What's new this week: rebellious, feminist and borderless territories
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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.
::: Chile: Feminist, Rebellious, Constituent Territory
By Danixa Navarro and Rocío Alorda. What is happening in Chile after the victory of the left and social movements in the Constitutional Convention election. "Territory-based organizations have elaborated views on the future we want for women and the country" | Experience
::: Louise Michel and the Women of the Paris Commune
Learn about the women of the Paris Commune through the words of Louise Michel. Today we celebrate the 191st birthday of this historic fighter! We translated excerpts from her book “The Commune” [La Commune], first published in French in 1898 | Experience
::: Feminist Solidarity to Migrants and Refugees in Europe
Read and listen to the contribution of Marianne Ebel, member of the World March of Women Switzerland, in the “Migration and Refuge on the Feminist Agenda” webinar. "We refuse to be accomplices of the death and exclusion policies that affect the people who are subject to the most precarious conditions in the world" | Analysis
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.
...And while you are here, check out our content from previous weeks:
::: 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 | 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 | Experience
::: 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
::: Building Feminism and Free Sexuality in Mozambique
Maira Domingos offers reflections on compulsory motherhood, conservatism, and patriarchal relationships in marriage | Analysis
::: “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
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!
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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.
