in labor union movements during the demonstration. We also publish stories by women activists who attended the rally, in which they talk about the challenges facing the labor world today and the tasks of feminism in social change. | Gallery
CALL FOR POSTERS
Until June 1, the international "(In)security" poster call, organized by the "No to NATO" Peace Summit, is open. We at Capire invite women, women's collectives, or gender dissidents to submit their posters for a subsection of the call, entitled "(In)security feminist." We invite you to create your artwork and reflect from a feminist approach on two themes: 1. The challenges and practices of women to sustain life in contexts of war
2. The contributions of feminism for peace building.
You can use whatever tools and languages you wish to create your poster: painting, collage, photography, drawing, either digital or manual. It is not necessary to have previous work or be a "professional artist" to participate. The important thing is to contribute with feminist expressions against the war and send your file in good quality, in A3 size and 300dpi, without borders, backgrounds or watermarks. This feminist section will be published as a virtual gallery on the Capire and Peace Summit websites.
Learn more at: peacesummitmadrid.org.
...And while you are here, check out our content from previous weeks:
::: Grassroots Communicators In Action: Experiences of Convergence
Women who took part in the 3th Continental Assembly of ALBA share reflections and stories about grassroots communications | Experiences
::: Feminism Is a Global Cry Against War
Nora García on the role of feminism in building anti-capitalist peace | Analysis
Dismantling Patriarchy While (Also) Building Food Sovereignty
Read Friends of the Earth International’s paper on the links between feminism, agroecology, and food sovereignty | Experiences
::: ALBA Movements: Peoples of Nuestra América Building Regional Integration
The principles and practices of grassroots feminist integration driven by ALBA Movements | Experiences
::: Women Struggling for a World Without Borders
Watch an excerpt from a series of videos about the struggle for migrant women’s rights in France | Video
::: Silvia Ribeiro: “No one can live without food”
Read the interview with Silvia Ribeiro on agriculture 4.0 and agri-food transnational corporations’ power in the podcast Feminist Rage | Interview
::: Wind Parks and Women’s Resistance in Brazil
Video features women farmers from Northeast Brazil denouncing the impacts of wind power generation on their lives and territories | Video
::: The Struggles for Peace and Against Terrorism in Mali
Nana Aïcha looks into the World March of Women’s experience in the struggle for peace, exposing the situation of the ongoing war in Mali | Analysis
::: Care? A Word Under Political Dispute
Amaia Pérez Orozco talks about the traps of capitalism and the key role of care work in the sustainability of life | Analysis
::: Paraguay: Prolonged Struggles Against Eviction and Imprisonment of Indigenous and Peasant Peoples
Conamuri militants denounce the criminalization of those who struggle for land rights in Paraguay and report on resistance experiences | Experiences
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