What's new this week: food sovereignty is about deciding to change the world
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::: Gallery: Peasant Struggles and Food Sovereignty
Women are the leading figures in Food Sovereignty. Learn more about this struggle with the photographs of the archives of La Via Campesina, Friends of the Earth, and the World March of Women | Gallery
::: Agroecology as Resistance: Indigenous Women Defending Their Territory and Traditional Practices In Malaysia
Read about the agroecological experiences and struggles of the women of the Sungai Bur community as they affirm their sovereignty and reclaim their rights to their land | Experience
::: Pancha Rodríguez: Food Sovereignty Is About Deciding To Change the World
Read the interview with Pancha Rodríguez, of CLOC-La Via Campesina, on the history of struggle of peasant women in the Americas | Interview
::: 20 Years of Feminism and Internationalist Solidarity in Pictures
Check out pictures from a book that celebrates the World March of Women’s 20th anniversary | Culture
Review: 3 months of Capire
The Capire portal was launched on January 6th, 2021, eager to start the new year strengthening the voices of women who organize to change the world. And since then, it’s been 3 months of feminist news, powerful reflections, collective experiences, contributions from women of grassroots movements around the world. Watch the video that compiles our publications from January to April 2021:
...And, since you are here, access also past weeks' content:
::: Breaking the Line that Binds Poverty and Women in Iraq
The World March of Women Iraq offers a reflection on neoliberalism, oppression against women, and poverty. This text is also available in Arabic, its original language. “Women’s dilemma lurks on the line of society’s dilemmas. In neoliberal societies, the imperialist media machine and local authorities recurrently legitimate sexist discrimination.” | Analysis
::: #FeministSchool: Sharing Technologies, Knowledge, and Struggles
Here’s how the welcoming session and technical training workshop went down at the International Feminist Organizing School. “They build a feminist, anti-racist school with solidarity as its practice, as a horizon and as a program to change society” | Experience
::: Vaccination, health rights and women’s work in the pandemic
Women from Brazil, Belgium and South Africa indicate popular ways to confront the pandemic. “Corporate profits are not more important than the lives of millions of poor people around the globe” (Wilhelmina Trout) | Video
::: Alexandra Kollontai: The Years of Revolution
Alexandra Kollontai was a Russian revolutionary who fought bravely against the brutality of tsarism, political persecution, and the reality of hunger and war that ravaged life in pre-Soviet Russia. We selected parts of the “The Years of Revolution” section from her 1926 book “The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman.” | Experience
::: Feminism in Mozambique: For Land, Freedom, Sisterhood, and a Life Free of Violence
Nzira Deus exposes land encroachment and violence in Mozambique and shares feminist strategies toward organizing for change. | Analysis
::: Coup and Grassroosts Struggle in Haiti: Watch Activist Islanda Micherline
Islanda Micherline recorded a video addressing the alarming situation faced by the Haitian people and calls for solidarity with the country | Analysis
::: Women Resist Land Grabbing and Free Zone in Haiti
Feminist farm school faces threat from Coca-Cola monoculture | Experience
::: The Challenges of Grassroots Feminism in Arab Countries
Ten years after the “Arab spring,” Souad Mahmoud reflects on women’s living conditions and struggle as they face conservatism and instrumentalization | Analysis
The gallery “Living Memory of March 8” is Capire’s first contribution to build and keep our collective memory, gathering a snippet of the strength of March 8 across the world. We feature 133 pictures by 44 women from 40 places (cities, territories, countries) who have submitted their photographs. Please, access, see the photos and share!
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