What's new this week: put and end to free trade, criminalization of movements and anti-immigration policies
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Capire is a media tool to echo the voices of women in movement, to publicize the struggles from different territories, and to strengthen local and international references of anti-capitalist, anti-racist, grassroots feminism. To learn more, watch this video or read our presentation.
::: Colombia: Mobilization Continues To Grow
On May 11th, Real World Radio interviewed Marylen Serna, a peasant leader from Cauca, Colombia, and the spokesperson for the Peoples’ Congress [Congreso de los Pueblos]. You can listen to the interview at the RWR website (in Spanish) and read it here at Capire. After decades of armed conflict, “the social conflict remains intact,” says Marylen Serna | Interview
::: Grassroots, Immigrant, Farmworker Organizing in the United States
Read and listen to Kathia Ramirez on the work of the Farmworkers’ Support Committee (CATA), in her participation in the “Migration and Refuge on the Feminist Agenda” Webinar. "On May 1st this year, the march slogan was 'Papers, Not Crumbs' ['Papeles sí, migajas no'], underscoring how a migration reform is necessary to benefit the more than 11 million undocumented people living in the United States. This has been pushed back for several years." | Experience
::: #FeministSchool: Women and Gender-Nonconforming Bodies in Resistance
Feminist education is marked by critique of the heterosexual norm and the commodification of the body. On May 10th and 11th, the voices, poems, and songs that launched the latest Feminist School session, about body and sexuality, passed on the message from women and everyone who does not conform to the imposition of heteropatriarchal and racist norms on their bodies and sexualities, as they say “enough!” | Experience
Watch the Animated Film “It’s Time To Put an End To Free Trade”
A video by Friends of the Earth Brazil and the World March of Women shows how free trade is attacking lives in the global South. The animation features two characters, Fátima and Rita, urban workers who are feeling the impacts of the crisis in Brazil firsthand. Amid unemployment and informal and precarious work, care and housework overload, increasing poverty and hunger , and thousands of deaths due to the coronavirus, they hear the news that the EU-Mercosur trade agreement is about to be signed after 20 years of negotiations.
On May 1, 2021, the Capire portal, the International Peoples’ Assembly, and the International Week of Anti-imperialist Struggle, are launching a new virtual gallery with posters created by 24 people and collectives from 12 countries/territories. With collages, embroideries, paintings, drawings, and pictures with different techniques, the women who took part in this gallery created their own way to represent the desire to change the world.
Visit the gallery, enjoy the posters, and read what the artists have to say about their creative processes. Help us spread the world, share it with more comrades!
...And while you are here, check out our content from previous weeks:
::: Women, Displacement, and Refugees in Lebanon
Read and listen to the contribution of Yafa El Masri, a Palestinian refugee in Lebanon, on the webinar Migrations and Refuge on the Feminist Agenda. | Analysis
::: Sovereign Cuba: Creating Vaccines for Life and Integration Between the Peoples
Read and listen to Marilys Zayas as she spoke with Fúria Feminista on women’s role in producing Cuba’s vaccines. As a collaboration with the Real World Radio, Capire transcribed and translated the entire conversation | Interview
::: Women leading the struggles for democracy in Myanmar
Capire talked to Debbie Stothard on the history of the country and the strategies built by women to face impunity | Interview
::: Women in the Front Line of the Land Rights Movement in Morocco
Women defend their land and community against the brutality of capitalism in inland Morocco. Also available in Arabic | Analysis
::: #FeministSchool: In Defense of Mother Earth
Experiences of Indigenous, Black, and peasant organizing and resistance are the basis of feminist political education | Experience
::: Building Feminism and Free Sexuality in Mozambique
Maira Domingos offers reflections on compulsory motherhood, conservatism, and patriarchal relationships in marriage | Analysis
::: April 24: Feminist Struggle Against Transnational Corporations and Precarious Labor
Video produced for the Day of Feminist and International Solidarity Against Transnational Corporations, organized by the World March of Women, denounces precarious labor practices in the textile industry and their impact on women’s lives | Multimedia
::: “Hera”, by Lydiah Dola: A Song for Peace and Harmony Between the Peoples
Listen to a song in Luo language by the Kenyan artist Lydiah Dola. | Culture
::: There Is No Place for Justice and Equality on the Free Trade Agenda
By Natália Carrau/REDES-FoE. Transnational corporations and free trade agreements hide behind sustainability and gender equality discourses to increase the power of the market over life. | Analysis
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Capire is an initiative by the World March of Women, in collaboration with women of ally movements, such as La Via Campesina and Friends of the Earth International, and organizations that are part of the Strengthening Grassroots Feminisms project.
